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Title: Harvest festival at Jojoima, Sierra Leone, ca. 1927-28
Creator: Walker, Frank Deaville
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
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Description: "Harvest festival at Jojoima." Church at Jojoima decorated for harvest festival. The boys in the photograph are part of the church choir.
From a set of lantern slides entitled "Daybreak in Mendiland" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937.
Type: image
Format: Lantern slides, 8 x 8 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m11646 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-67-21
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11646
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-67-21.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Religious activities
Methodist Missionary Society
Interior views
Place: Jojoima
Sierra Leone
Source: SOAS/MMS/AFW/LS/67/21 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Methodist Missionary Society
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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