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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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/04/10/06/088 Open

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

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.04.10.06.088
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 8
callnumber CWM/LMS/04/10/06/088
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/04/10/06/088
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/04/10/06/088
prefix_number 088
title Pages from a volume entitled Searchlight on the Copperbelt by Dorothy Biggs, "an illustrated discussion"
scb_date_creation early to mid 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 50 black and white prints with commentary and notes [originally in album together] and letter from Bocking
format Archive
description 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".
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Council for World Mission
scb_file_number 88
scb_copies Many of these prints are also in the other Copperbelt files
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0004.0010.0006.00088

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