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Title
Staff housing, Chogoria, Kenya, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued
1925
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
“We aim at having good housing conditions for our staff to aid them in their home life. This is one of the staff house (unfinished). This was taken in 1925. Standards were low!” Exterior view of a brick house with corrugated roof. All construction at Chogoria, at this time, was done by the works department using the missions own bricks, masons and carpenters under the supervision of Mr G C Cobb. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10.8 x 7.9 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-97124652-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80544
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97124652-1.jpg
Subject
Dwellings
Houses
Workers
Time Period
1925
Place
Africa
Chogoria
Eastern Province
Kenya
Source
Acc.12016/7 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97124650 [File]
Relation
Chogoria Early Days, 1922-1930
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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