1938 photographs

Photographs taken during Alexander Sandilands' missionary work in Bechuanaland [Botswana]. Dates and numbers written on the reverse of the photographs by Ian Sandilands relate them to incidents in Alexander Sandilands' 1938 correspondence (see MS380813/2/12): Alexander Sandilands and woman in canoe; Alexander Sandilands and unidentified European [J.H.L. Burns] in canoe; "1st Ngami Company, the Girls' Life Brigade" (2 photographs) [leaders are V. Taylor and Mrs Bontle Maoto]; "1st Ngami cadets, G.L.B. [Girls' Life Brigade]"; Girls' Life Brigade standing to attention [V. Taylor at front, Mrs Bontle Maoto at rear]; boy and girl in Boys' Brigade and Girls' Life Brigade uniforms; "Segonwane, the lolwapa where I stay when I visit"; "G.L.B. [Girls' Life Brigade] training course, Serowe" (5 photographs); "Service at Shorobe under the trees"; "A blind Christian woman (Gotehokilwan) at Shorobe"; "Life Boys, Maun"; "King's Birthday Parade, Maun, June 9th 1938" [showing Boys' Brigade and Girls' Life Brigade on parade]; "Training course at Serowe, July"; Maun Show, Jul 1938 - Boys' Brigade and Girls' Life Brigade on parade (3 photographs); "My book stall at the Maun Show"; exhibits at Maun Show; Boys' Brigade group; "Exec. on way to Maun, Chukutsa Pan".

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For Alexander Sandilands' 1938 correspondence, see MS380813/2/12