Pages from a volume entitled Searchlight on the Copperbelt by Dorothy Biggs, "an illustrated discussion"

Sent in with accompanying letter from Rev. R A Bocking of Norwich in March 1999. Originally provided with a set of lantern slides, and with commentary and further notes. Prints have the following captions: "aeroplane production", "shipping", "electrical plant", "map", "quarrying", "clearing the grou...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 8
Date(s) of creation: early to mid 1930s
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 8
Summary: Sent in with accompanying letter from Rev. R A Bocking of Norwich in March 1999. Originally provided with a set of lantern slides, and with commentary and further notes. Prints have the following captions: "aeroplane production", "shipping", "electrical plant", "map", "quarrying", "clearing the ground", "headgear", "crushing plant", "panorama", "the mines at night", "assembling for the shift", "ready to go underground", "the village", "family life", "un-adorned", "women in European dress", "ox sleigh", "children", "return from mines", "warriors", "elephant", "on trek", "single quarters", "married quarters", "food queue", "gambling", "coming off shift", "skilled worker", "blast furnace", "African miner", "white miner", "unskilled labourer", "agitation group", "the witchcraft shop", "young mechanics", "smiling face", "Mindolo Church", "children at school", "mothercraft", "mother's home work", "learning to read", "baseball player", "the bookshop", "nativity play", "the church interior", "the end of the job", "the evening meal", "our servant - the labourer", "the new order", and "Africa wonders".
Extent: 50 black and white prints with commentary and notes [originally in album together] and letter from Bocking
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably held by Council for World Mission
File number: 88
Copies: Many of these prints are also in the other Copperbelt files
Format: Archive