Olive Osborn photographs

Photographs of her colleagues, students and schools she worked at as well as images of Lagos, Nigeria. There are also a few photographs of her time whilst training at Kingsmead College, Birmingham.


Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/Box 1216
Date(s) of creation: 1948-1979
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Osborn; Olive Margaret (1923-2008); educational missionary

collection SOAS Archive
id MMS.17.02.03.28
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/Box 1216
callnumber MMS/17/02/03/28
callnumber_txt MMS/17/02/03/28
callnumber-sort MMS/17/02/03/28
prefix_number 28
title Olive Osborn photographs
scb_date_creation 1948-1979
scb_level Sub-series
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 6 files and 1 publication
author Osborn; Olive Margaret (1923-2008); educational missionary
author_facet Osborn; Olive Margaret (1923-2008); educational missionary
authorStr Osborn; Olive Margaret (1923-2008); educational missionary
author_letter Osborn; Olive Margaret (1923-2008); educational missionary
format Archive
scb_admin_history Olive Margaret Osborn was born on 4th October 1923. In 1948 she began her missionary training at Kingsmead College, Birmingham, and was appointed in 1950, by the Women's Work Committee of the Methodist Missionary Society, to teach in Nigeria. Her first posting was to the Methodist Girls' High School, Yaba, Lagos, where she remained until 1960. As well as teaching in the school her role included some outreach work in neighbouring villages and supporting evangelical work. In 1960 she transferred to the Methodist High School in Ilesha (which had opened in 1956). In 1962, she resigned from the Methodist Missionary Society and became a direct employee of the school where she remained until 1965. Osborn died on 10th June 2008.
scb_acquisition Gift, accepted on behalf of the Methodist Church, from Ruth Osborn, April 2005
description Photographs of her colleagues, students and schools she worked at as well as images of Lagos, Nigeria. There are also a few photographs of her time whilst training at Kingsmead College, Birmingham.
scb_arrangement Retained original bundles (no discenable order within them) of photographs and listed them as files in chronological order. A numbering system was used on the rear of many of the photographs which probably corresponded with a list identifying them (which is not extant in this collection).
scb_related_name_code GB/SOASNAF/P1841
scb_place_code 7729885
2328926
2332453
2635167
7729883
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright mainly 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_related_material A small group of papers relating to the Osborn family are available (MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Home/Box 1215).
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0017.0002.0003.0028