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Title
Hospital Servants, Nagpur, India, ca.1927
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1926/1927
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
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
"Hospital Servants. [list of occupations of those pictured] 1 Motor Driver, 1 Chaprassie (messenger), 2 Chowkidars (watch-men), 1 Tonga Driver, 2 Malis (gardeners), 3 Cooks, 3 Sewing Women, 4 Dhobies (washerwomen), 6 Sweepers, 5 Ward Cleaners." Group portrait of servants at Mure Memorial Hospital at Nagpur. The hospital, which was founded by Dr Agnes Elizabeth Henderson in 1896, contained several wards including a children’s and isolation ward. Dr Henderson was also responsible for raising significant sums of money to extend the hospital and as a result managed to build many new wards. Daughter of Sir William Henderson, she arrived in Nagpur in 1890 and retired from work in 1922 but continued to raising significant sums of money to extend the hospital. Doctor Henderson died in December 1925, and as a tribute to her memory the Church at Nagpur was named after her.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 20.5 x 15.6 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75650436-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79293
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75650436-1.jpg
Subject
Health care
Group portraits
Hospitals (institutions, health facility)
Workers
Time Period
circa 1926/1927
Place
Asia
India
Maharashtra
Nagpur
Source
Acc.7548/F/13 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75650434 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photograph Album of the Women's Welfare League, Nagpur, India, 1926-1927
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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