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Title
"Opening a Box from Scotland", Calabar, late 19th century
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1880
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
Contact the repository for details.
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
Group image, including Mary Slessor in the middle of the picture having just received a mission box from Scotland. The box is seen to contain clothing amongst other gifts.
Mission boxes sent from Scotland could contain clothing and gifts, which were reserved for special occasions. The arrival of such a box would have been the only time that Mary Slessor herself was able to renew the clothing that she wore.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68175 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-031.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68175
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-031.jpg
Subject
Charitable giving
Clothing and dress
Slessor, Mary Mitchell, 1848-1915
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1880
Place
Africa
Nigeria
Scotland
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS2/31 [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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