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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80273
title: Mission station buildings built in rows, Malawi, ca.1895

description: Exterior view of a mission station with straight parallel lines of buildings running down a slope beyond which lies a large body of water. Three individuals stand in the foreground. 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-c123-80024
title: Child with umbrella, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: Portrait of a young child standing side on to the camera with an umbrella on their head. 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-c123-80298
title: Carpentry work at Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Adging logs at end of workshop.” Exterior view of carpentry workers outside the workshop. ❧ 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-c123-80297
title: Basket making, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

description: “Basket making.” Exterior view of indigenous workers weaving baskets. ❧ 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-c123-80023
title: Mr. Osborn and Lion, Mihecani, Mozambique, 1939

description: "Lion shot by Mr. Osborn 1939." Image showing Mr. Osborn standing next to a dead lion, he holds a gun in his left hand and the lion has been posed. Mr H. E. Osborn was part of the Nyasaland field force and awarded Lieutenant Rank 1st November 1917. 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-c123-80171
title: Staff accommodation, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Doctor's and Nurses House, Mihecani Hill". Exterior view of the medical staff housing, a thatched roof brick building, at the Mihecani mission site. ❧ 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-c123-80589
title: Panorama of the mission, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1927

description: “A panorama showing left to right, bungalow, house being erected, African ministers house, church, school, hospital store, hospital, and leper ward. The workshops & brick sheds are in trees behind bungalow. Other houses are mostly native staff dwellings. Photo by professional photographer.” Panoramic view showing the extent of the Chogoria mission. The professional photographer was Mr Martin Johnson (1884-1937) who, with his wife Osa, spent several years in Kenya filming footage for the documentary Simba: King of the Beasts (1928) and stayed with Dr Irvine. ❧ 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-c123-81571
title: Carriers on the march, Dodoma, Tanzania, July-November 1917

description: “Getting off on the march.” “I used to go across every morning to a Belgian carrier camp 2 ½ miles away to take a sick parade.” Landscape view showing a line of carriers walking through dry brush land. Lt. Irvine was posted to a carrier hospital at Dodoma 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-c123-80572
title: Village hut, Chogoria, Kenya, 1922

description: “a fairly typical home: the Mwimbe did not build as good or roomy huts as the Kikuyu; their whole culture was simpler, but they were a very pleasant people. In spiritual darkness, they needed the salvation and light that CHRIST offers, and this we tried to show them.” Exterior view of a traditional village dwelling with a woman and child outside. ❧ 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-c123-80466
title: Medical work, Itu, Nigeria, ca.1955

description: “The Bacteriologist, Itu Leper Colony.” Portrait of a man working with a microscope. The leper colony at Itu was founded by Andrew Buchanan Macdonald (1891-1970) in 1928 and provided a community and work for patients.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80584
title: Dispensery, Embu district, Kenya, ca.1923

description: “An outschool is a settlement in the reserve 10 or 20 miles from the main station where a Christian teacher and dispenser gathers a little company of interested or needy folk, wins their confidence by friendship, their interest by his teaching and their admiration by his Christian home life, and so brings them to Christ. To these, the Christian gospel is preached, with the conversion of some & setting up of a village church.” Exterior view showing a large crowd gathering near a mission worker at a trestle table, probably acting as a dispensary during a visit by Dr Irvine to one of the satellite schools. ❧ 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-c123-80597
title: New church, Chogoria, Kenya, 17 January 1930

description: “North east corner of church. Part of the crowd at the opening.” Exterior view of the new church with a queue of people around the building. The church was opened on 17 January 1930 by Rev R.G.M. Calderwood and native ministers from Kikuyu and Tumutumu. The exterior of the church was painted with a white distemper and the roof tiles were red. ❧ 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-c123-80577
title: Main hospital, Chogoria, Kenya, 1927

description: “Our biggest building* the main hospital built in 1925. In that year we admitted over 300 in-patients & registered 17,000 out-patient attendances. Our hospital, with lepers, tuberculosis and yaws isolation wards will accommodate 60 in-patients. [As seen] *in 1927.” Exterior view of the main hospital building at Chogoria. The hospital consisted of two wards, set at an angle to each other, with the hospital facilities connecting them. ❧ 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-c123-80578
title: Family portrait, Chogoria, Kenya, December 1929

description: “The family Xmas 1929. [L to R] Geoff, Kenneth, Tony.” Group portrait of the Irvine family. Dr Archibald Clive Irvine ran the Chogoria mission from 1922 to 1961; he married Margaret Joyce Carr, the eldest daughter of Ernest Carr, on 6th May 1921 and had three sons Anthony (b.1922), Geoffrey (b.1923) and Kenneth (b.1925). Geoffrey would become the Medical Superintendent of Chogoria Hospital from 1967-1983. ❧ 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-c123-80469
title: Birthplace of David Livingstone, Blantyre, Scotland, 1897

description: “Within one apartment house in this tenement at Blantyre Dr. Livingstone was born. Memorial tablet erected by Hugh Mayberry, Esq., Factor on Blantyre Estate, 1897.” Exterior view of a traditional Scottish tenement, in the west of Scotland, now the David Livingstone Centre.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80592
title: Skating pond, Mount Kenya, Kenya, ca.1928

description: “The Skating Pond. 16,000 feet up. This is very close to 2nd rest house. This pond varies in size, at times being very small. It is formed from the melting of the Lewis glacier seen above.” Landscape view of a mountain peak with a glacier running down one side and two figures next to a frozen pond. Chogoria mission was only 35 miles from the summit. ❧ 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-c123-80576
title: Leper hospital, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1926

description: “The leper ward. This is always full to overflowing. The results of modern treatment are most encouraging.” Exterior view of the leper ward with patients sitting on beds arranged in front of the building. The leper ward was built on a spur of land called Gatheru, above the Kamara valley, and had four rooms sleeping two patients each. The ward was funded by the Mission to Lepers with an annual grant of £240. ❧ 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-c123-80570
title: Kioja family, Chogoria, Kenya, 1922

description: “Grandpa Kioja, with two of his several sons and grandchildren; bananas and yams in background. Men like these cleared the mission land and put up huts. The Mwimbe people are faithful, friendly, honest and, considering their not very ample diet, hardworking. We grew to love and admire them – esp. perhaps , the women.” Group portrait of three generations of one family wearing traditional dress. ❧ 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-c123-80596
title: Interior of the new church, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “The Chancel by electric light. Plaques in bas’relief, coloured, show the dove and the opened book representing the Spirit and the Scriptures. There are 3 such plaques in the pulpit and 5 on the supporting pillars of the church.” Interior view of the chancel with the pulpit on the left. The new church was designed and built by Dr Irvine and his team of masons, trained at Chogoria by Mr Cobb. ❧ 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-c123-80490
title: Kenneth Irvine, Chogoria, Kenya, 1926

description: “Kenneth aged 1 ½” Portrait of a small child. Kenneth David Irvine was born at the Chogoria mission in June 1925, the son of Archibald Clive Irvine and Margaret Joyce Irvine (nee Carr). ❧ 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-c123-80569
title: Making beer, Chogoria, Kenya, 1922

description: “beer made from sugar cane is a favourite drink, it has to be pounded into splinters first.” Portrait of a woman using a large pestle and mortar to pulp sugar cane. ❧ 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-c123-81618
title: Carrier camp, Dodoma, Tanzania, July-November 1917

description: “Our camp from the road.” Landscape view showing a dusty road and some tents visible through the brush. This is at the carrier camp and hospital at Dodoma where Lt. Irvine was stationed from July to November 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-c123-80614
title: Deacon’s Court, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “Another of the Deacons court. [L to R] Filipo, Musa, Maina, Rev Solomon, self, Gerishom, Willie, Jonathan, Ayubu.” Group portrait of the seven deacons, Rev Solomon Ndambi and Dr Irvine standing at the porch and entrance to the new church. The court met one Saturday a month to discuss church business ❧ 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-c123-81568
title: Sick parade, Dodoma, Tanzania, July-November 1917

description: “A sick parade with camp police.” “I used to go across every morning to a Belgian carrier camp 2 ½ miles away to take a sick parade.” Crowd scene with two policemen in the foreground and behind a line of patients sitting on the ground. This is either at Dodoma, or a Belgium camp nearby, where Lt. Irvine was posted in late 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-c123-80606
title: Ministers and staff at Chogoria, Kenya, 29 September 1929

description: “Group taken Sept 29th at Chogoria at the time of the conflict over ‘irua’ [female circumcision] & politics. Dr Arthur, Chogoria staff, the ministers & others who came out with Dr Arthur, and the Chogoria elders, deacons and evangelists who came out on the side of the church against the bitter antagonism of 90% of our adherents, and the whole of their tribe.” “[Back row L to R] Marion Wamaiua, Maina, Samsoni, Gideon & wife, Samsoni, Priscilla, Dr Arthur, Samweli, Ernest, Arthur & wife, Willie & wife. [Middle row L to R] Musa & wife, Jonathan & wife, ACI [Archibald Clive Irvine], MJI [Margaret Joyce Irvine], MBM [Rita Butter-Malcolm], Rev Solomon & wife, Gerishom, Wilson & wife, Samuel, Mwangi. [Front row L to R] Richard, Amos, Johana, Filipo, Phereo, Ayubu, Elija, Nafutali.” Group portrait of the Chogoria staff outside the old 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-c123-81574
title: Lt. Irvine on horseback, Dodoma, Tanzania, July-November 1917

description: “You didn’t know I was a rider? Note how the good rider always looks as if he were part of his horse!” Portrait of Lt. AC Irvine on a horse. Lt. Irvine was posted to Dodoma where he worked in the carrier hospital. ❧ 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-c123-80583
title: Physical training, Chogoria, ca.1926

description: “Some of our junior teachers undergoing physical training. Civilisation has displaced warlike exercises, and Christianity the dance, so football and drill take the place of these.” Exterior view showing student teachers in uniform doing squats. ❧ 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-c123-80585
title: Difficult roads from Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1923

description: “Just a glimpse of the road that lies between us and our nearest neighbours 40 miles away.” Landscape view of a rough road through dense forest. The Irvine’s car, a Dodge, sits on the bend of the road. ❧ 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-c123-80581
title: Suleiman, Medical staff, Chogoria, Kenya, 1927

description: “The Christian - Suleiman, my right hand man in hospital.” Portrait of a man standing in profile. Suleiman worked as an orderly at the Chogoria hospital, work which involved sample testing, dressing, care and assisting during operations. ❧ 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-c123-80573
title: Grinding millet, Chogoria, Kenya, 1922

description: “one of Kioja’s sons wives grinding millet to make ‘gruel’.” Portrait of a woman grinding millet between two stones by hand. The Kioja family of the Mwimbi lived near the mission. ❧ 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-c123-80590
title: Hall Tarn, Mount Kenya, Kenya, ca.1928

description: “Hall Tarn. 13,000 feet up Mt. Kenya and halfway between Ist and IInd rest houses. Vegetation is giant groundsel. Summit, in background, of Mt Kenya, summit 17,040 ft. Summit distance from Chogoria 35 m.” Landscape view of a body of water with mountainous peaks rising behind. Hall Tarns is a lake on Mount Kenya named after District Commissioner F.G. Hall. Dr Irvine, with his friends and family, made numerous climbs on the mountain and Chogoria was a popular base for mountaineers. ❧ 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-c123-80587
title: Family portrait, Chogoria, Kenya, 1929

description: “The family and Miss Rita Malcolm taken autumn 1929 & therefore much later than photos on last & next pages. Miss Malcolm came to Chogoria July 1928.” Group portrait of Dr and Mrs A C Irvine with their sons Tony, Geoff and Kenneth and Miss Rita Butter-Malcolm who was in charge of girl’s work and nursing and was based at Chogoria until 1939. ❧ 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-c123-80582
title: All the school students, Chogoria, Kenya, 1926

description: “The whole school, women seated in front, about 1926.” Group portrait of men, women and children all of whom were studying, or teaching, at the Chogoria school ❧ 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-c123-80575
title: Hospital staff, Chogoria, Kenya, 1927

description: “Our five hospital orderlies, Ezra, Samson, Suleiman, Paul and Mtuwangari. These are Christians – compare them with the pagans, a big difference in expression is usually very noticeable." Group portrait of five young men in uniform. In 1927 the hospital administered to a total of 332 inpatients and 14,128 outpatients on top of which Dr Irvine was providing supervision for Government dispensaries in the Embu district. ❧ 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-c123-80593
title: Interior of the new church, Chogoria, Kenya, 1930

description: “Interior of the church by day. Pulpit on left with plaques representing Prayer, The Holy Spirit and The Scriptures. Chancel in background.” Interior of the church looking towards the raised area of the chancel. The new church was built of brick, manufactured at the mission’s own brick works, and designed by Dr Irvine. ❧ 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-c123-80470
title: Memorial plaque to David Livingstone, Blantyre,Scotland, 1897

description: “Unveiling of memorial tablet at Blantyre to Dr. Livingstone, by Hugh Mayberry, Esq., Factor on Blantyre estate, in the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 1897.” Exterior view of a large crowd, outside the tenement where David Livingstone was born, during the unveiling of a memorial plaque. The building now houses the David Livingstone Centre.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80603
title: Car on bridge, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1929

description: Landscape view showing a car, possibly the Irvine famlies Hudson, and woman on a log bridge over a river in dense forest. ❧ 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.