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Title
"Canoes on Beach, 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
Image of a three wooden canoes on a Calabar beach. There are wooden thatched huts on the hillside above the beach and three men pictured in the centre of the image.
Such canoes were one of the primary modes of transport and were used to trade between villages.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68170 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-027.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68170
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-027.jpg
Subject
Dugout canoes
Waterways
General views
Time Period
circa 1880
Place
Africa
Nigeria
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS2/27 [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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