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Title
Group of Christians, Jojoima, Sierra Leone, 1922
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1922
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
"Group of newly baptised with boys of Boarding School in Jojoima, Mendi Mission. Jan 1st 1922. " Group portrait of missionary, catachist, christians and school boys.
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 12.9 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2134 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-005-001
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2134
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-005-001.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Religious communities
Clergy
Children
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1922
Place
Africa
Jojoima
Sierra Leone
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW/1195a/005/001 [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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