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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79434
title: Millet field, China, ca.1888-1894

description: “Field of tall millet (Kaoliang)”. Exterior view of a field where large millet plants are densely packed. Kaoliang is a distilled spirit, made from millet, and known as Chinese wine. It is popular in China and Korea. ❧ The image is from an album relating to the Rev. James A Whylie (1863-1894) who was ordained to the Manchuria mission in 1887 and based in Liaoyang, 1888-1894. He did much itinerant work and built upon the work of Old Wang who had been the ‘native evangelist’ in Liaoyang until his death in 1885. When the first Sino Japanese War (1894-1895) broke out troops were being gathered to send to Korea and suspicion of foreigners was heightened. In Liaoyang, on the 10 August 1894, a group of Chinese soldiers wrecked the U.P. chapel and attacked Mr Whylie, who died of his wounds several days later. Missionaries and foreigners then sought refuge in the port of Newchwang where many remained until the war ended the following year.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79527
title: View across bay, Port Resolution, Tanna, ca.1890

description: “West side of Bay, Pt. Resolution. The near land has been thrown up by earthquakes, 1878 and 1888.” External view across the bay with two figures paddling in the water. Mount Yasur is an active volcano on Tanna, located on the coast near Sulphur Bay. It lies to the southeast of the dormant Mount Tukosmera, near Port Resolution. Yasur Volcano has been in almost continuous eruption for hundreds of years and in 1878 it gave a display of ‘tremendous force’, accompanied by a local earthquake and a tsunami that reached ~12 m elevation. In 1888 a large earthquake resulted in the uplift of the western shore of Port Resolution.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79445
title: Binchow in winter, China, 1909

description: “This shows a town called Binchow in the Ashiho mission district in north Manchuria, during a severe winter, notice the deep snow. The city gate is seen in the centre of the picture. When the photo was taken the thermometer stood at about 30° below zero. [Part?] o[f] the difficulty was to get the picture snapped before the fingers turned dead white, which is the first sign in getting them well frozen.” View of a town in a snowy landscape. Binchow lies in the present day Heilongjians province and was an outpost of the Ashiho mission. James Stobie (b.1869) was appointed to Manchuria in 1894 and served in the Ashiho station with his wife Katherine Kirk Paton.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79447
title: Journey by sledge, Manchuria, 1909

description: “Stobie trying to keep warm en route.” “Mr Stobie, then missionary at Ashiho [Acheng], trying to keep warm on the sleigh. The bundle of furs on the sleigh is he. The snow is very deep & progress very slow.” Exterior view of a snowy landscape through which horses pull a sledge with a figure sitting on it. This image was taken during a journey to Ashiho by missionaries during the winter of 1909. James Stobie (b.1869) was appointed to Manchuria in 1894 and served in the Ashiho station with his wife Katherine Kirk Paton. The Manchuria mission had progressed from Newchwang, a coastal Treaty Port in the south up to Ashiho in the far north since John Ross established the Scottish Presbyterian mission in Manchuria in 1872.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79695
title: Mrs. Watson & Kioi's Village School, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "We now pass to a brighter side of things, and to tell how that darkness is being dispelled. This shows you one of the village outschools held daily at a village three miles away, & worked by a senior, and two junior teachers with Mrs Watson supervising the whole. This photo shows Mrs Watson in the centre of a group of little village children, whom she and the teachers are seeking to tell of the love of Jesus." Group portrait of Mrs Watson and her students. ❧ "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-c123-79534
title: Missionary’s house, Aniwa, ca.1890

description: “Aniwa - Rev. J. G. Paton’s house.” External view of John Gibson Paton’s thatched house. A few people are seated on the veranda, obscured by bushes at the front. Paton and his wife, Mary Ann Robson, arrived at Aneityum [Anatom] in 1858. When he and his followers were forced to flea the island of Tanna in 1862, Paton was sent to the Australian colonies to promote the Presbyterian cause and to raise funds for a mission vessel. Paton arrived back in the New Hebrides in 1865 and instigated an appeal by the missionaries for the punishment of the Tannese for their killing of British subjects. In August 1865 the Curaçoa shelled villages at Port Resolution and its sailors made an armed landing. After the events of 1865 it was not possible for him to return to his former field on Tanna, and he was therefore sent to the small island of Aniwa which was to be Paton's base for the next 15 years. The whole population of Aniwa, numbering about two hundred, eventually adopted Christianity.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79711
title: Ploughing, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "There are about ten young men who have been apprenticed for three years in agriculture and they are taught how to use the plough, and other implements and are given teaching in tree-planting, and other things." Exterior view with young indigenous men ploughing land for crops. ❧ "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-c123-79653
title: Kahoho's Intermediate School, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

description: Welcome to Rev Mr Stevenson at Kahoho's Intermediate School, Monday 17th August 1926 [pictured left to right] Rev Benjamin, Rev Mr Stevenson, Elder Musa". Exterior view showing indigenous people lined up to welcome the arrival of Reverend Stevenson and others. The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a temporary site by the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1891, before moving to Kikuyu territory in 1898, under the Rev. Thomas Watson. Located on the ‘lower shamba’, the site stands 12 miles from Nairobi, at a distance of approximately 342 miles away from the coast. The Church of Scotland assumed control of the Mission in 1901. The mission church was built as a memorial to Dr Ruffelle Scott who originally began the building of a mission church as a memorial to the Reverend Thomas Watson, who died in 1900. In April of the same year, the first day-school was opened for children. By March 1926, The Alliance High School for older boys was established, principled by Mr G.A. Grieve. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80046
title: School house, Mulanje, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "The School-house". Exterior view of a brick built school with a thatched grass roof. There are further buildings to the right of the image. The area in front of the school is cleared and there is a mountain in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79880
title: Futuna coast, Vanuatu, ca.1900

description: “North Coast of Futuna, landing place on 2nd right just in front of Copeland’s pk.” Landscape view of the island showing a small bay and beach surrounded by rocky outcrops. Copeland’s Peak is an extinct volcano and named after the Rev. Joseph Copeland who arrived there in 1866 and remain for ten years.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79897
title: Williams Bay, Erromango, Vanuatu, 1903

description: “Birds eye view of Wms River, Dillons Bay, Erromanga.” Landscape view of Williams River flowing into Dillon’s Bay [Williams Bay]. The river and bay are named after John Williams (1796-1839) who was commissioned by the London Missionary Society in 1816, and active in the South Pacific. In 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where he was unknown, Williams and his fellow missionary James Harris were killed on the island of Erromango during an attempt to bring them the Gospel.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79560
title: Slit drums, Amrym, ca.1890

description: “Heathen natives and idol drum - Ambrim [Ambrym].” Group photo of indigenous men, women, and children by embellished slit drums. Each man is naked except for a ‘namba’ (a traditional penis sheath from the New Hebrides [Vanuatu]). Three women on the left wear only grass skirts. The people of the New Hebrides cut large logs with 'totem' type carvings on the outer surface and hollow out the centre leaving only a slit down the front. These hollowed out logs give the deep resonance of drums when hit on the outside with sticks.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79900
title: Landing place of Captain Cook, Erromango, Vanuatu, 1903

description: “Landing place of Captain Cook, Erromanga (Traitors head in background).” View of a man and boy on a beach at Cook Bay on the eastern side of Erromango. Captain Cook landed on the island on the 4th August 1774, but after the islanders attempted to seize the boat the marines opened fire on them. Traitors head Peninsula lies north of the bay and consists of three volcanoes.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79525
title: Mission house, Port Resolution, Tanna, ca.1890

description: “Back of Mission House - Port Resolution, Tanna. Rev. W. Watt.” Rear view of the new-style clapboard mission house at Port Resolution, with metal sheet roofing and a veranda. William Watt, a Theological student of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland, was appointed a missionary in 1866. Watt and his wife Agnes arrived on the Islands in 1868 and commenced work on Tanna. In 1880, he baptized two men and four women with five more in 1884. His wife died in 1894 and he stayed on Tanna until 1910. Her autobiographical Twenty-Five Years' Mission Life on Tanna, New Hebrides was published in Paisley, 1896.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79432
title: View over Haicheng, China, ca.1888-1894

description: “View of Haicheng from a hill inside, north gate tower in distance”. Townscape showing typical Chinese style buildings some in a state of disrepair. The United Presbyterian Church established a mission in Haicheng in 1876 which is situated between Newchwang and Liaoyang. It became the base for the Rev. John MacIntyre (1837-1905) and his wife. ❧ The image is from an album relating to the Rev. James A Whylie (1863-1894) who was ordained to the Manchuria mission in 1887 and based in Liaoyang, 1888-1894. He did much itinerant work and built upon the work of Old Wang who had been the native evangelist’ in Liaoyang until his death in 1885. When the first Sino Japanese War (1894-1895) broke out troops were being gathered to send to Korea and suspicion of foreigners was heightened. In Liaoyang, on the 10 August 1894, a group of Chinese soldiers wrecked the U.P. chapel and attacked Mr Whylie, who died of his wounds several days later. Missionaries and foreigners then sought refuge in the port of Newchwang where many remained until the war ended the following year.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79497
title: Missionary church, Aniwa, ca.1890

description: “Aniwa - Church built by Rev John G. Paton, with aid of natives.”  Exterior view of thatched missionary church with two indigenous people standing to the front. After fleeing to New South Wales in 1862, John Gibson Paton arrived back in the New Hebrides in 1865 with his second wife and two recruits for the Presbyterian mission. There he instigated an appeal by the missionaries for the punishment of the Tannese for their killing of British subjects. In August 1865 the Curaçoa shelled villages at Port Resolution and its sailors made an armed landing. This use of naval force to protect the mission was widely reported in the Australian colonial press and Paton was much criticized for his role. In 1866 Paton was appointed by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria as its first missionary to the New Hebrides. After the events of 1865 it was not possible for him to return to his former field on Tanna, and he was therefore sent to the small island of Aniwa which was to be Paton's base for the next 15 years. The whole population of Aniwa, numbering about two hundred, eventually adopted Christianity.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80151
title: Laying foundations, Blantyre church, Malawi, November 1888

description: "Group taken at laying foundations of Blantyre Church". Group portrait showing Europeans present at the laying of the foundation stone of Blantyre church Malawi, November 1888. The group are arranged under a shelter with three men seated on the ground at the front of the image, the man to the left of the image holding a roll of paper is Rev. D. C. Scott. There are six women and two children are seated and seven men standing behind, Dr. John Bowie is to the left of the line wearing a hat. The church was built by D.C. Scott to his own design and finished in 1891. David Clement Ruffelle Scott, (1853-1907) was born in Edinburgh. He attended school in Edinburgh then worked in an actuary's office before a calling to the church led him to study Arts and Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Scott was ordained in 1881 and immediately sent to be head of the Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre in Nyasaland [Malawi]. Scott was a brilliant linguist, he wrote the Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language (1892). Much of the periodical Life and Work in Central Africa between 1886 and 1898 was written by Scott. In 1895 his wife, brother-in-law and brother died in Malawi. He resigned in 1898. In 1901 he returned to Africa, to head the Kikuyu mission in British East Africa (Kenya) which had just been taken over by the Church of Scotland. The death of his second wife in 1902, a series of illnesses, and criticism of his methods of running the mission at Kikuyu marred the final years of his life. Scott died there on the 13th of October 1907.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79479
title: Anelgauhat Bay, Anatom, ca.1890

description: “Aneityum [Anatom] - Head Mission station at Anelcauhat, with ‘Dayspring’ in the distance.”  Landscape view of Aneityum's largest village, Anelgauhat, and its bay. The island's head mission station is to the far left of the photograph and Dayspring, the missionary ship built in 1863, can be seen at sea.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79444
title: Robertsons, Manchuria, China, 1909

description: “Rev. D.T. & Mrs Robertson, 1909” Group portrait of the Rev. Robertson with his wife Sarah and their dog standing in the doorway of a house. Daniel Thomson Robertson (1869-) was appointed to Manchuria in 1890, married Sarah Campbell Nicholson, 1896, and became Principal of the Manchuria Christian College in Moukden, 1907. He served during the war with the Chinese Labour Corps in France, 1918-1919. ❧ Moukden, the capital of Manchuria, became an important station in the interior and Hospitals, Schools and Orphanages were built there.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79474
title: Decorated gates, Ashiho, Manchuria, 1910

description: “Gate gods.” Wood block prints representing gate gods. These are pasted on doors at New Year to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck. The custom dates back to the Tang Dynasty. ❧ The United Presbyterian Church started work in Ashiho in 1892 and the town, which lay in the Sungari district in the north of Manchuria, was described as having mud walls and being irregularly laid out. James Stobie (b.1869) was appointed to Manchuria in 1894 and served in the Ashiho station with his wife Katherine Kirk Paton. The image is taken during the time of the Great Revival when interest in Christianity was at its height amongst the indigenous population and major inroads were being made into Korea.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79548
title: Palm trees, Anatom, ca.1890

description: “Na Koai Palm in fruit. (Native name).” Exterior view of palm trees surrounded at the base by vegetation. The botanical and common names are unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79574
title: Futuna Mission, Vanuatu, 1903

description: “Mission (new) to Futuna erected 1889 after destruction of old house by hurricane.” Exterior view of the manse. Several children play around the house and a woman, probably Margaret Gunn, sits on the verandah.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79579
title: Carved wooden idols, Ambrym, Vanuatu, 1903

description: “Idols or memorials of the dead, Ambrim.” Exterior view of large carved idols with human faces, two young boys stand next to them. The people of the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] cut large logs with 'totem' type carvings on the outer surface and hollow out the centre leaving only a slit down the front. These hollowed out logs give the deep resonance of drums when hit on the outside with sticks.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79892
title: Slit drums, Malakula, Vanuatu, 1903

description: “Heathen drums Malakula. Native sitting ready to beat the drum. The drums are principally used foe signalling, in fact native telegraphy.” Exterior view of a forest clearing with several totemic tree trunks. Large logs with faces carved on the outer surface and hollowed out centres give a deep resonance when hit on the outside with sticks.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79578
title: Group portrait of teachers, Erromango, Vanuatu, ca.1903

description: “Native Teachers, Erromanga. Yomot with Glengarry bonnet died recently of measles. He is mentioned in Dr Patons in connection with the Robertsons. He was the means of saving them from being murdered.” Group portrait of indigenous men gathered around the base of a tree. Yomot of Erromanga was described as a determined man and trustworthy Christian leader. The Robertsons mentioned are probably Hugh Robertson, 1841-1914, and his wife Christina, both from Nova Scotia, they worked on Erromanga as missionaries for forty years.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79903
title: Indigenous dwelling, Ambrym, Vanuatu, 1903

description: “Women’s hut (heathen) in Ambrim [Ambrym].” Exterior view of a rough dwelling made with matting and large leaf branches. This is an example of conditions for women and children living apart from the men in the north of the island, where the huts are only four or five feet high with a small entrance.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79670
title: Manse, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: “From the Church we still ascend, passing on the right hand side the football field, till we come to the Manse with it’s beautiful garden, at the summit of the hill. In the garden you will find roses, carnations, sweet peas, stocks, flocks and other flowers while we are well supplied with cauliflowers, cabbages, potatoes an all our home vegetables.” Exterior view of the manse, where Mr J.W. Arthur lived. It is a large single story building with a verandah running around two sides of the building. A well cultivated garden dominates the foreground. ❧ "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-c123-79581
title: Indigenous village, Vanuatu, 1903

description: “Heathen village, Tamgoa Santa. Beside this village the Training Institution for Teachers is now erected.” Exterior view of thatched huts with people sitting outside.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79713
title: Quarrying, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1911

description: "This photo shows ordinary workmen quarrying the stone for our buildings, in our own quarries. They become very handy at the work after some training." Exterior view showing indigenous people working in the nearby Quarry. The mission trained carpenters and masons. ❧ "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: 10.5281/zenodo.5874151
title: Figure files for Charge-noise spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots via dynamically-decoupled exchange oscillations

description: This repository contains .fig (matlab) files corresponding to the figures in Charge-noise spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots via dynamically-decoupled exchange oscillations. The raw data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79550
title: Banyan tree, Anatom, ca.1890

description: “Banyan tree - Back of mission station in distance.” Exterior view of a banyan (Ficus benghalensis, or F. indica), an unusually shaped tree of the fig genus in the mulberry family (Moraceae) native to tropical Asia. Aerial roots that develop from its branches descend and take root in the soil to become new trunks. The banyan reaches a height up to 30 metres (100 feet) and spreads laterally indefinitely.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-79565
title: Man and woman with braided hair, Tanna, ca.1890

description: “Heathen natives of Tanna. Man with corded hair.” Portrait of a man and woman sitting on grass with her ankles crossed over his. They both wear finely braided hair and hair bands.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5874150
title: Figure files for Charge-noise spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots via dynamically-decoupled exchange oscillations

description: This repository contains .fig (matlab) files corresponding to the figures in Charge-noise spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots via dynamically-decoupled exchange oscillations. The raw data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80169
title: Pupils and staff, Henry Henderson Institute, Blantyre, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "Senior Scholars." Group portrait of pupils and staff in the grounds of the Henry Henderson Institute, Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi]. Founded in 1909 and named after the man who had established the mission at Blantyre, the Institute offered a wide range of technical courses and training to young people who had completed their education at the village district school. At the Institute they were apprenticed for the full period of their training and boarded in the mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80098
title: Waterfall at Mlanje Plateau, Malawi, ca.1910

description: "Mlanje Plateau Falls". Landscape view of Mlanje Plateau waterfall. The waterfall is surrounded by thick foliage which covers the surrounding hillside.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-80266
title: Mission station, Malawi, ca.1895

description: Exterior view showing a male missionary standing outside a simple building with thatched roof. 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-c123-80167
title: The Manse, Blantyre Parish, Malawi, ca.1926

description: "The Manse." Exterior view of the manse at Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi]. The development of the Blantyre Mission, including its manse and 'square', was properly begun in 1877. In 1878 the post of an ordained minister was filled by the arrival of the Rev Duff Macdonald, a graduate of Aberdeen University. The original stone manse was demolished and a new one made of brick was built in 1883.