IDNO

LS.138382.HBK

Description

On Lantern Box listing: "3.
No. 23. Our Vestry!! Rent of a month. Miller.
Furniture. Food. Home.
Pilots experiences - 'Time fails me. I cannot tell you how the pilot rung his own Ch. [Church] bell Sunday by Sunday wh. was a yd of ?hly iron. Filled the camps lil them. Swept rooms, carried chairs & benches. Dug graves, lowered coffins &c. Stopped canteen brawls. Sheltered drunken men, & a thousand & one other things in his pioneer work.
Story of Charlie Beat's baby girl!."
The Miners life! Atmosphere! &c.
Its a great thing to get a miner in Rhodesia to Church at all."

Place

S Africa; Zimbabwe; Midlands Province [Rhodesia]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Miller

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Baker, Herbert (Rev.)

Date

circa 1902 - 1910

Collection Name

Herbert Baker Collection

Source

?Baker, Herbert (Rev.)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.138358.HBK - LS.138417.HBK were found unaccessioned in the Photo Store in a wooden slide box now numbered C885/.

LS.138375.HBK - LS.138390.HBK were located in a cardboard box, now numbered C885/2.