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Title
Hospital room, Machame, Tanzania, ca.1932-1940
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1932/1940
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
Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig e.V., Paul-List-Str. 19, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig Mission
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bildarchiv@lmw-mission.de
Description
Krankenzimmer in Madschame. ("Hospital room in Machame."). Interior view of a hospital room with several beds in a row. Doctor Mergner, nurse Jenny von Stebut and two African male nurses are standing near a patient.
Friedrich Mergner (1905-1987), from Segnitz, served the Leipzig Mission as a doctor. From 1932 to 1937 he led the mission hospital in Machame with his wife Friederike Mergner.
Jenny von Stebut (1899-1998), from Lithuania, joined the Leipzig Mission as a nurse in 1930. She worked in hospitals in Mamba and Machame from 1931 till the outbreak of the Second World War. From 1952 to 1962 she served again in Nkoaranga.
Type
image
Format
photographs
photographic prints, 8.0 x 5.6 cm.
Identifier
impa-m66997 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-04-1291.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m66997
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-04-1291.jpg
Subject
General views
Hospitals
Medical treatment
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Patients
Time Period
1932/1940
Place
Africa
Kilimanjaro
Machame
Tanzania
Relation
Album 4
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Leipzig Mission, Germany, ca.1912-1917 & ca.1924-1938
impa-m246

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