Girls' Boarding School, Hope Fountain, Matabeleland: souvenir for [Francis] Hawkins and promotional booklet from Neville Jones and [Ruth] Jones [nee Ruth Collard]

Souvenir includes prints of: the Jones' child; Hope Fountain from the camp (including [Charles] Helm 's house); people going to Church on Christmas Day 1912; district teachers and evangelists; Shisho Moya; Mtompe Kumalo (nephew of Lobengula); 3 Christian women (Nyanye, Mabena, and Mahlanu); Mkanga M...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 7
Date(s) of creation: c.1913 - c.1920
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 7
Summary: Souvenir includes prints of: the Jones' child; Hope Fountain from the camp (including [Charles] Helm 's house); people going to Church on Christmas Day 1912; district teachers and evangelists; Shisho Moya; Mtompe Kumalo (nephew of Lobengula); 3 Christian women (Nyanye, Mabena, and Mahlanu); Mkanga Moya and ?Ncube Moya; Pitipiti Gumede (one of Lobengula's wives); Ruth Elizabeth and Nyanye; flower garden looking towards the Church; the Jones family on the verandah; a corner of the vegetable garden; "below the verandah". Promotional booklet includes prints (with detailed captions) of: the front entrance, the boarders, the girls' dormitory, the "little ones and the swing", physical exercise, playing rounders, the teachers (Head Mistress Rachel Masinga and assistant Letta Mazibuko), matron Mrs Nyoni, prefects, and four supported girls. Also includes appeal "to the friend to whom this is sent".
Previous numbers: a(vi)1-11, c(ix)1-14
Extent: 14 sepia prints stuck into a brown booklet and 11 black and white prints stuck into a grey booklet
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably expired
File number: 62
Format: Archive