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Title
Lt. Irvine’s tent, Dodoma, Tanzania, July-November 1917
Date Created and/or Issued
1917-07/1917-11
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
“Interior of my tent at Dodoma where I was posted to Carrier Hospital after leaving Itigi. At first we had 3 in an E.P. tent. This was real luxury.” Interior of a tent with camp beds on the left and packing cases used as shelves. Lt. Irvine was transferred to Dodoma to work with at a casualty clearing station mainly treating African carriers. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 9.9 x 7.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-97047639-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81562
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97047639-1.jpg
Subject
Camps (temporary settlements)
Dwellings
Interiors
Time Period
1917-07/1917-11
Place
Africa
Dodoma
Tanzania
Source
Acc.12016/2 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97047637 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Wartime and other scenes in German East Africa, 1917-1919
image/tiff

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