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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80239
title: Mulanje Church interior, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "M'Lange and District. Interior of M'Lange Church." View of church interior looking towards pulpit. The M’Lange [Mulanje] mission was established by Rev. Robert Clement Scott at Linje in 1891, after initial delays due to tribal tensions in the area. The original missionary drive in Mulanje, Nyasaland [Malawi] had been spearheaded by Robert Cleland and the church was opened in 1899 as the 'Cleland Memorial Chapel' in his memory. The pulpit, font and seats were all made at the Mission from cedar and mahogany from Mount Mlanje.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80458
title: Dining Hall, University of Fort Hare, South Africa, ca.1938

description: “Dining Hall, Fort Hare.” Exterior view of a building with Sandile’s Kop behind. James Stewart (1831-1905) had envisioned the Lovedale Institute developing into a national indigenous university and in 1916 the college was opened, by General Louis Botha (1862-1919), at Fort Hare, next to Lovedale. The college and Institute were kept as separate educational facilities and the first Principal of the college was Alexander Kerr (1885-1970). ❧ The Incehra mission, in the Eastern Cape, was renamed Lovedale ,1826, in memory of Dr John Love (1757-1825) and was later resituated on the Tyumie River in 1837. The mission ministered to the Xhosa speaking people and the mission became famous for its educational endeavours.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80219
title: Distant view of African village, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Distant view of African village." View of thatched roofs and scrub surrounding village dwellings. Part of an album of photographs relating to the mission at Blantyre, which was established in 1876 in the Shire Highlands of Southern Nyasaland [Malawi] by Henry Henderson (1843-1891). The mission excelled in medical and education provision and encouraged the commercialisation of the area through opening trade routes and the cultivation of tobacco, and other cash crops.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80460
title: Accommodation, University of Fort Hare, South Africa, ca.1938

description: “Presbyterian Hostel, Fort Hare.” Exterior view of the college accommodation with some students gathered outside. The South African Native College was organised on the principles laid out by James Stewart (1831-1905) with the college a pan-denominational centre, the hostel accommodation was provide by the church of each denomination. ❧ The Incehra mission, in the Eastern Cape, was renamed Lovedale ,1826, in memory of Dr John Love (1757-1825) and was later resituated on the Tyumie River in 1837. The mission ministered to the Xhosa speaking people and the mission became famous for its educational endeavours.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5879636
title: Plicofollis nella decontaminated FSCR

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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80162
title: Convener and elders of Blantyre Parish, Malawi, November 1926

description: "Elders of Blantyre Parish, addressed by the Convener, November 1926." Group portrait of elders of Blantyre Parish, Nyasaland [Malawi]. Blantyre Mission was established in 1876 in the Shire Highlands of Southern Nyasaland [Malawi] by Henry Henderson (1843-1891) and from here other mission stations were established at Zomba, Domasi, Chirazulu and Mlanje.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80066
title: Boy carrying a chicken in a woven cage, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Boy bringing fowl to buy a book." Portrait of a young boy holding a woven cage, containing a chicken, in his right hand. The boy is standing facing to the right of the camera with a bush behind him.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5879635
title: Plicofollis nella decontaminated FSCR

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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80248
title: Group of African Mission Workers, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Native Heads of Department. Four typical Mission workers. Teacher. Gardener. Carpenter. Superintendent." Group portrait of indigenous mission workers. Part of an album of photographs relating to Scottish mission work in and around Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80038
title: Manse and house, Zomba, Malawi, 1904

description: "The Zomba Manse with Bruce House (gable). The Bruce House has the gable in front." Exterior view showing the manse and Bruce house at Zomba, the land in front of the houses has been cultivated. There are mountains in the background and the roof of a further dwelling can be seen in the trees to the left of the image. Rev. Dr Henry E Scott was the head of the Zomba mission before being appointed to Kikuyu after the death of Dr. David Scott.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80246
title: Native Christian's house, Chiole, Malawi, ca.1927

description: "Native Christian's house, Chiole." Exterior view of a house with a thatched roof and several Africans gathered outside. Part of a group of photographs of Chiole, taken from an album relating to Scottish mission work in Nyasaland [Malawi].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80245
title: Chiole Church, Malawi, 1927

description: "Chiole Church (Service, Sunday, Nov. 21)." Group portrait of a congregation gathered outside a church. Part of a group of photographs of the church at Chiole, taken from an album relating to Scottish mission work in Nyasaland [Malawi].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80231
title: Dispensary assistants, Domasi, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Interior of Dispensary. Two Native Assistants (Girls)." Portrait of two trained female assistants in white uniforms. Assistants such as these were taught to perform basic medical care, such as bandaging and dressing wounds. During epidemics vaccination work would be undertaken. The Domasi Mission was founded by Rev. Alexander Hetherwick in 1884. The mission was central to medical work in the area, and trained girls in industrial and domestic work.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80334
title: Young boy and girl, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1905

description: “Mafarino and Elizabeth.” Portrait of two indigenous children associated with the Livingstonia mission. 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-c123-80216
title: Carrying goods to market, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Baskets for carrying fowls." Portrait of a young man with a long pole with a cage attached to either end supported on his shoulder. Part of an album of photographs relating to the mission at Blantyre, which was established in 1876 in the Shire Highlands of Southern Nyasaland [Malawi] by Henry Henderson (1843-1891). The mission excelled in medical and education provision and encouraged the commercialisation of the area through opening trade routes and the cultivation of tobacco, and other cash crops.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80244
title: Church congregation, Malawi, 1927

description: "Congregation gathered for service at [ ] Sunday, Nov. 21, 1927." Outdoor group portrait of worshippers waiting for a church service to begin. Part of a group of photographs relating to the church at Chiole, Nyasaland [Malawi], this image is posed in front of what is probably the church building.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80043
title: Boys and Mission tent, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Mission Tent". Exterior view showing three boys standing next to a table and bench outside a large canvas tent, there is a grass roofed building to the left of the image.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80045
title: School group portrait, Mulanje, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Scholars attending above school". Group portrait of children from M'kandia's School. They are in two rows facing the camera, in front of a grass hut with forest and mountains in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80076
title: Cotton growing, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Boys among the cotton, Hospital Bdgs behind". Exterior view of people working a cotton field with the Blantyre hospital buildings in the background. There are roughly twenty-six boys in the field, all at some distance from the camera. The cotton plants are quite small and there are a few trees interspersed with the crop.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80150
title: Group portrait including Rev. D. C. Scott, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1893

description: "Mission group, Rev. D.C. Scott, Mrs Henderson, Mrs Hetherwick". Group portrait of mission staff, with Rev. D. C. Scott and two women seated at the front of the image a child is standing between the women. There are three women standing behind of which the one to the right of the image is supporting the child. David Clement Ruffelle Scott, (1853-1907) was born in Edinburgh. He attended school in Edinburgh then worked in an actuary's office before a calling to the church led him to study Arts and Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Scott was ordained in 1881 and immediately sent to be head of the Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre in Nyasaland [Malawi]. Scott was a brilliant linguist, he wrote the Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language (1892). Much of the periodical Life and Work in Central Africa between 1886 and 1898 was written by Scott. In 1895 his wife, brother-in-law and brother died in Malawi. He resigned in 1898. In 1901 he returned to Africa, to head the Kikuyu mission in British East Africa (Kenya) which had just been taken over by the Church of Scotland. The death of his second wife in 1902, a series of illnesses, and criticism of his methods of running the mission at Kikuyu marred the final years of his life. Scott died there on the 13th of October 1907.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80086
title: Fig tree, Blantyre Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Fig-tree Blantyre". Landscape view of trees and shrubs at Blantyre, in the centre of the image is a large mature fig tree. There is a large hill in the distance. 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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80440
title: Printing workshop, Lovedale, South Africa, ca.1938

description: “Type-setting, Lovedale Press.” Interior view of a workshop with a number of men working on setting the type for printing. ❧ The Incehra mission, in the Eastern Cape, was renamed Lovedale ,1826, in memory of Dr John Love (1757-1825) and was later resituated on the Tyumie River in 1837. The mission ministered to the Xhosa speaking people and the mission became famous for its educational endeavours.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80056
title: School cooks, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "School food-Women cooks". Portrait of two women leaning over a cooking pot of porridge. There are cooking pots and woven baskets behind them, against a building wall, and firewood to the back right of them. There is a woven basket to the front left of the image full of pats, or servings, of porridge. The women are using large wooden spoons to scoop out the porridge.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80085
title: Religious service, Mikolongo, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Village Service at Mikolongo". Group portrait of indigenous people seated on the ground in front of a large tree all facing the camera. In front of them is a small collapsible table with a book, most likely the Christian bible, on it. There is grassland behind the people. To the right of the image there are woven baskets and a Machila [a carrying hammock or litter] leaning against the tree. Mikolongo is situated West of Blantyre.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80041
title: School building, Mulanje, Malawi, ca.1904

description: "An Out-school, M'lange [Mulanje]". Exterior view of thatched school building on cleared ground with hills in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80080
title: Raised hut, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "House on piles because of wild beasts". Exterior view of a hut raised on stilts, accessed by a ladder. There are two men sitting in front of the hut and down on the ground there are two women working underneath the hut and a young boy sat in front of it facing the camera. The thatched hut is in a clearing with trees around it.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80028
title: Manse and Church, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Blantyre Manse & Church". "Blantyre Manse & Church". Exterior view of Blantyre manse with a road leading to the church in the distance. The manse is to the left of the image and there are two Europeans, Dr. Hetherwick and a woman standing on the veranda of the manse looking towards the camera, there appears to be an animal skin hanging from the veranda fencing in front of them. There is also a European woman seated on the wall of the steps up to the veranda. There is a large tree to the left of the steps and trees in front of the church. Blantyre was named after the birth place of David Livingstone, in South Lanarkshire, and is famous for the ornate church built by Clement Scott. According to Stewart of Lovedale it is, ‘probably the most striking native church in all central Africa, except the cathedral at Zanzibar’. The Blantyre mission excelled in medical and education provision and encouraged the commercialisation of the area through opening trade routes and the cultivation of tobacco, and other cash, crops. This was, in part, a response to the slave trade and missionaries believed that an end to this practice could only be achieved through the development of alternative trading patterns. Blantyre manse was built by David Clement Scott in 1883, replacing the old original manse but retaining its name 'Maganga', which means the ‘stone’ house.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80042
title: School children, Mulanje, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Children attending Out-school, with George". Exterior view showing school children and their teacher, George. The younger children are seated on the group at the front of the image with the older students behind, some of whom are holding writing slates and books.The school building is to the left of the image, and a hill leads off to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80129
title: Harvest festival thanksgiving, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Harvest Thanksgiving". Interior view of a church with a fruit and vegetable display at the front for a Christian thanksgiving festival, there are baskets filled with grains, bananas, corn, pineapples and other goods. The pulpit is to the right of the image and the chancel to the back.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80032
title: Ward, Blantyre hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Interior of large ward, Blantyre Hospital". Interior view of a hospital ward showing ten beds with patients and two attendants, dressed in white uniforms. There is a wooden table, with a hat upon it, and bench to the front right of the image.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80255
title: Construction workers, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Brickmaking. Moulder and Assistants." Group portrait of African workers, including young boys, making bricks using moulds. A brick tilery was first built in Blantyre in 1882, and work began training African men to become bricklayers. Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi] was an industrial mission which developed skills such as carpentry and bricklaying, and bricks were necessary to construct the many mission buildings, including the renowned St Michael and All Angels church.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80443
title: Brass band, Lovedale, South Africa, ca.1938

description: “Student band, Lovedale.” Group portrait of a brass band from the student population at Lovedale, they all wear a band uniform. ❧ The Incehra mission, in the Eastern Cape, was renamed Lovedale ,1826, in memory of Dr John Love (1757-1825) and was later resituated on the Tyumie River in 1837. The mission ministered to the Xhosa speaking people and the mission became famous for its educational endeavours.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80029
title: Dr. Hetherwick at his desk, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Dr. Hetherwick". Interior view with Rev. Dr. Alexander Hetherwick sitting at his desk, there is a typewriter on a small desk to his right and bookshelves surrounding him. Rev. Alexander Hetherwick (1860-1939) founded the Domasi mission in 1884. 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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80054
title: Young boy cooking outside, Malawi, ca.1910

description: ""Rats" again." Portrait of a young boy crouched facing the camera, with a small fire in front of him. There is a skewer of roast field mice cooking over the fire. Field mice are a common snack known as mbewa in Malawi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80030
title: Mr. Sabiston and his African golf caddie, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Mr. Sabiston & his caddie." Portrait of James Sabiston (1882-1938), ordained in 1927, from Orkney trained at the Church of Scotland Normal College in Aberdeen before going out to Blantyre, he served in R.N.V.R. in German East Africa in the First World War.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80100
title: Eland, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1910

description: "Eland (bull)." Portrait of a standing bull Eland in the savannah.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80279
title: Cattle Kraal, Lake Malawi, ca.1900

description: “Teacher’s House and Cattle Kraal at the Lake Shore.” Exterior view of cattle in an enclosure and a house in the background. The Livingstonia mission station was established by Robert Laws (1851-1934) in 1891and the main route to the site was from Lake Nyasa [Malawi] Port Stuart was the main landing site where people and supplies would land before being transported by porters, until the road was built, up to the plateau where Livingstonia was situated. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80103
title: Hunters and dead elephant, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1910

description: "Mr. Garden (planter) elephant shot by himself". Portrait of a European man sitting on the front leg of a dead elephant with his shotgun rested across his lap. There is an African man sitting on the elephants back leg, also with a shotgun across his lap.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80191
title: Men's Ward, Blantyre Hospital, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Men's Ward." Exterior view of men's ward at Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi]. The male ward had an operating theatre attached and was built in 1896 at a site separate from other mission buildings. Later two additional wards were built for men, including an isolation ward to contain the spread of epidemics such as typhoid.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80082
title: Water carriers, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Water carriers. Blantyre School". Two men facing to the right of the image with a long pole balanced between them on their left shoulders. There are two pails hanging from the pole. There is a large brick building in the background, and a hill in the far right distance.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80212
title: Mission Garden, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Blantyre Garden." View of garden surrounded with trees at Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi]. The garden was surveyed by Dr James Stewart, missionary and Principal of Lovedale college (1831-1905), and originally consisted of three long terraces laid out in a crescent shape on the slope leading down from the mission station to the sources of the Likubula River. As well as ornamental plants, the garden proved to be central to the development of economic crops in the region such as tea and coffee.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78661
title: Three story building, Asia, ca.1888-1929

description: Exterior view of a large modern building with balconies on upper floors giving access to a number of rooms. An open court yard has some plants growing in beds and a cow and calf are present. The shutters are open to the rooms on the right wing of the building. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80374
title: Main avenue, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Main avenue, looking north.” Exterior view of ox drawn carts on a road. 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. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80037
title: Church, Zomba, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Zomba Church (north)". Exterior view, showing the north side of Zomba church, the church is made of brick with a corrugated metal roof.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80369
title: Mr Hardie’s house, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Mr Hardie’s house while working on the Longmuir Road.” Landscape showing a small cottage on a steep hillside. The Longmuir Road [Gorodi Road] was named after a lady from Aberdeen who donated four thousand pounds towards its construction. The road was needed to transport equipment from Port Stewart to Livingstonia and rose two and a half thousand feet over eleven miles. The surveyor on the project was Mr F W Hardie and the road was built, by hand using hundreds of labourers, between 1901 and 1905. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80099
title: Genet, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Wildcat". Portrait of a Genet lying in a coffee plantation, probably a posed shot of a dead animal. Genets are mainly found in Africa and though similar in outward appearance to a cat are more closely related to Civets and Linsangs
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80079
title: Men and huts, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "a Hut". Exterior view showing two men next to a thatched hut, one is sitting in front of the hut with a woven basket in front of him and pots behind him. The other, who is younger, is standing with his arm resting on the roof of the hut; they are both looking at the camera. There is another hut to the left of the image. The huts are quite small with the roof providing shaded overhangs at both the front and back. There are hills and trees in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80147
title: Shire River Rapids, Malope, Malawi, ca.1904

description: "Shire R. rapids below Malope". Landscape view showing the rapids of the Shire river, which small islands and rocks midstream and thick vegetation surrounding.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80039
title: Brickworks, Mulanje, Malawi, ca.1904

description: "The Brickfield, M'lange [Mulanje]". Exterior view of Mr H. D. Herd, teacher at Blantyre, and indigenous men and youths in an open-air brickworks.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80101
title: Male Bushbuck, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1910

description: "Bush buck". Portrait of a seated male bushbuck with small trees and scrub land behind.Probaly a posed dead animal showing an example of game.