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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80203
title: Congregational address, Chiradzulu District Church, Malawi, ca.1926

description: “Large District Church, Chiradzulu, can accommodate 600 or 700 people. Made of brick, entire cost borne by people. Congregation addressed by Convener." Exterior view of church with congregation in foreground. The mission station at Chiradzulu, Nyasaland [Malawi] was founded by Robert Cleland in 1887.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78665
title: Cane bridge in Sikkim, Eastern Himalayas, ca.1888-1929

description: "A cane bridge in Sikkim" Landscape looking up a river, with rocky banks, towards a rope bridge the ends of which are hidden by thick woodland. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78667
title: Shan Hai Kuan, Mountain Sea Barrier, Shanhaiguan, ca.1888-1929

description: "Shan Hai Kuan, Mountain Sea Barrier The mountains run abreast of the sea - a narrow flat piece between sea and mountain where the wall started at Gulf of Liao Tong". Landscape with the Great Wall of China, it shows the wall winding along a hill ridge and disappearing into the distance. This is Shanhaiguan, one of the major passes of the Great wall and the frontier defence against Manchurian tribes. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80134
title: View towards Michiru mountain, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "View from church door towards Michiaree Mountain". Exterior view taken from the doorway of Blantyre church towards Michiaree [Michiru] Mountain. In the foreground of the image can be seen a road.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80182
title: Boys’ Accommodation, Henry Henderson Institute, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Boys' Dormitories." Distant view of accommodation blocks for male pupils at the Henry Henderson Institute, Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi]. The proposal to centralise advanced education at Blantyre meant pupils had to board for the duration of their apprenticeships. The Institute was dedicated to the technical and vocational training of native Africans.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80258
title: Lady Nyasa, Shire River, Malawi, ca.1900

description: "Old Lady Nyasa." Exterior view looking down at a paddle steamer berthed at a river bank. The Lady Nyasa II was a sixty foot paddle steamer, in service from 1879, for the African Lakes Corporation (ALC), which was formed in Glasgow in1877 by John and Fredrick Moir. The company had strong links with the Scottish missions in Blantyre and Livingstonia. The original Lady Nyasa was one of two vessels that Livingstone used to navigate the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78611
title: Two E.H.M. evangelists, Eastern Himalayas, 1921

description: Two gentlemen stand next to steps leading into a building. The text on the back of the postcard names the man on the left as the Reverend Hamthack, minister at Kalimpong central church, and the man on the right as the Reverend Lakshman Lingh, ordained 13 January 1921. ❧ 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-c123-80180
title: Henry Henderson Institute, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Henderson Institute" (Blantyre School). Distant view of the Henry Henderson Institute, Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi]. The Institute was founded in 1909 and named after the man who established the mission at Blantyre. The daughter of David Livingstone, Mrs Livingstone Bruce, was present at the foundation ceremony. The immediate purpose of the institute was to produce school teachers for the district stations and coordinate the network of local village schools. The mission's print department was also sited there. African pupils were trained as teachers while undertaking their formal studies. The Institute was dedicated to the technical and vocational training of native Africans. From 1907 the colonial government started contributing small grants of money to missionary educational efforts.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80206
title: Brick Kiln, Kacheri, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "From mud and wattle to brick, Kacheri, an 'Extension’ church. A brick kiln." Landscape view of a brick kiln with an indigenous worker standing beside it. Suitable clay for building was derived from ant-hills in the area. Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi] was an industrial mission which developed skills such as carpentry, and bricks were necessary to construct the many mission buildings, including the renowned St Michael and All Angels church, designed by Rev. David Clement Ruffell Scott (1853-1907).
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80284
title: Store at Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Store.” Exterior view of indigenous people outside the Livingstonia store. 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-c123-80631
title: Camp at Mount Kenya, Kenya, ca.1930

description: “Porters and tents. Mt. Kenya.” Exterior view of a tent around which are gathered climbers and porters wrapped up against the cold. A number of Church of Scotland missionaries were keen climbers and Chogoria was a popular base from which to climb Mount Kenya. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80225
title: Wedding party outside a church, Domasi, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Domasi and District. Two weddings." Group portrait of newly-wed couples standing at the entrance to a church. 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. Rev. 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-c123-80269
title: Woman with parrot and three boys, Malawi, ca.1895

description: Group portrait of a woman with a bird sitting on her hand. Three boys sit on the ground in front of her. 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-c123-80081
title: Thatched school building, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "African School". Exterior view of a long thatched building with two young children standing in front of it facing the camera.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80071
title: Portrait of a young woman, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "One of the big school-girls." Portrait of a young woman wearing a chitenjes[sarong or large piece of material], with long length of material tied around her waist. She is facing the camera and is also wearing a necklace and a bracelet. She is standing in front of a brick and plaster wall.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80121
title: Waterfalls, Malawi, ca.1904

description: Exterior view of what is, probably, the Falls at Zomba. The image shows bare rocks with little vegetation surrounding the multichannel waterfall.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80093
title: Group portrait, Kenya, ca.1910

description: "Child of Kikuyu chief in charge of Dr. & Mrs Crawford C.M.S.". Group portrait of two children in front of a metal link fence with a man behind them on the other side of the fence. There are thatched huts on both the left and the right of the image. Dr T W Crawford and Mrs E May Crawford [nee Grimes] arrived in Kenya in 1904 and established a station in the Fort Hall district and from there moved to the Church Missionary Society [CMS] medical mission at Embu district.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80230
title: Manse in Domasi, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Domasi and district. The Manse." Exterior view of the manse at Domasi, Nyasaland [Malawi]. The Domasi Mission was founded by Rev. Alexander Hetherwick 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 was situated north of Blantyre, near to Mount Zomba. The mission was central to medical work in the area, and trained girls in industrial and domestic work.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80215
title: Food preparation, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Winnowing flour after pounding." Portrait of two African women engaged in daily chores outside a native building. The women use baskets to agitate the flour to remove chaff. Two young males observe them in the background. 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-c123-80141
title: Domasi mission station, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "new". Exterior landscape view showing Domasi mission station and surrounding buildings and fields after 1895. 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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78652
title: Conference, Tanzania, ca.1888-1929

description: Photograph of a large number of men, and some women, seated around tables. There is a top table from which the other tables run off at 90 degrees. Everyone turns in their seats to look at the camera. Taken in Tanganyika [Tanzania]. ❧ 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 A.W. Anderson.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80647
title: Family and friends, Eastern Province, Kenya, ca.1929

description: “Major & Mrs [Gillwood?] (A.M.S.), Miss Hall & children.” Group portrait of the Irvine family with two of their sons. In the middle is Miss Hall who was stationed at Chogoria doing educational work. On the left are a married couple who belong to the A.M.S, the Alliance of Missionary Society. ❧ 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-c123-78644
title: School teacher, Pune, ca.1888-1922

description: "Our Matron, Church of Scotland Mission Boarding School, Poona". Portrait of a woman standing outside, next to the steps leading on to a veranda, and partially in shadow. She is Indian and wearing a dark coloured sari. ❧ 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-c123-80629
title: Medicine man, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1930

description: “Witchdoctor at work.” Portrait of a young boy and old man, who is a shaman or medicine man, preparing a ‘treatment’. ❧ 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-c123-78591
title: Village square, Arakkonam, ca.1920

description: "The village square, Arkonam [Arakkonam]." Exterior view of a village square with a large tower like religious building in the background. In the foreground a local man attempts to hitch two oxen to a covered wagon. ❧ 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-c123-78596
title: Panjabi elders with family, Punjab, ca. 1888-1929

description: "Panjabi elders with family." Family portrait with father and mother and three children sitting on an exterior bench, a third adult male stands behind the bench. The father and other male both wear large Turbans and are possibly Sikhs, and the children wear caps and everyone is dressed formally. ❧ 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-c123-78676
title: Sukhia Pokri Bazar, Darjeeling, ca.1888-1929

description: "Sukhia Pokri Bazar (Darjeeling) with milkman in the foreground. To illustrate - From the Outposts (Eastern Himalayas)". Exterior view of a man carrying two long narrow barrels, containing milk, hung over his shoulders. Behind him are covered areas for the bazaar and a group of horses which are being tended. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78613
title: Opening of Gari Dhura church, Chandigarh, February 1925

description: Group photograph of a large crowd posing for the camera outside of a newly constructed church. The building is a small one room church with a corrugated iron roof. Mr Robinson and the Reverend T. D. Sole are standing in the doorway. ❧ 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-c123-80649
title: Conference meeting, Eastern Province, Kenya, September 1930

description: “The Kenya Keswick at Kiyabe [Kijabe]in Sept 1930.” Group portrait of men and women sitting on a slope below a house. Dr & Mrs Irvine sit at the front on the left. Kijabe was a mission site of the African Inland Mission. Conferences were held regularly amongst the protestant missions in Kenya in an attempt to strengthen the church. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78589
title: Training school, Kalimpong, ca.1900-1920

description: "Kalimpung training school." Exterior view of a large white school building in a mountainous region. The Union Jack flies from the flag pole and the pupils from the school stand, in line, in front of the building and down the road leading away from the school. ❧ 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-c123-80283
title: Livingstonia buildings, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Dining-hall, store and carpenter’s shop.” Exterior view of early buildings in Livingstonia. 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-c123-80623
title: Meeting with Chief M’ragwa, Eastern province, Kenya, ca.1930

description: “A friendly confab, with Chief M’ragwa (on my left) and some of his retainers.” Group portrait of Dr Irvine sitting on the ground during a meeting with a local chief and some of his retinue. ❧ 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-c123-80645
title: Irvine family, Nairobi, Kenya, 1929

description: “Part of the family and my brother-in-law at his house in Nairobi.” Group portrait taken on the steps of a family home. The group consists of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, his wife, Margaret Joyce and two of their three sons. At the back stands Raymond Carr the only brother of Margaret. Their father, Mr Ernest Carr, moved to Nairobi with his wife and five children in 1920 ❧ 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-c123-78659
title: School opening ceremony, Africa, ca.1920

description: "Opening day of my little school". Exterior view of a gathering of people out side a clapboard building with a corrugated iron roof, the school children stand over to the left whilst the adults line up in front of the school house. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78664
title: Tibetan Village in the Chumbi Valley, Eastern Himalayas, ca.1888-1929

description: "Typical Tibetan Village in the Chumbi Valley. ‘The 'AmoChu' flows down to the plains. N. B. There is no Missionary in the Chumbi Valley, Tibet". Landscape and village, viewed from the valley floor, looking over cultivated lands towards housing on the opposite side of the river. The mountains dominate the landscape. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78673
title: Bridge at Rimbik, India, ca.1888-1929

description: "Bridge between Ghepi [?] and Rimbik". Exterior view of a wooden bridge spanning two boulders over a river. The river bed is cluttered with large rocks hiding the flow of water. Three men stand on the main part of the bridge looking out over the scenery, and on either side are local porters carrying large packs.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80159
title: Fig-tree, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1926

description: “Remains of fig-tree at which Henry Henderson and the other pioneers encamped. 23rd October 1876.” Landscape view showing a dead fig-tree. 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 situated in the Shire Highlands between the Nasalo and Likabula streams and selected by Henry Henderson (1843-1891), 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-c123-80094
title: Dr Crawford, his wife and Mrs Minnie Cumming Watson, missionaries, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1910

description: "Dr. Crawford C.M.S. [Church Missionary Society] Mrs Watson (centre) Mrs Crawford". Group portrait showing the three people involved in mission work in Kenya. They stand in front of a thatched hut and there is a child to the left of the image. Mrs Watson was the wife of Thomas Watson who founded the Kikuyu mission in 1891, which later came under the management of the Church of Scotland Mission [CSM] Dr T W W Crawford and Mrs E May Crawford [nee Grimes] arrived in Kenya in 1904 and established a station in the Fort Hall district and from there moved to the Church Missionary Society [CMS] medical mission at Embu district.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80095
title: Manse, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1910

description: "New Manse". Exterior view of the newly built manse. The manse is on stilts and the land in front of it has been cleared. There are three European people on the verandah and two indigenous people on the corrugated metal roof. 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 from Blantyre to head the mission and arrived with his wife and Doctor Uffman in 1901.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80364
title: Port Stewart on Lake Malawi, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Port Stewart - - - Landing jetty.” Exterior view of a bay and mountains behind. Port Stewart was where supplies and goods where landed from Lake Nyasa before being transported the four miles up to Livingstonia on a plateau behind Mount Waller. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80068
title: Girl sewing, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Girl sewing". Portrait of a young girl seated, on a woven reed mat, on the ground sewing. There is a brick building behind her.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80111
title: Laundress, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1904.

description: "Kikuyu. Lukin, laundress; Lukin in my garden. This girl does all the starched linen in the laundry, and is a beautiful darner. Mrs. W.". Portrait of a woman in traditional dress behind a large covered table ironing. 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-c123-80138
title: View towards Mount Mulanje, Zomba, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "View from above towards M'lanji [Mulanje]". Landscape view showing a path leading into the distance towards the mountain. The view is looking from the ‘Old Residency’ the official British Consul residency built by the Buchanan brothers, beside their plantation at Zomba, in 1886 for Consul Hawes. The grounds were turned into a botanical garden.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78608
title: Indian Fakir, India, ca.1888-1929

description: Portrait of an Indian Fakir standing on a leopard skin. His hair is braided and long enough to reach his waist. Certain objects connected to his performance are placed in front of him and a group of spectators surround him. ❧ This image belongs to an album of mixed photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.