A superb album of photos related to Scottish missionary, John Hay, of the Sudan Interior Mission. His son, Ian, was also a missionary with the SIM, and one of its influential leaders and historians.
Over 200 photographs in a period album with the vast majority en situ directly from the mission field.
Some of the titled examples include:
A photograph of 16 missionaries with names listed, including Miss Josephine Bulifant and Lillian McIntosh who worked among the women of the Yoruba women in what is now Nigeria | Juju Man and His Attendant Kuta, i.e. what missionaries often called a "witch doctor." | A few photos of polo matches in Kano, Nigeria [Niger] | Dr. Millar, probably Walter Millar, the translator of the Scriptures into local languages | Children receiving injections for leprosy | Missionary returning from Kaduna Hospital | A missionary conference at Egbe, Nigeria | Donkey market at Kano | Izom Bridge | Kuta | Local Drummers | David's Birthday, 1938 | Kazaure Market | Group at Minna, 1919 [including missionary, Jean Playfair] | Woman with flour basket on her head | Juereg in Zinder | Kazouri Market |Grabs playing chess in Kano | Izom | Bible school at Kaltange | Hodgson's wedding cake, i.e. K. O. Hodgson | Azumi baby | En route to Bauchi | Juju Dancers | Cloud of Locusts in Kuta, 1930 | Signed photograph of A. W. Banfield, Missionary to Africa and later Superintendent of Missions for the Mennonite church | Shiroro | Leper Mothers [A. D. Helser, Sudan Interior Mission and Translator] | Kano Soldiers | A Tamajok Lesson at Zinder. K. O. Hodgson | Photo of a mother and daughter in Mei / Miao / Hmong people of Tonkin, i.e. North Vietnam
In good + condition, bound in cloth, and generally solid. A few of the photographs with folds that have become tender and minor losses.
