Tinted lantern slide showing a crowd of men and women at a fair (or "mela") in the village of Thawe, in Gopalganj, Bihar, India. Durga Temple at Thawe is a major Hindu pilgrimage site, and a month long mela is organised there each year. The original caption to the slide reads: "Thawe Fair - Photo by A.L.B." The photograph was taken by Alexander Banks, one of the first missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union to enter Bihar in 1899, along with George Hicks. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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