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Title
Harvest Festival Thanksgiving, Iringa, Tanzania, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
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
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
"In far fields". Interior view showing Christian Harvest festival display in front of the chancel in a church. The display includes grains and corn and there are two clocks situated either side of it. Iringa was situated in the Tanganyika British Mandate which had previously been German East Africa. After the First World War a number of missions in the region were managed by the Church of Scotland.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 11.3 x 6.9 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75658880-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80156
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75658880-1.jpg
Subject
Ceremonies
Festivals
Mission churches
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
Africa
Iringa
Iringa region
Tanzania
Source
Acc.7548/F/28 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75658878 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs from mission fields, Nyasaland (Malawi), Africa
image/tiff

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