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Title
Children at school, Tumutumu, Kenya, ca.1910-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910/1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
Exterior view of children sitting at benches during a Sunday school lesson, some have books and other children are eating from trays. Mission workers stand amongst the children and a pedal organ stands in the fore ground. The title of the children’s song ‘Two Little Eyes’ is written on a blackboard. ❧ Tumutumu was established in 1908 by Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur and is situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, 130km north of Nairobi. The mission was set up as a clinic but soon expanded to include a school and church serving the Kikuyu population indigenous to the region. Arthur Ruffelle Barlow (1888-1965), the nephew of David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1853-1907) and co-editor of the first Kikuyu – English Dictionary, was the first resident missionary at Tumutumu. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 13.5 x 8.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75641095-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78728
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75641095-1.jpg
Subject
Religious services
School children
Singing
Time Period
circa 1910/1930
Place
Africa
Central
Kenya
Source
Acc.7548/F/4 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75641093 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs from various mission fields collected by Dr. Stevenson
image/tiff

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