Chief Sechele, Africa, ca.1840-ca.1860 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS16-022)

Chief Sechele, Africa, ca.1840-ca.1860

Portrait image of Sechcele, Chief of the Bakwain tribe, Mabotsa, Africa. Chief Sechele was a friend of the Scottish Missionary, David Livingstone and possibly his only convert.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to David Livingstone (1813-1873), the Scottish missionary who was best known as an explorer of Africa and anti-slavery campaigner. Livingstone was born in Blantyre, Scotland and after working in the local cotton mill from the age of 10 he went on to study medicine and theology in Glasgow in 1836. Having decided to become a missionary he was posted to southern Africa in 1841. In 1845 he married Mary Moffat. During his life Livingstone carried out exploration of southern, eastern and central Africa, he discovered and named the Victoria Falls and it was his meeting with H. M. Stanley during a search for the source of the Nile that gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". David Livingstone died in Africa on 1 May 1873 and his body was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Photographer: Unknown

Subject (personal name): Livingstone, David, 1813-1873

Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS16-022.tif

Coverage date: circa 1840/1860

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_Volume7/1855.url

Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom

Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.

Geographic subject (continent): Africa

Rights: Contact the repository for details.

Part of series: David Livingstone LS16

Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk

Subject (lcsh Keyword): Village communities; Christian converts

Date created: circa 1875/1940

Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject (aat genre): portraits

Format (aat): lantern slides

Legacy record ID: impa-m69435

Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources

File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS16/22

university of edinburgh university of southern california reverend donald fraser church of scotland foreign missions committee david livingstone international mission photography archive ca 1860 ca 1960 magic lantern images high resolution ultra high resolution copyright free medical images

1960

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