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Title
Women processing coffee cherries, Kyimbila, Tanzania, ca. 1898-1914
Creator
Stolz, Adolf, 1871-1917
Date Created and/or Issued
1898/1914
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
"Frauen beim Auspellen der Kaffeebohnen in Kyimbila." ("Women hulling coffee beans in Kyimbila."). Large group of women sitting on the ground with baskets and coffee cherries in front of them. A man and three white children wearing hats are standing on a path at whose sides the women are sitting. Imprinted on the image: "3201".
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
2 copies
negative no. 3347
colored slide no. 3201
photographic prints, 17.9 x 12.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m10668 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-03201
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10668
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-03201.jpg
Subject
Women
Agriculture
Children
Workers
Group portraits
Time Period
1898/1914
Place
Africa
Kyimbila
Tanzania
Relation
Plantage Kyimbila: Frauen pellen die Kaffeebohnen aus." ("Kyimbila plantation: women are hulling coffee beans."). In: Bernd Arnold: Steuer und Lohnarbeit im Südwesten von Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1891 bis 1916, p. 380/397. Münster, Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 1994
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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