Album of maps and printed photographs

Groups include: missionary in canoe with indigenous oarsmen; women of Kia; children, including hospital twins Noel and Hilda; 4 "Brothers", Caspar, Daniel, Timothy and Ambrose. People include: mother and child with tropical ulcers; Hilda, daughter of indigenous priest Rev George Gilandi; Bishop John...

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Archive & Special Collections MM/07/1/04 Open

Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/4, Box 36
Date(s) of creation: c.1940 - c.1960
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with Melanesian Mission 7/4, Box 36
callnumber MM/07/1/04
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scb_previous_numbers 4
title Album of maps and printed photographs
scb_date_creation c.1940 - c.1960
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 36 prints mounted in 23 page stapled paper album
format Archive
description Groups include: missionary in canoe with indigenous oarsmen; women of Kia; children, including hospital twins Noel and Hilda; 4 "Brothers", Caspar, Daniel, Timothy and Ambrose. People include: mother and child with tropical ulcers; Hilda, daughter of indigenous priest Rev George Gilandi; Bishop John Coleridge Patteson; Buleuru, orphan of Raga; Harry, son of David, indigenous teacher at Lamalana, Raga; malnourished child on admission to hospital and five months later when healthy and discharged. Activites include: mission nurse administering medical treatment to mother and child and training women in Mothercraft; girls of Bunana school floating coconuts to the other side of the island; travelling to attend Holy Communion, New Britain; cane swallowing, New Britain; Places or buildings include: maps of Guadalcanal, Australia, Malaita, Florida Islands; altar of Kumbun church, New Britain; Godden memorial Hospital, Lolowai, Aoba; interior of J R Selwyn memorial church, Siota, including relic of mat in which Bishop Pattson's body was found at Nukapu; Taroaniara with remains of mission headquarters destroyed during hostilities of World War Two; Also includes: Cecil Wilson, Southern Cross, Patteson and Gwenn boats.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright possibly held by Melanesian Mission.
scb_file_number 4
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