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Title
Church of Scotland medical staff, Tumutumu, Kenya, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
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
“Back row: ACI [Archibald Clive Irvine], Dr Gillan, Mr Blackie, Mr Barlow. Middle row: Dr Philp, Mr Cormack, Mr Calderwood, Mrs Watson. Lower row: Dr Maclay, Miss Macmurtrie, Miss Stevenson, Dr Arthur. Taken at council meeting T/T in 1929.” Group portrait of mission staff sitting on the steps up to a house. Probably during the conference where the legality and health issues of female circumcision were debated ❧ 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, 13.3 x 8.4 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-97124961-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80605
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97124961-1.jpg
Subject
Arthur, John William, Medical Missionary, Kikuyu, Kenya, 1881-1952
Barlow, Arthur Ruffelle, Missionary, Kikuyu, Kenya, 1888-1965
Calderwood, Robert George Matheson, Missionary, Kenya, 1896-1968
Irvine, Archibald Clive, missionary, Chogoria, 1893-1974
McMurtrie, Miss, Nurse, Kikuyu, Kenya, fl.1926
Philp, Horace Robert Andrew, Medical missionary, Tumutumu, Kenya, 1883-1956
Health care
Medical personnel
Group portraits
Meetings
Time Period
1929
Place
Africa
Central Province
Kenya
Tumutumu
Source
Acc.12016/7 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97124959 [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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