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Title
Wedding group, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
"Native Wedding, H & W in centre of group." Group portrait outside a building. The indigenous bride and groom are sitting in the middle with a large group gathered around them. Purulia is situated in the Santalia mission field in the Manbhoom district. The main station of the United Free Church of Scotland was based at Toondee [Tundi] while the mission at Purulia was established by the Gossner Mission Society of Berlin. This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10.5 x 7.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75657879-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79939
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75657879-1.jpg
Subject
Ceremonies
Group portraits
Weddings
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Asia
India
Puruliya
West Bengal
Source
Acc.7548/F/24 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75657877 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Kikuya and Zanzibar, Africa
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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