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A missionary and a boy standing on the lakeshore of Lake Malawi, Mwaya, Tanzania, 1936

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Title: A missionary and a boy standing on the lakeshore of Lake Malawi, Mwaya, Tanzania, 1936
Creator: Tietzen, Theodor, 1893-1973
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936-10/1936-12
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: "Am Nyassa-See bei Mwaja." ("On Lake Nyassa near Mwaja."). A missionary wearing a sun helmet is standing on the lakeshore. A boy is looking at him. Uprooted trees lie on the shore.
Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies, colored slide no. 10591
photographic print, 11.6 x 8.7 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m11514 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10591
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11514
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10591.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Children
Lakes
Group portraits
Time Period: 1936-10/1936-12
Place: Africa
Mwaya
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 5
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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