Photographs of Mbereshi Hospital staff, patients etc

Photographs taken by Douglas Harman, originally in envelope labelled "Mbereshi". Include: native nurses on parade (Hospital Sunday, May 1953); group of native nurses and orderlies; children patients "with dolls and scrap books"; group of Mbereshi staff taken on the departure of Revd H.J. Barnes from...

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Order number: MS 380815 Box 2
Date(s) of creation: 1953
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MS 380815 Box 2
Summary: Photographs taken by Douglas Harman, originally in envelope labelled "Mbereshi". Include: native nurses on parade (Hospital Sunday, May 1953); group of native nurses and orderlies; children patients "with dolls and scrap books"; group of Mbereshi staff taken on the departure of Revd H.J. Barnes from Mbereshi to Kashinda in 1953 to take up post as London Missionary Society Board Representative; "moving the Barnes': lorry going through a bad patch"; photograph (2 copies) of Frank Hodgson with ragged hospital patient (caption "it says here that the seams outlast the garment!").
Extent: 8 photographs
Custodial history: Other photographs which were originally contained in the same envelope have been catalogued as MS380815/2/2/1/1.
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by SOAS, University of London
Language: English
Finding aids: Handlist available
Related material: Two photographs are duplicated in MS380815/2/2/1/15. Photographs relating to Revd Barnes's departure are also in MS380815/2/2/1/1 and MS380815/2/2/1/12.
Format: Archive