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Title
Christians, South Africa East, 1933
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, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
„Bei Zincuka. Lahmer Greis (Christ) und 3 Christinnen. Er bekam gerade ein Kranken-Abendmahl. Schöne Tür-Umrahmung“ („Near Zincuka. Lame old man (Christian) and 3 female Christians. He has just got a medical supper. Beautiful door framing“). Three women and one man sitting at the entrance of a hut. The women are wearing long dresses and headdresses, the one leftmost a plaid drapery on her shoulders, the other two differently patterned draperies on her shoulders. The man, sitting in the entrance, is wrapped in a long patterned drapery. Ornaments are made in the wall of the door framing.
Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
6.1 x 10.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m57976 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-5-09342
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57976
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-5-09342.jpg
Subject
Diseases
Food
Christians
Group portraits
Time Period
1933
Place
Africa
South Africa
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
colored slide no. 9342; two copies exist
impa-m76

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