"Gold Coast. Opening of Salt Pond Church". Missionary and officals gathered under parasols at opening ceremony. [now Ghana]. One of a set of mounted prints of West Africa by F.D. Walker, editor of the Methodist Missionary Society's journals, The Foreign Field, 1914-1932, and it's successor The Kingdom Overseas 1933-1945. He published 18 books and numerous pamphlets, including biographies of Thomas Birch Freeman and William Carey. He travelled to the mission fields extensively, visiting West Africa in 1926. 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.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2156
- Dates
- 1926
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- gelatin silver prints, 14 x 8.9 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Ghana
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Ghana
- Reference
- impa-m2156 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-010-006
- Rights
- Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library docenquiry@soas.ac.uk http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/377d52b4258016817370aeb86b47684c
