PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF A MISSIONARY FAMILY IN SOUTH SUDAN AND UGANDA

Oblong album (19.5 cm x 14.5 cm), original textured cloth, containing 147 black and white gelatin prints across 75 pages, captioned beneath in white (although with many captions now worn away). Condition is very good with a little rubbing and wear to the extremities of the binding. The contents with a little creasing to the edges of six photographs are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout.

An interesting album documenting a five year period spent by an English missionary family in South Sudan and Uganda during the mid-1920s. Beginning with an image of the SS Madura, the ship on which they set sail for the African continent, the album goes on to capture the family's experiences as they live and work in the region. The bulk of the photographs depict the native population, including the Azande people, with many images of men, women and children engaged in all manner of everyday occupations as well as activities organised by the missionaries, such as schooling, sports (including the "Christmas Sports Obstacle Race, Arua"), and religious ceremonies (there are eight images of open-air baptisms, for example), as well as photographs of Sudanese and Ugandan villages, towns, marketplaces, and agriculture, plus a handful of scenes along the Nile, including one of a herd of wild elephants, and a number of images of the family themselves (husband, wife and children) and their servants, with the final photograph being of the ship on which they would ultimately depart from Mombasa, the Postdampfer Usambara.