Set of photographs by Frank Deaville Walker

Groups include: children and teachers in front of school chapel, Tabubi, Valiente mission; congregation in front of Chapel Duplan, near Port au Prince, Haiti; children playing outside East Indian School, Georgetown, British Guiana; 'Jamaica brownies'; "White children on see-saw" [possibly missionari...

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Order number: MMS Box 1200
Date(s) of creation: c 1930-c 1931
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MMS Box 1200
Summary: Groups include: children and teachers in front of school chapel, Tabubi, Valiente mission; congregation in front of Chapel Duplan, near Port au Prince, Haiti; children playing outside East Indian School, Georgetown, British Guiana; 'Jamaica brownies'; "White children on see-saw" [possibly missionaries' children]; orphanage children; school children doing homework on porch; young boys on dock side, Eleuthera, captioned "Mischief brewing"; schoolgirls; sisters, Jamaica; cup winners at Georgetown High School; girls singing and dancing to Action song, British Guiana; primary class, Trinidad; scouts, St Kitts. People include: Rev E S Alphonse on horseback, Valiente mission; girl with doll. Activities include: travelling to New Year's Day service on Tortola, Virgin Islands. Places or buildings include: Methodist chapel in bay of Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Islands; church behind Eleutheria; court house where missionaries were tried for inciting enslaved persons to rebel and cage in which they were imprisoned, Montego Bay, Jamaica. Also includes: ox cart, San Jose, Costa Rica. Prints taken by/received from: Frank Deaville Walker.
Previous numbers: MMS/03/20/01/02
Extent: 42 items comprising 15 negatives and 27 silver gelatin prints.
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably held by Methodist Missionary Society.
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
File number: 02
Format: Archive