Images of Robert Moffat and his family

Engravings and photographs of Robert Moffat, showing him as a younger and older man. Also includes photograph of painting of Sarah Roby ('a Bechuana girl buried in infancy, rescued and reared by Mr & Mrs Moffat', painted by Mrs Jemima Luke); Mary Moffat as a young woman; Mrs Robert Moffat in old...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Home/Livingstone Pictures/Box 2
Date(s) of creation: n.d.
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.01.09.04.17
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Home/Livingstone Pictures/Box 2
callnumber CWM/LMS/01/09/04/17
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/01/09/04/17
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prefix_number 17
title Images of Robert Moffat and his family
scb_date_creation n.d.
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 18 items
format Archive
description Engravings and photographs of Robert Moffat, showing him as a younger and older man. Also includes photograph of painting of Sarah Roby ('a Bechuana girl buried in infancy, rescued and reared by Mr & Mrs Moffat', painted by Mrs Jemima Luke); Mary Moffat as a young woman; Mrs Robert Moffat in old age; black and white photograph of Dr Moffat's house at Kuruman [Bechuanaland]; illustration of the mission premises at the Kuruman Station printed in oil colours by George Baxter [1842]. Some of these images appear in the publication by Cecil Northcott, 'Robert Moffat: pioneer in Africa, 1817-1870' (London: Lutterworth Press, 1961).
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number 17
scb_related_material A copy of the publication 'Robrt Moffat: pioneer in Africa, 1817-1870', by Cecil Northcott, is held in the Council for World Mission Library (refL CWML Q346). This publication was based on his original PhD thesis, 'Life and Work of Robert Moffat: with particular reference to the expansion of missions and white settlement north of the Orange River, 1817-1870' (SOAS, 1961), a copy of which is also available in the library (ref: CWML Q258).
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hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0001.0009.0004.0017