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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80177
title: Kikuyu women and children, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Kikuyu women." Group portrait of four women, a child and two babies. The women are in traditional dress and the babies are being carried in the mothers clothing. They are situated 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-c123-80612
title: Prayer room of the new church, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “A class in the prayer room.” Interior view of the new church showing Dr Irvine and a congregation in the prayer room on the North side of the chancel in the new church. The building was constructed from bricks made and fired 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-c123-79792
title: Dr Scott and foundations of mission church, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Dr. Scott & church foundations". Portrait of Dr. Henry Edwin Scott standing on the construction of the foundations of the mission church at Kikuyu, there are two workers to the left of the image and some to the right. Educated in Edinburgh, Dr. Scott became head of the Zomba mission then was appointed to Kikuyu after the death of Dr. David Scott, he died there on the 11th April 1911. He instituted a Y.M.C.A. He married Isabelle Govan on the 13th October 1892 at Domasi. The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a temporary site by the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1891, before moving to Kikuyu territory in 1898, under the Rev. Thomas Watson. Located on the ‘lower shamba’, the site stands 12 miles from Nairobi, at a distance of approximately 342 miles away from the coast. The Church of Scotland assumed control of the Mission in 1901.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79981
title: Farmer and crops, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Native Shamba at Kikuyu." Exterior view showing an indigenous man standing in a field of crops in the vicinity of 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-c123-79984
title: Landscape, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Landscape Kikuyu." Landscape view of a gully 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-c123-80479
title: Mission and the Military, Punjab, Pakistan, ca.1890

description: Group portrait of officers in the British Army with wives and mission workers, a couple of children are also present. Behind the group can be seen a one storey building with the sign; ‘Soldiers Prayer Room’. Standing second from the end, middle left, is Dr Youngson (1852-1920) who was ordained to the Punjab in 1875 and was based in Jammu. Youngsonabad, a village in the Nankana Sahib District of Pakistan, was founded in 1898 and is named in his honour. In 1905 he was the Moderator of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church, India, and he retired in 1907. He returned to India after his retirement and worked there till his death in 1920.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79966
title: Portrait of two European men, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Mr Ainsworth Gov. Official and German". Portrait of two men sitting at the entrance to a wattle building, both have glasses in their hands. On the left is John Ainsworth (1864-1946) the colonial administrator who became the Chief Native Commissioner in 1918. The man on the right is possibly Dr Uffman. The Kikuyu mission was established in 1898 by Thomas Watson, the Church of Scotland took on responsibility for the mission after his death in 1901.
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-c123-79969
title: Government officials at Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Government Police Station Kikuyu." Exterior view of several large tents with an official and two askaris standing on the left. This is probably accommodation and offices set up during a visit by government officials, notably Mr John Ainsworth (1864-1946) the colonial administrator, and askari troops. The Church of Scotland took on responsibility for the Kikuyu mission in 1901 and sent out Dr David C R Scott, to head the mission, and Dr Uffman as the medical missionary.
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-c123-79799
title: Timber workers and contractor, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Wood contractor with his men. Uganda Ry[Railway]." Group portrait showing a timber contractor and his men surrounded by piles of timber.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-c123-79793
title: Stone cutting, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Mission workers Kikuyu, dressing stones for church". Exterior view showing indigenous men sitting on the ground, cutting or dressing stone.The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a temporary site by the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1891, before moving to Kikuyu territory in 1898, under the Rev. Thomas Watson. Located on the ‘lower shamba’, the site stands 12 miles from Nairobi, at a distance of approximately 342 miles away from the coast. The Church of Scotland assumed control of the Mission in 1901.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79971
title: Temporary government camp, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca. 1901

description: "Camp of Govt. official." Exterior view of pitched tents around which gather members of a government force. The men in uniform are askari employed by the government. On the centre left is Mr McClellan, the government district collector, and on the right is Mr John Paterson, the mission agriculturalist who had managed the mission, with Mrs Watson, after her husband’s death in 1900. Dr DCR Scott and Dr Uffman were sent out, by the Church of Scotland in 1901, to take on  the running of the mission.
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-c123-80527
title: Leaving on safari, Chogoria, Kenya, 1928

description: “Going out to preach & treat sick.” Group portrait of orderlies, teachers and porters preparing to leave on an out station safari. On these trips dispensaries would be set up, school work assessed and religious services performed. ❧ 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-c123-79785
title: Kikuyu women and children, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Kikuyu women." Group portrait of four women, a child and a baby, in traditional dress, 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-c123-79929
title: Tree-lined avenue, Purulia, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Avenue in front of Purulia Mission House". Exterior view of a tree-lined road in front of the Purulia mission house, 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-c123-79858
title: Childrens' Mission, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "The Children's Mission, Mihecani, Portuguese East Africa". Panoramic view of the mission and surrounding buildings, showing tree lined road to mission and mountains in the distance. 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-c123-79982
title: Landscape, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Landscape, Kikuyu." Landscape view showing animals grazing on a flat plain in the vicinity of 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-c123-80003
title: Mother and child inside hut, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Home in heathenism". Interior view showing a mother seated on the ground with a young child on her lap. The woman has multiple metal bracelets around both her ankles. The image is part of a collection associated with the mission at Mihecani, Lomweland, in Portuguese East Africa. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80325
title: Tug of war, Livingstonia, Malawi, 1900

description: “Tug of War.” Exterior view of two teams competing in the Livingstonia New Year sports day. 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. 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-c123-79975
title: Captain Breading, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Capt. Breading." Portrait of Captain Breading, a government official, standing outside a tent. Captain Breading was possibly deployed at Fort Smith, a government station a few miles from the Kikuyu mission station. The mission had moved here from Kibwezi in 1898 under the leadership of Thomas Watson. 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-c123-79976
title: Margery and Isobel Scott with Mr Paterson, Kikuyu, Kenya ca.1901

description: "Mr. Paterson, Margery, Isobel." Portrait of two young women and a man by a small stream. Margery and Isobel Scott are the daughters of David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1853-1907) and Isobel Bowie (d.1895) who married in Edinburgh in 1881. When the Church of Scotland took on responsibility for the mission in 1901 the Rev. Scott arrived, to head the mission, with his two daughters and second wife Edith Ruffelle (d.1902). 
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. 
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-c123-79689
title: Brewing beer, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Herman - Kikuyu women making native beer of sugarcane." Group portrait of women pounding sugarcane in a log mortar with long wood pestles. A European man, possibly Dr Uffman, stands 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-c123-79983
title: Landscape, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Landscape Kikuyu." Landscape view showing a hillside and gully 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-c123-80010
title: Sewing teacher and class, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Luisa's sewing class. Mrs Osborn[e]". Group portrait of a class and teacher seated outside a brick building. Mrs Osborne is the wife of Mr H. E. Osborne of the Nyasaland Field Force. 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-c123-79923
title: Wooden cottage, Nethy Bridge, Scotland, ca.1900

description: "Nethy Bridge Scotland. Cottage where a policeman was murdered. Camped a few hundred yards away from it." Landscape view of a small pond, with trees and shrubs around it. In the middle of the image, on the other side of the pond, is a dilapidated wooden cottage and outhouse. There are two children sitting in front of the cottage. The police constable was Thomas King killed by a poacher called Allan Macallum, whose cottage it was, on the 20th of December 1898. This collection of photographs, possibly, belonged to Dr Karl Uffman who studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission from 1901 to 1905. He was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79848
title: Domasi, Malawi, ca.1925

description: "Domasi". Exterior view looking down on Domasi with grassland and trees in the foreground. People can be seen in the central square with brick buildings surrounding. The Domasi Mission was founded in 1884 by Rev. Alexander Hetherwick (1860-1939). It is one of a number of important missions, extending from Blantyre, in Southern Malawi and takes its name from the largest river that flows into Lake Shirwa [Chilwa] on the western shore. It is situated north of Blantyre near Mount Zomba. The station was central to the medical work in the area, and trained girls in industrial and domestic work. Mr Hetherwick was an accomplished linguist and translated the New Testament in to the Yao language and wrote manuals on the Yao and Nyanja languages. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80175
title: Waterfall, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Waterfall, Kikuyu." Exterior view showing a small waterfall and pool 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-c123-79979
title: Double exposure of Masai warriors, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Freak of Printing." Portrait of three Masai warriors where the print has been double exposed. The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Kikuyu mission station, probably by Dr Karl Uffman. He had been sent, with Dr David C R Scott, to run the mission when it came under the care of the Church of Scotland in 1901.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80327
title: Running competition, Livingstonia, Malawi, 1900

description: “Boys’ flat race.” Exterior view of boys competing in a race during the traditional New Year sports day. 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. 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-c123-79688
title: Landscape around Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Kikuyu landscape." Landscape view of scrubland with hills in the distance and a path on the left. This is situated 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-c123-79980
title: Masai warriors, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Masai warriors." Group portrait of three Masai warriors on a grassy plain in the vicinity of 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-c123-79691
title: Woman and child, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Kikuyu mother & child". Portrait of a mother holding her young child. The mother, wearing traditional dress, is smiling at the child and the child, who is naked apart from jewellery, is looking towards the camera. There is a hut in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79977
title: Fort Smith, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Gov. Fort, Kikuyu." Exterior view of a camp with a number of tents, and huts in a fenced area. This is Fort Smith, a government station a few miles from the Kikuyu mission station. The mission had moved here from Kibwezi in 1898 under the leadership of Thomas Watson. 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-c123-80176
title: Mission Compound, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Mission Compound, Kikuyu." Exterior view showing a fenced area with earth mounds, part of the Kikuyu mission in the Thogoto district.
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-c123-80345
title: School girls, Overtoun Institution, Malawi, ca.1898

description: “Girls at Institution.” Portrait of schoolgirls outside sitting on a mat. 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-c123-79860
title: Missionary school girls' boarding house, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "The Children's Mission, Mihecani, Portuguese East Africa", "Girls' boarding house." Exterior view showing two rows of children lined up in a courtyard area, outside a right-angled brick building, facing an open sided veranda area. 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-c123-79690
title: Masai kraal and occupants, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Masais & Kraal." Group portrait of Masai adults and children inside a kraal made from wattle and mud, brushwood has been placed along the outer wall. The kraal is situated 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-c123-79686
title: Plantation workers, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Kikuyu plantation workers." Landscape view of agricultural fields with indigenous men working at the Kikuyu mission shamba.
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.