Slides and films relating to New Guinea and missionaries, ca. 1905-1938 / collected by Benjamin T. Butcher

fonds

ca. 1905-1938

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Moving Images

9627680

344 slides
5 film reels

Benjamin Butcher was born in London in 1877. In 1896 he entered Chestnut College, a theological college , in Cambridge and on completion of the course, in 1901, he volunteered for service with the London Missionary Society in New Guinea. A year later he was appointed to the New Guinea Mission. In 1905 he arrived in the territory where he worked as a medical missionary until his retirement in 1938

Reference:
National Library of Australia, Finding aids, manuscripts. http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/1881.html (accessed 12 June 2012)