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Title
Primary School Children, Nagpur, India, ca.1937
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1937
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
"Primary School Children after a visit to The General Post Office." Group portrait of school children from local Primary School at Nagpur pictured with their teacher. Mrs Margaret Cooper, who arrived at the site in 1857, was responsible for much of the Girls orphanages and schools established in Nagpur and St. Ursula’s was set up by her at Sitabaldi. Education at the girls' school was largely improved by Miss Small, who worked at Nagpur from 1882 to 1934. The school was officially recognised by the Government in 1913 and had its building improved in 1923. Developing the school over a period of over forty years so that there was an increase in student uptake from 5 to 60 girls. Together with the day schools, this amounted to a total of around 260 girls attending school.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 8.6 x 5.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75650592-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79344
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75650592-1.jpg
Subject
School children
Education
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1937
Place
Asia
India
Maharashtra
Nagpur
Source
Acc.7548/F/13 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75650590 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photograph Album of the Women's Welfare League, Nagpur, India, 1926-1927
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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