Image / Portrait of chief's wife, Nigeria, ca. 1934-1938

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Title: Portrait of chief's wife, Nigeria, ca. 1934-1938
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934/1938
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
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Description: "Dorcas, wife of William, Methodist Chief at Orin 60 miles from Ilesha. Dr. Beaugie served in Western Nigeria from 1934 to 1938.
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: gelatin silver prints, 13.6 x 8.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2324 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-022-007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2324
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-022-007.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Fashion
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Beaugie, D.M
Portraits
Time Period: 1934/1938
Place: Africa
Nigeria
Source: SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/022/007 [File]

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