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Title	Group portrait of day school students and teachers, Kumasi, Ghana, ca.1910
Description	"Day School children, Kumasi, Gold Coast" [now Ashanti, Ghana]. Rev. William Turnbull Balmer served as the head of various educational establishements for the Methodist Missionary Society in West Africa, including Richmond College in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Mfantsipim High School at Cape Coast, Ghana, before returning to Fourah Bay Ministerial Training College in Freetown. Balmer spent vacations travelling with James Walton in order to acquire new languages. He published many educational books, in English and African languages.; Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834. Rev. Balmer served in the Sierra Leone and Gambia district from 1901 to 1909 when he transferred to the Gold Coast briefly until 1911. He resumed his work in Sierra Leone from 1914 to 1921.
Subject	Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society; Balmer, William Turnbull, 1866-1928
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Education Children
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1909/1910
Photographer	Balmer, William Turnbull
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1909/1910
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	printing-out paper, 10.8 x 15.2 cm.
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m2255
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
Part of repository	School of Oriental and African Studies
Part of series	(Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
File	SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/011/003
Rights	Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Access conditions	http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/archives/services/
Repository name	University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
Repository address	Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Repository email	docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Filename	IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-011-003
Archival file	impa_Volume198/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-011-003.tiff

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