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Title: Mission accommodation, Tumutumu, Kenya, 1921
Date Created and/or Issued: 1921
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
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Description: “Mueu witu wa mbek.” Landscape view showing a house and large garden with a hill rising behind. The building is constructed from a wooden frame with leaves covering the roof and walls of the structure. This is the house built for Archibald and Margaret Irvine after they were married on 6 May 1921 ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the time that Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) spent at Tumutumu (1919-1921) and some of the early years at Chogoria.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 8.6 x 6 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-97121775-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81964
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97121775-1.jpg
Subject: Dwellings
Home
Landscapes (environments)
Time Period: 1921
Place: Africa
Central Province
Kenya
Tumutumu
Source: Acc.12016/5 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97121773 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, 1919-1922
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
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