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Box 49

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

Doris Esther Webster. Africa Recollections, Kenya, 1905-1916

 File — Box: 49, Folder: 4
Identifier:  4
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of Doris Blackburn's accounts of her early life. These accounts include recollections of her life in Kaimosi and a journal she kept while traveling to San Francisco in 1916.

Dates: 1905-1916

Virginia Blackburn - British E. Africa Letters, Kenya, January 1905 - December 1905

 File — Box: 49, Folder: 6
Identifier:  6
Scope and Contents

Typed transcriptions of letters written by Virginia Blackburn to her parents discussing life at the Kaimosi mission. Virginia and Elisha Blackburn, a nurse and medical doctor respectively, founded a hospital at the Kaimosi mission after they arrived in 1903. Her letters reflect her perspective as a white American Friend, and as such, do not reflect the opinions, worldviews, and perspectives of indigenous East Africans.

Dates: January 1905 - December 1905

Virginia L. Blackburn. British E.Africa Letters, Kenya, March 1906 - December 1906

 File — Box: 49, Folder: 7
Identifier:  7
Scope and Contents

Typed transcriptions of letters written by Virginia Blackburn to her parents discussing life at the Kaimosi mission. Virginia and Elisha Blackburn, a nurse and medical doctor respectively, founded a hospital at the Kaimosi mission after they arrived in 1903. Her letters reflect her perspective as a white American Friend, and as such, do not reflect the opinions, worldviews, and perspectives of indigenous East Africans.

Dates: March 1906 - December 1906

Virginia Blackburn - British E. Africa Letters, Kenya, January 1907 - December 1907

 File — Box: 49, Folder: 8
Identifier:  8
Scope and Contents

Typed transcriptions of letters written by Virginia Blackburn to her parents discussing life at the Kaimosi mission. Virginia and Elisha Blackburn, a nurse and medical doctor respectively, founded a hospital at the Kaimosi mission after they arrived in 1903. Her letters reflect her perspective as a white American Friend, and as such, do not reflect the opinions, worldviews, and perspectives of indigenous East Africans.

Dates: January 1907 - December 1907

Virginia Blackburn - British E. Africa Letters, Kenya, 1908-1909

 File — Box: 49, Folder: 9
Identifier:  9
Scope and Contents

Typed transcriptions of letters written by Virginia Blackburn to her parents discussing life at the Kaimosi mission. Virginia and Elisha Blackburn, a nurse and medical doctor respectively, founded a hospital at the Kaimosi mission after they arrived in 1903. Her letters reflect her perspective as a white American Friend, and as such, do not reflect the opinions, worldviews, and perspectives of indigenous East Africans.

Dates: 1908-1909

Virginia Blackburn - British E. Africa Letters, Kenya, May 1903 - December 1903

 File — Box: 49, Folder: 10
Identifier:  10
Scope and Contents

Typed transcriptions of letters written by Virginia Blackburn to her parents discussing life at the Kaimosi mission. Virginia and Elisha Blackburn, a nurse and medical doctor respectively, founded a hospital at the Kaimosi mission after they arrived in 1903. Her letters reflect her perspective as a white American Friend, and as such, do not reflect the opinions, worldviews, and perspectives of indigenous East Africans.

Dates: May 1903 - December 1903