Image / Construction of a water tank, Ricatla, Mozambique, ca. 1924

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Title: Construction of a water tank, Ricatla, Mozambique, ca. 1924
Creator: Bertrand, Alfred
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1924
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: DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description: "Rikatla [Ricatla]. Travaux manuels. La construction d'un réservoir d'eau, 5500 litres, entièrement soudé par un élève, Il est construit en plusieurs parties rivées et soudées" ("Rikatla [Ricatla]. Handicrafts. Construction of a water tank, 5500 liters, soldered by a student, It's made of several pieces fastened by rivets and soldered") Photograph of a man of African origin constructing a corrugated iron water tank. In the background, a tree and a hut.
Photographie d'un homme d'origine africaine construisant un réservoir d'eau en tôle ondulée. À l'arrière plan, un arbre et une hutte.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
9 x 12 cm.
Identifier: impa-m65278 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv120-064-003
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m65278
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv120-064-003.jpg
Subject: Buildings
Water conservation
Water storage
Indigenous populations
Portraits
Time Period: circa 1924
Place: Africa
Mozambique
Ricatla
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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