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Title
Willy Mazwi, a clergy, South Africa East
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
''Willy Mazwi, ordinierter Geistlicher in Mvenyane" ("Willy Mazwi, ordained clergyman in Mvenyane"). Portrait of a sitting man wearing a suit.
William S. Mazwi, born in 1861 in Gosen (South Africa), was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Church. He worked as a teacher in Gosen from 1882 till 1898, as a national assistant in Elukolweni and in 1900 till 1904 as a mission assistant in Mvenyane, Nxotshane / Griqualand (1904-1931) and Silo (1933). He retired in 1935.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
7.9 x 7.6 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m15718 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-1-02983
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15718
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-1-02983.jpg
Subject
Men
Clergy
Missionary work
Portraits
Place
Africa
Unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
positives no. 2983, f; negatives no. 4532; two copies exist

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