cover image: Roofing a building, Tumutumu, Kenya, 1921

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Roofing a building, Tumutumu, Kenya, 1921

1921

Exterior view showing the construction of a building which consists of a wooden frame and banana leaf cladding. Workers sit on the roof weaving in leaves. Possibly the home of Dr and Mrs Irvine at Tumutumu after they were married on 6 May 1921 ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the time that Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) spent at Tumutumu (1919-1921) and some of the early years at Chogoria.
dwellings home construction (assembling)
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81950
Dates
1921
Pages
Photographic prints, 8.6 x 6 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Central Province Kenya Tumutumu
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-97121760-1.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/2f2719375fff41c472a7a220a189837b

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