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Title
Male missionary and Indian group, India, ca. 1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1935/1945
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
Black and white lantern slide showing a male missionary from Regions Beyond Missionary Union with a group of Indian adults and children. The missionary, dressed in a suit and tie, holds an Indian child in his arms. Both missionary and child wear flower garlands around their necks. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW33-OS15-42.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78314
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS15-42.jpg
Subject
Missionaries
Children
Missionary work
Regions Beyond Missionary Union
Group portraits
Time Period
1935/1945
Place
Asia
Bihar
India
populated places
Source
CSCNWW33/OS15/42 [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
Regions Beyond Missionary Union. India mixed lantern slides (CSCNWW33/OS15)

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