Cameron Townsend in New Guinea

William Cameron Townsend posing with two Gahuku chiefs in Papua New Guinea. Townsend founded Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) in Benton County in the 1930s. The WBT has assisted in the translation of more than 700 New Testaments and Bibles.

older white man in flannel shirt and glasses with his arms around two dark-skinned men in headdresses holding spears

Photo by Cornell Capa, Magnum Photos 1962

Media

Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Related Entries

older white man in flannel shirt and glasses with his arms around two dark-skinned men in headdresses holding spears Townsend, William Cameron “Uncle Cam” White women, children, and men stand in river with observers, hillside concrete wall in background Religion