cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79936
title: Mrs Ricketts on a horse, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Mrs Ricketts." Portrait of a European lady sitting side-saddle on a horse, held by an attendant. Purulia is situated in the Santalia mission field in the Manbhoom district. The main station of the United Free Church of Scotland was based at Toondee [Tundi] while the mission at Purulia was established by the Gossner Mission Society of Berlin.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79859
title: A road leading from the Children's Mission, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "The Children's Mission, Mihecani, Portuguese East Africa", "View to South West." Landscape view showing the road leading from the Children's mission towards the South West. The road is edged with stone and the surrounding land is cultivated. There are three native people standing across the road in a row in the middle distance of the image. Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80401
title: Interior of Mwenzo church, Zambia, ca.1920

description: “Platform and table, Mwenzo church.” Interior view showing a raised platform and an indigenous inscription on the wall behind. The pulpit/Lectern sits to the right of the platform and the church was built with a transept. The church was completed in 1914 under the supervision of Dr James Alexander Chisholm (1872-1936). ❧ Mwenzo was established in 1894, by Alexander Dewar (d.1943,) and was the first Free Church mission in north eastern Rhodesia. It was situated on the Stevenson road, which linked Lake Nyasa with Lake Tanganyika and was a major trade route, just four miles from the Lake Company’s Fife station. It was run, much of the time, by Yohane Afwenge Banda, a Tonga evangelist, and Dr Chisholm who ran the mission and hospital from 1900-1936. The name Mwenzo means ‘heart’ and refers to the station as being at the heart of Africa. At the time both Karonga and Mwenzo were situated close to the border of German East Africa and during the First War the mission was overrun and evacuated by senior staff.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79797
title: Ngongo mountain, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Ngongo mountain near Kikuyu". Landscape view of a large mountain with sparsely covered plains in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79826
title: Fig tree, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Fig tree under which the pioneer mission band halted on 13th October, 1876 ." Exterior view showing two males, a European and an Africa standing in front of a large fig tree, there is a dog lying at their feet. A brick building, Blantyre Church, can be seen through the vegetation to the right of the image. On the 23rd October 1876 the initial mission party camped at this site, and this date was accepted as the founding date of the Blantyre mission. The site was found by Henry Henderson, son of a minister from Kinclaven, Perthshire, and part of the pioneer missionary group sent out by the Free Church mission and the Church of Scotland mission in 1875. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79868
title: Harvest festival, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1930

description: "Harvest Thanksgiving". Exterior view showing the congregation at the Church-school at Mihecani. The veranda has been decorated with plants and flowers for the Harvest Festival. ❧ Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80474
title: General Assembly, Qingdao, 1937

description: “The picture of the fourth General Assembly meeting of the Church of Christ in China held in July, 1937, Tsingtao [Qingdao]. Those in gown, stole and hood from left to right are: H H Tsui, Executive Secretary; the Rev Kan Siao-fang of Szechuen; the Rev Hsu Sheng-yen of Amoy who has recently celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his ordination; the Rev Y S Tom, Moderator; Dr C Y Cheng, General Secretary; Mr Li Ying-lin, one of our outstanding Laymen, General Secretary of the YMCA in Canton; Dr A R Kepler, Executive Secretary of the General Assembly. ❧ The new Moderator, the Rev C C Chen, is standing on the extreme right in the second row. He is pastor of the largest church in our General assembly, Kulangsu, Amoy.” Group Portrait showing only the left side of the original photograph.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79857
title: Ladies House at Children’s Mission, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Ladies; House, E.E. Napier, Miss Macnab DCS, The Children’s Mission, Mihecani, Portuguese East Africa". Exterior view of the Mihecani mission house, showing wrap around veranda and thatched roof, there are further huts to the left and right of the image and cultivated grounds around the mission ❧ Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79866
title: Manse and Church-school, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1930

description: "The Manse , The Church-School". Exterior view showing a large crowd seated on the ground outside the front entrance to the Church-School, the front of which can be seen to the right of the image. In the distance to the left of the image the Manse can be on a hilltop. The top of the visiting missionaries hut can just be seen over the hill in the middle distance of the image. Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80174
title: Stream, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Landscape Kikuyu." Landscape view of a small stream running through a forest near the Church of Scotland mission at Kikuyu.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79962
title: Mother and child, Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Kasaja with his mother." Portrait of a small boy and his mother. This was taken during a stop-over in Zanzibar en route to British East Africa.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman, son of Dr Henry Uffman of the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission in Kenya, from 1901 to 1905.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79865
title: Christian bibles in the Lomwe language, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1930

description: "The New Testament & Psalms in LOMWE". Exterior view looking in to a veranda where four indigenous and one European man are looking at Christian bibles published in the Elomwe language. The Lomwe people are the forth largest group in Mozambique and mainly found in the Zambezia province. In Malawi they are mainly found in the Phalombe district to the Southeast of the country. ❧ Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80005
title: Village life, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Native made clay pot". Exterior view showing a family in front of their hut. Several different pots are visible and a cereal crop is drying in the foreground. The image is part of a collection associated with the mission at Mihecani, Lomweland, in Portuguese East Africa. Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79931
title: Dispensary, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Dispensary, Purulia." Exterior view of the dispensary at Purulia. The mission is situated in the Santalia mission field in the Manbhoom district. The main station of the United Free Church of Scotland was based at Toondee [Tundi] while the mission at Purulia was established by the Gossner Mission Society of Berlin.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80014
title: Ladies house, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Ladies House, Mihecani". Exterior view of the Ladies house at Mihecani. The station at Mihecani was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79935
title: Boy on pony with attendant, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Boy of Mr & Mrs Ricketts." Portrait of a young European boy, in a sailors outfit and straw hat, sitting on a pony being held by an attendant in formal dress. Purulia is situated in the Santalia mission field in the Manbhoom district. The main station of the United Free Church of Scotland was based at Toondee [Tundi] while the mission at Purulia was established by the Gossner Mission Society of Berlin.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80526
title: Sunday school, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “”Sunday School. Women & Children’s work.” Exterior view showing children split into small groups with an adult teacher giving lessons. The missionary on the right is probably Miss Isa Brown who supervised women and children’s work. ❧ 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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79937
title: Picnic party, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Picnic party Purulia." Group portrait of families sitting around a table, placed outdoors, during a meal. They are waited on by attendants in formal dress. Purulia is situated in the Santalia mission field in the Manbhoom district. The main station of the United Free Church of Scotland was based at Toondee [Tundi] while the mission at Purulia was established by the Gossner Mission Society of Berlin.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80610
title: Deacon’s Court, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “Deacon’s Court, Chogoria, with Mrs Irvine & Miss Hall.” Group portrait of the seven deacons, Filipo, Musa, Maina, Gerishom, Willie, Jonathan and Ayubu, and Dr Irvine and Rev Solomon Ndambi. Miss Hall sits on the left and Mrs Irvine on the right. The court met one Saturday a month to discuss church business. ❧ 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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79861
title: Sisal weaving class, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Sisal Work Class". Group portrait showing eight native women seated on a woven mat displaying their sisal work, woven baskets, plates, rope and containers. There is a European woman kneeling behind. Sisal is an Agave traditionally used in the making of twine and rope. ❧ Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. . ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79790
title: Path clearing, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Cutting a road through jungle, Kikuyu". Elandscape view withindigenous men cutting a path through thick vegetation, there is a man to the front of the image looking towards the camera.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79874
title: Sunday school group, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Sunday School Mihecani, Lomweland. Children high up against mango bushes". Exterior view showing a very large group of children posed for a portrait, amongst fruit trees. There are adults and older children to either side of the group and a couple of Europeans to the left of the image. ❧ Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because it was financially supported by the Sunday Schools of Scotland. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79951
title: Village scene, Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Views of Zanzibar." Village scape showing thatched dwellings and an indigenous woman and girl carrying trays on their heads.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79950
title: Pathway on Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Views of Zanzibar." Landscape showing a path through dense vegetation. 
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79946
title: Three indigenous men, Purulyia, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Ahobi Dresser Biru." Group portrait of three indigenous men, probably Santals from Purulia. This is probably at Purulia which was situated in the Santalia mission field in the Manbhoom district. The station at Purulia was established by the Gossner Mission Society of Berlin.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79800
title: Train on the Uganda railway, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Uganda railway train". Exterior view of railroad cars with large piles of timber to the left of the image. There are people sitting on the timber and next to the train all looking towards the camera.The Uganda Railway was built between 1896 and 1931; it extended from Mombasa, Kenya to Kampala, Uganda. It was built by the British Government using Sikh labourers brought over from India.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79791
title: Group portrait in jungle, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Kikuyu Jungle". Exterior view showing one European and two indigenous men standing among the trees in a jungle.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79944
title: Pilgrim doing penance, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Hindoo doing penance by measuring the ground with his body going to the Ganges." Scene of a pilgrim lying on the ground with people standing nearby. This is probably at Purulia which was situated in the Santalia mission field in the Manbhoom district. The station at Purulia was established by the Gossner Mission Society of Berlin.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79948
title: Road on Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Views of Zanzibar." Landscape view showing a pathway running through dense undergrowth and a gated entry on the left. 
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79729
title: Graveyard, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "Not far from the centre of the Mission is to be seen a small graveyard in which four of the Mission Staff have been buried within a period of eleven years." Landscape view of graveyard. Wreaths can be seen on one grave in the foreground. ❧ "This Lecture was prepared by Dr J.W. Arthur in October 1911 on his voyage to Mombasa. The set of slides is the gift to the Kikuyu Mission of the Young Peoples Meeting at the Burgh Hall, Hillhead, of which he was for many years a member." A green folder marked 'Kikuyu' and containing lecture notes and relevant photographs to accompany lantern slides.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79795
title: Wood carriers, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Kikuyu women carrying burdens of wood". Group portrait of indigenous women carrying bundles of wood using head straps. The women are lined up along the side of a path and some of them are carrying children.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79961
title: Mother and child, Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Kasaja with his mother." Portrait of a small boy with his mother. This was taken during a stop-over in Zanzibar en route to British East Africa. 
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman, son of Dr Henry Uffman of the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission in Kenya, from 1901 to 1905.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79973
title: Mr McClellan and Mr Paterson, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Mr. McClellan, Gov. Dist. Collector, Mr. Paterson, Mission gardener." Portrait of two men sitting outside pitched tents. Mr John Paterson joined the original group of missionaries at Kibwezi in 1893 as their Agriculturalist. He continued the job when the mission moved to Kikuyu in 1898 and took on responsibility for the industrial training after the death of Thomas Watson in 1900. He left the mission in 1904 and became a planter at Chania Falls, Thika. The mission was transferred into the care of the Church of Scotland, 1901, which placed Dr David C R Scott and Dr Uffman in charge.
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman, son of Dr Henry Uffman of the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission from 1901 to 1905.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80600
title: Mission evangelists, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1930

description: “A group of evangelists & others from left no’s, 4, & 8 are deacons & specially suffered during the conflict over the ‘irua’ [circumcision] & political opposition to the church.” Group portrait of indigenous mission staff relaxing. The CSM and CMS opposition to female circumcision was one of the issues that the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA) used in its political campaign against the missions. ❧ 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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79965
title: Men outside wooden house structure, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "[Haus?] Mr Grieve".  Two men with guns stand outside an enclosed wooden house under construction. On the left is Mr Biuks, whose house is being built, and on the right is possibly Mr Greig the mission engineer with the original expedition of 1891.  
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman, son of Dr Henry Uffman of the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission in Kenya, from 1901 to 1905.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79957
title: Market scene, Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Market scene." Street scene taken from above showing a market in Zanzibar, there are a large number of people in the centre of the image with traders selling fruits and vegetables. 
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79949
title: Road on Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Views of Zanzibar." Landscape view of a road on Zanzibar Island through thick vegetation. 
This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.