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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79847
title: Portrait of Father Harry and his family, Malawi, ca.1925

description: "Che Harry & Wife". Portrait of a husband, wife and daughter. The man is wearing European clothes and the woman and child are wearing a mix of European and African clothes. They are standing in grassland, with mountains in the distance. Harry was from the Yao tribe and had been displaced by the Angoni raids. He returned to Angoniland, West of Lake Malawi, in 1898 to run the Pantumbi mission. He ran this mission independently and was eventually ordained. He was in charge of four native churches, with eight hundred members. He was known as “Father Harry”. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79844
title: Hippopotamus, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1925

description: View of a hippopotamus standing in a wide river which curves away into the distance, there is thick vegetation on both banks. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79820
title: Zanzibar woman, ca.1908-1912

description: "Zanzibar beauty". Studio portrait of a young woman in traditional dress.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79833
title: Local gathering, Malawi, ca.1911

description: Group portrait showing people sitting and standing in a wide half circle around two men, who appear to be performing a ritual or dance. One of the men has a bell tied to his waist, bells around his ankle and a maraca in his hand, the other wears multiple necklaces and bracelets. There are thatched huts in the background and a few very large clay pots on the image. The heads of two European men can be partially seen behind the crowd to the right of the image. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79917
title: Mtuwandabare's Outschool, Chogoria, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Chief Mtuwandabare with teacher Willie Kanini". Group portrait of students and their teacher Mr Kanini.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79774
title: Indian Carts, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Indian carts Outspanned". External view of loaded carts. The site at Chogoria was established by a native evangelist and dispenser sent out from Kikuyu in 1916. It sits on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, 35 miles from the summit at 17,040 feet, and administered to the Chuka, Mwimbi and Meru tribes. Mission station established by Dr A.C. Irvine, his wife and Mr Ernest Carr when they arrived, in 1922, from TumuTumu. Chogoria is built on a wooded ridge at an altitude of 5,000 feet. Mr Carr arrived first and built a bungalow in 1922, the Irvines arrived that autumn. A stone church was built to replace the thatch and wattle old church and was opened in 1930. Safaris into Tharaka country were undertaken to preach.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79751
title: Tumutumu Masons, Tumutumu, Kenya, September, 1926

description: "Two Tumutumu Masons". View of two men working on the stone from the nearby quarry. The Tumutumu mission (in the Kenia sphere) was administered to the Chuka and Mwimbi tribes, two sections of the Kikuyu people. The Chuka numbered about 15,000 and the Mwimbi numbered about 25,000. In 1908 Kabandango was the biggest chief in the Chuka district and Kianbati the biggest chief of the Mwimbi district. Tumutumu was established in 1908 by Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur and is situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, 130km north of Nairobi. The mission was set up as a clinic to deal with primarily Yaws (ulceration) and Tuberculosis was also common. In 1933 average hospital attendances was 15,000 with 1,000 annual injections to treat yaws. The effects of famine and starvation were also readily dealt with. Hospitals started by the missionaries at both sites have thrived and continue to play a vital role in modern Kenyan society.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79837
title: Food preparation, Mulanje, Malawi, ca.1911

description: "Mlanje range." "Preparing food, Nyasaland, A. J. Storey Blantyre B.C.A.". Exterior view showing three women preparing food. One is stirring a large pot and the other two are standing either side of three large woven baskets of food. They are in a small clearing with baskets, pots, woven mats, children, dogs and fowl around them. There is a pile of wood to the front of the image which had a closed umbrella leaning on it. They are next to a small clump of trees with scrubland in the background. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80513
title: Wedding party, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1929

description: “A native wedding.” Portrait of a wedding group, in white, and an indigenous minister standing in front of the original church at Chogoria which was made from mud and wattle. ❧ 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-c123-79757
title: Famine Patients, Tumutumu, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Famine Patients at Hospital". View of starving children huddled outside of a hospital. Signs of starvation are clearly evident in each of the children pictured. The Tumutumu mission (in the Kenia sphere) was administered to the Chuka and Mwimbi tribes, two sections of the Kikuyu people. The Chuka numbered about 15,000 and the Mwimbi numbered about 25,000. In 1908 Kabandango was the biggest chief in the Chuka district and Kianbati the biggest chief of the Mwimbi district. Tumutumu was established in 1908 by Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur and is situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, 130km north of Nairobi. The mission was set up as a clinic to deal with primarily Yaws (ulceration) and Tuberculosis was also common. In 1933 average hospital attendances was 15,000 with 1,000 annual injections to treat yaws. The effects of famine and starvation were also readily dealt with. Hospitals started by the missionaries at both sites have thrived and continue to play a vital role in modern Kenyan society.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80562
title: Rev. Jeremiah Waita, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1927

description: “Rev. Jeremiah Waita, our native minister (from 1926-1928).” Portrait of an indigenous minister standing outside holding a Bible. Rev. Jeremiah Waita was stationed at Chogoria from 1926-1928 and was one of the first indigenous Africans to be ordained by the Presbytery of 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-c123-79769
title: Thuchi River, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Thuchi River boundary between Embu and Chuka". Landscape view of river accompanied by caption "On the Road to Chogoria". The site of Chogoria was established by a native evangelist and dispenser sent out from Kikuyu in 1916. It sits on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, 35 miles from the summit at 17,040 feet, and administered to the Chuka, Mwimbi and Meru tribes. Mission station established by Dr A.C. Irvine, his wife and Mr Ernest Carr when they arrived, in 1922, from TumuTumu. Chogoria is built on a wooded ridge at an altitude of 5,000 feet. Mr Carr arrived first and built a bungalow in 1922, the Irvines arrived that autumn. A stone church was built to replace the thatch and wattle old church and was opened in 1930. Safaris into Tharaka country were undertaken to preach.The Thuchi river acts as a boundary between the sites of Embu and Chuka. This image was taken from a photograph album of the Tumutumu mission in September 1926.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79773
title: Nithi River, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Nithi River 9 miles from Chogoria". Landscape view of riverbed. Ground work for the site of Chogoria was established by a native evangelist and dispenser sent out from Kikuyu in 1916. It sits on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, 35 miles from the summit at 17,040 feet, and administered to the Chuka, Mwimbi and Meru tribes. ❧ Mission station established by Dr A.C. Irvine, his wife and Mr Ernest Carr when they arrived, in 1922, from TumuTumu.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79909
title: Cart carrying timber, Chogoria, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Cart bringing timber from forest". External view of carts being pulled by livestock and loaded up with timber for construction works. The ground work for the site of Chogoria was established by a native evangelist and dispenser sent out from Kikuyu in 1916. It sits on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, 35 miles from the summit at 17,040 feet, and administered to the Chuka, Mwimbi and Meru tribes. Mission station established by Dr A.C. Irvine, his wife and Mr Ernest Carr when they arrived, in 1922, from TumuTumu. Chogoria is built on a wooded ridge at an altitude of 5,000 feet. Mr Carr arrived first and built a bungalow in 1922, the Irvines arrived that autumn. A stone church was built to replace the thatch and wattle old church and was opened in 1930. Safaris into Tharaka country were undertaken to preach.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79781
title: Women carrying grass, Chogoria, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Women carrying thatching grass". Portrait of three women carrying heavy loads of grass for thatching of roofs. The site of Chogoria was established by a native evangelist and dispenser sent out from Kikuyu in 1916. It sits on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, 35 miles from the summit at 17,040 feet, and administered to the Chuka, Mwimbi and Meru tribes. Mission station established by Dr A.C. Irvine, his wife and Mr Ernest Carr when they arrived, in 1922, from TumuTumu. Chogoria is built on a wooded ridge at an altitude of 5,000 feet. Mr Carr arrived first and built a bungalow in 1922, the Irvines arrived that autumn. A stone church was built to replace the thatch and wattle old church and was opened in 1930. Safaris into Tharaka country were undertaken to preach.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79845
title: Blantyre and surrounding area, Malawi, ca.1925

description: "Soche, 5000 ft, Public Hospital and Government House on right side". Landscape view showing Blantyre with Mt. Soche in the background. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80555
title: Gaitungu, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1926

description: “Some natives take readily to mechanical things, as for instance, Ngaitungu, our indispensable workshop foreman who can be left alone with a workshop full of whirring machinery and will tend each machine, or work the saws or grind flour. He will also pump your tyres or mend them, take down your engine or remove your back axle, and 3 years ago he was a raw heathen in a blanket.” Portrait of a young man standing outside. When G.C. Cobb left Chogoria, in 1928 for the CMS, he handed over the supervision of the workshops and building work to Gaitungu who had been one of the earliest workers at Chogoria. ❧ 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-c123-79750
title: Masons at Work, Tumutumu, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Masons at Work near Quarry". External view with men working in a long, sheltered hut, carrying out masonry work. The mission trained carpenters and masons, at a quarry that was nearby. Industrial schools were an important aspect of the work by the missions in Africa. The training of apprentices and raising of educational standards was considered important in establishing the foundations for commerce and trade. Boys were often taught skills such as carpentry as the training enabled them to build better homes for themselves and others and provide them with a trade. By these means, they would be expected to become relatively prosperous and would keep them at the mission for longer periods of time. It was hoped that this would mean that these young men would become well-instructed Christians.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79727
title: One of the girls, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "The girls work started some years ago in Laundry work. After a little while the fathers began to realise that the hearts of the girls were being turned, and that if they allowed it to continue, they would lose the marriage dowry that should come to them at marriage. They took the girls away from the Laundry, and forbad them coming to us: however, the seed had been sown, and nothing would keep them away. Eventually three of them desired to make their public profession, and this they did at early morning Communion on Sunday. They went home to be beaten and were beaten several times before we could consent to take them in, but at last we were forced to, and that was the beginning of our Girls Boarding School. To-day there are 22 girls in residence. The same changes we have seen in the lives of the boys have equally come over the girls." Portrait of young indigenous girl. ❧ "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-c123-79811
title: Street scene, Zanzibar, ca.1908-1912

description: "Street in Zanzibar, observe narrowness". Exterior view of a narrow deserted street in Zanzibar, houses are built up on either side of the street.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79815
title: Fishermen with net, Zanzibar, ca.1908-1912

description: "Fishermen Zanzibar". Portrait of seven men standing in shallow water on the shoreline working with a large fishing net. Boats and people can be seen in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79998
title: Lilies, Africa, Mozambique, ca.1930

description: ""Consider the Lilies"". An exterior view showing a species of lily growing in the scrubland. The title is referencing a quote from the bible, from Luke 12:27, ‘Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.’ The image is part of a collection associated with the mission at Mihecani, Lomwe in Portuguese East Africa. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79846
title: Sisal cultivation, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1925

description: "Sisal garden". Exterior view showing two women, both using spades, working in a Sisal field. There is a hedge around the field, with a woven shelter in the far back of the image. Sisal is an Agave traditionally used in the making of twine and rope. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79724
title: Catechumens, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "These young men represent the first stage towards baptism. On a Sunday morning, these young men stood up and took these solemn vows upon them before all men:- ❧ 1. I promise to learn about God, and to follow Jesus Christ. ❧ 2. I promise to give up the old life with it's superstitious practices & it’s evil dances. ❧ 3. I promise to marry only one wife. ❧ 4. I promise to give of my substance to God. ❧ It is no light thing for a young Kikuyu lad to take such vows upon him: it is a deliberate turning of his back on all that he would naturally look forward to, - the period of licentious youth (2) and the time of wealth, position, and power, form the number of his wives and children (3): he refuses the first and by promising to marry only wife, he condemns himself for ever to be a poor man, in the eyes of his own people. Having taken these vows upon him, he is admitted into the Catechumens class, in which for a period of two years he is taught: at the end of that time if his life is a truly Christian one, he is admitted by baptism into the Church of Christ." Group portraits of young men about to be baptised. ❧ "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-c123-79753
title: Married Couple, Tumtumu, Kenya, September, 1926

description: "A Married Couple with Best Man and Bridesmaid". Group portrait of newly wed couple, with best man and bridesemaid seen on either side. It was in 1926 that ministers such as Stevenson, W.B. (Rev.) and Simeon, (Rev.) came to aid with the Tumutumu mission. It was in this year also that the first Kikuyu pastor was ordained. Tumutumu was established in 1908 by Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur and is situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, 130km north of Nairobi. The mission was set up as a clinic but soon expanded to include a school and church serving the Kikuyu population indigenous to the region.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79840
title: Basket making, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1911

description: "Basket making, J. Storey Blantyre B'C'A', Group of Natives Nyasaland". Exterior view showing four men sitting outside grass huts engaged in the process of basket weaving. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79723
title: Senior Teacher (Paulo), Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "This is a type of the senior teacher whose work has been so good. These have been the first to come out of that heathen darkness, and have borne the burden and heat of the day. Perhaps it is the purifying influence of the fire of persecution that has made them strong and true, but we pray that they may be but the forerunners of countless others, who will realise their high calling, and rise to it, as they have." Portrait of senior teacher Paulo. ❧ "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-c123-79719
title: Private Kong'o, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "Private Kong'o". Portrait of a young indigenous boy, member of 1st Kikuyu Company, Boys' Brigade. The formation of the Boys Brigade company in Kenya became important in combining the training of school, work and play with moral teachings. ❧ "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-c123-79928
title: Ship on the Suez Canal, Egypt, ca.1900

description: Landscape image of a ship on the Suez Canal. The banks of the canal are bare of vegetation and there are buildings on the left of the image.
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-c123-80386
title: Baobab tree, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1920

description: "Baobab tree: patriarch of the African plain." Exterior view showing a large tree dominating the sky line. The Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) is a large slow growing indigenous tree that resembles a root system and is sometimes known as the upside-down tree. Many parts of the tree are utilised; the bark is used for matting and nets, the leaves for fodder and the tree itself can be used as a reservoir. ❧ 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 on a high plateau behind Mount Waller. 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. The instruction that went on in Livingstonia was to provide Christian leaders for the expanding mission and to develop commercial activities and encourage trade.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79812
title: Sultan's palace, Zanzibar, ca.1908-1912

description: "Sultan's palace Zanzibar". Waterfront view of the Sultan's palace at Zanzibar. The image taken from the water looking towards the palace shows a large four story building with outlying buildings. There appears to be a pier to the right of the image.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79994
title: Female doctor and nurse, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1930

description: "Doctor & Nurse, Blantyre". Full length portrait of a doctor, possibly Madge Muir, and nurse standing on a raised garden area to the left of a long brick building. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79760
title: Thagana Train Station, Tumutumu, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Arrival Thagana Station Rail Head 21 miles from Tumutumu". External view of train arriving at Thagana station. The Tumutumu mission (in the Kenia sphere) administered to the Chuka and Mwimbi tribes, two sections of the Kikuyu people. The Chuka numbered about 15,000 and the Mwimbi numbered about 25,000. In 1908 Kabandango was the biggest chief in the Chuka district and Kianbati the biggest chief of the Mwimbi district. Tumutumu was established in 1908 by Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur and is situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, 130km north of Nairobi. The mission was set up as a clinic but soon expanded to include a school and church serving the Kikuyu population indigenous to the region. The mission trained carpenters and masons, a quarry was nearby. Train station at Thagana, 21 miles from Tumutumu, market at Karatina.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79922
title: Suez Canal, Egypt, ca.1900

description: View of the Suez Canal, with mixed use buildings both to the foreground and far left of the image. There is a railway line and train in the middle of the image. This collection of photographs, possibly, belonged to Dr Karl Uffman who studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission from 1901 to 1905. He was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79999
title: Mrs Andrew Reid being carried in a Machila, Mozambiquei, ca.1925

description: "Machila- Mrs Andrew Reid [nee Margaret Bell]". A lady being carried in a litter, known as a Machila, across a river by native porters. Rev. Andrew Reid was ordained to Nyasaland and the Mehecani station, in Portuguese East Africa, in 1922. He retired in 1927 for health reasons, although there were claims of misconduct and bullying. He married Margaret Bell in 1917. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].