Photographs.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. (AAT) This heading was used in the NLS typescript manuscripts catalogue for all types of photographs, and for documents relating to photography. (NLS).
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12016/1-23
Scope and Contents
Dr Irvine trained as a surgeon at Aberdeen before seeing wartime service in Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1917-1919. In 1919, he was appointed medical missionary to the new Church of Scotland mission to Chogoria. He took up his post in 1922 and remained at Chogoria until his retirement in 1961. He was ordained in 1933 and died in Nairobi in 1974.
The photographs, films and papers represent Dr Irvine's working and family life.
Dates:
1917-1996, undated.
Sermons, diaries, correspondence and other papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, medical missionary at Chogoria, Kenya, including some correspondence of members of his family.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12801/1-80
Dates:
1915-1974.