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
"Peradeniya Training Colony. The school building. Staff and students. The joint work of the WMMS and CMS" [ Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society]. Group portrait of staff and students arranged outside school building. F.D. Walker was editor of the Methodist Missionary Society journals from 1914 to 1945, and reproduced many of his own photographs in their pages, taken on visits to the mission fields. Walker's first journey to the mission fields began in September 1920, when he visited India, Burma and Ceylon. Walker's first photographs from India appear in April 1921 in an article entitled simply, "Pictures and Jottings" giving an overview of Walker's journey and experiences, and introducing the illustrated articles that were to follow.
Type
image
Format
gelatin silver prints, 11.2 x 15.5 cm. photographs
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