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Title
Mission station, Berea, South Africa
Creator
Unknown
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
"Beröa. Die Werf aus der Ferne." ("Berea. The mission premises from a distance"). The picture shows three or four houses in the distance, the one on the left being a church building. In front of them in the middle fields and trees or bushes. In the foreground grass and bushes. In the background hills and mountains. A man of European origin stands on the grass in the foreground. Imprinted on the image: "1709."
The word "Werf" is a term taken from Afrikaans. -- Berea was an out-station of Genadendal.
Type
image
Format
3 copies
photographic prints, 10.3 x 7.6 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m11222 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAW-1-01709
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11222
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAW-1-01709.jpg
Subject
Houses
Landscape
Churches
Human settlements
Topographical views
Place
Africa
Genadendal
South Africa
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
Süd-Afrika-West 1
impa-m76

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