Photographic slides relating to Calabar and Mary Slessor
Scope and Contents
5 photographic slides, c.1950s-1960s, of Mr J. D. Brown, medical missionary in Calabar, 1957-1964.
The images include a memorial for Mary Slessor, Free Church Missionary, in Use near Itu, where she spent the last months of her life, and her grave in Calabar. There is also an image of the Doctor`s house at the Mary Slessor Hospital in Itu. This was where Slessor had reportedly housed the twins she had rescued in the early part of the 20th century. Mr Brown worked as a medical missionary at Itu 1957-1964, by then a Church of Scotland leper colony in the Northern part of the Calabar mission field, and lived in the house until it was pulled down in 1963.
Dates
- Creation: 1957-1964.
Extent
0.01 Linear metres (5 slides)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated13192
Subject
- Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board (Organization)
- Free Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Committee (Organization)
- Slessor, Mary, missionary in Calabar, 1848-1915 (Person)
- Brown, Mr J. D., Medical missionary in Nigeria (Person)
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
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