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Physical description:
1 album (34 photographs) ; 8 x 4.5 in. or smaller (photographs), 9 x 11 x 1 in. (album), 10 x 12 x 1.75 in. (box)
Type:
Pictorial works
Photograph albums
Scrapbooks
Place:
Africa, Central
Date:
1879
1879-1889
[between 1879 and 1889?]
Notes:
Supplied title.
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. DSI
Dora Mills was a nursing sister who arrived in Africa in 1879. She retired in 1920 after 40 years service to the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. Born in 1859, she left for Africa in 1879, having completed her education and nursing courses. At first, she worked with children who had been rescued from Arab slaving dhows. She completed her time in Africa with many years service on Likoma Island on Lake Nyassa. Repeated attacks of malaria forced her to return to England.
Summary:
The album contains twenty photographs and other ephemera connected with 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.