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Title: Congregation outside church, Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas, 1935
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "Abaco. Green Turtle Cay Ch. 1935. G.E.H.J" . Minister and congregation outside wooden church.
The earliest Wesleyan mission began in the West Indies when, in 1786, Thomas Coke, destined for Nova Scotia, was driven off course by a storm and landed at Antigua in the British West Indies. There he dieveloped a successful mission of both slaves and landowners. Within a few years almost every colony in the West Indies had been reached.
Type: image
Format: gelatin silver prints, 8.8 x 8.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m1905 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-03-20-003-016
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1905
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-03-20-003-016.jpg
Subject: Religious communities
Religious buildings
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: 1935
Place: Bahamas
North and Central America
Source: SOAS/MMS/WI/1200/003/016 [File]
Relation: (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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