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Title
Dr Crawford, his wife and Mrs Minnie Cumming Watson, missionaries, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1910
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
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
"Dr. Crawford C.M.S. [Church Missionary Society] Mrs Watson (centre) Mrs Crawford". Group portrait showing the three people involved in mission work in Kenya. They stand in front of a thatched hut and there is a child to the left of the image. Mrs Watson was the wife of Thomas Watson who founded the Kikuyu mission in 1891, which later came under the management of the Church of Scotland Mission [CSM] Dr T W W Crawford and Mrs E May Crawford [nee Grimes] arrived in Kenya in 1904 and established a station in the Fort Hall district and from there moved to the Church Missionary Society [CMS] medical mission at Embu district.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 9.5 x 12 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75658688-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80094
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75658688-1.jpg
Subject
Clothing & dress
Watson, Minnie, Missionary, Kikuyu, Kenya, 1867-1946
Group portraits
Missionaries
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Africa
Central Province
Kenya
Kikuyu
Source
Acc.7548/F/28 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75658686 [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
image/tiff

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