Oswald Chambers Papers, 1886-1983 | Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections

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Series 5: Photographs

Box 37

Folder 1: Identification list of photographs

Folder 2: Copies of Negatives

88 negatives on four sheets, each in a separate envelope

Item 1: OC w/ brothers, circa 1886-87

The Chambers brothers, circa 1886. Arthur-25 (standing)

From left: Ernest-19; Oswald-12; Franklin-16.  Arthur became a Baptist minister, Ernest a commercial artist and Franklin a chemist in a dye works. (Photo: Leonard Chambers)

Item 2: Postcard:  Perth High Street, 1899

No negative. [Missing]

Item 3: Clarence and Hannah Chambers, 50th Wedding Anniversary, July 16, 1910.

(Photo: Leonard Chambers)

Item 4: Clarence Chambers holding Bible.  ND

Item 5: Clarence Chambers holding Bible, standing next to podium.  ND

Item 6: OC age 16.  Living in Peckham, London

Item 7: Pencil sketch of George Oxer  (See OC artwork folder)

George Oxer, Oswald's closest teenage friend.  Pencil sketch by OC, 9th Aug. 1895.

Item 8: Postcard: Rye Lane, 1900 (G 1020)  Southwark Local History Library, 1900

Rye Lane, Peckham, in 1900.  The Chambers family lived in this London suburb during Oswald's teenage years, 1889-1895.  (Photo: Southwark Local History Library) No negative.

Item 9: Beethoven - Charcoal

Beethoven, portrait in charcoal, by Oswald Chambers, 1893, age 18 or 19. 1. OC ARTWORK  -  LONDON  (See OC artwork folder)

Item 10: OC, Student, University of Edinburgh, 1895-96

Item 11: Princes Street, Edinburgh.  Postcard: circa 1895

Item 12: The High Street, Edinburgh, postcard., 1909

Item 14: Highland Mary's statue and Pier, Dunoon.   Highland Mary's statue, erected in honor of poet, Robert Burns, looks beyond Dunoon Pier, across the Firth of Clyde. (Dunoon  1897-1906)

Item 15: Garden and Bandstand, Dunoon, Postcard., 1900

(Dunoon  1897-1906)

Item 16: Argyle Street, Dunoon, Postcard., 1900

(Dunoon  1897-1906)

Item 17: Dunoon Pier, 1900.  Postcard.

(Dunoon  1897-1906)

Item 18: Dunoon Baptist Church, John Street.

(Dunoon  1897-1906)

Item 19: Wagner - Charcoal

Wagner, portrait in charcoal, by Oswald Chambers, 1897, age 22 or 23.  (NOTE: Could have been done at Edinburgh in early 1897 before going to Dunoon) (OC Artwork, DUNOON  (See OC artwork folder))

Item 20: Sketch: Seascape, crashing waves.

Seascape by OC, 1901:  "The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him.  His call is to be in comradeship with Himself for His own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what He is after."  My Utmost, Aug. 5 (OC Artwork, DUNOON  (See OC artwork folder))

Item 21: Sketch: Harbor.

Tranquil seascape by OC, 1901, reflects the inner change brought by the resolution of his spiritual crisis at Dunoon, November 1901. (OC Artwork, DUNOON  (See OC artwork folder))

Item 22: Sketch: Harbor w/ boat, 1902

(OC Artwork, DUNOON  (See OC artwork folder))

Item 23: OC in academic gown.

Tutor of Philosophy, Dunoon College, 1904.  Age 30. (OC Artwork, DUNOON  (See OC artwork folder))

Item 24: Duncan and Mrs. MacGregor and students in front of college, Kirn.

(Kirn is a district of the town of Dunoon)  Students at The Training College, Kirn, circa 1912 with Duncan and Gertrude MacGregor, seated center. (OC Artwork, DUNOON  (See OC artwork folder))

Item 25: Dhalling Mhor, Kirn.  Former home of Duncan MacGregor and site of Dunoon Training College.  Postcard. (OC Artwork, DUNOON  (See OC artwork folder))

Item 26: OC sitting w/ book on table, hand under chin, 1906

Bound for America and Japan, October 1906. (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 27: Juji Nakada, Japanese evangelist.  OC met Nakada through the League of Prayer in Britain.  They traveled together to America and Japan. (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 28: OC with Bessie and Meredith Standley, God's Bible School, Cincinnati  Photo:Walter Standley

(America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 29: OC w/ Nettie Peabody, Elizabeth West, & Sister Lovett.  GBS

Chambers taught at God's Bible School for six months in 1907.  Brother Chambers, as he was called, pictured with faculty members Sister Elizabeth West, (standing right)  Sister Nettie Peabody, (standing left)  and Sister Lovett. (seated) (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 30: Ladies on faculty at God's Bible School, Cincinnati

Item 31: God's Bible School  -  3 ladies.

(Believed to be left to right)  Grace Wood, Edith Van Dusen (Van Drusen?), Stella Wood (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 32: OC in sleigh with Meredith and Bessie Standley, Feb. 1907.  Brief holiday in Pennsylvania.

(America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 33: People outside big tent, GBS.

Ten-day camp meeting in June at God's Bible School, Cincinnati, Ohio.  Chambers was a featured speaker here four times: 1907 and 1908-10. (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 34: God's Bible School faculty and students, 1908

OC seated front row, 4th from left.  Meredith and Bessie Standley seated on OC's left. (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 35: Tents on God's Bible School Campus for annual summer camp meeting.

(America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 36: God's Bible School faculty and students, 1910

OC not in photo.  May have arrived later because he and Biddy were married in May then came to America.  Charles (holding envelope) and Lettie Cowman, standing 7th and 8th from right in first row of those standing. (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 37: HOBBS FAMILY:  Gertrude Hobbs (later Mrs. Biddy Chambers) seated left holding hands with girl believed to be her best friend, Marian Lemain.  Standing left:  Herbert Hobbs, Biddy's brother.  Standing right:  Edith "Daisy" Hobbs, Biddy's sister;  seated center Emily Amelia Hobbs, Biddy's mother.  Circa 1906? (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 38: Edith Hobbs, nicknamed Daisy or Dais.  Biddy's older sister.

(America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 39: OC and Biddy, Wedding Day, May 25, 1910.

Standing, left to right:  Percy Lockhart, best man;  Biddy's sister Edith (Daisy); Oswald's sister Gertrude; Biddy's brother, Herbert Hobbs; OC and Biddy, seated with his niece, Doris, in front.  (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 40: Outdoor amphitheater, Old Orchard Camp Meeting, Maine.  July 1910

Standing left to right:  Capt. Charles T. Potter; Rev. Arthur Greene, Rev. Oswald Chambers, Mr. William Richardson, Rev. H.J. Olsen.  Seated right:  Biddy Chambers, Mrs. William Richardson.  (Photo: Mrs. Floyd R. [Mary] Conklin) (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 41: OC in deck chair on SS Adriatic, Sept. 1910

Returning to England on board the S.S. Adriatic, Sept. 1910.  [3 oversize copies of photograph in Box V A 1:5] (America & Japan 1906-07)

Item 42: Reader Harris in wig and court gown.

(League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 43: Reader Harris, founder of The Pentecostal League of Prayer.  Coat and tie.

(League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 44: Interior, Speke Hall, London.  Headquarters of the League of Prayer.

(Photo: Christine Reynolds) (League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 45: Miss Dorothea Reader Harris, later Mrs. Godfrey Buxton.  Daughter of Reader Harris.

(League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 46: League of Prayer Photo, nd

Sitting, left to right:  unknown, James Gardiner, unknown, unknown Standing, left to right:  unknown, Henry Stark, Oswald Chambers, unknown (League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 47: League of Prayer Photo, circa 1911

Sitting left to right:  Biddy Chambers, unknown, Mrs. Reader Harris (widow of Reader Harris), Mrs. Mary Hooker (daughter of Reader Harris), unknown Women standing left to right:  Miss. E. M. Briscoe, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown Men standing left to right:  Rev. David Lambert, James Gardiner, Either Leonard Wain or Rees Thomas, Oswald chambers, unknown (League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 48: League of Prayer Photo,

(published in Spiritual Life, Oct. 1926)

Item 49: League of Prayer Photo, large group on porch, circa 1922-23

Sitting left to right: Miss Towers?, Mrs. Mary Hooker, Mr. Howard Hooker, Mrs. Dorothea (Godfrey) Buxton, Mr. Rees Thomas. Standing left to right: unknown,  unknown,  Mr. Mabley (unsure of id),  Rev. David Lambert, Thomas Reynolds, Miss Briscoe, Mr. Start, Miss Aphra White, Godfrey Buxton, Leonard Rowlandson,  unknown. (League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 50: Exterior, #45 North Side, Clapham Common.  Bible Training College, 1911-15

(League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 52: BTC card, "Notice"

Each resident at the B.T.C. found this notice card lying on his or her bed.  It was Chambers' only rule for the students. (League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 53: OC, Biddy, baby Kathleen, 1913

Kathleen, Biddy and Oswald, summer 1913.  "God be praised for our little daughter, and cause her to be a sister of the Lord Jesus Christ." (League Of Prayer 1907-1915)

Item 54: Kathleen standing on chair, later 1913 or early 1914.

Item 55: Kathleen standing at entrance to BTC,  45 North Side, Clapham Common, 1914

Item 56: Kathleen sitting in pram.

Item 57: Kathleen standing beside pram, Clapham Common.

Item 58: Kathleen standing beside pram, Clapham Common.  Closer shot

Item 59: Kathleen running, Clapham Common.

Item 60: Kathleen standing in chair, BTC, 1915

Item 61: Kathleen on OC's lap, BTC, 1915

Item 62: Oswald, Kathleen, Biddy at BTC, 1915

Item 63: Kathleen and Biddy, BTC, 1915

Item 64: Kathleen, sitting at table, Bible Training College (BTC), 1915

Item 65: OC in clerical collar, 1915

Item 66: OC, Biddy, Kathleen in garden, BTC, 1915

Item 67: OC in frock coat, standing, Biddy seated.  1915?

OC in frock coat and Biddy in League of Prayer bonnet, ready for a mission together, 1914-15

Item 68: CU OC from previous photo.

Item 69: OC holding Kathleen while Biddy looks on.

A photographer captures a rare candid moment in the garden of the B.T.C., early 1914.

Item 70: Kathleen at BTC, 1913-1914

Item 71: B.T.C. students and staff, 1914

Row 1:  unknown, Gladys Ingram, unknown, Muriel Bailey, unknown, Eva Spink, unknown

Row 2:  Mary Tweddle, Dorothea Reader Harris, unknown, Biddy, OC & Kathleen, Mrs. Reader Harris, Mr. Howard Hooker, Mrs. Howard (Mary) Hooker; Katherine Ashe, unknown

Row 3:  unknown, Mary Riley, unknown, Miss M.E. Lawson, unknown, Miss Rosa Gardner, unknown, unknown, Miss Ann Blakeman, George Smith, unknown

Row 4:  unknown, unknown, Violet Richardson, unknown, Flo Gudgin, Mable Dempster, unknown, unknown

Item 73: Picnic near Askrigg:  Arthur Chambers, left.  Biddy center in hat, OC right.

(ASKRIGG (Yorkshire Dales) - Summer 1914 & 1915  )

Item 74: Picnic and campfire

Item 75: OC and Kathleen seated.  Resting on a trek at Askrigg.

(ASKRIGG (Yorkshire Dales) - Summer 1914 & 1915  )

Item 76: OC, Kathleen, Mary Riley, sitting beside a path on the moors.

(ASKRIGG (Yorkshire Dales) - Summer 1914 & 1915  )

Item 77: Miss Katherine Ashe on the moors.

(ASKRIGG (Yorkshire Dales) - Summer 1914 & 1915  )

Item 78: OC w/ Kathleen on his shoulders.

"Thank God for these leagues of pure air." (ASKRIGG (Yorkshire Dales) - Summer 1914 & 1915  )

Item 79: OC w/ Kathleen on his shoulders.  Different angle.

(ASKRIGG (Yorkshire Dales) - Summer 1914 & 1915  )

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Item 80: OC fishing in stream.

Chambers loved to fish the clear streams in the Yorkshire Dales.

Item 81: Kathleen, Oswald sitting in front of Skidmore's home and antique Shop, Askrigg

Item 82: CU, Kathleen, Oswald sitting in front of Skidmore's home and antique Shop, Askrigg

Item 83: Kathleen "reading"

Item 84: Kathleen in backpack carried by unknown man.

Item 85: Group outside house:  Holiday in Askrigg, August 1915.

Standing: Arthur Chambers, Biddy, OC, Eva Spink, Jim Skidmore, Jimmy Hanson Middle Row: Gertrude Chambers, Bertha Chambers, Kathleen, Mary Riley Front:  Gladys Ingram, Flo Gudgin (later Mrs. Jimmy Hanson)  Unidentified.

Item 86: OC standing in uniform, 1915

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 87: OC and Stanley Barling, Y.M.C.A.  Cairo, 1915

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 88: Men in uniform, may be YMCA secretaries, standing outside building in Cairo.  Oswald not in photo.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 89: New Zealand troops in camp under pyramids, early 1915.

The area around Cairo was the scene of massive troop movements throughout World War I.  (Photo:  Y.M.C.A. of the USA Archives, Minneapolis, MN) (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 90: The Bungalow, Zeitoun, 1916.  Oswald seated left, Biddy and Mary Riley seated right.  Miss Katherine Ashe standing in door.  Jimmy Hanson seated far right. (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 91: The Bungalow, Zeitoun.  Slightly different angle.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 92: Tea or supper outside the Bungalow.  Jimmy Hanson seated left looking at camera.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 93: Interior, YMCA Hut at Zeitoun.  Soldiers at table, right. .  OC's diary: Oct. 27, 1915:  "This is absolutely desert, in the very heart of the troops and a glorious opportunity for men.  I am watching with interest the new things God will do and engineer." (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 94: Interior, YMCA Hut at Zeitoun.  Longer shot.  Soldiers at tables, left.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 95: Oswald standing in front of the expanded Bungalow, Zeitoun.  Late 1916.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 96: YMCA secretaries and workers at Zeitoun, 1916.  Seated center, Biddy, Oswald, Kathleen Standing middle row:  2nd from left, Miss Catherine Ashe, 4th from left, Mary Riley, far right:  Jimmy Hanson.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 97: Kathleen in front of the Bungalow, Zeitoun, 1916.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 98: Kathleen and Biddy sitting on bench in front of the Bungalow, Zeitoun, 1916

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 99: Biddy straightening Kathleen's dress in front of the Bungalow, Zeitoun, 1916

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 100: Kathleen being carried by Egyptian friend

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 101: Picnic on the desert:  (Left to right)  Unidentified woman, Kathleen, Oswald, Biddy, Jimmy Hanson.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 102: Kathleen and Oswald, picnic

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 103: Picnic in the desert.  Oswald and Biddy top center; Kathleen in checked hat

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 104: On donkeys, (Left to right)  Jimmy Hanson, Gladys Ingram, Unidentified woman

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 105: On camels in front of Sphinx: (l-r)  Biddy, OC & Kathleen, J. Hanson, K. Ashe

"The B.T.C. Camel Corps" (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 106: Oswald with arm on easel, Kathleen, Biddy

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 107: Oswald, Kathleen, Biddy at Zeitoun, closer

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 108: Oswald and Kathleen.  Drying racks in background.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 109: Kathleen on donkey, Peter Kay, Ted Strack?, right

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 110: Kathleen w/ donkey.  Egypt General Mission home at Zeitoun, bg.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 111: Tea on the porch of the Bungalow, Zeitoun.  Oswald seated left, Kathleen on Jimmy Hanson's lap, back, Biddy seated right.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 112: Zeitoun, 1916:  Taken from 2nd floor of Egypt General Mission home.  Left to right: Study Hut, Devotional Hut, the Chambers' quarters, The Bungalow, w/ bell tent in front.  4 people standing outside.  From OC's Diary: Oct. 7, 1916:  "I have a great adjunct now in my double fly bell tent, it makes an admirable open air study."

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 113: Oswald standing w/ foot on bench, Zeitoun.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 114: Oswald standing in typical pose next to tent, Zeitoun.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 115: Marquee (tent) at Zeitoun.  Left to right:  Unidentified man, Jimmy Hanson, Oswald, Mary Riley, Biddy and Kathleen, Miss Katherine Ashe., 1916

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 116: OC standing w/ tent bg,, 1916

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 117: Chest shot, OC.  Written on back:  Taken for our War Zone passports (Canal). Sept. '16

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 118: Oswald and Biddy, Zeitoun., 1916

Crowd at Sunday afternoon free tea, Zeitoun.  1916 or 17.    Two views. (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 119: Biddy, standing center, in wide brim hat.  Gladys Ingram standing left.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 120: Six men at table, front center.  Gladys Ingram standing right.

Tablecloths and flower centerpieces revealed Biddy's touch on every Sunday "free tea" at Zeitoun.  400+ soldiers came for sandwiches, cakes and gallons of tea. (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 121: CU Kathleen squatting with puppy at Zeitoun., 1916

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 122: Kathleen standing holding puppy., 1916

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 123: Kathleen with donkey at Zeitoun., 1916

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 124: Oswald, Kathleen and Biddy in front of Kathleen's Hut

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 125: Oswald and Kathleen sitting on Kathleen's Hut

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 126: Oswald and Kathleen entering Kathleen's Hut

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 127: Oswald at bread slicer w/ Gladys Ingram -  "Gladiolus"

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 128: Gladys Ingram, Zeitoun

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 129: Oswald, Kathleen, Biddy, and unidentified woman at Zeitoun.  Could be Eva Spink.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 130: Oswald, Biddy, Kathleen and unidentified woman.  Another view of previous photo, 1917

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 131: Oswald sitting on felucca at Damietta, July 30-August 2, 1917

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 132: Oswald standing by felucca at Damietta.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 133: Oswald and Kathleen at the beach.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 134: Kathleen in water.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 135: Biddy and Oswald at the beach.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 136: Oswald and Kathleen w/ unidentified soldier behind.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 137: Kathleen and Biddy at the beach

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 138: Back row:  Unidentified woman possibly Mary Riley; Jimmy Hanson

Seated left to right:  Gladys Ingram; Oswald, Kathleen, Biddy (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 139: Oswald kneeling with puppy, Zeitoun.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 140: Oswald, Kathleen on his back, Biddy, Egypt

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 141: Oswald holding fly whisk, and Biddy inside the Items Hut, Zeitoun., 1917

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 142: Oswald, 2nd from left and Biddy.  Two women behind them:  Gertrude Ballinger and Eva Spink?  Miss Katherine Ashe standing 2nd from right.  Gladys Ingram kneeling, Kathleen.  Alexandria, Sept. 1916?

( See Abandoned to God, p. 235) (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 143: Stephen Pulford and Eva Spink

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 144: Steven Pulford

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 145: Unidentified man in front on the Bungalow, Zeitoun YMCA Camp

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 146: Exterior: Devotional hut, Zeitoun

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 147: Interior:  Devotional hut, Zeitoun

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 148: Mat hut, Zeitoun

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 149: YMCA Hut, Zeitoun

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 150: Oswald sitting on wall in front of YMCA hut and large sign

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 151: Sign: Blackboard talk tonight

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 152: OC standing by large "Study Hut" sign.  Religious Problems.

[oversize copy of photograph in Box V A 1:5]

Item 153: Two unidentified soldiers w/ young boy (David Swan?) on donkey.

Item 154: OC seated in chair w/ wide brim Australian hat

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 155: Biddy, Kathleen, Oswald, 1917

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 156: Oswald w/ troops at watering trough for animals.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 157: Oswald seated, helmet in hand, w/ dog in Egypt

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 158: Oswald,  Kathleen on donkey

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 159: Kathleen sitting in window of small hut under Post Cards sign.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 160: Peter Kay, Australian soldier, standing left, OC, Kathleen, Ted Strack kneeling beside Kathleen.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 161: Flowers and stone-lined walkways transformed the Y.M.C.A. huts at Zeitoun from desert to oasis.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 162: Workers building the Dugout, OC's underground study at Zeitoun, June 1917.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 163: Kathleen w/ kittens.  Workers building The Dugout, Zeitoun.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 164: Oswald standing beside the Dugout, 1917

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 165: Oswald and Biddy sitting beside the completed Dugout, summer 1917.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 166: Oswald, Kathleen and Biddy in front of the Dugout, 1917

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 167: OC standing left, completed Dugout center, Bungalow, back.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 168: September 1917, OC in uniform, seated.  Fly whisk on belt.  Sunken cheeks reveal the toll of demanding work and Chamber's declining health.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 169: Oswald and Biddy standing in front of lattice fence, summer 1917.  One of the last photos of them together.

(See photo and accompanying sheet in separate file for Biddy's writing on back) (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 170: Entered Into Rest: Card sent to friends after Oswald's death

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 171: Funeral procession for military officer, believed to be Oswald Chambers' funeral, Nov. 16, 1917.

(Photo found in belongings of Eva Spink Pulford) (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 172: Soldiers carrying coffin into British Military Cemetery, Old Cairo.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 173: Wooden cross over grave of Oswald Chambers, British Military Cemetery, Old Cairo

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 174: Different view of cross over OC's grave, far left.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 175: Wooden cross with stone Bible donated by Peter Kay, soldier from Australia, text engraved from Luke 11:13

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 176: Later photo of Oswald Chambers' grave, wooden crosses replaced by headstones.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 177: Later photo: Headstone w/ flowers planted and stone Bible removed.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 178: Kathleen seated on ground, trees bg.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 179: CU Kathleen standing in garden

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 180: Kathleen lying on ground in garden

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 181: Kathleen in garden

(at Wasta after OC's death) (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 182: Biddy and Kathleen with the Wilkinsons at Wasta?  Just after Oswald's death?

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 183: Unidentified woman and Kathleen on horse, Egypt.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 184: Biddy standing in rock-lined pathway, Zeitoun

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 185: Interior, the Dugout, Zeitoun

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 186: Another view, Interior, the Dugout, Zeitoun

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 187: Kathleen on porch of the Bungalow.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 188: 188.  Closer shot of  Kathleen on porch of the Bungalow.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 189: David and Mrs. Swan? w/ Kathleen sitting on wall.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 190: Kathleen with David Swan?

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 191: Kathleen standing on chair.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 192: Kathleen, age 5 or 6, Egypt.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 193: Kathleen, holding flowers, age 5 or 6, Egypt.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 194: Kathleen, studio shot, Cairo  Age 6

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 195: Group of 8 people in Egypt:

Standing back:  (l-r) Unidentified soldier (Cadenhead?);  Mary Riley, Jimmy Hanson.  Seated center: (l-r)  Miss Ashe, Biddy, unidentified woman who may be Mrs. Swan, Kathleen left, David Swan? Right. (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 196: Large group in Egypt, Kathleen's birthday.  May 24, 1919

Kathleen seated 2nd from left; Women seated:  (l-r)  Mary Riley, Unidentified, Katherine Ashe, Biddy, Mrs. Swan (Egypt  1915-17)

Item 197: Kathleen at beach with soldiers

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 198: Kathleen lying on sand, Egypt.

(Egypt  1915-17)

Item 199: Kathleen eating a biscuit (cookie)

(Egypt  1915-17)

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Item 200: On camels at the Sphinx.  Mary Riley? Left; unidentified soldier holding Kathleen on donkey, Biddy right

Item 201: Zeitoun.  Biddy seated center; Mary Riley standing behind her.  Jimmy Hanson standing far right n white shirt.  Kathleen next to Biddy?, 1918-1919

Item 202: Biddy and Kathleen seated right at wedding of friends in Egypt., 1918

(Could be wedding of Phillip Hancock and Gertrude "Bill" Ballinger)

Item 203: Group of 9 people at Zeitoun, Egypt General Mission house bg.  Biddy seated center, Kathleen in front of her.  Jimmy Hanson seated front row right.

Item 204: Biddy, taken in Cairo, 1918-1919.

Item 205: Kathleen, standing left, with woman and unidentified children.  England, circa 1919

Item 206: Kathleen and Biddy in England, circa 1921

Item 207: Kathleen (left) Biddy seated, unidentified friend, right.  England, circa 1925.

Item 208: Kathleen, around age 10

Item 209: Kathleen standing and Biddy, England, circa 1927

Item 210: Biddy Chambers, age 40-45?

Item 211: Jim Skidmore

Item 212: Mary Riley wearing League of Prayer bonnet

Item 213: Claire "Mick" Warren, BTC student.

Item 214: Major John Skidmore and wife, May.

Item 215: Flo Gudgin "Gudgie"  Student at BTC; married Jimmy Hanson in 1917 in England.  Came to Egypt in 1919.

Item 216: Maud Lockhart, wife of Percy Lockhart.

Item 217: Norah and Charlie Griffin, England.  Helped start the publishing of OC's books

Item 218: Marcus Abdul Masila, Egyptian friend of the Chambers

Item 219: Stuart Gardiner, soldier from Australia.

Item 220: Dess, Mrs. Stuart Gardiner.

Item 221: Phillip and Gertrude "Bill" (Ballinger) Hancock, married in Egypt, 1918?  Daughter: Mary.  Taken years later in England.  The Hancocks were both students at the BTC and both came out to Egypt to work with OC.

Item 222: Gladys (Ingram) Donnithorne, her husband Archdeacon Vyvyan H. Donnithorne, and their daughter Audrey.  Gladys was BTC student, worked w/ OC in Egypt, later with Church Missionary Society in China.

Item 223: Joy Guinness

Item 224: Standing left to right:  Joy Guinness, her brother Henry, Henry's wife, their son Oswald (Os Guinness)  Seated: Mrs. Howard Taylor

Item 225: Joy Guinness (left) and Mrs. Howard Taylor, right.

Item 226: Eva (Spink) Pulford?

Item 227: Family identified by Kathleen Chambers as "Mr. and Mrs. Scholes, Clapham Common College"

Item 228: Unidentified woman sitting on log.

Item 229: Unidentified military officer standing with cane.

Item 230: Postcard photos from Biddy's visit to Luxor, Egypt immediately after Oswald's death, November 1917

Item 231: Postcard photos from Biddy's visit to Luxor, Egypt immediately after Oswald's death, November 1917

Item 232: Postcard photos from Biddy's visit to Luxor, Egypt immediately after Oswald's death, November 1917

Item 233: Postcard photos from Biddy's visit to Luxor, Egypt immediately after Oswald's death, November 1917

Item 234: Postcard photos from Biddy's visit to Luxor, Egypt immediately after Oswald's death, November 1917

Item 235: Postcard photos from Biddy's visit to Luxor, Egypt immediately after Oswald's death, November 1917

Item 236: Postcard photos from Biddy's visit to Luxor, Egypt immediately after Oswald's death, November 1917

Item 237: Postcard photos from Biddy's visit to Luxor, Egypt immediately after Oswald's death, November 1917

Item 238: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 239: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 240: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 241: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 242: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 243: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 244: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 245: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 246: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 247: Postcard photos from Biddy and Kathleen's visit to Jerusalem and surrounding area, April 1919

Item 248: Postcard photos of Cairo

Item 249: Postcard photos of Cairo

Item 250: Postcard photos of Cairo

Box 40

Folder 1: Book of Photographs from Pulford's time in Egypt

Item 251: Robbins and Powell watering horses.  Powell holds my charger.

Item 252: Serg. Major Comel Corps Ex. W.D.

Item 253: [Untitled]

Item 254: Led horses in drained canal.

Item 255: Pelicans (wonderful birds) Zoo Cairo

Item 256: Lce Cpl Waite.  Main road through Imperial School of Instruction.

Item 257: Zoological Gardens, Cairo

Item 258: Saddle Cleaning

Item 259: [Untitled]

Item 260: Pte Pulford and "Fido" note length of leg.

Item 261: Pte F.E. Powell

Item 262: Football XI.  2nd Troop.  "B" Squadron

Item 263: [Untitled]

Item 264: [Untitled]

Item 265: [Untitled]

Item 266: Camel Train

Item 267: "C" Squadron on the move.

Item 268: Camel train, about 4miles long.

Item 269: Our living huts

Item 270: Cookhouse.

Item 271: Cookhouse.

Item 272: [Untitled]

Item 273: Forage dump.

Item 274: [Untitled]

Item 275: [Untitled]

Item 276: Turkish Prisoners

Item 277: Groups of native children.  Background- mud wall of village.

Item 278: Native Group.

Item 279: Native policeman

Item 280: Putting saddles together.

Item 281: Harry Chanter- our Ragtimer, with Tango.

Item 282: Robbins with flag representing a troop of Calvary- "Fido" on right.

Item 283: "Bargey"

Item 284: Tim

Item 285: The Citadel

Item 286: The Citadel

Item 287: [Untitled]

Item 288: Citadel.  Taken from minaret of Blue Mosque.  Mohamed Ali Mosque with dome and towers in centre.

Item 289: Cairo.  Nile in the distance.

Item 290: Bird's eye view of Cairo, taken from tower of Blue Mosque.  River Nile in distance.

Item 291: [Untitled]

Item 292: [Untitled]

Item 293: Interior of Egyptian Museum Kasr-el-Nil.

Item 294: [Untitled]

Item 295: 1st Troop Boys.  [Munday], Shade L. C., Jones D. T. [?], Rodgers, Scott J., Sullivan, [Newham]

Item 296: [Untitled]

Item 297: Robbins

Item 298: Tim

Item 299: "On active service"

Item 300: [Untitled]

Item 301: Robbins

Item 302: II troops on parade

Item 303: Buck jumping.  Australian Remount Depot.

Item 304: Buck jumping at  Australian Remount Depot.

Item 305: [Untitled]

Item 306: Robbins, Pulford, and Shade after a sandstorm.

Item 307: Received 15 August, 1917

Item 308: Received 11 August, 1917. Pulford and

Item 309: Right there!

Item 310: A snack during a "stunt"

Item 311: Preparing for saddle inspection

Item 312: Robbins

Item 313: The camp by the sea.  Marakeb

Item 314: A Hotchkiss Gun

Item 315: Our "Bivvy"

Item 316: "Daphnie", Robbins' Horse, gets tied up in the line.

Item 317: [Untitled]

Item 318: [Untitled]

Item 319: [Untitled]

Item 320: French Soldiers holding one of their peculiar "concerts".

Item 321: Bethlehem.  Walls of Moab in distance.  Dead Sea below but out of sight.

Item 322: BeerSheeba, Rly St.

Item 323: [Untitled]

Item 324: Village near Bethlehem where every man in the Regt. was loaded with [?], [?], figs [?] and wine big inhabitant.

Item 325: [Untitled]

Item 326: [Untitled]

Item 327: Bethlehem

Item 328: [Untitled]

Item 329: [Untitled]

Item 330: [Untitled]

Item 331: [Untitled]

Item 332: [Untitled]

Item 333: [Untitled]

Item 334: [Untitled]

Item 335: [Untitled]

Item 336: [Untitled]

Item 337: [Untitled]

Item 338: [Untitled]

Item 339: [Untitled]

Item 340: [Untitled]

Folder 2: Empty album

[used to contain the photographs now located in Folder 1]

Folder 3: Pulford’s Time in Egypt

photocopies of the photographs as originally arranged in the album; 24 sheets, photos 251-340

Folder 4: Photos found in Egypt Correspondence to Eva Spink

Item 341: Postcard

Item 342: Kathleen

Item 343: [Untitled]

Folder 5: Guest scrap book from Biddy and Kathleen

[intact]

Item 344: Inger [Maelstrom]

Item 345: Hjordis Petursdottir

Item 346: Unknown

Item 347: Greta

Item 348: Inga

Item 349: Margit

Item 350: [Hilda Isrid]

Item 351: Elsa Anderson

Item 352: [Luez] Anderson

Item 353: Elsa

Item 354: [Trigegerd]

Item 355: J.R. Lowell

Item 356: [Laes] Sterel

Item 357: Helene [Johaes]

Item 358: Margit Isacson

Item 359: Yvonne

Item 360: Magda

Item 361: Rosel [Hassellaser]

Item 362: Joy

Box 41

Item 1: Photograph #152 Enlarged

Item 2: Photograph #41 Enlarged

(3 copies)