Accession Number: 2009.24.16.500
Description: BW print; the Reverend Arthur Blaxall, a thin man with neatly combed salt-and-pepper hair and tortoise shell glasses, wearing a dark striped coat over black shirt with clerical collar; holding a wooden pipe to his mouth; stamped on back "Copyright Photograph for Libertas, P.O. Box 4577, Johannesburg".
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: ca. 1955
History/Provenance: Reverence Arthur Blaxall, born in England in 1891, was an Anglican priest. Blaxall helped found the Athlone School for the Blind in South Africa in 1927. In 1939, he opened the first workshop for blind Africans in South Africa, Ezenzeleni, in Roodepoort, where he served as superintendent until 1950. He was a founder and chairman of the South African National Council of the Blind. In 1964, he was exiled from South Africa for his opposition to the National Party government, convicted of aiding the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress. He published a biography, Suspended Sentence, in 1965 and died in 1970.
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Clergy Missionaries
