- Mission Photography, SOASCollection Description
The selection from around 30,000 prints and 5,000 lantern slides held in the missionary society collections at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is a representative sample of images from Africa, China, the Caribbean, Madagascar, South India, and Papua-New Guinea. The photographs come from the collections of the Council for World Mission (formerly the London Missionary Society), the Methodist Missionary Society, the China Inland Mission (now the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) and the Presbyterian Church of England (now the United Reformed Church). Some of the photographs were taken by missionary workers in the field, such as the lay mission worker, John Parrett (1841-1918) who served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885 and Rev. Harry Moore Dauncey (1863-1932) who served with the L.M.S. in Papua New Guinea, mainly in the Delena district, for forty years from 1888 to 1928. On occasion, missionary officers from headquarters on tours of the mission fields would take photographs. Many of the photographs in the Methodist Missionary Society Collection were taken by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945) editor of the Methodist Missionary Society's journals, The Foreign Field, 1914-1932, and its successor The Kingdom Overseas 1933-1945. There are also images collected or purchased by missionaries whilst overseas, such as the collection of fine albumen prints of China in the early 1860s taken by an unknown Russian photographer.
Title:
Mission Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
Alternate Title:
[short] Mission Photography, London
Record ID:
impa-m971
Names & Dates
Created:
[circa] 1860/1928
Creator:
[photographer] Parrett, John, 1841-1918
[photographer] Dauncey, Harry Moore
Publisher:
[host] University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject
Topic:
Missionary work
Indigenous populations
Missions
Coverage:
[circa] 1860/1928
Place:
[countries] China
[countries] India
[continents] Asia
[regions] West Indies
[countries] Madagascar
[continents] Africa
[countries] Papua New Guinea
Relationships
Part Of:
[collection] Internet Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Contains:
[collection] Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
[collection] Methodist Missionary Society
[collection] (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
[collection] China Inland Mission / Overseas Missionary Fellowship
[collection] Presbyterian Church of England's Foreign Missions Committee
Physical
Type:
collections
images
Format:
ca. 2,200 photographs
photographs
Access
Rights:
Rights are owned by the individual institutions contributing to the Archives & Manuscripts collections at the Library, SOAS. Refer to individual items for specifics.
Repository:
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Ordering:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/research/library/subjects/archives/archives-manuscripts.html
Identifiers
Record ID:
impa-m971
Source:
[record id] SOAS