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Title
Government official and askaris, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1901
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
"Askaris" Group portrait of askaris [soldiers] with a government official on horseback. The rider is Mr John Ainsworth (1864-1946) the colonial administrator who became the Chief Native Commissioner in 1918. He was also responsible for the forcible recruitment of porters for the military campaign during the First World War. This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman, son of Dr Henry Uffman of the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission from 1901 to 1905.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10.5 x 7.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75657963-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79967
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75657963-1.jpg
Subject
Group portraits
Military personnel
Uniforms
Time Period
circa 1901
Place
Africa
Central Province
Kenya
Kikuyu
Source
Acc.7548/F/24 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75657961 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Kikuya and Zanzibar, Africa
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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