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Title
African men gathering under a tree, Machame, Tanzania, 1904
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1904
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: Prof. Adam Jones, Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig ,Postfach 100920, 04009 Leipzig, Deutschland; mgrosze@uni-leipzig.de <mailto:mgrosze@uni-leipzig.de>; Phone: +49(0341) 97-37030; Fax: +(49) (0341) 97-37048
Contact: Prof. Adam Jones, Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100920, 04009 Leipzig, Deutschland; mgrosze@uni-leipzig.de; Phone: +49 (0341) 97-37030; Fax: +(49) (0341) 97-37048
Jones, Adam
Private collections
mgrosze@uni-leipzig.de
Description
"Eine Ratsversammlung in Madschame, Deutsch-Ost-Afrika." ("A council in Machame, German East Africa."). African men are sitting on the ground underneath a tree. They are wearing traditional clothes. In the center: a tree. In the background: dense vegetation.
Cf. "Druckvorlagen Musterbuch 9, 324, Auf. 172". -- Postcard published by the Leipzig Mission. -- The mission station in Machame was founded in 1893.
Type
image
Format
colored photograph, 13.8 x 8.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m11931 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-LPZ-CC-16
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11931
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-LPZ-CC-16.jpg
Subject
Men
Meetings
Group portraits
Time Period
1904
Place
Africa
Machame
Tanzania
Relation
Afrika 4
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
impa-m1

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