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Title
Abner Silinga, school inspector and family, Tabase, 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
„Tabase. Abner Silinga, Schulinspektor und Familie“ (“Tabase. Abner Silinga, school inspector and family”). This photograph shows Abner Silinga with his family in front of a house. He is sitting with his wife next to him on a bench. He is wearing a suit. His wife is wearing a light-coloured dress and holding a little child in her arms. They are surrounded by their further nine children. They are all neatly dressed.
Richard Paul Moths, born in 1872 in Kösen (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1899 he married Helene Ledoux. From 1900 till 1948 he worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Silo, Baziya, Tabase). He died in 1950 in South Africa.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
7.8 x 10.8 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m57240 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-3-07577
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57240
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-3-07577.jpg
Subject
School supervision
Family
Group portraits
Place
Africa
South Africa
Tabase
Unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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