Image: Cotton Mill Piecer, ca.1825 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS16-008)

Description: Cotton Mill Piecer, ca.1825 Image of a drawing of a piecer at work in a cotton mill. A piecer, normally a young child, had to lean over spinning machines to repair broken threads. The Scottish missionary David Livingstone (1813-1873) worked as a piecer from the age of 10 in Blantyre Cotton Mill.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to David Livingstone (1813-1873), the Scottish missionary who was best known as an explorer of Africa and anti-slavery campaigner. Livingstone was born in Blantyre, Scotland and after working in the local cotton mill from the age of 10 he went on to study medicine and theology in Glasgow in 1836. Having decided to become a missionary he was posted to southern Africa in 1841. In 1845 he married Mary Moffat. During his life Livingstone carried out exploration of southern, eastern and central Africa, he discovered and named the Victoria Falls and it was his meeting with H. M. Stanley during a search for the source of the Nile that gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". David Livingstone died in Africa on 1 May 1873 and his body was buried in Westminster Abbey.Photographer: Unknown Subject (personal name): Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS16-008.tif Coverage date: circa 1825 Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Type: images Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1841.url Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom Geographic subject (country): Scotland Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm. Geographic subject (continent): Europe Rights: Contact the repository for details. Part of series: David Livingstone LS16 Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk Subject (lcsh Keyword): Children; Industries Date created: circa 1825 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Subject (aat genre): exterior views Format (aat): lantern slides Legacy record ID: impa-m69421 Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS16/8
Title: Cotton Mill Piecer, ca.1825 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS16-008)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/64957
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