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Title
Workers gathered in front of church construction site, 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
"Mission workers - Church (left) new Manse (in distance)". Exterior view showing a large group of people assembled on and around a road track in front of a church construction. The building can be seen to the left of the image and in the distance on a hill can be seen the manse. The Kikuyu mission was established by the East African Scottish Mission in 1891, at Kibwezi, under the direction of Mr Thomas Watson. It moved to Dagoretti in 1898 after severe hardships at the original site. Mr Watson died of pneumonia on the 4/12/1900 and the mission came under the management of the Church of Scotland Mission (CSM). Rev. David Clement Ruffelle Scott was sent from Blantyre to head the mission and arrived with his wife and Doctor Uffman in 1901.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 15.2 x 11 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75658694-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80096
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75658694-1.jpg
Subject
Architecture (discipline)
Construction (assembling)
Mission churches
Workers
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Africa
Central Province
Kenya
Kikuyu
Source
Acc.7548/F/28 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75658692 [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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