Group portrait of a number of men women and children from the Punjab, they are sitting on blankets on the ground in front of a timber frame house, possibly a mission building. The Punjab Mission was inaugurated in 1857 under Thomas Hunter (1827-1857), who was murdered during the Sepoy Rebellion of the same year, and is the largest of the Church of Scotland’s Missions in India. There are nine principal stations Sialkot and District, Gujrat, Wazirabad, Daska, Youngsonabad, Jalalpur, Shadiwal, Jammu and Chamba, the latter two in what were independent princely states.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78856
- Date published
- circa 1900
- Dates
- circa 1900
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 20.2 x 12.5 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Asia Pakistan Punjab
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Pakistan
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75647166-1.tif
- Rights
- For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/2ccd346d0698cbb8d7fce5cbaf7d709e
