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Title: Missionary graves near Livingstonia, Malawi, 1894
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
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: "Gräber der Missionare von 'Livingstonia'. Lehrer Albert, Schw. Meyer. 1894." ("Graves of Missionaries of 'Livingstonia'. Teacher Albert and Sis[ter] Meyer. 1894.") A rock in the background carries a memorial tablet. Imprinted on the image: "Gräber bei Livingstonia. Ost-Afrika. 464." (Graves near Livingstonia. East Africa. 464.").
Photo is very yellowed. -- Lydia Maria Meyer (1865 in South Africa -- 1907), née Kunick, was a teacher and a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine having gotten married to Theodor Meyer (1864-1933) in 1893. Until her death she served in Nyasa, East Africa.
Type: image
Format: photographic print, 14.9 x 9.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5265 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-00464
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5265
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-00464.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Clergy
Graves
General views
Time Period: 1894
Place: Africa
Livingstonia
Malawi
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 1
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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