Album of Pareychaley district presented to LMS Home Secretary Rev. [Arthur] Johnson by [Joshua] Knowles and [Emma] Knowles [nee Emma Okell]

Groups include: 3 girls; William Fletcher ("native minister"), his daughter, and son-in-law; group inside chapel in the district; some school girls; boarding school groups, 1891 and November 1892; Martandam Girls' and Boys' School; schoolmistresses and biblewomen; Pareychaley women; Catechists and f...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/India/Photographs/Box 8
Date(s) of creation: c.1894
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/India/Photographs/Box 8
Summary: Groups include: 3 girls; William Fletcher ("native minister"), his daughter, and son-in-law; group inside chapel in the district; some school girls; boarding school groups, 1891 and November 1892; Martandam Girls' and Boys' School; schoolmistresses and biblewomen; Pareychaley women; Catechists and families; male teachers; children "feasting on curry and rice"; orphan children of lepers at Neyyoor; group for opening of new hospital at Neyyoor; fakirs. Other people include: David ("our servant"); Rachel (a Biblewoman); Chinese woman and man (passengers on the Rohilla); Rev. A Samuel; Peter ("a teacher"); Susanna Addis (nee Susanna van Someren) and her grandniece; Matthias (evangelist); Joseph Kamalam. Events featured include: a Sangam (May meeting). Activities featured include: going to visit a school; prize giving and sewing on the verandah. Places or buildings featured include: a temple; a Toda "Mund"; Nagercoil Chapel; Girls' Boarding School; Chuttram near Neyyoor; bungalow; Brahmin street and tank; a Bodega temple; "in the jungle"; Nilgiri Hills; a derelict chapel. Also includes: travelling chair and jinrickisha.
Extent: 1 album containing 48 sepia prints (3 pages have fallen out and are in separate sleeves)
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably expired
File number: 55
Format: Archive