The International Mission Photography Archive offers over 60,000 historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, from the 1860s until World War II, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean. The photographs reveal the physical influence of missions, visible in mission compounds, churches, and school buildings, as well as the cultural impact of mission teaching, religious practices, and Western technology and fashions. Indigenous peoples' responses to missions and the emergence of indigenous churches are represented, as are views of landscapes, cities, and towns before and in the early stages of modern development.
The online archive can be accessed through this link here.
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