cover image: Portrait of two European men, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

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Portrait of two European men, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1901

"Mr Ainsworth Gov. Official and German". Portrait of two men sitting at the entrance to a wattle building, both have glasses in their hands. On the left is John Ainsworth (1864-1946) the colonial administrator who became the Chief Native Commissioner in 1918. The man on the right is possibly Dr Uffman. The Kikuyu mission was established in 1898 by Thomas Watson, the Church of Scotland took on responsibility for the mission after his death in 1901. This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman, son of Dr Henry Uffman of the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission from 1901 to 1905.
dwellings government employees porches
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79966
Date published
circa 1901
Dates
circa 1901
Pages
Photographic prints, 10.3 x 8 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Central Province Kenya Kikuyu
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-75657960-1.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/796fa15c4482eb1f9de9374520cbec01

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