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"Site of Slave Market, Itu, Calabar", late 19th century
Image of a stretch of the Cross River in Calabar showing the site of the Itu slave market. There are buildings in the foreground of the picture and a settlement in the distance around the bend in the river.; Itu is situated beside Enyong Creek, a river within later day Nigeria. Mary Slessor, the Scottish missionary, carried out mission work in this area and saw the old slave centre as the ideal base for her work.
Photographer: Unknown
Subject (personal name): Slessor, Mary Mitchell, 1848-1915
Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-039.tif
Coverage date: circa 1880
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1313.url
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): Nigeria
Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
Geographic subject (continent): Africa
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: Mary Slessor LS2
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Subject (lcsh Keyword): Slave trade; Waterways
Date created: circa 1880
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): landscapes
Format (aat): lantern slides
Legacy record ID: impa-m68183
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS2/39
Date circa 1880
date QS:P,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/64435
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