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USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Interior" The front of the church at Kano is shown with decorated altar and wooden benches for seating.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Battage des haricots, juillet 1923" ("Threshing beans, July 1923") Photograph of African women threshing beans in Antioka. In the foreground, in the center, two children. In the background, buildings and …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
“Anthony” Portrait of Austin John Anthony Irvine, son of Archibald Clive Irvine and Margaret Joyce Irvine, who was born in Aberdeen in April1922 and spent his childhood in the Chogoria …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Lifidi a Shendam official and the first Shendam schoolboy" A man in a robe and cap stands with his bicycle in front of a large tree.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Fr. Sirlinger's two hunter" Two native men holding clubs are posed in front of a thatched wall.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923
Children standing under mangotrees during the communion, in Samkita.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Children in native costume" Three young children standing in front of the Mission building wear minimal clothing.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
Sewing lesson in the girls'school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Yabassi. The lesson is on wednesday afternoon, before the prayer time.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Schoolboys after work drinking native beer" More than twenty boys are seated in a flat area in front of two buildings. There are what appear to be wooden sawhorses in …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Native Christians at Shendam - Sunday morning" About twenty men, women, and children are posed with the Mission House in the background
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Native Court of Kano" This is a substantial rectangular building with square openings around the outside.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Schoolboys bringing in the Christmas log" Seven boys pulling and pushing a low wagon that has a large log on it, presumably to be used as a yule log at …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
No original title. Candidates for baptism wearing simple white dresses and long shirts standing in a circle and holding hands. In the middle a smaller child standing. In the background …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Chief of Shendam with government staff" The chief, clothed in long robes and holding a wooden staff, is seated in front of a building with a conical thatched roof.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Samson Opam, Gold Coast" Portrait of indigenous minister wearing robes and holding crucifix. Copyright of commercial photographer, W.H. Selby. Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
African orphans with the missionaries who took them in, in Yabassi.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Shendam schoolboy - Dick - 1/2 English" A young boy in a shirt and shorts salutes the camera.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Christian family - Mrs. Kosmo wife of native of German Cameroon" A woman wearing a robe and headdress is seated in a chair, holding a baby. A young girl in …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
“Medical work by the roadside.” Exterior view showing children being examined by a dresser whilst Mrs Irvine sits in the Dodge holding her baby son. ❧ This image is from …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Fulani encampment. Calabashes for milk" A young man is crouched on the ground in front of a makeshift tent with several large bowls on the ground near him.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Aruscha - Kostschule: Knaben - Mädchen" ("Arusha boarding school: Boys - girls"). Group portrait taken on a lawn. Children dressed in European clothes standing in rows. Missionary Blumer in the …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
Children standing under mangotrees during the communion, in Samkita.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Effects of famine in Domasi, 1923". "Nyasaland". Photograph showing a group, consisting mainly of children, who are emaciated and suffering from the effects of famine conditions. Several of the children …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Mission House, Shendam" The mission house is a one-storey building with overhanging roof.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Paie" ("Wages") Photograph of African women and children standing in front of a hut. They wear loincloths and look at the camera. Two of them carry bags on their head. …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
“Breaking up land.” Exterior view of indigenous men hoeing ground around the Chogoria mission station. ❧ This image is from the first years of the Chogoria mission in Kenya, which …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Treasury of Shendam. Built of mud, covered with a thin coat of cement" A small building with several small peaks along roofline has two large square openings in front and …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Kano. From on of the hills inside the city walls." A number of low buildings and walls can be seen in a settlement, with a view to the horizon beyond.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"1923". Teachers and students at Antsirabe Boys' School, Antsirabe. Standing in the third row from left: Marie Saugen, a missionary in Madagascar from 1921-1927. She married pastor Jakob Isaksen 1895-1978, …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
Portrait of five students of the pastoral school of Douala (Paul Jocky is sitting on the left), with Charles Maitre, missionary of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Interior of Church ready for Xmas" The altar of the church is shown with candles and decorations hanging from the ceiling.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Cleaning day. Palm trees are dates planted by the Fathers" Several young boys and a dog surround a bicycle that is upside down for cleaning. There are palm trees in …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
Mission station of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Mahajanga. There are the missionary buildings and Mahajanga and the sea on the background.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Ankwe pagan" A man of the Ankwe or Goemai people,with a woven wrap below his waist, stands between a thatched roof hut and a woven straw wall.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Ankwe functionary" A man from the Ankwe or Goemai people sits on his horse in front of a hut and a wall made of woven straw.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Antonio aged 12 when on tour. Offspring of cannibals and given to Mission by government when 1 year old" A boy in a tunic is posed in front of a …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Native Christian" A woman a wrapped cloth, wearing a headdress, poses for the camera.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923
"Christian teachers. Mallam Twanul, Mallam Mayari (sp?) (not quite Christian)" Two men in white robes and hats pose for the camera at the Shendam Mission
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Government clerk at Shendam. Mohammedan" A robed man with a cloth headcovering sits on a chair with a book on his knee. Two children are standing near him.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Main street of Shendam. Prison on left" A flat space with a large tree is to the right of a long mud brick wall.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Mr. Bryan crossing a stream" Mr. Bryan, wearing a pith helmet and shorts, is on the back of the man walking through the shallow stream.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
Women made small mound of soil to cultivate potatoas, groundnuts and taros, in Yabassi, Cameroon.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923
Henri Nicod and his wife are on their way to visit a church. Mrs Nicod is in a kind of wheelchair, pushed by Indigenous people. Some other men carry a …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Woman cooking the evening meal" A woman is crouched near a large cooking vessel set on stones. Thatch roofed huts are in the background
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Fr. Sirlinger as blacksmith with his carpenter" Father Eugène Sirlinger is working with metal on an anvil while a native man carrying a tool looks on at the Shendam Mission.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
Photograph of Dr Robert Laws being made a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG). Dr Laws is standing on a platform which is …
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Chief's wives beating corn in a mortar" Three women are using long sticks to beat corn in a mortar while another looks on.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Pauline (aged 15) and her brother - both Catholics" A young woman carries her toddler brother in a wrap on her back at the Shendam Mission.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"The chief on horseback" The chief of Shendam, clothed in long robes, is seated on a horse.
USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English
"Beggar violinist - Cap made of leather and ostrich feathers" A robed man plays a stringed instrument. His hat has three sets of feathers sticking up from the top.