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Title
Missionary Gemuseus with porters, Rungwe, Tanzania, ca.1929-1930
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1929/1930
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
"Rungwe: Br. Gemuseus verteilt Lasten an Träger" ("Rungwe: Br[other] Gemuseus distributes loads among the porters"). On the right the porch of the residential building, on the left and in the background circa 30 porters are lined up listening to Missionary Gemuseus' instructions.
Photo taken during the visitation of Brother Samuel Baudert 1929/1930. -- The middle part has been destroyed by light. -- Oskar Gemuseus (1874 - 1959) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as headmaster from 1907 to 1916, as mission superintendent of Nyassa [Nyasa] Province from 1925 to 1930, as bishop from 1932 to 1939. Starting in 1939 he wrote a history of the mission in Nyasa Province ("Wechselnde Gezeiten an den Gestaden des Nyassa"). His wife was Mathilde, née Richter. See his publications: "Mission und Gold", Herrnhut 1936
"Ein Gebundener Jesu Christi (über Fiwombe)", Hamburg 1950
"Sakalija Mwakasungala", Hamburg 1953.
Type
image
Format
2 copies, color slide no. 6743
photographic prints, 11.0 x 6.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m6690 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06743
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6690
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06743.jpg
Subject
Housing
Labour
Clergy
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period
1929/1930
Place
Africa
Rungwe
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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