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A patient is taken to the hospital in a hammock, Mwakaleli, Tanzania, 1929

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Title: A patient is taken to the hospital in a hammock, Mwakaleli, 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: "Mwakaleli. Ein Kranker wird in der Hängematte ins Hospital eingeliefert. Dr. O. Fischer" ("Mwakaleli. A sick person is taken to hospital in a hammock. Dr. O. Fischer"). In the background trees and two houses. On the left a grass-roofed house built of bamboo canes. In the foreground two African men carrying a person in a hammock fixed to a long, thick bamboo cane. Another man follows. Behind the hammock a young man wearing shirt and shorts.
Photo partly damaged by small scratches and dots.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies
photographic prints, 8.0 x 5.7 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m8704 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08664
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8704
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08664.jpg
Subject: Patients
Transport
Hospitals
Medical treatment
Group portraits
Time Period: 1929
Place: Africa
Mwakaleli
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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