cover image: View of people sitting by water, Vizianagaram, India , ca.1885-1895

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View of people sitting by water, Vizianagaram, India , ca.1885-1895

"Maharani's Tank, Vizianagram". View of people gathered around water with buildings around the edge. One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India. Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
london missionary society general views goffin, sarah ann, née cullis, 1855-1947

Authors

Goffin, Sarah Ann

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1054
Date published
1885/1895
Dates
1885/1895
Format
Photographs
Pages
albumen prints, 11 x 15.2 cm.
Place Discussed
Andhra Pradesh India
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
India
Reference
impa-m1054 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-SOA-CWM-09-10-034-015-4
Rights
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Council for World Missions University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library docenquiry@soas.ac.uk http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/e0538517db64ba4b675c1cf36622e6f9