- Mission Photography, Stavanger

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Collection Description

The photograph collection of the Mission Archives at the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger is mainly related to the work of the Norwegian Mission Society (formerly known as Norwegian Missionary Society), founded in Stavanger in 1842. For current information about NMS see www.nms.no. Overall, the collection comprises approximately 100,000 items, including photograph albums, glass plate negatives, and lantern slides. Among the regions represented are South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Madagascar, China (Hunan, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Cameroon (Adamawa Province), Japan, Ethiopia, and Norway. Digitized images in this collection currently include pictures from Madagascar and South Africa.

Title:

Mission Photographs of the NMS Archives, Norwegian Missionary Society, Stavanger, 1866-1950
Mission Photographs of the Mission Archives, School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway, ca.1870-1950

Alternate Title:

[short] Mission Photography, Stavanger

Record ID:

impa-m559

Names & Dates

Created:

1870/1950

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Missionary work
Indigenous populations
Missions

Coverage:

1870/1950

Place:

[countries] Madagascar
[regions] KwaZulu Natal
[countries] South Africa
[continents] Africa

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] Internet Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
[repository] Mission Archives, School of Mission and Theology

Physical

Type:

collections
images

Format:

ca. 2,000 photographs
photographs

Access

Rights:

Mission Archives

Repository:

Mission Archives
Misjonsmarka 12, NO-4024 Stavanger, Norway
arkiv@mhs.no

Ordering:

USC does not control copyright for these images. For usage permission, contact the Mission Archives. Information is available at http://www.mhs.no/arkiv.

Identifiers

Record ID:

impa-m559

Source:

[record id] MA-MHS/Photo
[record id] NMS/Photo