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Title: Coffee plant, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1904
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1904
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: Close-up image showing a large coffee plant with cherries, ready for harvesting. In 1879, Professor Balfour brought three coffee plants to the Blantyre Mission in Nyasaland [Malawi] from Edinburgh botanical gardens. The coffee plantations of the region were established from the single plant that survived.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 7.5 x 9.2 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75658748-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80114
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75658748-1.jpg
Subject: Agriculture
Coffee
Plantations
Time Period: circa 1904
Place: Africa
Blantyre
Malawi
Southern region
Source: Acc.7548/F/28 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75658746 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs from mission fields, Nyasaland (Malawi), Africa
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