People and places mainly in British Guiana [Guyana] also Jamaica.

Groups include: River people at ?Stuckenhewal, Demerara River; 3 young boys in shorts and shirts; family group with father seated holding gun; 2 women standing outside LMS church at Roome, which they helped to build in 1878; group of children eating on bench outdoors; Miss Williams, African teacher...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/West Indies & British Guiana/Photographs/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: c.1880 - c.1930
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/West Indies & British Guiana/Photographs/Box 1
Summary: Groups include: River people at ?Stuckenhewal, Demerara River; 3 young boys in shorts and shirts; family group with father seated holding gun; 2 women standing outside LMS church at Roome, which they helped to build in 1878; group of children eating on bench outdoors; Miss Williams, African teacher with pupils on riverside of Demerara river [reproduced in News From Afar 1918 p.80; man and woman on their way to church by boat on Demerara River; group outside school building People include; Pat Matthews, later a student in Nottingham; agricultural worker; a woman born into slavery; Mrs George, a member of Providence chapel, Georgetown; Johnson Gentle, catechist of ?Cephos, Demerara from 1845 to June 1915 (date of photograph) Activities include: weighing bags of cane sugar. Prints taken by/received from: Ernest R Weeks
Extent: 21 photographic prints, mainly silver gelatin
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably held by Council for World Mission copyright
File number: 2
Format: Archive