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Title: Yaws camp, Tumutumu, Kenya, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1920
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
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Description: “Yaws camp building.” Landscape view showing temporary huts, for Yaws patients, and maize crops in the foreground. The hospital expanded the number of wards for Yaws patients as sufferers were successfully treated with injections of Galyl ❧ 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, 10.5 x 6 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-97121631-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81912
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97121631-1.jpg
Subject: Agriculture
Hospitals (institutions, health facility)
Landscapes (environments)
Time Period: circa 1920
Place: Africa
Central Province
Kenya
Tumutumu
Source: Acc.12016/5 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97121629 [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
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