Photograph of Mrs Margaret Laws (nee Gray), wife of Dr Robert Laws. Margaret Laws is pictured sitting on a chair holding a young infant, likely Dr and Mrs Law's daughter Amelia Nyasa Laws, born in 1886. There is a wooden stair case in the background and a leopard skin rug on the floor. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) the Scottish Missionary. In 1875, inspired by David Livingstone (1813-1873), Laws travelled to Malawi and was involved in the foundation of the mission station of Livingstonia on the shores of Lake Nyasa. During the succeeding 50 years he also established a network of hundreds of schools. In 1908 Laws was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68582
- Date published
- 1875/1925
- Dates
- 1875/1925
- Format
- Lantern slides
- Pages
- 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Malawi
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Malawi
- Reference
- impa-m68582 [Legacy record ID]; imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS5-1-021.tif
- Rights
- Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/df9d4d3ed29394137ba4c8192dd6ab89
