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Title
Workmen carrying bricks, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
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
“Three of our own workmen carrying bricks up from the clay-pits: we discovered clay about 1/3 mile away & at first built in burnt brick, later a local African found stone & all building later was done in stone.” Group portrait of three indigenous men carrying bundles of clay bricks. The carpenter, Ayubu, discovered clay near Chogoria that was eminently suitable for brick production. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10.8 x 8.3 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-97124730-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80566
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97124730-1.jpg
Subject
Brickworks (factories)
Construction (assembling)
Workers
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
Africa
Chogoria
Eastern Province
Kenya
Source
Acc.12016/7 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97124728 [File]
Relation
Chogoria Early Days, 1922-1930
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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