Duncan Cottage Museum photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1857-1916.

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Duncan Cottage Museum photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1857-1916.

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The collection includes 101 prints of Metlakatla, Alaska and B.C., William Duncan, the church, schoolhouse and other structures and the Tsimshian Indians who lived there at the time. Includes the signatures of the Tsimshians who moved from Metlakatla, B.C. to Metlakatla, Alaska. The plates are largely attributed to Tsimshian photographer, Benjamin Haldane.

101 photographs : b&w.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7666975

Alaska State Library

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Duncan, William, 1832-1918

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Anglican lay missionary to the Tsimshian Indians in Metlakatla, B.C., 1857-1887, and in New Metlakatla, Annette Island, Alaska, 1887-1918. From the description of Letters : on board steamer Ancon and Metlakahtla [i.e. Metlakatla], Alaska, to Mr. [Edward E.] Ayer, 1889-1890. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 36896579 ...

Haldane, Benjamin (Native American photographer, active 19th century)

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Duncan Cottage Museum.

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William Duncan (1832-1918), of Beverly, England, abandoned a promising career at age 22 to train as a missionary for the Church Missionary Society. After completing his studies at Highbury College in London, he was sent to Fort Simpson, British Columbia, to work with the Tsimshian Indians. By 1859, he had established a schoolhouse where he taught reading, writing, counting and singing, in English, and religion in the native Tsimshian language. In May, 1862, Duncan left Fort Simpson with 50 Tsims...

Church Missionary Society.

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The Church Missionary Society was founded in 1799 by a small group of laymen and clergy of the Church of England. It was originally named the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. Its purpose was to enable the Church to send missionaries to Africa and other heathen areas. Henry M. Stanley, following his discovery of the missionary explorer, David Livingstone, was instrumental in opening the Uganda Mission. His famous letter, published in the Daily Telegraph in 1875, prompted a contributio...