Little is known of the provenance of the Church Missionary Society glass negatives CMS 18-22 and glass lantern slides CMS 24-35. They may have been produced to illustrate talks given by the CMS upon its missionary work. CMS 24 appears to be a commercial set of slides relating to Africa generally and is not the work of the society. The glass negatives and slides were unsorted when presented to the RCS in 1988. Some of the negatives had titles written upon the slide, but most were uncaptioned. They were re-organised along rough geographical lines and those without captions were given brief descriptive titles. Very little is known about many of the peoples, subjects and places depicted in the slides. The RCS will be grateful for any assistance to identify them more accurately. This may be achieved by research in the CMS’s periodicals including ‘Church Missionary Gleaner’, ‘Church Missionary Intelligencer’ and their successors, which reproduced photographs, and the society's archives which are held by the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
The Church Missionary Society was established in 1799 as a Christian evangelical missionary organisation and counted among its founders William Wilberforce, John Venn and Charles Simeon. The overseas mission work of CMS began in Sierra Leone in 1804 and expanded rapidly thereafter. In Africa the CMS's involvement has been concentrated in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Congo, Rwanda and Sudan; in Asia, the society's activity has largely been in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China and Japan; and in the Middle East, it was active in Palestine, Jordan, Iran and Egypt. Much of its photograph collection documents the CMS's role in running schools, colleges, medical missions, hospitals and agricultural projects.
This collection includes a substantial number of glass and film negatives.
Dr Geoffrey Fisher visited Uganda and Kenya in May 1955. Print copies of the glass negatives (except for CMS 18/11) as well as additional images of the visit may be found at CMS 12/2.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/5.
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This collection includes a substantial number of glass and film negatives.
Dr Geoffrey Fisher visited Uganda and Kenya in May 1955. Print copies of the glass negatives (except for CMS 18/11) as well as additional images of the visit may be found at CMS 12/2.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/5.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/7.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/11.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/20. Uganda Protectorate Department of Information.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/26. Kenya Information Office.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/28. Kenya Information Service.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/33. Kenya Information Office.
Duplicate at CMS 12/2/34.
Reproduction of page 13. Duplicate at CMS 12/2/37.
Reproduction of page 14. Duplicate at CMS 12/2/37.
A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated from 1937.
In Africa, the CMS treated those affected by leprosy at Kumi, Oji and Zaria.
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The blankets perhaps were a gift presented by the village of Gonalston in Nottinghamshire, England.
A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work
A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work.
A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated from 1937.
A collection of 607 82 x 82 mm. glass slides.
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions. The slides appear to have been gathered for lecture purposes and are not necessarily on the work of the CMS. They relate to various parts of the continent.
See Y30448H/86
See Y30448H/68
See Y3044H/32
82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.
John Jamieson Willis (d. 1954) was a missionary in Kavirondo (1905-1911) and Bishop of Uganda (1912-1934).
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Shows part of the missionary party to Uganda in 1895, including the first five women sent to East Africa by the society. Presumably the slide was taken before the party's departure from England.
Back row:
Dr. Peter Rattray (1895-96), Rev. F.H. Wright (1895), Rev. M.J. Hall (1895-1900, d. 1900), Rev. T.R. Buckley (1895), Rev. A. Wilson (1895).
Centre row:
Miss Eleanor E. Willows Browne (1895-97, later Mrs F. Rowling), Miss Jane Elizabeth Chadwick (1895), Miss Edith Markham Furley (from 1895), Miss Eliza Louise Pilgrim (1895), Rev. J.B. Purvis (1895-99, 1903-07).
Front row:
Nurse Miss Mary Susannah Thomsett (1895).
For further information about the party see J.D. Mullins, 'The wonderful story of Uganda' (1908), pp. 232-33, 'Church Missionary Intelligencer', June 1895, p. 408 and A.R. Tucker, 'Eighteen years in Uganda' II (1908), p. 11.
He was in Uganda from 1895 to 1907, when he went to Kenya.
Built in 1902.
Built in 1902, it was struck by lightning in 1910 and rebuilt during 1911-1919.
Built in 1902, it was struck by lightning in 1910 and rebuilt during 1911-1919.
Built in 1902, it was struck by lightning in 1910 and rebuilt during 1911-1919.
Built in 1902, it was struck by lightning in 1910 and rebuilt during 1911-1919.
Built in 1902, it was struck by lightning in 1910 and rebuilt during 1911-1919.
Mackay died at Usambiro in 1890.
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Ainley was in Uganda from 1920 to 1940.
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Possibly Namirembe Cathedral
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions from K.H. Buxton, who is probably Kathleen Hannah Buxton (1905-1999), daughter of Reverend Leonard Buxton, the Vicar of North Mimms, Hertfordshire.
Perhaps a hospital.
Perhaps Cara Buxton.
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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions documenting Fisher's service as a missionary in Uganda.
Arthur Bryan Fisher (1870-1955), a native of Dublin, became a CMS missionary in 1892 and served for many years in Uganda: in Kasaka, 1894; Kinakulya, 1895; Toro, 1896; Bunyoro, 1904; Hoima, 1908; and Gulu, 1913. In 1900, he was ordained as a priest, and married the CMS missionary Ruth Hurditch in 1902. Fisher retired from the CMS in 1914 and died at Eastbourne in 1955.
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Kahaya II (on the right) was king from 1901 until his death in 1944. The figure to the left may be prime minister Nuwa Mbaguta (1867-1944).
The caption does not identify which figures are E. Abdullah or I. Yakobo, or give the name of the third man.
Kenneth Prior was mission agriculturalist to the Niger Mission
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Rev. William Dermot Kerr (1907-1975), Dr Elfrida Whidbourne, Sister Kay Quinlan and Reginald Evan Hopkins.
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82 x 82 mm. colour glass slides. Reproductions of engravings of people and buildings, probably dating from the nineteenth century. The slides retain their original numbers. A slip of paper with the collection bears the name of Rev. G.F.C. Dobson. George Francis Clement Dobson was born in 1869, and after taking his degree at Cambridge, became a teacher. From 1900 to 1909 he served as Assistant Master at the CMS Anglo-Chinese School in Shanghai (Acting Principal in 1907), when he presumably acquired the slides. Ordained in 1911, he held curacies and livings in England until 1939.
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.
Yen was involved in rural reconstruction projects in China after the First World War.
Two missionaries captured by Chinese Communist rebels in June 1930 and murdered in Oct.
Horder was a medical missionary in China during 1883-1906 (Haikou, Hong Kong, Beihai)
Sing was Superintendent of the CMS medical complex at Pakhoi [Beihai], South China during 1928-1936
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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
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The medical mission first had been established in 1879.
The sisters Nevarth and Armerhouie Aidin, of Persian nationality, were principals of girls' schools in Isfahan [Esfahan] and Yezd [Yazd]. It is not known which of the sisters is depicted here.
Johnson served with the CMS mission in Palestine for 13 years, mostly at Kervah; from 1908 he served in Baghdad
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with limited, largely undated captions.
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He was a son of Sir Henry Tristram Holland (1875-1965), head of the Quetta Mission Hospital.
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Possibly Sir J.C. Bose (1858-1937) the Indian botanist.
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The date is approximate.
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Campbell was killed on the Western Front during World War I. His social work during the pre-war 1900s is commemorated in a Memorial Institute in Kandy named after him and opened in 1919.
In 1912 Hamilton became the first Bishop of the Diocese of mid-Japan
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Arthur William Poole (1852-1885) was consecrated first Church of England Bishop in Japan in 1883.
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In 1930 he founded the Kingdom of God movement.
In 1930 he founded the Kingdom of God movement.