cover image: Irvine family home, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1948

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Irvine family home, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1948

“The Chogoria home, fish pond in foreground.” Exterior view of the Bungalow constructed by Ernest Carr in 1922 at the establishment of the Chogoria mission. The building was prefabricated in Nairobi and transported 146 miles on seventy ox-carts. ❧ The image is from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the period from 1947-1961 at the Chogoria mission which was established near Mt Kenya, in 1922, and run by Dr Irvine.
dwellings houses landscapes (environments)
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82491
Date published
circa 1948
Dates
circa 1948
Pages
Photographic prints, 18.3 x 13.8 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-97123914-1.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/553347edc696d971cb348d48721ceb15

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