Benjamin Franklin (b. 1807)
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Material Information

Title:
Benjamin Franklin (b. 1807)
Series Title:
Portraits of Jamaica Missionaries
Added title page title:
Benjamin Franklin, appt. 1837 - retd. 1847 -, register no. 362, Jamaica
Place of Publication:
[s.l.]
Publication Date:

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Missionaries -- Portraits
Spatial Coverage:
North America -- Jamaica
Coordinates:
18.18 x -77.4

Notes

General Note:
This image belongs to archival series CWM/LMS/01/09/01/ It is part of the Council for World Mission archive's London Missionary Society series, its Home (01) subseries, its Visual Materials (09) subseries, and its Miniature Portraits (01) subseries.
General Note:
Portraits of 11 missionaries: 1. John Wooldridge (d.1840) 2. Matthew Hodge (1806-1878) 3. William Garland Barrett (1812-1865) 4. William Slatyer (1809-1884) 5. William Alloway (1809-1877) 5A. Charles Brainsford (b.1808) 6. Benjamin Franklin (b.1807) 6A. Robert Jones (1809-1894) 6B. George Wilkinson (1817-1903) 7. Frederick Walter Wheeler (1819-1852) 8. Thomas Henry Clark (1819-1905)
General Note:
Part of collection of 165 miniatures, primarily watercolour on ivory, with a small number being pencil on paper with some silhouettes and drawings, showing missionaries appointed to the London Missionary Society. Also includes notes on the miniature portraits perepared by Irene Fletcher, former archivist of the London Missionary Society
General Note:
Prior to their transfer to SOAS in the early 1970s, the miniatures were held at the various headquarters of the London Missionary Society. These early portraits were formerly kept in square white envelopes headed with the Society's Bridge Street address (London Missionary Society, 16 New Bridge Street, London, E.C.). It is thought that this method of housing the miniatures was adopted some time between 1905 and 1920, when all of the books and records went into storage for nearly ten years, until the headquarters were finally settled in a later building [Livingstone House]. It is assumed that they are the survivals of what would originally have been a much larger collection. In the mid-1930s the miniatures appear to have been incorporated into a more general series of missionary portraits, collected through the years, and maintained by the Editorial Department. In 1960, they were removed from this series, sorted, mounted and made up into concertina books according to the country of appointment. This was done primarily for the preservation of the miniatures, which were suffering from damage resulting from continued handling.

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Special Collections
Rights Management:
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Resource Identifier:
CWM/LMS/Home/Miniature Portraits/Box 13 ( order with reference )
CWM/LMS/01/09/01/14 ( soas classmark )