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Title: "Mary Slessor's House at Ekenge", 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
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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 the Scottish Missionary Mary Slessor's house with Mary pictured outside alongside a number of children and villagers. The house has a thatched roof and upstairs veranda. Ekenge is located within later day Nigeria.
Type: image
Format: 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier: impa-m68171 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-028.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68171
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-028.jpg
Subject: Housing
Village communities
Slessor, Mary Mitchell, 1848-1915
Exterior view
Place: Africa
Nigeria
before 1915
Source: GB 237 CSWC47/LS2/28 [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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