“Our five hospital orderlies, Ezra, Samson, Suleiman, Paul and Mtuwangari. These are Christians – compare them with the pagans, a big difference in expression is usually very noticeable." Group portrait of five young men in uniform. In 1927 the hospital administered to a total of 332 inpatients and 14,128 outpatients on top of which Dr Irvine was providing supervision for Government dispensaries in the Embu district. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80575
- Dates
- 1927
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 16.5 x 12.3 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-97124655-1.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/57ba097b4eed49b74104280e50df854e
