Photographs, postcards and album pages belonging to Clara Mennell
Includes: 1. Clara Robb (nee Mennell) with her class of Arab girls, Algiers, c.1911-1914 2. Group shot of Miss Nash, Miss Smeeton, Mr Smeeton and Miss Mennell 3. Group of European women (unidentified) 4. Miss May (May sisters) 5. 'Miss K. Clark, with some of her Kabyle girls' 6. 'Monsieur Bonjour, S...
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AWM/AMB, Box 25 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
c.1910s-1930s |
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File |
| Format: | Archive |
| collection |
SOAS Archive |
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AWM.AMB.02.13.03.13 |
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archive |
| scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections |
| item_location |
Archive & Special Collections |
| scb_loan_type |
Reference only |
| scb_order_with |
AWM/AMB, Box 25 |
| callnumber |
AWM/AMB/02/13/03/13 |
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AWM/AMB/02/13/03/13 |
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AWM/AMB/02/13/03/13 |
| prefix_number |
13 |
| title |
Photographs, postcards and album pages belonging to Clara Mennell |
| scb_date_creation |
c.1910s-1930s |
| scb_level |
File |
| level_sort |
7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File |
| scb_extent |
51 photographs/postcards |
| format |
Archive |
| scb_admin_history |
Clara Mennell joined the Algiers Mission Band in around 1911 and worked under Lilias Trotter in Algiers and other places. During World War 2 she returned to England to complete her nurse training. She returned to Algeria to marry a missionary, James Robb. They were married at Dar Naama on 3 March 1919. They worked together in North Africa until about 1928. |
| scb_acquisition |
Donated to Arab World Ministries by Clara Mennell's daughter, Mrs Kathleen Lewis in 2000. |
| description |
Includes:
1. Clara Robb (nee Mennell) with her class of Arab girls, Algiers, c.1911-1914
2. Group shot of Miss Nash, Miss Smeeton, Mr Smeeton and Miss Mennell
3. Group of European women (unidentified)
4. Miss May (May sisters)
5. 'Miss K. Clark, with some of her Kabyle girls'
6. 'Monsieur Bonjour, Sidi M. Barak. Colportage work near Constantine'
7. 'Arab man at Sousse (Tunisia) sitting under his fig tree & selling the fruit fresh from the tree'
8. 'After the wedding (North Africa)...'
9. Postcard addressed to Mrs Robb, showing Dar Naama
10. 'Part of the Orange Court, Dar Naama - on our wedding Day'
11. 'Constantine. Mabarak, J. Robb'
12. 'C. Mennell at the front door of "Dar Naama"'
13. 'Visitors at "Dar Naama"'
14. "Dar Naama"
15. 'C. Mennell, A. Mc? - going visiting a village near Algiers - we did this every Monday'
16. 'Fatima & daughter Farmina & baby son' - 'caretaker at Beit Naama where meetings were held'
17. 'Laura Carr, who helped for a time in Algiers'
18. 'The three arab girls who lived with their mother & worked at "Dar Naama", Aissha had sore eyes so she was my first patient'
19. 'Some of the girls from Algiers spending a day in the garden at "Dar Naama"'
20. 'This is a housebus in which we travelled to a village to visit the women'
21. Former Chelsea Students at Keswick Convention'
22. Postcard - 'School for Blind Arabs. J.H. Smeeton, Algiers Mission Band, El Biar, Algiers' - caption on reverse reads, 'Mr Smeeton with blind Arabs - at Rue du Croissant, Algiers. Mr Buckenham in centre'
23. Postcard - 'Constantine - Entrée de la Rue Nationale'
24. Postcard (coloured) - 'Alger - La Rue Chameau'
25. Postcard (coloured) - 'Scenes et Types - La Prière au Désert (2eme phase)'
26. Postcard (coloured) - 'Scenes et Types - La Prière au Désert' 3eme phase)'
27. Postcard (coloured) - 'Scenes et Types - La Prière au Désert' 1ere phase)'
28. Postcard - 'Kabylie - Paysage et Type'
29. Postcard - 'Miliana. La Place de l'Horioge et le Zaccar'
30. Postcard (coloured) - 'Scenes et Types - La Grande Prière'
31. Postcard - 'Miliana - Le Zaccar et les Mines'
32. Postcard - 'Alger - Le Môle'
33. Postcard - 'Tebessa - La Basilique - Vue Générale'
34. Postcard - 'Scenes et Types - La Belle Fatma. Costume de Femme Arabe Riche'
35. Postcard (coloured) - 'Sidi-Ferruch (Algérie) - Plage-Ouest'
36. Postcard (coloured) - 'Alger - Un Cireur'
37. Postcard - 'Tebessa - Ruines de la Basilique Byzantine'
38. Postcard - 'Djemaa-Sahridj (Algérie) - Kabyle Ploughmen
39. Postcard - 'Tebessa - Ruines de la Basilique Byzantine - Porte Latérale'
40. Postcard - 'Constantine - Mosquée Sidi Abd-el-Maumen et rue Arabe'
41. Postcard (coloured) - 'Tunis. Le Baro - Palais de Bew?'
42. Postcard - 'El-Djem - La Rue principale et le Colisée'
43. Postcard - 'Intérieur d'une Maison Mauresque'
44. Postcard - 'Kabylie - Un Gourbi'
45. Postcard - 'Un Moulin à huile en Kabylie'
46. Postcard - 'El-Djem - Les voûies du Colisée'
47. Postcard (coloured) - 'Bone - Le Thêatre et la Statue de Bertagna'
48. Postcard - 'Constantine - Intérieur de la Mosquée El Kétani'
49. Postcard (coloured) - 'Magasin Arabe'
50. Postcard (coloured) - 'Scenes et Types - Une familie de nomandes'
51. Postcard - 'Miliana - Intérieur de la Mosquée' |
| scb_access_status |
Open |
| language |
English French |
| language_search |
English French |
| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
AWM |
| hierarchy_sequence |
AWM.00AMB.0002.0013.0003.0013 |