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Title
Missionary evangelising in village, Tamil Nadu, India, ca. 1900
Creator
Raw, Harwood W
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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
"Missionary instructing village Christians." Missionary, possibly Rev. Harwood Raw seated on chair with book in front of group of men, women and children, seated on ground in village.
The Madras [now Tamil Nadu] District was the first mission to be established in India in 1817, Rev. Harwood Raw served in Madras from 1896 until his premature death in 1905 from cholera.
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 12.2 x 16.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2379 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-10-20-004-018
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2379
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-10-20-004-018.jpg
Subject
Education
Clergy
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Raw, Harwood W, 1871-1905
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
India
Tamil Nadu
Source
SOAS/MMS/INS/1199/004/018 [File]
Relation
(Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
Foreign Field, October 1915
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
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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