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Title
"Meeting House Wrecked by Hurricane, Jamaica", ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Photograph of a meeting house that has been flattened by a hurricane. The building is a wooden structure erected on low pillars and would not have been able to with stand the high winds that sweep through Jamaica between July and October.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68318 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-032.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68318
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-032.jpg
Subject
Church buildings
Storm winds
External views
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
Jamaica
North and Central America
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS12/32 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
The Jamaican Church in the Bush LS12

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