Image / Missionary Kretschmer in the rain forest, Rungwe, Tanzania, ca. 1892-1916

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Title: Missionary Kretschmer in the rain forest, Rungwe, Tanzania, ca. 1892-1916
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1892/1916
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: "Urwald-Vegetation am Rungwe. Br. Kretschmer." ("Rainforest vegetation near Rungwe [Mountain]. Br[other] Kretschmer."). Missionary Kretschmer in tropical rainforest
taken near Rungwe. Imprinted on the image: "Vegetation bei Rungwe. D.O.A. No. 1323a." ("Vegetation near Rungwe.-- German East Africa no. 1323a.").
Johannes Kretschmer (1867-unknown) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in Rungwe from November 1892 to 1894, in Rutenganio from 1894 to 1902 and from 1904 to May 1916. In 1894 he married Anna, née Wicke.
Type: image
Format: colored slide no. 1050
photographic prints, 15.9 x 11.6 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m8065 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-01050
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8065
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-01050.jpg
Subject: Forests
Clergy
Portraits
Time Period: 1892/1916
Place: Africa
Rungwe
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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