"Utengule. Wiederaufbau. Tietzen 1931." ("Utengule. Reconstruction. Tietzen 1931."). Distant view of a building site surrounded by trees with seven African workers. On the left the older part of a tile-roofed house, in the foreground the foundations of the new part. 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.
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2 copies, color slide no. 7444 photographic prints, 11.3 x 8.3 cm. photographs
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