Calabar (inhabited place). Africa - Nigeria - Cross River. Longitude: 8.3667. Latitude: 4.9333.
Subject
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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, minutes and other papers relating to activities of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council in Calabar, Nigeria., 1935-1974.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9638/[B]1-35
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The African section of the archive of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council, 1965-75 (with some earlier material). This deposit also includes material relevant to Jamaica (1938-1966).
Dates:
1935-1974.
Film strip of 'Background to Calabar'., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10472/33
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
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Film strips and slide sets, with accompanying audio tapes and scripts.
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Film strips concerning various locations and individuals.
Film strip of 'Mary Slessor of Calabar'., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10472/57
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
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Film strips and slide sets, with accompanying audio tapes and scripts.
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Film strips concerning various locations and individuals.
Papers of and concerning the Holden family of Baldovie; with a document concerning Thomas Greig, and with genealogical notes on the Guthries of Guthrie.
File
Identifier: MS.50266
Scope and Contents
Documents, 1753, concerning the clandestine marriage of Abraham Holden and Elizabeth Barclay (folios 1-4).Letters and documents, 1759-1776, of and to John Holden concerning Richard Holden's death, the sale of Scottish goods in West Africa, instructions for a survery and a bond (folios 6-13).Letters of Richard Holden (fl 1747-circa 1761), 1747-1758, of Richard Holden to his father and brothers concerning slaving voyages and the sale of enslaved people (folios...
Dates:
1717-1822.
Papers of and relating to Mary Slessor, missionary.
File
Identifier: Acc.13297
Scope and Contents
Papers of Mary Slessor, missionary, including her court record book, 1905-1906, compiled during her vice-presidency over the Ikot Obong native court, a copy of a letter, 1914, and a small number of photographs, undated.
Dates:
1905-1906, 1914.
Photographic slides relating to Calabar and Mary Slessor
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13192
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...
Dates:
1957-1964.
Script for a miniature slide lecture concerning Calabar., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10472/102
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
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Film strips and slide sets, with accompanying audio tapes and scripts.
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Scripts, mostly to accompany film strips and slide sets.
Script for a photograph talk concerning Calabar, Nigeria., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10472/12
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
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Photographic plates and prints, with scripts for talks relating to photographs.
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Scripts for talks on photographs.
Script for 'Background to Calabar', to accompany a film strip., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10472/84
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
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Film strips and slide sets, with accompanying audio tapes and scripts.
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Scripts, mostly to accompany film strips and slide sets.
Sermons of Rev Robert Mitchell Beedie, missionary.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13539
Scope and Contents
Sermons, 1876-1896 and undated, of Rev Robert Mitchell Beedie, missionary in Calabar, Nigeria.Robert Mitchell Beedie was born in 1841 in Aberdeenshire. A carpenter by trade in Scotland, Beedie joined the United Presbyterian mission, and entered Old Calabar in 1873 at Ikorofiong, the furthest up-river station of the mission. Beedie was ordained in 1878, and in 1884, was transferred to Duke Town on the banks of the Calabar river. He died in 1897.The papers consist of...
Dates:
1876-1896, undated.
Slides of Calabar, Nigeria., [1950-1971].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10472/143-146
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some numbers within each record may be missing.
Dates:
[1950-1971].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
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Slides of various parts of Africa, with photocopies of catalogues.