Africa Inland Mission
IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB N/A Africa Inland Mission
Held at: Africa Inland Mission International
Domain: archival
Title: Africa Inland Mission
Date(s) of contents: c1900-
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: c 10 filing cabinets of archival material including some printed matter.
CONTEXT
Name of creator(s):
Africa Inland Mission
Africa Inland Mission International
AIM International
Administrative/Biographical history: See: Kenneth Richardson, Garden of miracles: the story of the Africa Inland Mission (London: Africa Inland Mission, 1976).
Custodial history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and content/abstract: The collection includes archival material relating to the activities of the society and its missionaries in east and southern Africa. Material includes communications with missionaries; a small society library of books and pamphlets relating to the society and mission work in Africa; a substantial audiovisual collection including unsorted slides dating mainly from the 1940s, approximately ten films probably from the 1950s and some photographs; society publications, principal of which are:
Annual Reports (1906-present)
Hearing and Doing (1905-1919)
Inland Africa (1920-1983)
AIM International (1984-present)
System of arrangement: In process of reorganization.
ACCESS AND USE
Language: English.
Conditions governing access:
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine holds the papers (ref WTI/EHW) of Dr Edward Hammond Williams, a medical missionary with the Africa Inland Mission in Uganda.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2002.
- INDEX ENTRIES
- Subjects
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- Audiovisual materials
- Films
- Missionaries
- Missionary work
- Photographic slides
- Photographs
- Religious activities
- Religious groups
- Visual materials
- Audiovisual materials
- Personal names
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- Corporate names
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- AIM International
- Africa Inland Mission
- Africa Inland Mission International
- AIM International
- Places
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- Africa
- Central Africa
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- East Africa
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Southern Africa
- Sudan
- Tanzania UR
- Africa