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Title
Joiner's apprentices at the industrial school, Rungwe, 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
"Industrieschule. Tischlerlehrlinge. (Br. Schärf)" ("Industrial school. Joiner's apprentices. (Br[other] Schärf)"). Interior view of a joinery with eleven Africans and Missionary Hans-Peter Schärf all engaged in making furniture, such as chairs, tables, cupboards etc. One African in the foreground is working on a rifle.
Cf. photo no. 7500. -- Hans-Peter Schärf (1898-1945) was a mission artisan of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as head of the joinery in Rungwe and was married to Anna Gertrud, née Sikora (born 1904).
Type
image
Format
2 copies, color slide no. 7499
photographic prints, 11.2 x 8.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8625 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-07499
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8625
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-07499.jpg
Subject
Apprentices
Industrial education
Carpentry
Joiners
Group portraits
Place
Africa
Rungwe
Tanzania
Relation
Die Tischlerschule von Rungwe." ("The Joiners' school of Rungwe."). In: Bernd Arnold: Steuer und Lohnarbeit im Südwesten von Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1891 bis 1916, p. 381/405. Münster, Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 1994
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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