cover image: Needle and thread race, Chogoria, Kenya, October 1924

Needle and thread race, Chogoria, Kenya, October 1924

1924

“Sports Oct. 1924. The needle threading race.” Group portrait of a number of competitors in a race during the sports day at the mission. Games and sports were a popular way of attracting local people to the mission. ❧ This image is from the first years of the Chogoria mission in Kenya, which was run by the Rev. Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974), from the collection entitled ‘Chogoria, 1922. The early days.”
games sports athletics irvine, archibald clive, missionary, chogoria, 1893-1974
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82054
Dates
1924-10
Pages
Photographic prints, 13 x 5.6 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-97122084-1.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/eda6cfd843ffd9376210ba13625cd2b5

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