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Title
Group portrait of church members, Jamaica, ca. 1910
Creator
Baillie, William
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
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
"?Content Meeting House in the Manchester circuit, Jamaica. With groups of Jamaican Methodists who have come out of ? on a weekday for the quarterly visitation of the class by the member for ? giving"/ Group portrait of men and women standing by porch.
William Baillie served as a missionary in Jamaica for over sixty years, He arrived in Jamaica aged 23 in 1887 and served until his death in 1948. There are a number of photographs by Reverend Baillie in the collection, and many appeared in the pages of the "Foreign Field. 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, 8.7 x 13.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-m1985 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-03-20-009-003
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1985
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-03-20-009-003.jpg
Subject
Baillie, William, 1864-1948
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Religious communities
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Jamaica
North and Central America
Source
SOAS/MMS/WI/1200/009/003 [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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