Missions (Africa)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Rev. Alexander Dewar
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-887
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 8 volumes of notebooks containing diaries or journals covering the period 1892-1901. One of the small notebooks is headed on the inside cover, Hospital Hill, King Williams Town, and contains official stamps and franked postage stamps over the year 1904. Another is headed, Free Church of Scotland, Livingstonia Mission, 1895. Archival envelopes contain photographs and cards of people and places in Africa, and a collection of drawings and sketches of local...
Dates:
1892-1904
Papers of the Rev. Will Freshwater and A. (Nancy) Freshwater
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1059
Scope and Contents
The collection - E2005.13 - is composed of typescript and manuscript material in the form of off-prints, articles, reports, notebooks, letters, postcards, and diary. There are also photographs.Within the typescript material and collection of letters, there is: correspondence with users of the collection covering period 1980-1985; a copy of Manners and customs of the Ba-Bemba, collected by W. Freshwater, Mbereshi, 1906; manuscript postcard notes,...
Dates:
1901-1985
Papers of William Hutton Marwick
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-219
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: correspondence, personal papers and diaries, in particular letters to Marwick from his family and others referring to personal matters, to Marwick's editorship of publications and to the Ruskin Reading Guild, and on occasion to his work in Scotland and at the mission in Old Calabar (1881-1901); letters to Miss Elizabeth Hutton, who was later to become Marwick's wife, some about her appointment as a missionary at Old Calabar (1891-1899); the diaries of Marwick...
Dates:
1881-1901
Papers relating to Joseph Booth and family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-210
Scope and Contents
The papers include: correspondence of members of the Booth family (1879-1933) mainly letters from Joseph Booth to his daughters Emily and Mary; bible verses, and other personal items belonging to the Booths (c 1871-1924); agreements, circulars and other material relating to Booth's life as a missionary, supporter of the Sabbath and campaigner for African rights (c 1891-1923); correspondence between Shepperson and the Booth family and other potential sources of information about Booth...
Dates:
c 1871-1986
Papers relating to Missionaries in Africa, 1899-1950
File — Box CLX-A-23: Series Coll-490/20; Series Coll-490/21
Identifier: Coll-490/20/3
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Black and African-American missionaries in Africa.
Emma Bertha Delany (1871-1922). African-American missionary in Africa. Papers relating to her training and career. Biographical summary, extract from a letter from Miss Tapley to Mr Lucian Drury, 23.02.56, and an article written by Miss Delany, entitled 'Why I go as a Foreign Missionary' and printed in the Spelman Messenger, Vol. 18,...
Dates:
1899-1950
Papers, volumes, and photographs of Robert and Margaret Laws
Fonds — Box CSWC Small Collections Box 2
Identifier: CSWC 89
Scope and Contents
Volume of anthems, New Testament, empty wallet and photographs and prints of studio portratis of Robert and Margaret Laws
Dates:
20th c
Photographs, late 19th century-1982
Series — Box CLX-A-34: Series Coll-490/Phot.
Identifier: Coll-490/Phot.
Scope and Contents
This series contains photographs, mostly black and white. Most depict missions in Nyasaland/Malawi, and their people (both African and European).
Photographs of missions, of African people, and of European people. No captions.
Photographs sent and captioned by Josephine Cunningham Edwards, featuring missions in Malawi, with Malawian and European people. See "Coll-490/22/COR3".
...
Dates:
late 19th century-1982
Photographs of the Booth and Langworthy families, and some of Booth’s missions in Africa, c 1873-1926
File
Identifier: Coll-210/1/2
Scope and Contents
Photographs of the Booth and Langworthy families, and some of Booth’s missions in Africa. Also includes a roll of negatives, a leaf from David Livingstone’s grave and a New Year’s card from the Auckland Baptist Church. 2 files, 1 box, c 1873-1926.In the box is a woodblock with a negative(?) of a portrait of Joseph Booth, with the caption: " Cliché (for reproduction in magazines, etc.) of the head and shoulders of Joseph Booth: formerly in the possession of the Seventh Day Baptist...
Dates:
c 1873-1926
Records of the Calabar Mission
Fonds
Identifier: GD3
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: an English Calabar dictionary by William Anderson (1849-1851); material used by William Marshall Christie while preparing his record of the mission including a manuscript notebook of locations of missionaries (1911-1945), a note of local church and mission records, notes of the work at the Slessor Memorial Home, Arochuku derived from the S.M.H Record Book (1915-1930), Zenana Quarterly Records (1887-1899) and the Women's Foreign Mission Annual Reports (1900-1908),...
Dates:
1849-1969
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Survey of Missions, December 1940 (date of original)
File — Box CLX-A-32: Series Coll-490/MAM
Identifier: Coll-490/SM
Scope and Contents
Copy of a document entitled "Historical Survey of Native Controlled Missions operating in Nyasaland", by the Nyasaland Police, December 1940.
Dates:
December 1940 (date of original)