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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 7 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee and Jewish, Colonial and Continental Mission Committees.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7548/A/1-G/99
Scope and Contents

The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.

Dates: 1796-1991, undated.

Photographc plates and slides concerning Church of Scotland missionary activity in India and Pakistan.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10590/1-100
Scope and Contents

Some of the slides are accompanied by scripts and where this is the case the information is recorded in the relevant record.

Dates: 1953-1973, undated.

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.