“The same house about 1927. Note growth of trees, car on lawn, guest house: photo taken by Mr Martin Johnson the well known photographer of big game.” Exterior view of the Irvine home at the Chogoria mission. Americans Martin Johnson (1884-1937) and Osa Johnson (1894-1953) spent several years in Kenya filming footage for the documentary Simba: King of the Beasts (1928) and would have stayed with Dr Irvine. ❧ 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-c123-80580
- Dates
- 1927
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 16.9 x 12.6 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-97124778-1.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/1d3ba23f38249555e5aafbd09d23a50a
