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Title
Missionary doctor and child, Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India, ca. 1915
Creator
Sackett, Frank C
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1915
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
A child named Helen whispering into the ear of Dr Joan Drake. Dr Drake served with the Wesleyan Women's Association from 1908 to 1935 in South India.
The photographer, F. Colyer Sackett, served as a Wesleyan Methodist missionary in the Hyderabad district of India from 1901 to 1945. Mrs Sackett wrote an article entitled "Helen and a Birthday" in which this picture is featured. It appeared in the periodical entitled, Woman's Work on the Mission Field in 1916.
Type
image
Format
gelatin silver prints, 11.2 x 15.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2402 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-09-20-003-024
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2402
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-09-20-003-024.jpg
Subject
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Sackett, Frank Colyer, 1876-1953
Group portraits
Children
Medical personnel
Time Period
circa 1915
Place
India
Karimnagar
Source
SOAS/MMS/IN/1198/003/024 [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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