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Title
Girl boarders, Chogoria, Kenya, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
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
“Girls' boarding school. New building finished 1937.” Exterior view of a brick building, the dormitories, into which the girl boarders are about to enter. Around this time the boarders were supervised by Miss Ina Hood, M.A. who was seconded from Tumutumu in 1936 to work in girls' education and training. ❧ The image is from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the period from 1928-1947 at the Chogoria mission which was established near Mt Kenya, in 1922, and run by Dr Irvine.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 15.9 x 10.7 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-97123161-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82237
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97123161-1.jpg
Subject
Dormitories (buildings)
Education
Girls
Time Period
1937
Place
Africa
Chogoria
Eastern Province
Kenya
Source
Acc.12016/8 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97123159 [File]
Relation
Chogoria 1930-1947
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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