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Title
African leper with clawhand and facial nerve palsy, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1929
Creator
Fischer, Dr. Walter Otto
Date Created and/or Issued
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
"Lepra. Krallenhand und Facialislähmung. Dr. med. O. Fischer" ("Leprosy. Clawhand and facial nerve palsy. Dr. O.Fischer"). Upper body of a seated African man suffering from leprosy, seen from the front. An African man, standing behind the leper, is holding the sick person's hands up: the man's left hand is swollen and his right hand's fingers are crooked. The expression on the face seems inflexible, like a mask.
Type
image
Format
2 copies, color slide no. 8745
photographic prints, 6.4 x 8.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8762 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08745
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8762
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08745.jpg
Subject
Leprosy
Double portraits
Time Period
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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