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DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10140
title: Bell at Mingun,  Myanmar, s.d.

description: "The great bell near the river."  Hanging the great bell at Mingun.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m104
title: View of Antananarivo,  Madagascar, ca.1865-1885

description: "Summit of Capital". View of houses and Royal Palaces.; John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital Tananarive [now Antananarivo] then, following a period of furlough in England from 1873 to 1875, at Amparibe. Parrett sailed to Madagascar in 1862 as part of a large missionary party comprising Dr and Mrs Andrew Davidson , Mr and Mrs Robert Toy, schoolmaster Charles Thomas Stagg and Mrs Stagg, Reverend John Duffus and Reverend William Edward Cousins. The party was sent to aid Reverend William Ellis who had pioneered the re-introduction of missionaries to Madagascar in 1862 on the accession of King Radama II to the throne, following the death of Queen Ranavalona I in 1861.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1047
title: Indigenous minister and his family, India, ca.1885-1887.

description: "Andrew and family". Indigneous preacher with his wife and two sons. A detail of this portrait appears as an engraving alongside Andrew's account of his conversion to Christianity in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, March 1888.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10138
title: Humans and animals bathing in the Irrawaddy, Myanmar, s.d.

description: "A morning dip." Man with child and their cattle after bathing in the Irrawaddy.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10112
title: Anglo-Indian leper, Mandalay, Myanmar, s.d.

description: "An Anglo-Indian leper." A Eurasian resident at the Home for Lepers.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1046
title: Indigenous minister and his wife, Vishakhatapnam, India, ca.1885-1889

description: "Rev.d P. and Mrs. Jaganmadham, Vizagapatam" [now Vishakhatapnam]. Indigenous minister with his wife . The minister holds a book, possibly a prayer book or Bible and his wife holds her knitting. Indoor seated portrait.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10142
title: Burmese women carrying road metal, Myanmar, s.d.

description: "Cooly girls." Women wading through water to carry road metal to a boat.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10500
title: River village, Myanmar, s.d.

description: River village, Burma.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10509
title: Buddhist monks in front of pagoda, Myanmar, s.d.

description: Buddhist monks in front of pagoda; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10166
title: Missionary family portrait, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 1907

description: "Very best Christmas wishes from The Quentin family! Xmas 1907. Keating , Albert -- Peter Jr is really good [illegible]. (or so his Mother says!!) Tho his picture doesn't look it!" A missionary family poses for a portrait in a garden. A man in a three piece suit is standing up, to his left is a little girl in a dress, holding a drawstring purse, standing on a chair. To his right is a woman, seated and holding a baby.  To the woman's right is a girl with a bow in her hair.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1028
title: Women grooming each other, Mailu, Papua New Guinea, ca.1910-1920

description: "Head Shaving and Chiropody. Both operations are performed with flakes of obsidian."  [Caption from In Unknown New Guinea] Mailu, Eastern Papua.; Will Saville served the London Missionary Society in the Mailu district of Papua for thirty-five years following his appointment in 1900. In 1903 he married Frances Lawes, also the child of an LMS missionary, Rev Francis Edwin Lawes, and the niece of the pioneer missionary photographer, William George Lawes. Saville's knowledge of the Mailu area, its society and language was significant in increasing anthropological knowledge in this field.  He published a grammar and dictionary, as well as translating the New Testament and producing a number of religious books in the Mailu language, as well as an anthropological study, "In Unknown New Guinea" in 1926. "In Unknown New Guinea" featured over sixty photographs and represent examples of Saville's photographs taken and presented as anthropological evidence. Missionaries regarded many of the customs they encountered as being totally incompatible with the pursuit of a Christian life. The study of these customs was therefore significant in the missionary's work, to understand and convert the indigenous populations amongst whom they lived. In addition to these studies of customs and traditions, Saville also took many photographs of children, including some more informal images included in this small album of "Snapshots".
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m5772
title: Big Bridge, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, ca.1911-1913

description: "Big Bridge" Low stone bridge with boats passing underneath.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10510
title: Three Buddhist monks with begging bowls,  Myanmar, s.d.

description: Three Buddhist monks with begging bowls; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10517
title: Riverside scene at Pakokku,  Myanmar, s.d.

description: Riverside scene at Pakokku, a centre of Methodist missionary activity in Burma.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10513
title: Spirit shrine,  Myanmar, s.d.

description: Spirit shrine; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1021
title: Portrait of men, women and children outside mission building, Mailu, Papua New Guinea, ca.1910-1920

description: Group arranged outside mission building, possibly school house, Mailu, Eastern Papua.; Will Saville served the London Missionary Society in the Mailu district of Papua for thirty-five years following his appointment in 1900. In 1903 he married Frances Lawes, also the child of an LMS missionary, Rev Francis Edwin Lawes, and the niece of the pioneer missionary photographer, William George Lawes. Saville's knowledge of the Mailu area, its society and language was significant in increasing anthropological knowledge in this field.  He published a grammar and dictionary, as well as translating the New Testament and producing a number of religious books in the Mailu language, as well as an anthropological study, "In Unknown New Guinea" in 1926. "In Unknown New Guinea" featured over sixty photographs and represent examples of Saville's photographs taken and presented as anthropological evidence. Missionaries regarded many of the customs they encountered as being totally incompatible with the pursuit of a Christian life. The study of these customs was therefore significant in the missionary's work, to understand and convert the indigenous populations amongst whom they lived. In addition to these studies of customs and traditions, Saville also took many photographs of children, including some more informal images included in this small album of "Snapshots".
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10507
title: Indian snake charmer, Myanmar, s.d.

description: Snake charmer in an Indian quarter of town in Burma.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10360
title: Children exercising at vacation Bible school, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, 1936

description: "The Daily Vacation Bible School."Each year, a month or so before school closes for the Summer vacation, the students are given an opportunity to volunteer for service in our D.V.B.S project. Then follows a course of training in the use of suitable material. When school closes for the vacation these students go out to the country churches to open the six-weeks classes for boys and girls." Two boys in dark clothing demonstrate what appears to be an exercise for the rest of the class.  Activity sponsored by Harwood Bible Training School.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m103
title: Men standing under fan palm, Queen's Country-house, Mahazoarivo, Madagascar, ca.1865-1885

description: "Fan-Palm" "Mahàzoarivo, Queen's Country-house"  Two indigenous men standing under tree.; John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital Tananarive [now Antananarivo] then, following a period of furlough in England from 1873 to 1875, at Amparibe. Parrett sailed to Madagascar in 1862 as part of a large missionary party comprising Dr and Mrs Andrew Davidson , Mr and Mrs Robert Toy, schoolmaster Charles Thomas Stagg and Mrs Stagg, Reverend John Duffus and Reverend William Edward Cousins. The party was sent to aid Reverend William Ellis who had pioneered the re-introduction of missionaries to Madagascar in 1862 on the accession of King Radama II to the throne, following the death of Queen Ranavalona I in 1861.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10109
title: Young leper patients,  Mandalay, Myanmar, s.d.

description: "Saving the children." Young leper patients of the Home for Lepers with their teacher, also suffering from leprosy.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10139
title: Men with water jars  on the Irrawaddy, Myanmar, s.d.

description: "Water jars on the Irrawaddy." A raft of water jars being floated down the Irrawaddy.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10359
title: Learning about hygiene at vacation Bible school, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, 1936

description: "The Daily Vacation Bible School." "Each year, a month or so before school closes for the Summer vacation, the students are given an opportunity to volunteer for service in our D.V.B.S project. Then follows a course of training in the use of suitable material. When school closes for the vacation these students go out to the country churches to open the six-weeks classes for boys and girls." Small groups of children work with older students on various forms of person hygiene.  Teachiers are from Harwood Bible Training School.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10521
title: Pupils of a vernacular school, Pakokku,  Myanmar, s.d.

description: Pupils and teacher outside the vernacular School, Pakokku.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10056
title: Village farm, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca.1941

description: "Kao farm." A view of a field, including several portions of land cultivated for agriculture.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10153
title: Burmese child, Myanmar, s.d.

description: "A child."; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10518
title: Mission school at Pakokku,  Myanmar, s.d.

description: Boys leaving the School Hall after morning prayers at Mission School in Pakokku.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m102
title: Man standing under fan palm, Queen's Country-house, Mahazoarivo, Madagascar, ca.1865-1885

description: "Fan-Palm" "Mahàzoarivo, Queen's Country-house"  Indigenous man standing in foreground.; John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital Tananarive [now Antananarivo] then, following a period of furlough in England from 1873 to 1875, at Amparibe. Parrett sailed to Madagascar in 1862 as part of a large missionary party comprising Dr and Mrs Andrew Davidson , Mr and Mrs Robert Toy, schoolmaster Charles Thomas Stagg and Mrs Stagg, Reverend John Duffus and Reverend William Edward Cousins. The party was sent to aid Reverend William Ellis who had pioneered the re-introduction of missionaries to Madagascar in 1862 on the accession of King Radama II to the throne, following the death of Queen Ranavalona I in 1861.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59674
title: Fathers Monge and Reynaud standing in a garden, Hakodate, Japan, ca. 1909

description: Photograph of Fathers Monge and Reynaud standing in a garden behind a building. Both clergymen carry rosaries. Between the two men is a shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10147
title: Travellers' bungalow, Myanmar, s.d.

description: "A travellers' bungalow".  In front of the bungalow stand Burmese evangelists and a Bible Society colporteur. This photograph, taken by  Rev Maurice H.  Russell who served in Burma from 1912 to 1926 appeared on a number of occasions in the WMMS magazine, the Foreign Field.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.