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Photographs taken during Alexander Sandilands' missionary work in Bechuanaland [Botswana]. Dates and numbers written on the reverse of the photographs by Ian Sandilands relate them to incidents in Alexander Sandilands' 1935 correspondence (see MS380813/2/9): hut under construction, Maun mission compound; "One of the rooms at the first home" [hut, Maun mission compound]; view of Maun mission compound; wire fence; group of Sandilands family members (taken in Britain in Jan 1933); "1st Ngami GLB [Girls' Life Brigade] company"; Boys' Brigade being inspected; Boys' Brigade [?] exercises; Doris Sandilands with children and visitors; well at Maun mission compound; mission house under construction, Maun mission; exterior view of huts, Maun mission (Doris Sandilands seated with children); damage caused by storms, Maun mission compound (3 photographs); scenes of native assembly [related correspondence indicates tribal meeting at Mahalapye where new High Commissioner met the Bamangwato and Tshekedi Khama] (4 photographs); "2 women preparing food - a village in Northern Ngamiland"; "Mma Kenanaga"; "Ngamiland - the leader of a village church - a Mokoba man"; "The new mission house", Maun mission (taken Feb 1936).
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