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Title: Sewing lesson in Africa, South Africa East
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: "Nähstunde in Afrika" ("Sewing lesson in Africa"). Six persons are standing around a table which is standing in a meadow. One person is holding something in his hands. Apparently, she or he is sewing and the others are watching her or him.
Richard Paul Moths, born in 1872 in Kösen (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1899 he married Helene Ledoux. From 1900 till 1948 he worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Silo, Baziya, Tabase). He died in 1950 in South Africa.
c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10193.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints
8.1 x 5.5 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m16038 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10192
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m16038
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10192.jpg
Subject: Handicrafts education
Textile arts
General views
Place: Africa
South Africa
Unknown
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist; colored slide no. 10192

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