Kahoho's Intermediate School. Married Women & Babies." Group portrait of married women and their children seated outside school building. 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. In April of 1900, the first day-school was opened for children. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79656
- Dates
- 1926-08-17
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 10.6 x 8.2 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Central Province Kenya Kikuyu
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75654387-1.tif
- Rights
- For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/e7cef13cbb5b5e7d97ef0377ef0cf9d1
