"A catechist and family." The bare-headed catechist, or evangelist, stands next to two men who have gate-crashed the photograph. His wife, a trained Bible woman, and children stand on the left. From a set of lantern slides entitled "Our Indian Fellow Workers" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m9369
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- Lantern slides, 8 x 8 cm.
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- impa-m9369 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-SOA-MMS-09-20-03-35
- Rights
- Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes 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/f411d29b6d19798588a193adf4daf884
