Mills, Dora S. Yarnton, compiler. Photograph album and scrapbook, containing twenty photographs and other ephemera connected with her time in Africa
Object Details
- General note
- Green cloth binding. Ph023 is the accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
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- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 9: Photographs
- Extent
- 1 Album (Photograph albums; Scrapbooks, 8 x 4.5 in. or smaller (photographs), 9 x 11 x 1 in. (album), 10 x 12 x 1.75 in. (box))
- Date
- circa 1879 - 1889
- Container
- Item Ph023
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Albums
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- The album contains twenty photographs and other ephemera connected with Sister Dora Sarah Yarnton Mills' time in Africa as a nursing sister with the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. She served in Africa from 1879 to 1905. The album includes images of mission staff, mission facilities, local church, communities, children (presumably served by the missions), as well as several images of Scotland, to which Mills returned after leaving Africa. Includes seven prints of unknown origin, captioned in pencil on the verso by Dora S. Y. Mills; image of Christchurch Cathedral in Zanizibar with lengthy hand written description; stamps.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890755-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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