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Title
Men standing outside abandoned mission house, Ghana, ca. 1910
Creator
Unknown
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
"The Secondee Wesleyan Mission House, when being disinfected, after the death of our missionaries from Yellow Fever." [Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana].
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, 10.1 x 15 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2275 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-017-017
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2275
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-017-017.jpg
Subject
Diseases
Buildings
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Exterior views
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Africa
Ghana
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/017/017 [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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