Photograph album containing images taken during Thomas Butler's deputation to Kenya

Photographs taken by Thomas Butler during his deputation to Kenya in 1922. No captions. Images of the deputation party (including Mrs Butler); Rev Hopkins and his wife and son; local commiunities; mission property; church congregations; local settlements; landscape. Places include Mazeras, Mombasa,...

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Archive & Special Collections MMS/17/02/11/01/03/01 Open

Order number: MMS Box 1393
Date(s) of creation: 1922-1950s
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Butler; Thomas (d 1931); lay missionary, missionary administrator

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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MMS Box 1393
callnumber MMS/17/02/11/01/03/01
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callnumber-sort MMS/17/02/11/01/03/01
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title Photograph album containing images taken during Thomas Butler's deputation to Kenya
scb_date_creation 1922-1950s
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 1 volume
author Butler; Thomas (d 1931); lay missionary, missionary administrator
author_facet Butler; Thomas (d 1931); lay missionary, missionary administrator
authorStr Butler; Thomas (d 1931); lay missionary, missionary administrator
author_letter Butler; Thomas (d 1931); lay missionary, missionary administrator
format Archive
scb_admin_history Thomas Butler was an ardent supporter of the missions of the United Methodist Church's Foreign Committee. He served said committee for over a decade and was, with his wife, part of a deputation led by the Rev C Stedeford that visited China and Kenya in 1921 and 1922. A keen photographer he captured the work of the missions whilst on deputation and then he, his wife and others, used these images to promote the missionary society's work through talks, lantern slide lectures, etc, in the UK. Butler also served on the Chapel Committee for 17 years whilst his wife served as a President of the Women's Missionary Auxiliary from 1914 to 1921. He died on 20 January 1931.
description Photographs taken by Thomas Butler during his deputation to Kenya in 1922. No captions. Images of the deputation party (including Mrs Butler); Rev Hopkins and his wife and son; local commiunities; mission property; church congregations; local settlements; landscape. Places include Mazeras, Mombasa, Ribe and areas around the Tana river such as Lamu, Golbanti and Ngao. Album contains 4 loose photographs, probably 1940s and 1950s and not taken by Butler: a parade at Nairobi, staff at Maua Hospital (1949), Hopkins with colleagues outside a Church, two St John's nurses receiving an award.
scb_related_name_code GB/SOASNAF/P1238
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright mainly held by 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_file_number 1
scb_related_material Some of these images were reproduced in 'The Missionary Echo' of the United Methodist Church
note Some areas had been identified by Ms R Alison Lewis, otherwise information gleaned from secondary sources.
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0017.0002.0011.0001.0003.0001

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