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Title
Large group outside church at opening ceremony, Nigeria, ca. 1933
Creator
Richardson, Arthur, Humphrey
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1933
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
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"Scene at Church Opening at Ntalakwu, Ndoro, Nigeria." Rev. Richardson served in Nigeria from 1915 to 1933.
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, 10.4 x 16.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2359 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-022-017
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2359
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-022-017.jpg
Subject
Religious buildings
Religious communities
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Richardson, Arthur Humphrey, 1886-1950
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1933
Place
Africa
Nigeria
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/022/017 [File]
Relation
(Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Kingdom Overseas, 1933
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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