Crossing the Luangwa River, Africa, ca.1875-ca.1940 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS16-036)

Crossing the Luangwa River, Africa, ca.1875-ca.1940
Photograph of seven men crossing the Luangwa River in a dugout canoe. The Luangwa River is one of the largest rivers in Zambia and one of the major tributaries of the Zambezi River.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to David Livingstone (1813-1873), the Scottish missionary who was best known as an explorer of Africa and anti-slavery campaigner. Livingstone was born in Blantyre, Scotland and after working in the local cotton mill from the age of 10 he went on to study medicine and theology in Glasgow in 1836. Having decided to become a missionary he was posted to southern Africa in 1841. In 1845 he married Mary Moffat. During his life Livingstone carried out exploration of southern, eastern and central Africa, he discovered and named the Victoria Falls and it was his meeting with H. M. Stanley during a search for the source of the Nile that gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". David Livingstone died in Africa on 1 May 1873 and his body was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Photographer: Unknown
Subject (personal name): Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS16-036.tif
Coverage date: circa 1875/1940
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1869.url
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
Geographic subject (continent): Africa
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: David Livingstone LS16
Repository email: [email protected]
Subject (lcsh Keyword): Transportation; waterways
Date created: circa 1875/1940
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): exterior views
Format (aat): lantern slides
Legacy record ID: impa-m69449
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS16/36