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Robert Shields & Family
Photo Album: Methodist Missions in Africa: Angola, Congo, Rhodesia, 1921-33
375 Photos
$1,450
Item Details
East Africa, n.p., 1921-33
Good
Vintage Photograph Album:
Methodist Missions in Africa: Angola, Congo, Rhodesia, 1921-33
Family photograph album documenting the missions established by Robert Shields & Family, mostly in East Africa, 1921-1933.
Approximately 375 photos, various sizes [2x3” to 6x8”] and condition. Mounted in tattered family album; some photos poorly exposed or faded.
Best to follow this link to all of the photos in situ: https://www.escotto.us/African-Missions/n-Wcvhpn
Laid in is a hand-colored poster/drawing: “Those People are Dying of Sin in Africa”
Reverend Robert Shields, his wife Louise Shields, and members of their family were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They first went to Africa in the 1880s and 1890s as part of Bishop William Taylor's self-supporting missions. They worked as missionaries in Angola until 1936, and their children and grandchildren remained in Angola and Zimbabwe. These photographs, dating from the 1921-33, portray the lives of missionaries in Africa through portraits and snapshots of the Shields family, photographs of schoolchildren, tribal dignitaries, mission buildings, and various scenes of daily African life and landscapes.
Some of the photographs are dated and captioned; most appear to be in chronological order within location:
Capetown to Luanda [Angola]
Quionga
Columbaloca
Punga Adongo
Ambaca region
Caxicane
Cuanza River
Loanda School
Mutambara Mission School
Portuguese East
Chicauque
Inhambabe
Kambove
Kabongo
NTombo Village
Kapanga
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