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Core Title School of Oriental and African Studies

Collection description The selection from the 25,000 prints held in the missionary society collections at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) (https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/archives/) 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, and the China Inland Mission (now the Overseas Missionary Fellowship). 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. There are also images collected by missionaries whilst overseas, such as the collection of fine albumen prints of China in the early 1860s taken by an unknown Russian photographer.

Coverage Temporal 1862/1928

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Source School of Oriental and African Studies (subcollection)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

Unique identifier UC1STO758

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-oUC1STO758

Access Conditions https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/

Repository Name University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library

Repository Location Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom

Repository Email special.collections@soas.ac.uk