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Article: The beginnings of Moravian missionary photography in Labrador.
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
- Author:
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The Unity Archives of the Moravian Church at Herrnhut, Saxony, include a collection of more than 1,000 photographic plates taken by missionaries in Labrador, besides a smaller collection that comes from Greenland. These historic photographs, taken between the late 1870s and the early 1930s, cover thematically a wide range of missionary, aboriginal, and settler existence on Labrador's north coast, from locations and settlements to Inuit life and labor. The photographs complement earlier artistic and architectural depictions of the Labrador settlements that were made to record the Moravian presence in Labrador. Unlike the earlier art, the photographs reached an increasingly ...