Africa visual materials

This class contains photographic material connected with the work of the MMS (as well as its predecessor organisations) in Africa as a whole. Material included here generally cannot be identified with one specific country or relates to a number of countries in Africa. Files 1 & 2 contain portrai...

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Date(s) of creation: c 1870-c 1960
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MMS.17.07.05
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber MMS/17/07/05
callnumber_txt MMS/17/07/05
callnumber-sort MMS/17/07/05
prefix_number 05
scb_previous_numbers MMS/05/20
title Africa visual materials
scb_date_creation c 1870-c 1960
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
scb_extent 1 box containing 5 files comprising 138 items.
format Archive
description This class contains photographic material connected with the work of the MMS (as well as its predecessor organisations) in Africa as a whole. Material included here generally cannot be identified with one specific country or relates to a number of countries in Africa. Files 1 & 2 contain portraits of missionaries church members and other indigenous people; File 3 contains a set of postcards illustrating the life of David Livingstone; File 4 contains an album of images of Kenya and Rhodesia [ Zimbabwe and Zambia] by Rev George Ayre and File 5 contains miscellaneous items covering Africa as a whole, some identified and others uncaptioned. Where possible, place names have been identified by a contemporary standard form (generally taken from the 1933 Annual Report) and also by a current modern standard form (generally taken from the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names) where this has been identified as different.
scb_arrangement Material has either been sorted into manageable units or kept in existing units if these are appropriate, based on authorship, provenance, location or subject coverage. The files have been arranged chronologically as far as is possible, although individual files can cover large date ranges.
scb_access_status Open
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0017.0007.0005