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Title: Missionary with boy scouts, Bangalore, India, ca. 1920
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1920
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
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "Mr. Wilkins with boy scouts." Bangalore, Mysore District, India. Portrait of missionary seated with scouts in uniform. George Wilkins worked in Bangalore between 1903 and 1928, and led the Mysore Troop of Boy Scouts, whose headquarters were in Bangalore. An illustrated lantern lecture on the Scout's activities was produced by Wilkins in 1921 and made available to inform and educate home audiences about the work being carried out.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 10.8 x 15.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2627 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-09-10-064-008
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2627
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-09-10-064-008.jpg
Subject: London Missionary Society
Wilkins, George,1875-1960
Youth organizations
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1920
Place: Bangalore
India
Karnataka
Source: SOAS/CWM/LMS/IN/PHOTO/09/064/008 [File]
Relation: Council for World Mission/London 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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