"My best Photographs, Benares, India "
Item Details
Title:
"My best Photographs, Benares, India "
Alternate title:
"My best Photographs, Benares, India"
Description
Beschreibung: Braunes Album mit schwarzem Titel, braune Seiten, gelocht und mit brauner Kordel zusammengebunden. Photos sind eingeklebt, wie auch die Legenden, welche mit Schreibmaschiene auf hellen Papier geschrieben wurden. [Description: Brown album with black title, brown pages, pierced and tied with brownish cord. Photos are pasted in, so are the captions which have been written on light paper with a typewriter.]
Names
Creator:
Segesser, Margrit (Ms)Name: Segesser, Margrit (Ms)
Date of Birth: 02.01.1877
Date of Death: 30.12.1968
Biography: Working for the Salvation Army (1899-1919). Her travels: India (1910-1915), South America (1921-1922), India (1932-1933), South America (1952-[no date of return given]). Author of mission publications. Her Uncle: Sägesser, Samuel (Mr). Reisemissionarin im Heimatdienst CH, Elsass, D, A.
Profession: missionary (Missionarin)
Geographic references: Mission area: India {mission area}
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Dates
Date early:
01.01.1910
Date late:
31.12.1933
Proper date:
01.01.1910-31.12.1933
Geography
Location:
[Geography]: Asia {continent}: India {modern state}
People:
Subject
Keywords:
Individuals:
Segesser, Margrit (Ms)Name: Segesser, Margrit (Ms)
Date of Birth: 02.01.1877
Date of Death: 30.12.1968
Biography: Working for the Salvation Army (1899-1919). Her travels: India (1910-1915), South America (1921-1922), India (1932-1933), South America (1952-[no date of return given]). Author of mission publications. Her Uncle: Sägesser, Samuel (Mr). Reisemissionarin im Heimatdienst CH, Elsass, D, A.
Profession: missionary (Missionarin)
Geographic references: Mission area: India {mission area}
Need more information?, Plattner, Margrit (Mrs)Name: Plattner, Margrit (Mrs)
Biography: Nichte von Margrit Segesser
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Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 21.5cm x 25.7cm
[Condition]: medium
[Series type]: album
[Type of images]: mixed entity
[Type of slides]: type of slides
60 Einheit(en)
Identifier
Reference:
QC-30.120
Citation:
Reference: BMA QC-30.120
Title: "My best Photographs, Benares, India "
Creator: Segesser, Margrit (Ms)
Date: 01.01.1910-31.12.1933

Segesser, Margrit (Ms), “My best Photographs, Benares, India ,” BMArchives, accessed July 5, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/49327.
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