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Title: Men building a bridge, Mbozi, Tanzania, 1936
Creator: Tietzen, Theodor, 1893-1973
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936-05
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. Brückenbau. Heranschleppen der schweren Eukalypten-Stämme dch. Menschen." ("Mbozi. Bridge building. Dragging of heavy eucalyptus logs by people.") In the center a group of workers dragging a log with ropes. In the background trees.
Cf. photo no. 10505. -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies
photographic print, 11.4 x 8.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m11474 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10506
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11474
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10506.jpg
Subject: Construction engineering
Group portraits
Time Period: 1936-05
Place: Africa
Mbozi
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 4
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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