Selected South Asia Holdings

Dentist Holger Winding (1887-1959). Sent by Danish Santal Mission to North India, 1917-31. Working places: Kaerabani 1917, Mornai 1919, Grahampur 1918 and 21, Joema 1925, and supervision of Cooch Behar, …

"Kidderpore-Calcutta: Invalides du Home St Vincent. Invalieden van het St Vincent’s-Home." A group of predominantly elderly women are shown on the lawn outside a home for the disabled. One woman …

"Bible Colporteur". Bible salesman with elderly man, woman and child outside house. One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife …

“Christian Girls’ Boarding School, Sialkot”. “Panjab, India”. Group portrait of the students and teachers of the Girls’ School. The Christian Girls’ Boarding School was established in 1892, with four borders, …

Pakistan, the Tent Mission, NWFP. Missionary Nurse Margrethe Rasmussen in the home of Kashqarai at Bal Khela. (Margrethe Rasmussen was sent to Mardan, 1920-62. In 1926 married to Rev. and …

Exterior close-up view of a compound with brick built buildings and walls. This is possibly the cantonment at Sialkot that was established in 1849 [opened 1852] when the area was …

“Drawing room, Mission house, Daska”, “Panjab, India”. Interior view of a room showing a mantelpiece, on which sit framed photographs, chairs and a writing desk. Bright sunlight shines through the …

Stamped: "Photographers W. L. H. Skeen & Co., Colombo, Ceylon. [Embossed]"

Annotation translation: "Ceylon." Annotation: "Ceylon." Stamped: "Series G, No. 88, Plâté & Co., Ceylon." - "Museum der Basler Mission, Basel, Missionsstrasse 21."

“Group of Gaddis.” Group portrait of indigenous people from the Himalayan area of Chamba. There are three rows consisting of adult males and children and they are all wearing traditional …