Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Ross, Emory. |
| Title: | Myrta and Emory Ross Collection of African Photographs |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1897-1938 |
| Quantity: | 2 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Methodist missionaries and friends of Albert Schweitzer. Photographs. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Emory Ross (1887-1973) was a Methodist missionary. He and his wife, Myrta, became friends with Albert Schweitzer while serving as missionaries in equatorial Africa, and were early supporters of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship during World War II.
The Myrta and Emory Ross Collection of African Photographs consists entirely of photographs of African people and places.
Photographs are arranged alphabetically in each box by topic.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Myrta and Emory Ross Collection of African Photographs,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Estelle Linzer
Created by: --
Date: 1996
Revision history:
| Filmstrips | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Tumbra of Africa, with printed guide | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Congo 1938 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Early Congo mission 1897-1906 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Old Congo 1928, 1938 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | African faces | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Congo life 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Congo Methodist mission | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Early Congo mission | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Joseph Clark's prints 1928-1929 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Liberia 1938 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia 1938 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Southern Rhodesia 1938 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ubangi River, Congo 1916? | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | West African coast 1938 | ||||||||||