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Title
Bricklayers building up a house, Kyimbila, Tanzania, 1906
Creator
Stolz, Adolf Ferdinand, 1871-1917
Date Created and/or Issued
1906
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
"Eingeborne bei der Mauerarbeit in Kyimbila." ("Natives bricking up in Kyimbila."). About 15 African men at the site of a house in construction bricking up walls. In the background: trees and a range of mountains.
Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917) was a mission trader of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Ipanya from 1898 to 1902 and in Kyimbila from 1903 to 1914. He was responsible for the plantations in Kyimbila and Rutenganio. In 1898 he married Helene Elisabeth, née Kootz (1872-1899), in 1903 Anna, née Schulze.
Type
image
Format
colored slide no. 3208
photographic prints, 15.3 x 11.0 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m10759 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-03208
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10759
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-03208.jpg
Subject
Workers
Houses
Bricks
General views
Time Period
1906
Place
Africa
Kyimbila
Tanzania
Relation
Maurer in Kyimbila im Jahre 1906." ("Bricklayers in Kyimbila in 1906."). In: Bernd Arnold: Steuer und Lohnarbeit im Südwesten von Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1891 bis 1916, p. 382/406. Münster, Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 1994
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 1
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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