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Nigeria. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 8.0000. Latitude: 10.0000.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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.

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.