1939 photographs

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Photographs taken during Alexander Sandilands' missionary work in Bechuanaland [Botswana] and at Tiger Kloof, South Africa. Dates and numbers written on the reverse of the photographs by Ian Sandilands relate them to incidents in Alexander Sandilands' 1939 correspondence (see MS380813/2/13): "Mpipan and his wife"; "Munga, Kachikau - man and woman playing a game with beans and rows of hollows in the ground"; "The Chobe river near Segonwane, near Kachikau"; "People - the church at Segonwane"; "Segonwane village"; "Segonwane" [group in front of church?]; interior, group seated [church at Segonwane?]; "A bit of Tiger Kloof institution"; "Two small boys, brothers, at present at T.K. [Tiger Kloof] boarding school"; "The same two brothers at different ages. Boys of the 'Makoba tribe', Ngamiland"; "Alexander, a Mokoba boy"; "Farm squatters' hut near Vryburg"; "At Brussels Farm [south of Tiger Kloof]"; "Some boys and girls at the farm where I went [Brussels Farm]"; "At the farm [Brussels Farm] 6 miles from here. Two young men arriving for the service on bicycles"; group in front of stone hut [Brussels Farm?]; "Boeangfhela hanging out clothes at my little house at T.K. [Tiger Kloof]"; unidentified groups of Africans, probably students at Tiger Kloof; "Serowe B.P. [Bechuanaland Protectorate]. High Commissioner Sir William Clarke investing Chief Tshekedi [Khama] with King's medal for African chiefs"; "Serowe ... young woman, trained domestic servant [Boeangfhela]" (2 photographs); "Serowe ... a native woman [Mma Boeangfhela]"; "Sefhare Hospital"; "Shashane" [native choir?]; "A woman sowing seed"; "Ploughing with oxen"; "A regiment of women working preparing the three maternity centre huts at Serowe"; "Serowe - Miss EA Haile MBE, and nurses and patients - maternity centre"; view of maternity centre at Serowe; view of road to Tiger Kloof.

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For Alexander Sandilands' 1939 correspondence, see MS380813/2/13