"Distant view of African village." View of thatched roofs and scrub surrounding village dwellings. Part of an album of photographs relating to the mission at Blantyre, which was established in 1876 in the Shire Highlands of Southern Nyasaland [Malawi] by Henry Henderson (1843-1891). The mission excelled in medical and education provision and encouraged the commercialisation of the area through opening trade routes and the cultivation of tobacco, and other cash crops.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80219
- Date published
- circa 1926
- Dates
- circa 1926
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 13.8 x 8.6 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Malawi Southern
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Malawi
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75659045-1.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/250028d7e3df9dd96b4c5ae96563ecab
