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Title
Monument to fallen missionaries, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1888-1929
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1888/1929
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
Photograph of brick tower with long narrow arched windows, circular insets for clock faces and a domed roof. The Tower stands next to the church of St. Michael’s and all Angels which was designed by David Clement Scott and built by local Malawians in 1888-1891. ❧ Blantyre Mission was established in 1876 in the Shire Highlands of Southern Nyasaland [Malawi] by Henry Henderson (1843-1891) and from here other mission stations were established at Zomba, Domasi, Chirazulu and Mlanje. Blantyre was named after the birth place of David Livingstone, in South Lanarkshire, and is famous for the ornate church built by Clement Scott. According to Stewart of Lovedale it is, ‘probably the most striking native church in all central Africa, except the cathedral at Zanzibar’. The Blantyre mission excelled in medical and education provision and encouraged the commercialisation of the area through opening trade routes and the cultivation of tobacco, and other cash, crops. This was, in part, a response to the slave trade and missionaries believed that an end to this practice could only be achieved through the development of alternative trading patterns. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 8.7 x 13.7 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75641065-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78718
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75641065-1.jpg
Subject
Clock towers (towers)
Commemoratives
Mission churches
Monuments
Time Period
circa 1888/1929
Place
Africa
Blantyre
Malawi
Southern region
Source
Acc.7548/F/4 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75641063 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs from various mission fields collected by Dr. Stevenson
image/tiff

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