Image: Mary Slessor and Four Children, Old Calabar, late 19th century (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-036)

Description: Mary Slessor and Four Children, Old Calabar, late 19th century Mary Slessor pictured with four young girls. All four children are dressed in western style clothing and the youngest child in the foreground of the picture is holding a knitted doll.; Mary Slessor was a Scottish missionary known for her work in Africa and here she adopted abandoned children, most notably twin babies and the children of slaves. The four children in this image, Janie, Alice, Maggie and Mary travelled to Scotland with Mary on a return visit home as she was afraid to leave them unprotected in Calabar.

Photographer: Unknown

Subject (personal name): Slessor, Mary Mitchell, 1848-1915

Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-036.tif

Coverage date: before 1915

Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960

Type: images

Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity

Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1310.url

Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom

Geographic subject (country): Nigeria

Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.

Geographic subject (continent): Africa

Rights: Contact the repository for details.

Part of series: Mary Slessor LS2

Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk

Subject (lcsh Keyword): Adopted children; Population

Date created: circa 1880

Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject (aat genre): group portraits

Format (aat): lantern slides

Legacy record ID: impa-m68180

Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources

File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS2/36
Usage Terms: Public domain