cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80160
title: Blantyre Church, Malawi, ca.1926

description: “Blantyre Church, Foundations dug 1888. Dedicated May 10th 1891.” Exterior view showing St Michael and all Angels Church, Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi]. Blantyre was named after the birth place of David Livingstone, in South Lanarkshire, and is famous for the ornate church built by Clement Scott. The church was build by Scott to his own design and finished in 1891. According to Stewart of Lovedale it is, ‘probably the most striking native church in all central Africa, except the cathedral at Zanzibar’.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78645
title: Mission School boarders, Pune, ca.1888-1922

description: "Some of the Boarders, Mission School, Poona [Pune]". Photograph of a group of girls in a garden next to a wall; two hold tin bowls, two sit on the ground, and the others stand looking on. The girls vary in age and style of clothes. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa. The image was provided to Dr. Stevenson by Mr Macmichael who had worked in Pune.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80062
title: Head portrait, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Mugani head". Head portrait of a child, possibly a Mang'anja. The child is facing the camera and has their mouth open to show their front teeth which have been filed, or cut, to points. The child is wearing a striped collarless shirt.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80022
title: Men outside Missionary's house, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1940

description: "Puiheriwa, Missionary's House". Portrait of three men standing outside a large circular thatched hut. The one to the right of the image holds a book in his hand. 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 the Sunday Schools of Scotland financially supported it. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80153
title: Grave, Domasi, Malawi, ca.1888

description: "Grave of old Malemia - Domasi". Exterior view showing a European man standing with one foot on the edge of a grave site. The site is surrounded by rough vegetation, palms and trees. There is a ghost image from a previous photograph on the right side of the picture showing the top half of a European man.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80282
title: Crossroads, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “School avenue crossing the main avenue.” Exterior view of indigenous people standing at a crossroads. 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-c123-78666
title: Family group travelling, Eastern Himalayas, ca.1888-1929

description: Portrait of six individuals; three females of varying ages are heavily wrapped up against the cold, one man carries a large pack of material on his back and another man, smoking a long pipe, carries a pack and small child on his back. Snow lies on the mountains in the background. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80107
title: Kikuyu man, Kenya, ca.1904

description: Portrait of a Kikuyu man with long braided hair and wearing an animal skin. ❧ The Kikuyu mission was established by the East African Scottish Mission in 1891, at Kibwezi, under the direction of Mr Thomas Watson. It moved to Dagoretti in 1898 after severe hardships at the original site. Mr Watson died of pneumonia on the 4/12/1900 and the mission came under the management of the Church of Scotland Mission (CSM). Rev. David Clement Ruffelle Scott was sent to head the mission and arrived with his wife and Doctor Uffman in 1901.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80278
title: Rumpi River, Malawi, ca.1895

description: “On the Rumpi River.” Exterior view of water flowing through rocky outcrops. An indigenous man leans against a rock in the background. The river runs near the Livingstonia mission station. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80213
title: Gardener's house, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Gardener's House." Exterior view of a thatched house with gardener standing at the entrance. 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-c123-80114
title: Coffee plant, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1904

description: Close-up image showing a large coffee plant with cherries, ready for harvesting. In 1879, Professor Balfour brought three coffee plants to the Blantyre Mission in Nyasaland [Malawi] from Edinburgh botanical gardens. The coffee plantations of the region were established from the single plant that survived.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80018
title: Head porter, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Leader of carriers of R.H.N." portrait of a porter in front of a tree smiling at the camera. 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 the Sunday Schools of Scotland financially supported it. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80277
title: Missionary photographing indigenous women, Malawi, ca.1895

description: “Group of Poka women, Mount Katoparampapa.” Group portrait showing several indigenous women sitting on the ground and behind them stands a western man with a box camera. The Poka people lived in underground dwellings in the hills of North West Nyasaland and spoke a variant of Tumbuka. They were close to the Livingstonia mission station established at Khondowe in 1891. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80104
title: Young girl with eye tumour, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1904

description: "Kikuyu patient successfully operated on by Dr. Uffman". Portrait of a young girl with a large growth in her right eye. The girl is looking down to the left of the image and there is a thatched grass hut behind her. Dr Uffman arrived with Rev. David Clement Ruffelle Scott, in 1901, when the Church of Scotland Mission (CSM) officially took over the management of the mission. Due to lack of facilities Dr. Uffman performed all operations on his dining room table. Dr. Uffman retired in 1905 to be replaced by Dr. John W. Arthur
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80287
title: Boys’ dormitory, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Boys’ dormitory.” Exterior view of an early building in Livingstonia. ❧ 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-c123-80157
title: Man standing outside hut, Malawi, ca.1920

description: "AUKA". Exterior view showing an African man leaning on crutches, facing the camera, outside a thatched hut. Hills can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80019
title: Young children and mortar and pestle, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Wooden mortar for pounding grain." Portrait of two young children standing outside a thatched hut next to a mortar and pestle. 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 the Sunday Schools of Scotland financially supported it. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80058
title: Boy cleaning his teeth, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Cleaning his teeth". Portrait of a young boy crouched down using a twig to clean is teeth.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80113
title: Patients eating, Blantyre hospital, Malawi, ca.1904

description: "Blantyre Hosp: Patients at food". Exterior view showing a group of hospital patients sitting in a large circle amongst the hospital buildings. There is a large wicker basket in the middle of the circle and a big tree to the left of the image.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80156
title: Harvest Festival Thanksgiving, Iringa, Tanzania, ca.1920

description: "In far fields". Interior view showing Christian Harvest festival display in front of the chancel in a church. The display includes grains and corn and there are two clocks situated either side of it. Iringa was situated in the Tanganyika British Mandate which had previously been German East Africa. After the First World War a number of missions in the region were managed by the Church of Scotland.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80106
title: Indigenous and European mission school children, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1904

description: Group portrait of young children. Five of them are seated in front and three stand behind. The children are surrounded by basins and buckets. ❧ The Kikuyu mission was established by the East African Scottish Mission in 1891, at Kibwezi, under the direction of Mr Thomas Watson. It moved to Dagoretti in 1898 after severe hardships at the original site. Mr Watson died of pneumonia on the 4/12/1900 and the mission came under the management of the Church of Scotland Mission (CSM). Rev. David Clement Ruffelle Scott was sent to head the mission and arrived with his wife and Doctor Uffman in 1901.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78605
title: Tuai village, E.H.M., 1915

description: Exterior view of village with a building on the left and central area, with trees, fenced off. Two women, in separate areas, carry material on their heads. ❧ This image belongs to an album of mixed photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-81577
title: Yoeri Kapiko, Pemba, Mozambique, 1918

description: “Yoeri Kapiko. A.N.M.C. [African Native Medical Corps] a native gentleman & all round sportsman & good fellow. Worked with me in Dodoma. Photographed on sands at Port Amelia P.E.A.” Portrait of a man in an ANMC uniform in Portuguese East Africa. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80065
title: Head portrait, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "The Tsumba". Profile portrait of a young boy with a hairstyle that comes to a point at the front of his head and extends up into a horn shape. Tsumba is an area and city in Central Malawi.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80061
title: Head portrait of a Yao, Malawi, ca.1910

description: “Yao head". Head portrait of a young person smiling at the camera wearing a beaded necklace. The person is Wayao, from the Yao tribe. They are a predominately Muslim people centred around the Southern end of Lake Malawi. In the nineteenth century they traded primarily in Ivory and slaves and had close links with Arab traders.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78581
title: New Church, Chamba, India, ca.1900

description: View of a traditional style parish church built from stone with a bell tower on the right. The church sits on a raised area of ground with steps leading up to the main entrance where three people are about to enter. This photograph belongs to an album of mixed photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-81579
title: Large game bird, Dodoma, Tanzania, July-November 1917

description: “A pau [pou]! It took me four misses before I brought him down. English name is Greater Bustard.” Portrait of an indigenous man holding up a large bird. Lt. Irvine, stationed at the Carrier Hospital at Dodoma, participated in some hunting during his free time. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-81590
title: Drying an animal skin, Dodoma, Tanzania, July-November 1917

description: “Creighton pegging out an impala skin at my hut door.” Portrait of a man crouched next to a deer skin pegged out to dry. One of the game shot by Creighton and Lt. Irvine during a hunting trip near Dodoma. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78654
title: Myself in the garden with our puppies, Tanzania, ca.1888-1929

description: "Myself in the garden with our puppies". Portrait of a man, in a pith helmet, sitting on the grass with his arms outstretched to hold in three puppies that are investigating the area around him. Taken in Tanganyika [Tanzania]. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78593
title: Treading out the corn, Punjab, ca.1888-1920

description: "Treading out the corn, Punjab." Image of a young boy, in a turban and vest, who steers two oxen through a field of cut corn. The animals are dragging a farming implement that is outwith the photograph. ❧ This photograph belongs to an album of mixed photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-81564
title: Landscape, Itigi, Tanzania, July 1917

description: “A native path in typical G.E.A. country. Not a drop of water, not a living soul – just sun!” Landscape view of rocky scrubland and a narrow footpath. This is possibly Itigi where Lt. Irvine was stationed for three weeks in July 1917. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-81547
title: Cattle at troop camp, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 1917

description: “All cattle in Africa have humps.” Exterior view showing a herd of cattle passing a line of tents. This was a military camp in Dar es Salaam where Lt. Irvine was stationed. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80640
title: Macpherson house, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1931

description: “Mac’s house.” Exterior view of a bungalow, next to a thatched hut, which is probably the accommodation of Mr & Mrs Macpherson. Mr Robert Macpherson was the Head teacher at Chogoria and supervisor of out-schools from 1930-1940 and was in charge of the station during Dr Irvine’s furloughs. He became Moderator of the General Assembly and authored ‘The Presbyterian Church in Kenya’ (1970). Mrs Alta Macpherson was the daughter of Rev William P Knapp, of the Gospel Missionary Society of America based at Kambui, Kiambu District, where she ran the ‘big girls work’. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80105
title: Mission school children, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1904

description: Exterior view with two children behind a large table and in front of a large canvas tent. The Kikuyu mission was established by the East African Scottish Mission in 1891, at Kibwezi, under the direction of Mr Thomas Watson. It moved to Dagoretti in 1898 after severe hardships at the original site. Mr Watson died of pneumonia on the 4/12/1900 and the mission came under the management of the Church of Scotland Mission (CSM). Rev. David Clement Ruffelle Scott was sent to head the mission and arrived with his wife and Doctor Uffman in 1901.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78631
title: Two young children, Africa, ca.1888-1929

description: Two young children, dressed in white, stand barefoot on a dusty path. This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa. The image is one of several from an envelope, in the album, marked as; 'Mrs Milligan's and Miss Compton's photos'.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-81562
title: Lt. Irvine’s tent, Dodoma, Tanzania, July-November 1917

description: “Interior of my tent at Dodoma where I was posted to Carrier Hospital after leaving Itigi. At first we had 3 in an E.P. tent. This was real luxury.” Interior of a tent with camp beds on the left and packing cases used as shelves. Lt. Irvine was transferred to Dodoma to work with at a casualty clearing station mainly treating African carriers. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78635
title: Young child and baby, India, ca.1927

description: “minding the baby”. Portrait of a very young girl with a long shawl reaching the ground and wearing ankle bracelets. She holds a child cradled in her arms. This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa. The photograph is one of several from an envelope, in the album, marked as 'Mrs Milligan's and Miss Compton's photos' and possibly from Lucknow.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80059
title: Boy combing his hair, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Combing his hair". Exterior portrait of a young boy combing his hair, he is seated on a stone facing the camera.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80064
title: Head portrait of a Yao boy, Malawi, ca.1910

description: “Yao head". Head portrait of a young boy with a hairstyle that comes to a peak at the front of his head. The boy is Wayao, from the Yao tribe. They are a predominately Muslim people centred around the Southern end of Lake Malawi. In the nineteenth century they traded primarily in Ivory and slaves and had close links with Arab traders.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80109
title: Hut building, Domasi, Malawi, ca.1904

description: "Native making door for hut". Exterior view of a seated man weaving reeds for a door. There is a circular thatched hut to the right of the image and vegetation surrounding.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80110
title: Locust devastation, Domasi, Malawi, ca.1904

description: "Domasi - Plague of Locusts - Banana leaves destroyed". Landscape view of badly damaged banana leaves caused by locusts, a type of short-horned grasshopper.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80272
title: Mission station, Malawi, ca.1895

description: Exterior view of a station with the flagpole in the background. Several individuals stand alone in the frame and a rifle leans against the wall of the building. This image could possibly record scenes from the early years of the Overtoun Institution at Kondowe, also know as Livingstonia. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80016
title: Group portrait, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: Group portrait showing indigenous women and men arranged in front of the veranda of a large brick building. 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-c123-80021
title: Class portrait, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Marta at back. Miss Macnab". Group portrait of a sewing class. Their teacher, Miss Macnab, sits to the right of the image. Miss Margaret Barbara McNab arrived at Mihecani in 1916. She opened and ran the boarding school and worked at the mission for many years. 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 the Sunday Schools of Scotland financially supported it. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78619
title: Scholars and teacher, Yichang, ca.1888-1929

description: “Scholars and Teacher. School at Ichang [Yichang]- huin mela pith” ❧ Group portrait of young school children lining up, outside the school, in two rows and holding hands with their partner. Their western teacher stands at the front of the column. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa. This is one of five photographs contained in an envelope stating; “Dr Toni Scott’s photos for article on ‘Working wars and children’ Ichang [Yichang]”.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80588
title: Group portrait at Mount Kenya rest hut, Kenya, ca.1925

description: “At the first rest hut 10,000 up Mt. Kenya. [L to R] Dr Irvine, Miss Shackleton cousin of Mr Carr’s, Mrs Irvine, Mr Carr, who was responsible for starting the work at Chogoria & supporting it for 6 years.” Group portrait of four walkers outside a Mount Kenya bothy. Many climbers used Chogoria as a base from which to climb Mount Kenya. Ernest Carr (1868-1939) was the father of Margaret Joyce Irvine and financed the Chogoria mission in its early days and erected the rest huts on the mountain. ❧ 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.