Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

University of Southern California

Selected items with African Origination


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USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

“Home at last! Looking up the drive. Views on the road to Nairobi 150 m. from Chogoria.” Landscape view showing the entrance to the grounds of the Irvine family bungalow …


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

“Ornamentals [bricks] at the kiln. The church building. Foundation stone laid Aug. 8 1928, by Mrs Carr. Opened Jan. 17th 1930 by Rev R.G.M. Calderwood and native ministers from Kikuyu …


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

"9 Le Cortège au sortir du Couronnement S.M. le Négous Tafari" ("9 The entourage departing after the coronation of H.M. Negus Tafari"). Photograph of several hundreds of horsemen on a …


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

“Hollow bricks being made. The church building. Foundation stone laid Aug. 8 1928, by Mrs Carr. Opened Jan. 17th 1930 by Rev R.G.M. Calderwood and native ministers from Kikuyu and …


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

“Tony aged 6 ½” Portrait of a young boy playing with model boats on a waterway. Austin John Anthony Irvine was born in April 1922 in Aberdeen, the first son …


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

Photograph of four tents and a smoking fire.


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

"Links steht das Zelt des Nagadi [...] Bruder Grabe flickt gerade einen Sattel" ("To the left the tent of Nagadi [...] Brother Grabe is mending a seddle"). Photograph of a …


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

"[F]ür die Brüder Grabe und Müller" ("For the brothers Grabe and Müller"). Photograph of four Ethiopians building the roof of a local round house. Behind them thatching material is lying …


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

"Safari". Mrs. Ihmels with her children, missionary Guth's 'Haustochter' Miss Maria (?), two other children and another European man and woman at a car in front of a coniferous forest. …


USC: University of Southern California · 1928 English

“Chogoria, early days.” Interior view of the medical facilities at Chogoria with patients waiting as an orderly examines samples through a microscope. The hospital assistants wore khaki uniforms and pork …