Photographic slides relating to Calabar and Mary Slessor

Collection

Identifier: Acc.13192

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

5 photographic slides, c.1950s-1960s, of Mr J. D. Brown, medical missionary in Calabar, 1957-1964.

The images include a memorial for Mary Slessor, Free Church Missionary, in Use near Itu, where she spent the last months of her life, and her grave in Calabar. There is also an image of the Doctor`s house at the Mary Slessor Hospital in Itu. This was where Slessor had reportedly housed the twins she had rescued in the early part of the 20th century. Mr Brown worked as a medical missionary at Itu 1957-1964, by then a Church of Scotland leper colony in the Northern part of the Calabar mission field, and lived in the house until it was pulled down in 1963.

Dates

Creation: 1957-1964.

Extent

0.01 Linear metres (5 slides)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated13192

Related Materials

There is a black and white silent film of Itu in the 1950s in the Scottish Screen Archive entitled, `In his name: The Epic of the Itu Leper Colony`, reference 3605.