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Title
Opening ceremony, Wesley College, Kumasi, Ghana, 3 March, 1923
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1924-03-03
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
Opening of Wesley College, Kumasi, Ashanti district, Gold Coast [now Ghana] by Sir F Gordon Guggisberg, R.E., C.M.G., Governor of the Gold Coast territories.
Morning of 3 March, 1924. Group of the Governor's staff, missionaries and West African Ministers with a guard of honour formed by the Boy Scouts. Group includes Rev C W Armstrong, College Principal and college staff members Mr. Greaves, Vice-Principal, Ivan Blow [missionary] Rev Francis Grant [African Minister]
Mr. Waterworth and Mr Enim [Kumasi district]
Mr. Acquaah and Mr E. A Sackey [Sekondi district].
Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
Type
image
Format
photographs
silver gelatin prints, 15.4 x 20.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2267 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-012-002
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2267
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-012-002.jpg
Subject
Imperialism
Clergy
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1924-03-03
Place
Africa
Ghana
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/012/002 [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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