METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN PHOTOGRAPHY HOLDINGS ( MMS/03/20 )
1 box containing 22 files comprising approximately 417 items. 21 files contain photographs taken before 1945.
Date c.1880-c.1967
This box contains photographic material connected with the work of the the MMS (as well as its predecessor organisations) in the West Indies [Caribbean and Americas].
The items show individuals, groups, buildings, and local scenes, featuring missionaries, local Christians, hospitals, schools, etc. Particularly well represented are photographs by the Rev William Baillie (1864 - 1948), and Frank Deaville Walker (1878 - 1945), editor of The Foreign Field and The Kingdom Overseas, who visited the West Indies in 1930.
Most descriptions of photography holdings follow the SOAS library catalogue.
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MMS/03/20
File 1
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34 silver gelatin prints.
-Portraits of locals and of Jamaican workers who chose to settle in Colón (Panama) after the construction of the Canal ended (1915)
Groups include: church congregations; scouts; senior indigenous church members; class inside schoolroom with indigenous teachers; portrait of three smiling young girls; class of missionaries' children; group of villagers.
People include: missionaries. Places or buildings include: churches; mission houses; street scenes; views of islands; harbours; interior of house, possibly Nathaniel Gilbert's house, Antigua. Partial captions on reverse [not necessarily related directly to the image] also mention: Dr. Coke; Baxter; Antigua; St Kitts; Dominica; Luisenhoj; Tortola; Virgin Islands; Anegada; St Johns; Brimstone Hill, St Kitts; Colon. Also includes: historical scene; sailing boats; rowing boats; canons on hilltops over harbour. |
c.1910-c.1930 |
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MMS/03/20/01
MMS File 2
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42 items comprising 15 negatives and 27 silver gelatin prints.
photograph by Frank Deaville Walker
-photographs and large-format negatives
Mostly children and teenagers in school, high school trophies, missions, life in the town
Groups include:
children and teachers in front of school chapel, Tabubi, Valiente mission;
congregation in front of Chapel Duplan, near Port au Prince, Haiti;
children playing outside East Indian School, Georgetown, British Guiana;
Jamaica brownies;
"White children on see-saw" [possibly missionaries' children]; orphanage children;
school children doing homework on porch;
young boys on dock side, Eleuthera, captioned "Mischief brewing";
schoolgirls; sisters, Jamaica;
cup winners at Georgetown High School;
girls singing and dancing to Action song, British Guiana;
primary class, Trinidad;
scouts, St Kitts.
People include:
Rev E S Alphonse on horseback, Valiente mission; girl with doll.
Activities include: travelling to New Year's Day service on Tortola, Virgin Islands.
Places or buildings include:
Methodist chapel in bay of Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Islands;
church behind Eleutheria;
court house where missionaries were tried for inciting slaves to rebel and cage in which they were imprisoned, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Also includes: ox cart, San Jose, Costa Rica.
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c.1930-c.1931 |
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MMS/03/20/02
File 3
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20 photographs
Images of The Bahamas including mission staff and buildings, local people and the local landscape.
Examples include:
'Trinity Church, Nassau. After Hurricane, September 1928'
'Eleuthera Wesleyan Church, Nassau, Bahamas. Centenary Sunday, 1913'
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c.1900-c.1935 |
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MMS/03/20/03/04
File 4
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12 silver gelatin prints (for the period preceding 1945)
Images of Jamaica
Photographs by: Sister Jessie Kennedy; H. Gladstone Edwards; Elliot & Cleary, Kingston; Rev Cyril Dorsett; Ernest H de Souza Jnr.
Groups include:
Wedding party, Morant Bay;
Principal, family, clergy and staff outside Caenwood College; Girl Guides.
People include:
Rev Cartwright with Miss Levy, Port Antonio; Rev Wilfred Easton;
Rev W Hartley Totty and Rev Hugh Sherlock; Wesley Powell, Principal of Excelsior School.
Events include: Rev Hugh Sherlock receiving key of city of Kingston.
Places or buildings include:
Seaforth church, damaged by earthquake 1907 and restored, Morant Bay circuit;
interior of building where Ebenezer church and Sunday School meet, Morant Bay circuit;
Coke church damaged by earthquake and restored, Kingston;
Montego Bay market, where distribution to the poor takes place on Christmas morning;
Bluefields church and incomplete teachers cottage;
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c.1900-c.1952 |
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MMS/03/20/03/05
File 5
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54 printing out paper prints
Photographs by Rev William Baillie People and places in Jamaica, mainly Wesleyan Methodist churches and buildings
Groups include: labourers with Rev J J Kilpin Fletcher in Port Royal Mountains building road as part of government employment scheme; Rev Hardwick with teachers building temporary church and school at Dallas; boys and girls at the military school at ?Up Park Camp; Methodist West Indian soldiers; indigenous leaders of Gordon Town Wesleyan church. Events include: Coronation Day, Mandeville. Activities include: building schoolroom at Mount Fletcher. Places and buildings include: church at Manchioneal in process of restoration after hurricane; Unity Wesleyan church, Grateful Hill circuit; Fain Prospect Wesleyan church before the earthquake with wedding party at door; mission house; Mount Fletcher Wesleyan church with earthquake damage and after repair; churches at New Providence, ?Strong Hill; ?Sueea minister's house; Annotto Bay church; Beechamville church showing damage; Ocho Rios church; East Street from Harbour Street since the earthquake; minister's house, Falmouth; minister's house, Port Royal; Black River church; Barbican High School; Montego Bay church; training college, Port Antonio church; Bloomfield church; Buff Bay church; Duncans church; Jeffreyville church; Watsonville church school and teacher's cottage; Mandeville church; minister's house, Gordon Town; Yallahs church; Bethesda church; church and ministers house, Brown's Town; Bath church. |
c.1880 -c.1910 |
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MMS/03/20/03/06
File 6 |
12 printing out paper prints
Single and group portraits Photographs by Rev William Baillie Groups include: ministers of the Jamaican District with their wives; Jamaica District Synod, 1905, 1911 & 1913, including lay attendees. People include: Mother Leonard, the oldest member of the Jamaican Wesleyan church; Rev A W Geddes; Rev George Lockett at grave of his daughter, killed in the Kingston earthquake, 1907; Father Kennedy; ?W Thomas Morrison, junior steward, Manchester Circuit; Father Taylor, an old local preacher at Providence; Father Silvera of Buff Bay, a converted Jew. |
c.1890-c.1915 |
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MMS/03/20/03/07
File 7 |
14 printing out paper prints
Photographs by Rev William Baillie People and places, Kingston Groups include: children of Wesley Mount School at coronation festivities. Events include: Sunday school demonstration; opening ceremony of Wesley church, restored since earthquake. Places or buildings include: Edmondson Hall; mission house; Coke minister's house; Coke church; Wesley church; Ebenezer church; - all restored since 1907 earthquake. Prints taken by/received from: Rev William Baillie. |
c.1900-c.1910 |
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MMS/03/20/03/08
File 8 |
16 pictures
Photographer: Rev William Baillie Groups include: congregation outside Little London church; scholars of day school; Meansville Day School children; group with horse and carriage outside meeting house. People include: woman carrying basket on head walking in front of Savnnah-la-Mar church; indigenous day school teacher with wife and child. Events include: Sunday school demonstration, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Places or buildings include: Little London church; ?Meansville church; ?Hewitville church; temporary chapel and schoolroom; street scene before hurricane of 1912; ruins of town wharf after hurricane; minister's house; Savannah-la-Mar church after hurricane damage. |
c.1900-c.1920 |
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MMS/03/20/03/09
File 9 |
9 printing out paper prints
Photographs by Rev William Baillie Groups include: Manchester Circuit quarterly meeting; church members outside meeting house. Places and buildings include: Frankfield church; Wesley Mount church; ruins of New Hall Preaching Place. |
c.1900-c.1915 |
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MMS/03/20/03/10
File 10 |
14 printing out paper prints
Photographs by Rev William Baillie People and Places in Morant Bay District, Jamaica Groups include: Junior School girls. Events include: crowd outside new Port Morant church on opening day. Places and buildings include: Baker Hall schoolroom; Seaforth church before earthquake in 1907, in ruins and after restoration in 1909. |
c.1900-c.1915 |
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MMS/03/20/04
File 11
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20 photographs
Honduras This sub-series contains images of Honduras (principally British Honduras, now Belize) including mission staff and buildings, local people and the local landscape. |
c.1900-c.1931 |
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MMS/03/20/05
File 12 |
9 photographs
Haiti images of Haiti including mission staff, mission buildings. and worshippers. |
c.1910-c.1945 |
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MMS/03/20/06/13
File 13 |
16 printing out paper and silver gelatin prints.
Photographs by: Fred T Parker; Wimmet studio, Port Limon, Costa Rica; Rev Sidney J Hopps People and places in Central America including Panama Groups include: Rev William John Williams, Rev Walter John Jacobs, hostess and class leader at cottage where missionaries rested, Lion Hill, Panama; teachers and preachers on beach at Causapin; mission house group, Causapin, Bocas del Toro, Panama. Events include: British minister arriving for stone laying of new church, Panama City. Activities include: constructing schoolroom, Colón, Panama. Places and buildings include: first church in Panama; Colón church; chapel, La Boca church, all Panama; Squires church, Costa Rica.
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c.1900-c.1920 |
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MMS/03/20/06/14
File 14 |
5 silver gelatin prints
Valiente people of Panama Groups include: Rev T S Cannon with Valiente congregation at Cuaspin. Places and buildings include: churches, including Changuinola church; Indian church, Tabobi. |
c.1910-c.1929 |
| File 15 |
12 images Barbados, Dominican Republic, St Kitts Images include 'alleged tomb of Columbus', Chapels and churches, mission staff and building, local people and Baptizing scene in water (Photographer: E.E. Lyon) |
n.d. |
| MMS/03/20/08 File 16, 17, 18 |
3 files comprising 34 items
Barbados & Trinidad Images include mission staff and building, local people and the local landscape. The 3 files contain the following groups of images: people and places in Barbados; people and places in Trinidad and Tobago; people and places by H R Cornish. |
c1900-c1947 |
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MMS/03/20/09
File 19 |
14 images
British Guiana [Guyana] This sub-series contains images of British Guiana [Guyana] including images of mission staff and buildings, local people and the local landscape. Set of photographs of Amerindians. |
c.1900-c.1930 |
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West Indies
Images of mission staff and buildings, local people and the local landscape. |
n.d. |