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 · 1926 English

A Dormitory Boy Teacher's Funeral". View of funeral service being presided over by Reverend Musa Gitau, one of the senior preachers at the Kikuyu site. Fresh flowers have been placed …


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

The Presbytery of Kenya. [pictured] Beaton, Mortimer, Rev W.B. Stevenson, Mr Grieve, Mr Barlow. Zakayo, Rev Joshua, Rev Solomon, Rev Paulo (Tumutumu), Rev Jeremia (Chogoria), Rev Joshua, Rev Benjamin." Group …


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

[from left to right] Reuben Hganga, Miss Mowat, Teacher, Rev Mr Stevenson." External view of class rooms, with teaching staff facing outside. The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a …


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

First Ordinations at Kikuyu, 7th March 1926. [pictured] Rev Joshua Matenjura, Rev Musa Gitau, Rev Benjamin Githieya." Group portrait of three newly ordained indigenous ministers. Pictured with them is Reverend …


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

The Manse" Exterior view of the house and land of the resident minister. The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a temporary site by the Imperial British East Africa Company …


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

"Prep. Girls Boarding School. Cape Coast." [now Ghana]. School girls reading for studies outdoors. One of a set of mounted prints of West Africa by F.D. Walker, editor of the …


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

"Little schoolgirls with dolls." Ghana. One of a set of mounted prints of West Africa by F.D. Walker, editor of the Methodist Missionary Society's journals, The Foreign Field, 1914-1932, and …


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

Gymnastics class at the Thabana-Morena Normal school


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

Temporary Ward". External view of makeshift hospital wards, housed under thatched roofing and supported by wooden beams. The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a temporary site by the Imperial …


USC: University of Southern California · 1926 English

"Carpentry Apprentices". External view showing students being taught carpentry techniques, showing a chair and window frames being crafted. The mission trained carpenters and masons, at a quarry that was nearby. …