Image / First baking of bricks in Rungwe, Tanzania, 1892

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Title: First baking of bricks in Rungwe, Tanzania, 1892
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1892
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
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description: "Der erste Ziegelbrand in Rungwe 1892. Br. Häfner oben, Br. Meyer unten". "First brick burn in Rungwe 1892. Missionary Häfner on top, Missionary Meyer below.") A group of young African men and the two missionaries Johannes Häfner (on the brick kiln) and Theordor Meyer (below him) dismantle the brick kiln to collect the bricks. Imprinted on the image: "Ziegelbrennen in Rungwe" ( "baking of bricks in Rungwe").
Type: image
Format: negative no. 6820 and color slide 359
photographic print, 10.3 x 7.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5260 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-00359
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5260
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-00359.jpg
Subject: Building materials
Workers
Men
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1892
Place: Africa
Rungwe
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 1
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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