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Title
Pulling parts of a roof onto the church building, Mbozi, Tanzania
Creator
Unknown
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
"Mbozi: Die Balken des Kirchdaches werden auf die Kirchmauern hinaufgezogen." ("Mbozi: beams of a roof of a church are being pulled up onto the walls of the church."). View of about 30 African men, some of them standing on a scaffold and some of them on the ground, pulling ropes in order to lift beams onto the brick walls of a church building. A white man, dressed in white, is standing on the scaffold having one arm lifted up. Trees in the background.
Type
image
Format
black-and-white slide no. 4691
photographic prints, 11.8 x 8.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m10989 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-04691
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10989
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-04691.jpg
Subject
Religious buildings
Manual workers
Carpentry
Construction engineering
Exterior views
Place
Africa
Mbozi
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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