Duke Town Looking to H.W.T.I, , Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1930-1940

Tinted lantern slide of Duke Town in Calabar, looking in the direction of the Hope Waddell Training Institute (H.W.T.I). A man stands in the foreground, and the roofs of dwellings can be seen. Reverend Hope Masterton Waddell (1804-1895) founded the first Christian school in Calabar in 1846. The Training Institute was the brainchild of Mary Slessor (1848-1915), and although the United Presbyterian Church was initially reluctant, custom-made building parts were shipped from Glasgow in 1894. The first lessons began in 1895. Boys learned carpentry, masonry, bricklaying, coopering, blacksmithing, naval engineering and brickmaking. Girls were taught accountancy, dress-making, tailoring and domestic science. This slide comes from a set on mission, culture and industry in Calabar, southeast Nigeria generated by the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland (which was incorporated with the Church of Scotland in 1929.)