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Title
A bridge across a river, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca.1937
Creator
Küchler, Kurt, 1908-?
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1937
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
"Eine Knüppelbrücke über einen Fluss." ("A bridge built of wooden truncheons across a river."). A bridge built of branches and small logs. The scene is surrounded by dense vegetation.
Cf. photo nos. 10988 and 10989. -- Kurt Küchler (1908-?) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in Kyimbila from 1936 to 1939. In 1938 he married Marianne Geisler.
Type
image
Format
2 copies, colored slide no. 10990
photographic print, 13.9 x 8.7 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m11786 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10990
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11786
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10990.jpg
Subject
Bridges
General views
Time Period
circa 1937
Place
Africa
Nyasa
Tanzania
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 5
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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