Image / Repairing the broken axle of a car, Tanzania, ca.1929-1930

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Title: Repairing the broken axle of a car, Tanzania, ca.1929-1930
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929/1930
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: "(Reisebild) Herr Staub repariert das Auto." ("(Travel picture) Mr. Staub repairs the car."). Two Africans are crouching beside the front axle of a car, one is holding a tire tight and the other one is fixing something to the axle. Staub, wearing a sun helmet and standing in front of the car, is watching them.
Additional information on the second copy: "Reisebild. A. Staub repariert das Auto mit zwei Eingeborenen, Achsenbruch" ("Travel picture. A. Staub repairs the car together with two natives, broken axle"). -- According to a German address book of 1934, Staub was an assistant on a plantation in Rungwe.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies
photographic prints, 10.9 x 6.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m6728 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06752
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6728
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06752.jpg
Subject: Motor vehicles
Travel
Maintenance
Group portraits
Time Period: 1929/1930
Place: Africa
Nyasa
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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