cover image: Printer’s house, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

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Printer’s house, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca.1903

“Printer’s house.” Exterior view of a thatched roofed building behind a fence. ❧ Livingstonia mission station was established in 1891 by Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) when he travelled north from Bandawe to set up a Training Institution and Industrial Mission. It was situated four miles from Lake Nyasa at Khondowe. As well as the school, hospital and accommodation, there were workshops for carpentry, printing and engineering, and mills, brickworks and a pottery. The Overtoun Institution was named after John Campbell White, Baron of Overtoun (1843-1908) who was a Convener of the Livingstonia Mission and a major financial contributor. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
dwellings institutions buildings (structures) printers (people)
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80290
Date published
circa 1903
Dates
circa 1903
Pages
Photographic prints, 14.5 x 10 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Livingstonia Malawi Northern region
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Malawi
Reference
impa-a-nls-75659552-1.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/5f9d2bdd75ee2338336aab4badb03764

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