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Title
Baptism scene, Saint Kitts, 1897
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1897
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
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"Coming out of the water after baptism at Sandy Point, St. Kitts. Nov 1897. The baptising is by a Baptist pastor." Crowd gathered to witness baptism at sea shore. Boats on the water.
The earliest Wesleyan mission began in the West Indies when, in 1786, Thomas Coke, destined for Nova Scotia, was driven off course by a storm and landed at Antigua in the British West Indies. There he developed a successful mission of both slaves and landowners. Within a few years almost every colony in the West Indies had been reached.
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 11.4 x 16.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2014 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-03-20-015-001
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2014
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-03-20-015-001.jpg
Subject
Religious practice
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1897
Place
North and Central America
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Source
SOAS/MMS/WI/1200/015/001 [File]
Relation
(Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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