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Title
Dr Robert Laws Baptizing a Convert, Malawi, ca. 1910-ca. 1925
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1910/1925
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
Photograph of the Scottish missionary Dr Robert Laws baptising a convert. Dr Laws is standing on an elevated platform and is holding his hand over the head of the man being converted. Another individual can be seen to the bottom left of the photograph.
This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) the Scottish Missionary. In 1875, inspired by David Livingstone (1813-1873), Laws travelled to Malawi and was involved in the foundation of the mission station of Livingstonia on the shores of Lake Nyasa. During the succeeding 50 years he also established a network of hundreds of schools. In 1908 Laws was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68646 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS5-1-058.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68646
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS5-1-058.jpg
Subject
Baptismal sermons
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934
Interior views
Time Period
1910/1925
Place
Africa
Malawi
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS5/1/58 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Laws of the Pioneer LS5/1
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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