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Title
Mothers after children's baptism, Mvenyane, South Africa East, 1933
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, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
„Mvenyane. Mütter nach der Kindertaufe (Hintergrund der im Dezember 1933 ordinierte Alfred Mazwi)“ („Mvenyane. Mothers after the children's baptism (background Alfred Mazwi, ordained in December 1933)“). Five women and five children, wearing light coloured clothes and headdresses, next to a building. Each of the women is holding a child in her arms. A man in a suit is standing between the women, holding a book in his hands and looking in it.
Alfred Mazwi, born in 1885, was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Church. He worked as a missionary in South Africa East.--Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
6.1 x 10.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m57956 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-5-09278
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57956
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-5-09278.jpg
Subject
Mothers
Children
Religious activities
Christians
General views
Time Period
1933
Place
Africa
Mvenyane
South Africa
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
colored slide no. 9278; two copies exist
impa-m76

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