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Title
Female Missionary and Calabar Boy, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1930-1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1930/1940
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
Tinted lantern slide showing an unidentified female European missionary holding a Calabar boy, around two years old. A man stands next to his bicycle in the background in front of thatched buildings. This slide comes from a set on mission, culture and industry in Calabar, southeast Nigeria generated by the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland (which was incorporated with the Church of Scotland in 1929.)
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSWC47-LS9-51.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78488
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSWC47-LS9-51.jpg
Subject
Boys
Women missionaries
Group portraits
Time Period
1930/1940
Place
Africa
Calabar
Cross River
Nigeria
religious facilities
Source
CSWC47/LS9/51 [File]
Relation
Church of Scotland Slide and Visual Collection. Calabar Church and Industry (CSWC47-LS9)
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

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