Image / Missionary Giersch sitting at a sewing machine, Tanzania, ca.1906-1929

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Title: Missionary Giersch sitting at a sewing machine, Tanzania, ca.1906-1929
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906/1929
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: "Br. Giersch an der Nähmaschine." ("Br[other] Giersch at the sewing machine."). Missionary Giersch is sitting in front of a portable sewing machine while smoking a pipe. Four young male Africans are watching how he is handling it.
Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena, née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies, color slide no. 7285
photographic prints, 11.4 x 8.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m6738 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-07285
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6738
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-07285.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Indigenous populations
Handicrafts
Group portraits
Time Period: 1906/1929
Place: Africa
Nyasa
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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