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Title
Stone laying ceremony, Sierra Leone, 1914
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1914
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
"Foundation stone of Boys' High School at Freetown. Opening service - His Excellency Sir E Merewether ? on platform." View of official podium and speakers.
Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 9.9 x 7.1 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2138 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-004-004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2138
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-004-004.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Clergy
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1914
Place
Africa
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW/1195a/004/004 [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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