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Showing posts with label missionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label missionary. Show all posts
Saturday, January 19, 2019
"William Duncan Late in Life, Exhibiting to Friends For Photographing the Canvas, Hammock, Clock, Water Bottle, and Accordion Used By Him On His Voyage to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1856-57."
"William Duncan late in life, exhibiting to friends for photographing the canvas, hammock, clock, water bottle, and accordion used by him on his voyage to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1856-57." Duncan was a British missionary who founded the Tsimshian communities of Metlakatla, British Columbia, and Metlakatla, Alaska. Taken by Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, c. 1916-1917.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration.
William Duncan's Wikipedia entry.
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Sunday, November 1, 2015
Daguerreotype Portrait of American Abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright (1847)
Daguerreotype portrait of American abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright,c. 1847. By Antoine Claudet.
Source.
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Daguerreotype Portrait of an Unidentified Man Believed to be a Hawaiian Missionary With His Hand on the Hiram Bingham Book “A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands”
Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man believed to be a Hawaiian missionary with his hand on the Hiram Bingham book “A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands,” c. 1850.
Source.
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