LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
CWM/LMS/West Indies & British Guiana/Photographs/Box 1
1 box containing 4 files. 3 files contain photographs taken before 1945.
Date c.1880-c.1930
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CWM/LMS/12/
10/1/01 File 1 |
15 photographic prints including 1 carte de visite
Missionary buildings, including churches and schools, mainly in British Guiana, and also Jamaica Jamaica photographs taken by W. S. Holder, Rev W. Hawley Bryant, W. & J. Blomfield Places or buildings include: Bethel Congregational Church, Demerara; Providence manse and chapel, Georgetown; Smith memorial church and manse, Georgetown; Ebenezer chapel, Demerara; approach to mission house Ebenezer, Demerara, mission chapel and school house, New Amsterdam, Berbice; all British Guiana [Guyana] also mission house, Chapelton. |
c.1880 - c.1930 |
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CWM/LMS/12/10/1/02
File 2 |
21 photographic prints, mainly silver gelatin
People and places mainly in British Guiana [Guyana], and also Jamaica Photographs taken by Ernest R. Weeks Groups include: River people at Stuckenhewal, Demerara River; 3 young boys in shorts and shirts; family group with father seated holding gun; 2 women standing outside LMS church at Roome, which they helped to build in 1878; group of children eating on bench outdoors; Miss Williams, African teacher with pupils on riverside of Demerara river [reproduced in News From Afar 1918 p. 80; man and woman on their way to church by boat on Demerara River; group outside school building. People include: Pat Matthews, later a student in Nottingham; agricultural worker; a woman born in slavery; Mrs George, a member of Providence chapel, Georgetown; Johnson Gentle, catechist of Cephos, Demerara from 1845 to June 1915 (date of photograph). Activities include: weighing bags of cane sugar. |
c.1880 - c.1930 |
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CWM/LMS/12/10/1/02
File 3 |
20 photographic prints, 1 postcard & 3 illustrated book pages.
Prints relating to John Smith, some used as illustrations to Smith of Demerara by David Chamberlin. People include: copies of paintings of John Smith Events include: Scenes from the life of John Smith ; Emancipation of the Praedials, July 12th, 1838; Places or buildings include: Le Resouvenir, guard house & Colony House, Demerara, where John Smith's court martial was held; maps of The Guianas and Georgetown, British Guiana [Guyana]; |
c.1910 - c.1930 |