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Title
Mrs. Fischer during smallpox vaccination, Mwakaleli, Tanzania, 1929
Creator
Fischer, Dr. Walter Otto
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
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
"Frau Dr. Fischer bei der Pockenimpfung. Dr. O. Fischer" ("Dr. Fischer [wife of Dr. O. Fischer] during smallpox vaccination. Dr. O. Fischer"). In the background part of the grass-roofed hospital building. On the right a crowd of mothers with small children and a few men
on the left Mrs. Fischer wearing a white gown behind a low table with medical equipment, including a bottle of disinfectant and a basket of swabs. In the center an African man vaccinating a small child.
For the hospital building cf. photo no. 8664.
Type
image
Format
2 copies
photographic prints, 8.1 x 5.7 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8712 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08673
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8712
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08673.jpg
Subject
Children
Indigenous populations
Medical personnel
Vaccination
Group portraits
Time Period
1929
Place
Africa
Mwakaleli
Tanzania
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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