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           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.12.10.1.02
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/West Indies & British Guiana/Photographs/Box 1
callnumber CWM/LMS/12/10/1/02
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/12/10/1/02
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/12/10/1/02
prefix_number 02
title People and places mainly in British Guiana [Guyana] also Jamaica.
scb_date_creation c.1880 - c.1930
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 21 photographic prints, mainly silver gelatin
format Archive
description 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
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Council for World Mission copyright
scb_file_number 2
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0012.0010.001.0002