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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80542
title: Football teams, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1925

description: “Football is a great draw and most useful for attracting young men and also giving them the spirit of good humour & sportsmanship. Kneeling, the Chogoria team that drew with the local police at Embu.” Group portrait of two teams of football players. Sports were used by the mission at a way to encourage participation in the church. ❧ 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-c123-80338
title: Class portrait, Overtoun Institution, Malawi, ca.1900

description: “Girls at Institution.” Group portrait of indigenous girls in uniform. Mrs Margaret Laws and Miss Lizzie Stewart taught the girls at the Overtoun Institution which was named after John Campbell White, Baron of Overtoun (1843-1908) a Convener of the Livingstonia Mission and a major financial contributor. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80473
title: Group portrait, Murray College, Sialkot, 1950

description: “Murray College staff and the F M C Delegation, November, 20th 1950. ❧ Standing L to R:- Prof T S Datta; Prof M Naseer; Rev J N MacDougall; Mr D S Dean (Office Supdt.); Prof A A Sair; Prof V A Daas; Prof A Mawat; Prof R w Mathur. ❧ Sitting L to R:- Prof A Latif; Prof R C Thomas; Rev J C Kent (Delegation) FMC; Prof C W Tressler, Acting Principal; Dr Dougall (Delegation) WFMC; Rev F Ryrie, Commissioner (Church of Scotland for India Pakistan).” Group portrait of the staff of Murray College, named after Captain Murray and founded in 1909.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80485
title: Bush school, Meru district, Kenya, ca.1925

description: “The outside of an outschool.” Exterior view of a whitewashed wattle and mud building with a class and teacher standing outside. There were numerous out schools centred around Chogoria which were run by indigenous teachers with Dr Irvine acting as a supervisor and examiner. ❧ 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-c123-80388
title: Dawn, Southern Africa, ca.1920

description: "Sunrise. S. Africa; Sunrise on the 'Hogs back' ; Alice E.P." Landscape showing the sun rising between two hill ranges. The image is part of a collection associated with Livingstonia in Nyasaland [Malawi].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80389
title: Church at Ekwendeni, Malawi, ca.1920

description: "Birds-eye’ view of Ekwendeni church and school." Exterior view of a substantial church building. Ekwendeni was established in 1889 with Peter McCallum and his wife as the first resident missionaries. It was situated in what was Angoniland, now the Mzimba district, and is twelve miles from Mzuzu. The mission administered to the Ngoni and Tumbuka tribes and had an important role in the region. The church was designed and built by the Rev Charles Stuart (1867-1950) who served in the Livingstonia mission from 1888-1933, mainly in Ekwendeni. He married Margaret McCallum (d.1938) in 1901 and spent his military service in East Africa. ❧ The Livingstonia mission field was established by Lieutenant E D Young and Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) in 1875, as a tribute to David Livingstone. The field covered an area from the western shore of Lake Nyasa into Northern Rhodesia [Zambia] and the original station at Cape Maclear moved to Bandawe in 1881.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80492
title: Geoffrey Irvine, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “Geoffrey aged 5” Portrait of a boy standing next to a river. Geoffrey Christopher Irvine was born at the Chogoria mission in November 1923, the son of Archibald Clive Irvine and Margaret Joyce Irvine (nee Carr). ❧ 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-c123-80551
title: Teacher’s home, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1926

description: “One of our outschool teachers who took a great pride in the beauty of his school & home.” Exterior view looking up a path at a couple standing in front of a small house with a thatched roof. The early out school teachers were sent out from Kikuyu or Tumutumu until Chogoria was able to start training teachers from the Mwimbi population. ❧ 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-c123-80605
title: Church of Scotland medical staff, Tumutumu, Kenya, 1929

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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80397
title: Tombstone from stone quarried at Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1913

description: "Monumental work, Livingstonia: work of Nyasaland native stonecutters, Overtoun Inst. Livingstonia (memorial to D. R. [Dutch Reformed] Church missionary) Mvera, S. Nyasa." The memorial stone is in the name of Adriaan Louw Hofmeyr 1873-1913 and has been carved at the Livingstonia workshop with the stone coming from a nearby quarry. ❧ The Livingstonia mission station was established in 1891 by Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) when he travelled north from Bandawe to set up a Training Institution and Industrial Mission. It was situated four miles from Lake Nyasa at Khondowe on a high plateau behind Mount Waller. As well as the school, hospital and accommodation, there were workshops for carpentry, printing and engineering, and mills, brickworks and a pottery. The Overtoun Institution was named after John Campbell White, Baron of Overtoun (1843-1908) who was a Convener of the Livingstonia Mission and a major financial contributor. The purpose of the instruction was to provide Christian leaders for the expanding mission and to develop commercial activities and encourage trade.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80395
title: Hunting trophy, Henga valley, Malawi, ca.1920

description: "Warthog." Exterior view showing the carcass of a warthog after it has been shot. ❧ The Henga valley is fed by the South Rukuru River and situated in Northern Nyasaland [Malawi]. It was described as; ‘the favourite resort of game and beasts of prey’ and was a fertile environment, changes in agricultural practices were developed in the early twentieth century. Livingstonia was situated close by and a number of attempts were made to introduce cash crops with varying degrees of success. Henga means ‘chief’ in some Bantu languages.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80511
title: Mission children, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1929

description: “Ken, Geoff, Tony.[L to R]” Group portrait of the Irvine brothers playing with boats at a water channel in the grounds of the Chogoria mission. ❧ 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-c123-81838
title: Military hospital, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, 1918

description: “the hospital.” Landscape view of numerous thatch huts around a compound with a flagpole. Capt. Irvine spent time at the hospital as a patient. ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During the war he met with missionaries in East Africa which in turn lead to him joining the mission at Tumutumu and then establishing the mission at Chogoria, both in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80604
title: Church of Scotland medical staff, Tumutumu, Kenya, 1929

description: “The medical staff CSM Kenya. Backrow; A.C.I [Archibald Clive Irvine], Hon Dr Maclay, Dr Gillan. Lower row; Dr Philp, Miss Macmurtrie, 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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80534
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 far right side of the original photograph.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80615
title: Young man from Chuka-Mwimbi district, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: Portrait of a young man wearing traditional sheep stomach hat with the hair tied into a bun at the back and showing scarification designs on the arm. He was a workman at Chogoria and probably of the Mwimbi people who lived on the lands to the east of Mount Kenya. ❧ 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-c123-81771
title: Patrol leaving, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, April 1918

description: “K.A.R. going out on patrol.” Landscape view showing soldiers marching out of camp in columns. The soldiers are men of the 4/4 King’s African Rifles, probably at the camp at Ancuabe. ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During the war he met with missionaries in East Africa which in turn lead to him joining the mission at Tumutumu and then establishing the mission at Chogoria, both in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80524
title: Class for older women, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “Miss Isa Brown & the old women class. Women & Children’s work.” Group portrait of women sitting outside each with a bowl, as a mission worker stands behind. Miss Brown was responsible for women’s education for a short period before the arrival of Miss Malcolm in 1928. ❧ 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-c123-80512
title: Mission children, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1929

description: “Geoff, Ken.” Portrait of two boys playing with boats at a water channel. Geoffrey Christopher Irvine was born at Chogoria in November 1923 and Kenneth David Irvine was born at Chogoria in June 1925. ❧ 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-c123-80529
title: Brick works, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “Ornamentals [bricks] at the kiln. The church building. Foundation stone laid Aug. 8 1928, by Mrs Carr. Opened Jan. 17th 1930 by Rev R.G.M. Calderwood and native ministers from Kikuyu and Tumutumu.” Exterior view of the brick works showing various designs of ornamental bricks in large piles. The carpenter, Ayubu, discovered clay near Chogoria and a brick plant was set up using hydroelectric power. The new church was constructed from brick and replaced the old wattle and mud building that had deteriorated due to white ants and weather. ❧ 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-c123-80601
title: Wedding couple, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “First marriage in new church, Nafutali M’muga and Mukwamigo.” Group portrait of a wedding party standing at the main entrance to the new brick built church at Chogoria which was designed by Dr Irvine. ❧ 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-c123-80599
title: Communion table, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “The communion table & chairs.” Interior of the new church showing ornate wooden table and three chairs. The new church was designed by Dr Irvine and built of brick manufactured at the mission’s own brick works. It was opened on 17 January 1930. ❧ 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-c123-80595
title: Drug preparation, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1929

description: “Making up drugs. Hospital, leper work.” Portrait of a hospital orderly preparing drugs for the leper dispensary. ❧ 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-c123-80528
title: Brick works, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “Hollow bricks being made. The church building. Foundation stone laid Aug. 8 1928, by Mrs Carr. Opened Jan. 17th 1930 by Rev R.G.M. Calderwood and native ministers from Kikuyu and Tumutumu.” Exterior view showing Dr Irvine and brickmakers at a table with clay and brick moulds. The carpenter, Ayubu, discovered clay near Chogoria and a brick plant was set up using hydroelectric power. The new church was constructed from brick and replaced the old wattle and mud building that had deteriorated due to white ants and weather. ❧ 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-c123-80591
title: Leper dispensary, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1929

description: “The leper dispensary. Hospital, leper work.” Exterior view of a small brick building with Dr Irvine and several patients standing outside. ❧ 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-c123-80467
title: Ceremony at paddle steamer, Africa, ca.1890

description: Exterior view of a group of people gathered on and around a shallow hulled rear paddle steamer that sits on wooden blocks on land. ‘Zambesi River is stamped onto various parts of the boat.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80310
title: Big game trophy, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “A buffalo head.” Portrait of a dismembered buffalo head. The Henga Valley is situated in Northern Malawi and was a favourite resort for big game hunting. Close to Livingstonia many missionaries hunted in the area. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80477
title: Port town (unknown), France, ca.1900-1929

description: Townscape showing the rooftops of the buildings and the old town built upon higher ground, a twin steepled church towers above everything else. ❧ This is one of a series of photographs contained in an album showing popular tourist attractions in India, the album was owned by an unknown Church of Scotland missionary who had probably toured whilst working out in the region. Unfortunately there is very little information with the photographs as to there ownership.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80313
title: Preparing logs for carpentry, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Adging logs.” Exterior view of logs, lying on the ground, with the bark stripped off. ❧ Livingstonia mission station was established in 1891 by Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) when he travelled north from Bandawe to set up a Training Institution and Industrial Mission. It was situated four miles from Lake Nyasa at Khondowe. As well as the school, hospital and accommodation, there were workshops for carpentry, printing and engineering, and mills, brickworks and a pottery. The Overtoun Institution was named after John Campbell White, Baron of Overtoun (1843-1908) who was a Convener of the Livingstonia Mission and a major financial contributor. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80622
title: Controlling locusts, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1930

description: “Locust ‘swalting’.” Landscape view showing numerous individuals smoking out locust. There were plagues of desert locust arriving annually in the region until the Desert Locust Control Service managed to control the breeding grounds, in the Arabian peninsula, in the late 1940’s. ❧ 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-c123-80602
title: On a mission safari, Eastern Provence, Kenya, 1929

description: “The first of the monthly safari’s to the NE corner of the district. M’ragwa the local chief seen on my left. December, 1929.” Group portrait of Dr Irvine and mission staff sitting at a campsite at one of the villages in the Chuka- Mwimbi district. ❧ 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-c123-81786
title: Lurio River, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, June 1918

description: “The Lurio River, P.E.A.” Landscape view showing cattle swimming over the wide expanse of the Lurio River. Capt. Irvine was with a column of the 4/4 KAR and the Nigerian Brigade when they crossed the Lurio River ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During the war he met with missionaries in East Africa which in turn lead to him joining the mission at Tumutumu and then establishing the mission at Chogoria, both in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80521
title: Amputees at Chogoria Hospital, Kenya, 1928

description: “Murethi & Kangangi – amputation cases, in 1928. Now (1930) our sewing boys. Hospital.” Portrait of two men sitting on a bed outside the main hospital at Chogoria. ❧ 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-c123-80598
title: Church interior, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “Interior (by electric light).” Interior view of the new church looking down the central passage to the chancel. The new church was built of brick, manufactured at the mission’s own brick works, and designed by Dr Irvine. It open on 17 January 1930. ❧ 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-c123-80522
title: Tuberculosis ward, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “New T.B. ward. Hospital.” Exterior view of a small wooden building with ventilation lattice work around the upper walls. Built in 1928 the T.B. ward was one of three isolation wards, the others being for lepers and yaws patients. ❧ 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-c123-80613
title: Congregation of Chogoria Church, Kenya, August 1930

description: “The Communicants in August 1930.” Group portrait of the Chogoria congregation outside the new church. ❧ 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-c123-80523
title: Orderlies recovering a body, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “Salvaging a dead man out of a river, to prevent water being fouled. No pagans would touch him, of course. Hospital.” Exterior view showing Dr Irvine and three orderlies pulling a body from a river onto a rock bank. ❧ 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-c123-80525
title: Congregation outside the church, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “Waiting for church. Women & Children’s work.” Landscape view showing a large group of women and children sitting on the lawn in front of the original mud and wattle church built at Chogoria. ❧ 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-c123-80531
title: Construction of the church, Chogoria, Kenya, April 1929

description: “April 1929. Chancel window panes being fixed in. The church building. Foundation stone laid Aug. 8 1928, by Mrs Carr. Opened Jan. 17th 1930 by Rev R.G.M. Calderwood and native ministers from Kikuyu and Tumutumu.” Exterior view showing Dr Irvine placing in a window during the construction of the chancel. The new church was designed and built by Dr Irvine, the chancel contained seven gothic windows with blue and grey leaded lights. ❧ 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-c123-80608
title: Deacons, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “Deacon’s Court.” Group portrait of Rev Solomon Ndambi, Dr Irvine and the seven deacons on the stairs leading to the new church. The Deacon’s Court met one Saturday morning a month, the members being Filipo, Musa, Maina, Gerishom, Willie, Jonathan and Ayubu. ❧ 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.