Choir at St James Mission in Cradock
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“Choir at St James Mission in Cradock”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/9698
- Description
- A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing a choir consisting of young African girls at St James Mission in Cradock, Eastern Cape. Rev James Arthur Calata was the priest-in-charge of St James Anglican Mission Church and also school mananager of the St James Mission School. He had deep interest in the education of an African child. Amongst the things he did for the mission school was to re-create it into a social sphere of transformation, and established a church choir
- Subject
- Calata, James Arthur, 1895-1983 -- Photographs
- Sunbeams (Girls' society) -- South Africa (Eastern Cape) -- Cradock -- Photographs
- Pathfinders (Organization)
- Churchwork with youth -- South Africa (Eastern Cape) -- Cradock -- Photographs
- Girls -- Societies, Etc. -- Photographs
- Boys -- Societies, Etc. -- Photographs
- Churchwork with children -- South Africa (Eastern Cape) -- Cradock -- Photographs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/23001
- Date Issued
- 1935
- Provenance
- Butler Family Photograph Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- jpg
- Location - Physical Location
- Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.
- Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator
- PIC/A 4945-4
- useGuidelines
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images apply to the Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
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The Frontier Collection
- The 1820-Settlers (32 items)
- The Frontier Wars (92 items)
- The Development of Settler Towns (468 items)
- Alice (40 items)
- Bathurst (16 items)
- Bedford (3 items)
- Cathcart (5 items)
- Cradock (200 items)
- East London (22 items)
- Grahamstown (91 items)
- King William's Town (32 items)
- Port Alfred (19 items)
- Port Elizabeth (34 items)
- Queenstown (6 items)
“Choir at St James Mission in Cradock”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/9698
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