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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79924
title: Ship on the Suez Canal, Egypt, ca.1900

description: "Peridis N 137 Bateaux hollandais a la counte d' ?" Commercial image taken by P. Peridis, a photographer based around the Suez Canal, image numbver 137. View across the Canal showing a large ship making its way along the canal, the embankments are bare of buildings, people or vegetation.
This image if 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-c123-80384
title: Hospital, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1920

description: "David Gordon Memorial Hospital, Livingstonia." Exterior view of an extensive hospital building. The hospital was originally built in 1910, with a donation of funds from the two sisters of David Gordon, and is situated 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 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-c123-79721
title: Teachers, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "On the teachers depends not only the present, but the future success of our work. They are to be the teachers of young Kikuyu life in paths of righteousness; they are to be the evangelists to win their own people unto Christ, the pastors who will shepherd the young Church. Here is a photo of our Senior & junior teachers on whom so much depends. Much of the wonderful results we have seen in the last four years, are the outcome of the faithful steadfast lives of these older lads." Group portrait of the school teachers at Kikuyu. ❧ "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-c123-79764
title: Tumutumu Ministers, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Tumutumu Ministers (Rev Simeon, Rev Solomon, Rev Joshua, Rev Paulo, Chief Gideon, Rev W.B. Stevenson) " Group portrait of the reverends. 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. 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 mission trained carpenters and masons as a quarry was located nearby.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79722
title: Junior Teacher, Muchoki, Kikuyu, ca.1911

description: "This is a photo of one of the small junior teachers some dozen of whom are under a three years apprenticeship term when they are themselves taught and also taught to teach. From their ranks will come our future senior teachers." Portrait of young junior teacher Muchoki. ❧ "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-c123-79827
title: Mr. Burnett and dog, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Mr. Burnett." Portrait showing Mr. Alexander Burnett seated outside on a woven chair with a dog standing beside him. Alexander [Archie] Burnett, horticulturalist to the Blantyre mission, took the photographs of the building of Blantyre church and also was the first person to take moving films of all the Livingstonia mission stations using a 16mm camera. He was married and had a daughter called Blossom. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79761
title: Rev. Stevenson at Karatina Market, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Rev Mr Stevenson and Mr Sinclair at Karatina Market". External view of Reverend Stevenson and Mr Sinclair at marketplace outside of Tumutumu. 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. Arthur Ruffelle Barlow (1888-1965), the nephew of David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1853-1907) and co-editor of the first Kikuyu – English Dictionary, was the first resident missionary at Tumutumu. The mission trained carpenters and masons as a quarry was located nearby.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79801
title: Missionary group portrait, Hamilton, Scotland, 1923

description: Group portrait of missionary campaigners, including Church of Scotland representatives; Mr. Carter, Mr Armitage, Miss Kinnes, Miss Mungle and Mr. J. A. Smith. The group are formally positioned in three rows outside a large stone building.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79766
title: Tumutumu Ministers, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Tumutumu Ministers and elders". Group portrait of Reverend Stevenson pictured with other ministers and elders. 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. 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 mission trained carpenters and masons as a quarry was located nearby. This image was taken from a photograph album of the Tumutumu mission in September 1926.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79765
title: Tumutumu Kirk Session, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Tumutumu Kirk Session (Rev Joshua and Solomon, Rev W.B Stevenson, Chief Gideon, Revs Paulo and Simeon)". 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. 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 mission trained carpenters and masons as a quarry was located nearby.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79725
title: First six baptisms, Kikuyu, Kenya, 1908

description: "On Dr.Ruffelle' Scott's deathbed his old boy Karanja was the first of our converts to be baptised; his was followed on Xmas day 1908 by the first public baptisms of 6 young men. It was a great day of rejoicing and thankfulness to God. In the beginning of 1907 there were no baptised boys, and no catechumens, - to-day in 1911 there is a young native Church of some 25 young men and 4 young women who have been baptised, and a Catechumenate class at Kikuyu & Kenia, of some 60 or 70 young men and women in preparation for baptism. We marvel to-day when we think of what the work was in 1907, and what it is to-day, and we acknowledge that all the wonderful blessing is from the Lord, whose work it is." Group portrait of six young indigenous men after being 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-c123-79763
title: Dressers and Nurses, Tumutumu, Kenya, September 1926

description: "Dressers and Nurses (Miss Milligan, Dr Philp, Mr Stevenson)". Group portrait of dressers outside of hospital.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-c123-80012
title: Child portrait, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Makupanya [Makubuya?]". Portrait of a child standing side on to the camera but looking toward the lens. 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-c123-80547
title: Hospital outpatients attending service, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1926

description: “A service is held daily. Here Suleiman is seen preaching to the out-patients under the trees.” Exterior view showing a road and patients sitting on the embankments either side. Suleiman, an orderly at the main hospital, stands in the middle of the road in uniform. ❧ 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-c123-79855
title: Girls Boarding house, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1925

description: "Girls Boarding House Blantyre". Exterior view of large brick buildings, with corrugated metal roofs. There are school children lined up on some of the steps facing the camera and a woman to the left foreground of the image. Blantyre Mission was established in 1876 in the Shire Highlands of Southern Nyasaland [Malawi] by Henry Henderson (1843-1891) and from here other mission stations were established at Zomba, Domasi, Chirazulu and Mlanje. Blantyre was named after the birth place of David Livingstone, in South Lanarkshire, and is famous for the ornate church built by Clement Scott. According to Stewart of Lovedale it is, ‘probably the most striking native church in all central Africa, except the cathedral at Zanzibar’. The Blantyre 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. This was, in part, a response to the slave trade and missionaries believed that an end to this practice could only be achieved through the development of alternative trading patterns. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80392
title: Power house, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1920

description: "Interior of Power house, Livingstonia." Interior view of a turbine room with an engineer posed amongst the machinery. Power for the Livingstonia mission was provided by hydroelectric turbines at the Manchewe falls, which was financed by John Campbell White. The electricity supplied helped run the workshops and training facilities. ❧ 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-c123-80011
title: Family portrait, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: “Alfonso, Mnathiwa's School". Family portrait of a man holding a young child in his left arm with a woman standing beside them. 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-c123-80376
title: Waterfall, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1910

description: “Manchewe, lower falls, Livingstonia.” Scenic view of a large waterfall amidst lush vegetation. Turbines were constructed at the falls to provide electricity to the workshops and facilities at the nearby mission. 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-c123-80017
title: Group portrait after baptism, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

description: "Rosalina teacher - left hand side four grannies - photos taken after Baptism, Old Christians". Portrait of five women in a row four of whom have recently been baptised. 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-c123-80393
title: Elephant spores in bush country, Malawi, ca.1920

description: "'Elephant country’ after bush fires (Nkamanga)." Exterior view of open country where the grass has been burned, elephant droppings lie in the foreground. The image could possibly be from the Henga valley but is certainly in the vicinity of the Livingstonia station. Robert Laws (1851-1934), who founded the station in 1891as a training institution, was an authority on African wildlife and considered a crack shot. ❧ The Livingstonia mission field was established by Lieutenant E D Young and Dr Robert Laws in 1875, as a tribute to David Livingstone. The field covered an area from the western shore of Lake Nyasa into Northern Rhodesia [Zambia] and the original station at Cape Maclear moved to Bandawe in 1881.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80556
title: Hospital admissions, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1927

description: “Above, a scene that might meet us in the hospital compound, an amputation case, and a paralysed man for admission.” Group portrait of men carrying a patient outside the main hospital and other patient on crutches. 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-c123-80400
title: Indigenous worker, Mwenzo, Zambia, ca.1920

description: “Yeremiya ‘on service’.” – “A typical Nyasaland native – gun-bearer or personal servant. D. Adamson, Mwenzo.” Portrait of a young indigenous man named Yeremiya. ❧ Mwenzo was established in 1894, by Alexander Dewar (d.1943,) and was the first Free Church mission in north eastern Rhodesia. It was situated on the Stevenson road, which linked Lake Nyasa with Lake Tanganyika and was a major trade route, just four miles from the Lake Company’s Fife station. It was run, much of the time, by Yohane Afwenge Banda, a Tonga evangelist and Dr James Alexander Chisholm (1872-1936) who ran the mission and hospital from 1900-1936.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80399
title: Domestic scene, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1920

description: “Preparing the evening meal.” Exterior view showing a women missionary standing behind an indigenous woman and children involved in food preparation. ❧ The Livingstonia mission field was established by Lieutenant E D Young and Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) in 1875, as a tribute to David Livingstone. The field covered an area from the western shore of Lake Nyasa into Northern Rhodesia [Zambia] and the original station at Cape Maclear moved to Bandawe in 1881.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80550
title: Patients at Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1926

description: “A group of lepers outside their ward.” Exterior view of the leper ward showing six patients, sitting on a bench, and a hospital orderly. 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-c123-80378
title: Family Portrait, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1920

description: "Yuriah and family at the Overtoun Institution." Group portrait of an indigenous family looking prosperous and well dressed. ❧ 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-c123-80498
title: Group of students, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1927

description: “One of the men in the class here was rejected for baptism temporarily because he had too many debts on hand, and another because though no evil was reported of him, nobody Knew of any special good he had ever done. This high standard was alas not maintained.” Group portrait of a school class, many of whom are adults, attending the education facilities at the Chogoria 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-c123-80405
title: Working in the vegetable gardens, Livingstonia, ca.1920

description: “Afternoon work of pupils at Overtoun Institution.” Exterior view of a number of indigenous men and women hoeing a vegetable patch. Pupils studied trades as well as academic subjects, many training to be catechist and preachers, the intention had been to develop the school into a university, although this was not fulfilled until 2003, at the time the Institution was thought to provide some of the best education in the region. ❧ 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 purpose of the instruction was to provide Christian leaders for the expanding mission and to develop commercial activities and encourage trade.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80398
title: Wood workers, Zambia, ca. 1920

description: “Sawyers, Mwenzo, N. Rhodesia [Zambia].” – “Native types Winamwanga [peoples], Tanzanyika district, N. Rhodesia.” Group portrait of workers in a wooded area. Mwenzo was established in 1894, by Alexander Dewar (d.1943,) and was the first Free Church mission in north eastern Rhodesia. It was situated on the Stevenson road, which linked Lake Nyasa with Lake Tanganyika and was a major trade route, just four miles from the Lake Company’s Fife station. It was run, much of the time, by Yohane Afwenge Banda, a Tonga evangelist and Dr James Alexander Chisholm (1872-1936) who ran the mission and hospital from 1900-1936, he was also appointed J.P. of Rhodesia and translated the New Testament into Chinanwonga. The Chisholm Memorial Hospital in Mwenzo was named after him.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80553
title: Tree felling, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1926

description: “This is another of our workmens activities, sawing a hard-wood tree for piles for a house.” Portrait of two workers sawing down a tree. Chogoria was practically self-sufficient in its construction needs as it supplied its own timber and bricks. ❧ 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-c123-80543
title: Family portrait, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1925

description: “Clean Christian home life, with its securities and comforts, its care for the children and love between husband and wife is undoubtedly a factor which attracts married natives who come to the station … Willie, our head teacher & Hannah & their child.” Group portrait of a family with the mother holding a small child. The man is probably Willie Kanini who trained as a teacher at Kikuyu and arrived two months after 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.