IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380389
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies
Title: Banks Photograph Collection
Date(s): Created c1897-1949
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 16 albums, 4 volumes
Name of creator(s): Banks | Alexander L | fl 1897-1949 | missionary
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Rev. Alexander L. Banks was a missionary with the Regions Beyond Missionary Union, based at Siwan, Northern India. The Regions beyond Missionary Union is an inter denominational union, formed in 1899 to carry on the work begun by the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in 1872 - especially in areas beyond those already evangelised. Their field included work in India, Africa and South America.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, c1897-1949, of Alexander Banks, comprising photographs taken chiefly by Alexander Banks showing groups of missionaries, including the Banks, Hicks and Hodge families, Indian Christians, including the Das family, Hindus and Muslims, local festivals, buildings and views. Also included are copies of circular letters (1900-1902) and letters (1903-1906) from Alexander Banks; his diary (1899-1900); a record of orphanage children in India (1906) including photographs; and publications of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Albums are in broadly chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Unpublished handlist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The material was donated by the Andover United Reformed Church in 1983, and an additional donation was made in February 1999.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The School of Oriental and African Studies also holds scanned photographs of Alexander Banks and Ethel Banks in Siwan and Almora (Ref: MS 380682).
Regions Beyond Missionary Union archives are held at The Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, The Mound, New College, Edinburgh, EH1 2LU.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000