Folder, comprising of photographic prints, collated by Olive Osborn for use in talks explaining her missionary education work in Nigeria

Photographs taken by Olive Osborn (with some by her colleague Ruth Musson) and used for talks (and display) by Osborn to illustrate her missionary education work in Nigeria. Most of the photographs date from the early 1950s. Most photographs have captions on rear with many very detailed (including o...

Full description

Archive & Special Collections MMS/17/02/03/28/06 Open

Order number: MMS/17/02/03/28/06 (oversize)
Date(s) of creation: 1951-1961
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MMS.17.02.03.28.06
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MMS/17/02/03/28/06 (oversize)
callnumber MMS/17/02/03/28/06
callnumber_txt MMS/17/02/03/28/06
callnumber-sort MMS/17/02/03/28/06
prefix_number 06
title Folder, comprising of photographic prints, collated by Olive Osborn for use in talks explaining her missionary education work in Nigeria
scb_date_creation 1951-1961
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 56 items
format Archive
description Photographs taken by Olive Osborn (with some by her colleague Ruth Musson) and used for talks (and display) by Osborn to illustrate her missionary education work in Nigeria. Most of the photographs date from the early 1950s. Most photographs have captions on rear with many very detailed (including occasionally identifying individual students). Some images are copies of those in other folders (albeit sometimes enlarged). Images include those of Osborn and her colleagues (Ruth Musson, Emily Davis, Mrs Okuyemi, Mrs Martin); group photographs of students, sometimes with staff, at Methodist Girls' High School, Yabba, Lagos, and two group photographs (1961) of staff and students at Ilesha Methodist High School; classrooms and the building of the Methodist Girls' High School; students sitting entrance exam for Methodist Girls' High School; depictions of Lagos - marina, stalls and shops, lagoon, Victoria beach, markets (Alakoro, Obalende Bridge, Ebute Ero); buildings, people and activities in Pedro and Creek villages; Methodist churches at Mosafejo, Yabba and Ajegunle; Methodist maternity centre at Oyo.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright vested with Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
scb_file_number 6
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0017.0002.0003.0028.0006

Similar items