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Title
"The Basin of Lake Nyasa", Malawi, ca.1895
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1895
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
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Image of the basin of Lake Nyasa. Livingstonia, which was founded in 1894 by missionaries from the Free Church of Scotland, is marked on the map.
Lake Nyasa, which is also known as Lake Malawi, is the southern most lake in the Great Rift Valley system of East Africa. It is the third largest lake in Africa and the eighth largest lake in the world.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68366 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS3-1-001.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68366
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS3-1-001.jpg
Subject
Maps
Topographical views
Time Period
circa 1895
Place
Africa
Livingstonia
Malawi
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS3/1/1 [File]
Relation
Elmslie of the Wild Ngoni LS3/1
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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