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Abstract Or Scope: Collection of 60 photographs, taken approximately 1900-1910, chiefly depicting missionary activities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Depictions include: individual and group portraits of missionaries with African men, women, and children in both Western and traditional dress; individuals engaged in agriculture, carpentry, printmaking, and other activities; landscape, livestock, and buildings.

Abstract Or Scope: This series contains two albums: an African Missionary photograph album, dating from approximately 1900-1910, and including 60 photographs chiefly depicting missionary activities in Sub-Saharan Africa; and a Mennonite African missionary photograph album, dating from approximately 1955-1965, and including approximately 350 photographs chiefly depicting missionary activities in Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, and other unidentified locations likely in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Creator: Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
Abstract Or Scope: This is an artificial collection that contains two albums: an African Missionary photograph album, dating from approximately 1900-1910, and including 60 photographs chiefly depicting missionary activities in Sub-Saharan Africa; and a Mennonite African missionary photograph album, dating from approximately 1955-1965, and including approximately 350 photographs chiefly depicting missionary activities in Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, and other unidentified locations likely in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Abstract Or Scope: Collection of approximately 350 photographs, taken approximately 1955-1965, chiefly depicting missionary activities in Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, and other unidentified locations likely in Sub-Saharan Africa. Depictions include: individual and group portraits of missionaries and their families and African men, women, and children in both Western and traditional dress; individuals engaged in weddings, baptisms, agriculture, cooking, construction, and other activities; boats, airplanes, automobiles; landscape and livestock; building interiors and exteriors.

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