Africa Inland Mission collection
name: label: Names
content: Africa Inland Mission
label: Names
content: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
place: label: Place
content: Port Said (Egypt)
label: Place
content: Victoria, Lake
label: Place
content: Nairobi (Kenya)
label: Place
content: Mombassa (Kenya)
label: Place
content: Kenya
label: Place
content: Africa, East
label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Animals -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Safaris
label: Topic
content: Missionaries
culture: label: Culture
content: Kamba (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kikuyu (African people)
label: Culture
content: Masai (African people)
label: Culture
content: Swahili (African people)
label: Culture
content: Somali (African people)
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content: Africa Inland Mission collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: This collection contains 147 photographic prints and 43 postcards from East Africa (circa 1907-circa 1914), especially Kijobe, which depict the activities of the Africa Inland Mission; Theodore Roosevelt's safari in 1909; views of Nairobi, Mombasa, Port Said, Lake Victoria and other landscapes; and portraits of Maasai, Kikuyu, Kamba, Kavirondo, Akawba, Gikuyu, Somali and Swahili coast peoples.  Missionaries pictured include Hetz, Hurlburt, and Wallace, who is listed as photographer on many of the prints.  The collection also contains 3 paperback books, published by Africa Inland Mission, which describe the history of the organization and the experiences of its missionaries: Faster Beats the Drum (1978), Another Hand on Mine (1975) and Gardens of Miracles (1976).
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is a non-denominational Christian missionary organization that focuses on Africa. The organization was founded in 1895 by Scottish-American missionary Peter Cameron Scott of the International Missionary Alliance. Scott and his fellow missionaries arrived in Mombasa in October of 1895 and within a year had established four missions in Kenya. Scott's untimely death in 1896 almost led to the dissolution of AIM, but support from the Philadelphia Missionary Council and a new director in the person of Rev. Charles Hurlburt reinvigorated the project. In 1909 a station was set up in what was then German East Africa (Tanzania) and in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt intervened on behalf of his friend Hurlburt to persuade the Belgian government to allow the mission to establish a station in the Congo. Today, AIM operates in 13 countries in Central and Southern Africa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 147 photographs
label: Extent
content: 3 volumes (books)
label: Extent
content: 43 postcards
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1905-1978 (bulk 1905-1920)
label: Date
content: bulk 1900-1920
container: label: Container
content: Item EEPA.2008-003
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Sandra Tirey, 2008.  Africa Inland Mission U.S. Director Wade Ewing provided copyright in 2017.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2008-003
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Books
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged in four series:

Series 1: Locations

Series 2: Cultures

Series 3: Other

Series 4: Publications
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Eden Orelove, May 2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Books