Biographical/historical information

This photograph album documents the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society's (W.F.M.S ) work in the Mutambara District, the Umtali Mission in Zimbabwe and the Merwa Mission in Zambia. The W.F.M.S was a branch of the Methodist Episcopal Church that was involved in the Rhodesia Mission for the church. Medical mission work began in 1909 and the Mutambara Mission Hospital began construction in 1918 with a one room maternity hospital. The women within the Women's Foreign Society in the 1920s were Miss F. Quninton, Miss Lulu Tubbs, Miss M. Fuller, and Miss O Parmenter. They were on a medical mission and pictures in the photograph album include images of the Kambini Station buildings, patients and nurses and students, a leper camp, a witch doctor, local activities, travel, visits to other missions.

Scope and arrangement

This collection contains a single photograph album of a mission trip that includes images of the Kambini Station buildings, patients and nurses and students, a leper camp, a witch doctor, local activities, travel, visits to the Umtali Mission in Zimbabwe and Merwa Mission in Zambia, and visits to Pretoria, Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, and Portugal.

Administrative information

Custodial History

June 1, 2018, 0.125 cubic feet; 1920s photograph album belonging to a missionary named Victoria documents the Kambini Station, a medical mission in Portuguese Mozambique. Included are images of the Kambini Station buildings, patients and nurses and students, a leper camp, a witch doctor, local activities, travel, visits to the Umtali Mission in Zimbabwe and Merwe Mission in Zambia, and visits to Pretoria, Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, and Portugal. Bought with Elizabeth Price Crockford Missionary and Church History Endowment Funds from Denning House Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts, Middletown, Maryland.

Source of acquisition

Purchased from Denning House Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts with funds from the Elizabeth Price Crockford Missionary and Church History Endowment

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

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Topical

Indigenous peoples--Mozambique--Pictorial works
Missionaries, Medical--Mozambique
Missions to leprosy patients--Mozambique--Pictorial works
Missions--Mozambique--Pictorial works
Missions--Zambia--Pictorial works
Missions--Zimbabwe--Pictorial works
Witchcraft--Mozambique

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