cover image: Group portrait at Mount Kenya rest hut, Kenya, ca.1925

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Group portrait at Mount Kenya rest hut, Kenya, ca.1925

“At the first rest hut 10,000 up Mt. Kenya. [L to R] Dr Irvine, Miss Shackleton cousin of Mr Carr’s, Mrs Irvine, Mr Carr, who was responsible for starting the work at Chogoria & supporting it for 6 years.” Group portrait of four walkers outside a Mount Kenya bothy. Many climbers used Chogoria as a base from which to climb Mount Kenya. Ernest Carr (1868-1939) was the father of Margaret Joyce Irvine and financed the Chogoria mission in its early days and erected the rest huts on the mountain. ❧ 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.
dwellings recreation mountaineering irvine, archibald clive, missionary, chogoria, 1893-1974 carr, ernest, 1868-1939
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80588
Date published
circa 1925
Dates
circa 1925
Pages
Photographic prints, 29.3 x 22.5 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Eastern Province Kenya mountain: Kirinyaga
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-97124772-1.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/550021d6144831d14916ca37cae0f6f9

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