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Title
Leprosarium in the leprosy hospital, Isoko, Tanzania, 1929
Creator
Fischer, Dr. Walter Otto
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
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
"Isoko. Wohnhütten im Leprakrankenhaus. Dr. med. O. Fischer" ("Isoko. Dwelling huts in the leprosy hospital. Dr. O. Fischer"). On the left a grass-roofed rectangular house made of bamboo canes
in the background two lepers, one of them is hanging out a cloth on a long bamboo cane. In the foreground an African assistant and a European woman, wearing white gowns, with a leper seated on the ground. The woman puts some medicine straight into the wide-open mouth of the sick person.
Cf. photos no. 8704, 8705 and 8707.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 11.0 x 8.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8753 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08706
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8753
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08706.jpg
Subject
Leprosy
Patients
Hospitals
Paramedical personnel
Group portraits
Time Period
1929
Place
Africa
Isoko
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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