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Title
Woman Carrying Produce to Market, Jamaica, ca.1875-ca.1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1875/1940
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
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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
Photograph of a group of women carrying produce, including yams and coconuts, to market. All of the women are carrying baskets full of produce on their heads.
This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jamaica. In 1800 the Scottish Missionary Society sent three missionaries to Jamaica. Two died of yellow fever within weeks of arrival but the third became a pioneer missionary. In 1824 a second venture travelled to Jamaica by invitation of local planters to instruct their slaves. Scottish missionaries worked at Montego Bay in the 19th century and in 1836 the first presbytery of the Jamaican Church was constituted here.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m69357 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS11-021.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m69357
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS11-021.jpg
Subject
Women
Local foods
Marketplaces
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1875/1940
Place
Jamaica
North and Central America
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS11/21 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Jamaica LS11
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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