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Title
New church, Chogoria, Kenya, 17 January 1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1930-01-17
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
The opening of the church – January 1930” Exterior view of the new church with a queue of people around the building. The church was opened on 17 January 1930 by Rev R.G.M. Calderwood and native ministers from Kikuyu and Tumutumu. The exterior of the church was painted with a white distemper and the roof tiles were red. ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the time that Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) spent at Tumutumu (1919-1921) and some of the early years at Chogoria.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 11 x 8.2 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-97121847-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81984
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97121847-1.jpg
Subject
Ceremonies
Mission churches
Openings (events)
Time Period
1930-01-17
Place
Africa
Chogoria
Eastern Province
Kenya
Source
Acc.12016/5 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97121845 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, 1919-1922
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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