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Title
Gathering in Nyasa, Tanzania, 1936
Creator
Marx, Walter, 1898-1944
Date Created and/or Issued
1936-03
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
"Vorbereitungen zur Tauffeier." ("Preparations for a baptism ceremony."). Men start sitting down in several lines. On the right a desk in front of a small hut thatched with leaves. In the background a large tree.
Walter Marx (1898-1944) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine and served in Rungwe/East Africa from 1929 until 1939. He married Gertrud Rahlfs in 1929.
Type
image
Format
2 copies, colored slide no. 10393
photographic print, 9 x 6.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m11411 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10393
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11411
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10393.jpg
Subject
Missionary work
Religious activities
Group portraits
Time Period
1936-03
Place
Africa
Nyasa
Tanzania
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 4
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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