Image / Unveiling of Cairn on Site of Mary Slessor's House, Use, Calabar, 1946

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Title: Unveiling of Cairn on Site of Mary Slessor's House, Use, Calabar, 1946
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
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: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description: Image of the unveiling ceremony of the cairn erected on the site of the former home of Mary Slessor, the Scottish Missionary. A large group of children are gathered round the cairn and a central figure can be seen conducting the ceremony. Many of the children are wearing brightly coloured hats.
A stone cairn marking the site of Mary Slessor's house at Use was unveiled in 1946.
Type: image
Format: 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier: impa-m68201 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-056.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68201
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-056.jpg
Subject: Memorials
Slessor, Mary Mitchell, 1848-1915
Group portrait
Time Period: 1946
Place: Africa
Nigeria
Source: GB 237 CSWC47/LS2/56 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mary Slessor LS2
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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