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Title: Reverend W.T. Balmer, sleeping on camp bed in school room, Sierra Leone, 1909
Creator: Walton, James, 1878-1965
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909-01
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
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Description: "Camping out in a village school", Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Balmer visited his Methodist Missionary Society colleague, Reverend James Walton at his station in Segbwema in order to study the Mendi language. They set out together to travel to the annual Synod in Freetown on 19 January 1909 at the request of the Chairman of the District, William H Maude. This photograph was taken on their journey.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 8.2 x 10.9 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-003-010
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-003-010.jpg
Subject: Balmer, William Turnbull, 1866-1928
Walton, James, 1878-1965
Methodist Missionary Society
School buildings
Education
Interior views
Time Period: 1909-01
Place: Africa
Mendeland
Sierra Leone
Source: SOAS/MMS/AFW/1195a20/003/010 [File]
Relation: Foreign Field, August 1909
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Methodist Missionary Society
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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