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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79638
title: Young Girl, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: Kikuyu Types, Young Girl". Portrait of a young girl wearing traditional dress including customary piercings and decorations. 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. The mission church was built as a memorial to Dr Ruffelle Scott who originally began the building of a mission church as a memorial to the Reverend Thomas Watson, who died in 1900. In April of the same year, the first day-school was opened for children ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79896
title: Waterfall, Anatom, Vanuatu, ca.1899

description: “Waterfall, Aneityum, 50-60 ft high 1st visited by white man 1895, by Dr Gunn 1899.” Landscape view of a waterfall on Aneityum [Anatom]
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79592
title: Communicants, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: Communicants, Sunday 15th August 1926. [pictured left to right] Rev Mr Stevenson, Rev Dr Arthur." Group portrait of people receiving communion from Rev John William Arthur, the medical missionary who was appointed to Kikuyu in 1915. He campaigned for educational rights for Africans, against female circumcision and he established the Kikuyu Mission volunteer carrier corps during the First World War. 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.The mission church was built as a memorial to Dr Ruffelle Scott who originally began the building of a mission church as a memorial to the Reverend Thomas Watson, who died in 1900. In April of the same year, the first day-school was opened for children. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79641
title: Young men, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: The Young Initiates, Lads." Group portrait of young men wearing traditional dress. 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. The mission church was built as a memorial to Dr Ruffelle Scott who originally began the building of a mission church as a memorial to the Reverend Thomas Watson, who died in 1900. In April of the same year, the first day-school was opened for children. By March 1926, The Alliance High School for older boys was established, principled by Mr G.A. Grieve. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79930
title: Mission house, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Purulia Mission House". Exterior view of the mission house at Purulia. 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 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-c123-79476
title: Missionary ship en route to Vanuatu, South Pacific, ca.1890

description: “’Dayspring’ - the missionary ship of 160 tons. Loaded up and ready to start to settle four missionaries in the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] Islands. Captain Braithwaite in front; his wife on the left; bananas on the right. Mr. Paton has raised £9000 to buy a steamer. Calms constitute the great difficulty of New Hebrides sailing. Two former vessels were lost in calms.” ❧ Exterior view of the deck of the ship. John Gibson Paton (1824-1907), mentioned, was ordained in 1858. He and his wife, Mary Ann Robson (1840-1859), arrived at Aneityum [Anatom] on 30 August 1858. When he and his followers were forced to flea the island of Tanna in 1862, Paton was sent to the Australian colonies to promote the Presbyterian cause and to raise funds for a mission vessel. He raised interest and revenue by allowing Sunday-school children to become sixpenny shareholders in this new mission ship, Dayspring, built in Nova Scotia in 1863. Among Australian Presbyterians support for the New Hebrides mission became a popular cause, and Paton raised £5000.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79883
title: Church, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: Interior view of the church looking towards the altar.The site at Kikuyu is located in the lower shamba, and was established in 1898 by the Reverend Thomas Watson.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. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79629
title: Mr. and Mrs. Grieve, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: Principal & Mrs Grieve". Portrait of Reverend G. A Grieve, principal of The Alliance High School (until his retirement in 1939), and his wife Mrs Grieve. The Alliance High School for older boys was established in March 1926 by the Alliance of Protestant Mission - a collaboration of different missionary organisations - with the first headmaster being that of Mr G.A Grieve. 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. In April of 1900, the first day-school was opened for children. The Church of Scotland then assumed control of the Mission in 1901. With the creation of the new school building, crops were grown (maize, beans and sweet potatoes) in part to provide foods for the school children. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79436
title: Fishing boats, Yingkou, China, 1909

description: Newchwang [Yingkou] was a treaty port opened to foreign trade in 1858 and is situated on the Liao River. The town was considered the gateway to Manchuria and Dr John Ross (1842-1915) established a United Presbyterian mission there in 1872.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79515
title: Local chief, Anatom, ca.1890

description: “Nohaupakau - Late chief at Anamé [Aname], Aneityum [Anatom].” Portrait of a man wearing light trousers and a dark jacket, shirt and cap. He is holding a book, perhaps the Bible, and is standing barefoot on a garden path.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79613
title: Quarrying, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: External view showing stonemasons at work in a quarry. 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. The Hunter Memorial Hospital was opened in January 1908, making it the first permanent building erected at Kikuyu and by the 6th of January, patients were beginning to be admitted. Smallpox and cases of famine were the most common illnesses. The mission church was built as a memorial to Dr Ruffelle Scott who originally began the building of a mission church as a memorial to the Reverend Thomas Watson, who died in 1900. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79787
title: Portrait of a woman, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: Portrait of a woman, in traditional dress and jewellery, she is laughing in the direction of the camera. There is a child in the background, to the left of the image with their arms in the air.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79669
title: Church, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: “After passing Mrs Watson’s house on the left, you come to the Church, which is built of iron, it’s roof being painted red, while the inside is lined with beautiful cedar wood from our own forest. It holds from 200 to 300 people.” Exterior view of a mission church, a number of indigenous Kikuyu people are working in the foreground harvesting a crop and a missionary worker stands watching. ❧ "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-c123-79477
title: Williams River, Erromango, ca.1890

description: “Eromanga [Erromango] - the island in which Rev John Williams, Mr. Harris, Rev G. N. Gordon and Mrs. Gordon, and Rev J. D. Gordon were murdered; Mr. Williams in 1839, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon in 1861, and their son in 1871. The river is the ‘Williams River’. On the near side among the trees is the Mission Station; on the far shore is the spot where Williams was murdered. The grandson of his murderer is now one of the Mission teachers. Williams was the first missionary that landed on the New Hebrides. He visited Tanna, Futuna, and Eromanga.” Exterior view from the bank of the Williams River; there are two unknown figures in the distance with horse and cart. The mouth of the river faces Dillons Bay (renamed Williams Bay in a ceremony of reconciliation in 2009). John Williams (1796–1839) was born near London, commissioned by the London Missionary Society in 1816, and active in the South Pacific. In 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where he was unknown, Williams and his fellow missionary James Harris were killed on the island of Erromango during an attempt to bring them the Gospel. He published A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises (1845). George N. Gordon (1822-1861) was a Presbyterian Canadian missionary who arrived on the coast of Eromanga in 1857. In 1861 sandalwood traders intentionally exposed the natives to measles. Two children of one of the island's chiefs had died in Gordon’s care. Blaming him for their deaths, the chief and a group of warriors killed both George and his wife, Ellen, in 1861. His brother (not son as quoted), James D. Gordon (1832-1871), sailed to Eromanga in 1864. In 1870, as the result of a misunderstanding between himself and the rest of the Presbyterian missionaries in the New Hebrides, Gordon resigned all official ties with the mission but continued his work on Eromanga. In 1871 he was killed for reasons that are still unclear. Ten years later a church building was dedicated at Dillon’s Bay named the Martyrs' Church.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79460
title: Pagoda, Liaoyang, 1910

description: “Liaoyang Pagoda.” Exterior view of a Buddhist Temple known as the White Pagoda which is situated in baita park and dates from the reign of Emperor Shizong of Jin (1123-1189). It is a thirteen storied octagonal structure standing 71 meters high with each storey having an ornamental projecting roof. The exterior of the temple is decorated with figurative carvings from Buddhist iconography. Liaoyang is situated on the Tai-tzu River south west of Moukden [Shenyang] and the United Presbyterian Church first established an outpost there when Old Wang, an indigenous evangelist, was sent there in 1882 by the Rev John Ross (1842-1915).
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79618
title: Charles Kisaja, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: Charles Kisaja (clinical assistant & bacteriologist) and an apprentice Simon." Portrait of Mr Kisaja and his apprentice, both wearing their medical uniform. 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. The Hunter Memorial Hospital was opened in January 1908, making it the first permanent building erected at Kikuyu and by the 6th of January, patients were beginning to be admitted. Smallpox and cases of famine were the most common illnesses. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79967
title: Government official and askaris, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

description: "Askaris" Group portrait of askaris [soldiers] with a government official on horseback. The rider is Mr John Ainsworth (1864-1946) the colonial administrator who became the Chief Native Commissioner in 1918. He was also responsible for the forcible recruitment of porters for the military campaign during the First World War.
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-c123-79788
title: Landscape, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Landscape Kikuyu". Landscape view of trees and scrubs.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79997
title: Mission truck on the Ruo River, Mozambique, ca.1930

description: "Mission Car crossing, Ruo River". Landscape view of the Ruo River. In the centre of the image is the mission truck tied to a raft. The Ruo River joins the Shire River at Chiromo and was part of the route into Portuguese East Africa and the Mihecani mission. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79954
title: Roadside scene, Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Scenes of Life, Zanzibar." Portrait of two women talking in the middle of a busy street. 
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-c123-79828
title: Wedding, Blantyre Church, Malawi, ca.1910

description: Exterior view showing a wedding group outside the Western façade of St. Michaels and all Angels Church. Europeans stand round the bride and groom on the steps of the church. The building was designed by Clement Scott and finished in 1891. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79938
title: Group portrait, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Children's Picnic party Purulia." Group portrait of children and adults in front of a tent. 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-c123-79786
title: Portrait of a woman, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Kikuyu beauty". Upper-body portrait of a woman, in traditional dress and jewellery, she is smiling towards the camera.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79864
title: Family group portrait, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Helena, Son Xavier, Daughter Leonora". Group portrait showing a mother and her two children standing in a row facing the camera with a bench behind them. There is a brick building with corrugated metal roof in the background. ❧ 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-c123-79789
title: Landscape, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "Swamp near Kikuyu Station". Landscape view of hillside and valley showing native flora.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79932
title: Mission garden, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "View behind P. Mission Hse." Exterior view behind the Purulia mission house with three indigenous men walking up a path through the mission garden. 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-c123-79953
title: Laundry, Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Scenes of Life, Zanzibar." Landscape view showing women drying clothes in a field. 
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-c123-79952
title: Busy pathway, Zanzibar, Tanzania, ca.1901

description: "Scenes of Life, Zanzibar." Landscape view showing people on a path which runs through a forest. 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-c123-79942
title: Men brewing tea, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Our servants getting tea ready at a picnic." Portrait of three indigenous men standing in a grove with tea being prepared over an open fire. 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-c123-79933
title: Club buildings, Puruliya, West Bengal, ca.1900

description: "Club Purulia." Exterior view of two buildings, possibly club houses. 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-c123-79518
title: Man with braided hair, Tanna, ca.1890

description: “Tanna Man. Shewing way of dressing hair.” Portrait of indigenous man’s profile. His braided hair is tied at the back.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79461
title: Pagoda, Liaoyang, 1910

description: “Liaoyang Pagoda.” Exterior view of a Buddhist Temple known as the White Pagoda which is situated in baita park and dates from the reign of Emperor Shizong of Jin (1123-1189). It is a thirteen storied octagonal structure standing 71 meters high with each storey having an ornamental projecting roof. The exterior of the temple is decorated with figurative carvings from Buddhist iconography. Liaoyang is situated on the Tai-tzu River south west of Moukden [Shenyang] and the United Presbyterian Church first established an outpost there when Old Wang, an indigenous evangelist, was sent there in 1882 by the Rev John Ross (1842-1915).
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79627
title: Teman Gitau, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: Teman Gitau, Spokesman. Alliance High School, Opened 1st March 1926" Portrait of a school student in uniform. The Alliance High School for older boys was established in March 1926 by the Alliance of Protestant Mission - a collaboration of different missionary organisations - with the first headmaster being that of Mr G.A Grieve. 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. In April of 1900, the first day-school was opened for children. The Church of Scotland then assumed control of the Mission in 1901. With the creation of the new school building, crops were grown (maize, beans and sweet potatoes) in part to provide foods for the school children. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79796
title: Interior room, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

description: "My sitting room". Interior view of a sitting room or lounge in a mission house. There are two table at the from on the image and a chair in the centre, there is a very full bookshelf to the right of the image with various objects and photographs hanging on the walls.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80006
title: Marketplace, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Millet flour, rice & Indian corn for sale". Market scene with a crowd of people many carrying produce. 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].