Image / African woman with a large tumor in her face, Isoko, Tanzania, 1929

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Title: African woman with a large tumor in her face, Isoko, 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: "Kondeland. Gutartiges Geschwür des Oberkiefers. Dr. med. O. Fischer" ("Konde country. Benign sore of the upper jaw. Dr. O. Fischer"). Portrait of an African woman with a tumor in her face. The tumor, which has the size of a child's head, has caused a displacement of the nose and mouth.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies
photographic prints, 8.1 x 11.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m8785 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08759
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8785
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08759.jpg
Subject: Diseases
Cancer
Portraits
Time Period: 1929
Place: Africa
Isoko
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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