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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' 1934 correspondence (see MS380813/2/8): Alexander Sandilands repairing car; "Munga church"; "Inside Kachikau church"; Sandilands with Africans in uniform [related letter suggests holding bundles of tobacco taken in payment for books]; "1st Ngami Company G.L.B. [Girls' Life Brigade] (2 photographs); "Stool ball" [Girls' Life Brigade?]; photographs of children's games, probably Girls' Life Brigade (2 photographs); "Church parade, Maun" [Boys' Brigade and Girls' Life Brigade]; "Camp at Juna Lecha among the mopane trees ... some bushmen on left who had come to see us"; horses drinking in pond; initials of European expeditions [related letter indicates cut on baobab tree at Juna]; "Boys' Brigade camp, Mokwe, 1934"; "Church parade, Mokwe Camp, June 1934. Miss Burns, Miss Haile, Semane"; "1st Serowe Company [Boys' Brigade], Mokwe Camp, 1934"; "AS [Alexander Sandilands] listening to the men at the B.B. [Boys' Brigade] camp"; Boys' Brigade conducting exercises (2 photographs); David Livingstone memorial at Victoria Falls; ostrich; construction work at Maun mission; Alexander Sandilands in front of wagon, Maun mission compound.
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