1930 photographs

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' 1930 correspondence (see MS380813/2/4): "Rampodu, the old deacon who was my chape...

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Archive & Special Collections MS 380813/4/5 Open

Order number: MS 380813 Box 3
Date(s) of creation: Jan 1930-Nov 1930
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MS_380813.4.5
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MS 380813 Box 3
callnumber MS 380813/4/5
callnumber_txt MS 380813/4/5
callnumber-sort MS 380813/4/5
prefix_number 5
title 1930 photographs
scb_date_creation Jan 1930-Nov 1930
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 31 photographs
format Archive
description 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' 1930 correspondence (see MS380813/2/4): "Rampodu, the old deacon who was my chaperone on my trip up country" (2 photographs); "Moronkerwa"; interior view, mid-room, Maun mission compound - Doris Sandilands seated with baby; three cars (Sandilands' on right); "Hendersons' car on Riley's Road (between Mogogelo [?] and Tso Tsoroga)"; "Hendersons' car on the road Kasane - Kachikau"; "Between Kasane and the Falls - Hendersons' car encounters a tree fallen across the road"; Hendersons' car crossing river on a pontoon; "Masarwa (Protectorate Bushmen) outside their hut"; "Some boys [bushmen?] eating"; "Bushman outside his hut"; view of Hendersons' car in dense bush; "Wash day at the river" ['natives' washing clothes] (2 photographs); "Children's afternoon - finish of the sack race"; "Children's afternoon - little girls' egg and spoon race"; "Children's afternoon - big girls' thread the needle race"; Girls' Life Brigade girls standing to attention; views of motor repairs, brick laying and building under construction, Maun mission compound; "B.B. [Boys' Brigade] trainees"; "A deaconess of the church"; "A congregation at an out station"; views of native congregations and preachers (3 photographs); views of native village (2 photographs); "Two women ... weaving large grain baskets out of the fibre from palm-tree leaves".
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by SOAS, University of London
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids Handlist available
scb_related_material For Alexander Sandilands' 1930 correspondence, see MS380813/2/4
hierarchy_top_id_raw MS 380813
hierarchy_sequence MS_380813.004.005

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