“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.
- 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