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Title
Car fighting its way through shrubland, Ethiopia, 1952
Date Created and/or Issued
1952-03
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
Archiv des Evangelisch-lutherischen Missionswerkes (ELM), Georg-Haccius-Str. 9, 29320, Hermannsburg, Germany
Evangelisches-lutherisches Missionswerk in Niedersachsen (ELM)
Hermannsburg Mission
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Description
"Auto kämpft sich durch den Busch. Weg Jubdo - Aira" ("Car fighting its way through shrubland. Road Yubdo - Ayra"). Side view of a truck driving through shrubland. One man is leaning through the window of the driver's cabin, another one is sitting on the truck bed.
Separate note reading: "Ich musste mit Lombardo gleich zurück nach Adis Abeba, um das Gepäck zu holen und allerlei mit den Behörden zu regeln. Der Weg zwischen Aira und Jubdo" ("I had to go right back with Lombardo to Adis Abeba in order to get the baggage and to settle a number of things with the authorities. The way between Ayra and Yubdo").
Photograph taken during Dietrich Waßmann's journey from Ayra to Adis Abeba.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
10.5 x 7.5 cm.
photographs
photographic prints
Identifier
IMP-ELM-AE-925.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-85252
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-ELM-AE-925.jpg
Subject
Motor vehicles
Travel
Trucks
Voyages and travels
General views
Time Period
1952-03
Place
Africa
Ethiopia
Source
ELM/AE/Fotos - 925 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Hermannsburg Mission, 1888-1958
impa-m59833

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