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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
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
“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
image/tiff

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