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Reverend Smith Stanley Osterhout fonds
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45 photographs : glass plate lantern slides ; 8 x 8 cm
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Smith Stanley Osterhout was born in Murray Township, Ontario, on June 30, 1868. He was ordained by the Methodist Church in 1894 and was stationed in BC at the Nass River mission (1894-1989) and then the Port Simpson mission (1898-1903). During this period, he also received an M.A. (1898) and a PhD (1903) from Illinois Wesleyan College. After Church Union in 1925, the United Church of Canada gave Osterhout charge of Home Missions in the Kootenays, and by the time he retired in 1939, he was Superintendent of Indian and Anglo-Saxon missions in Prince Rupert Presbytery, of Japanese work in the BC Conference, and of Chinese work west of the Great Lakes. Osterhout was President of the British Columbia Conference in the Methodist Church from 1916-1917; he was also President of the BC Conference within the United Church from 1939-1940.
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The fonds consists of 45 glass-plate lantern slides showing scenes from Osterhout’s work with B.C. First Nations, including the Haida, Tsimshian, and Kwakwaka’wakw. The collection includes images of people, totem poles, and landscapes.
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Robert H. Stevens donated the negatives to the Museum in 2012 via his daughter, Susan Godey, who is the great-granddaughter of Smith Stanley Osterhout.
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Includes 44 photographs : b&w glass-plate slides ; 8 x 8 cm, 1 photograph : hand-coloured glass-plate slide ; 8 x 8 cm.
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Created 21 March 2013