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Title
Workers in a brickyard, 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 Ziegelei. In Holzmörsern wird die harte Lehmerde zu Mehl gestossen. Der Lehm wird eingefeuchtet u. durchgetreten. Trockenschuppen der Ziegelei." ("Mbozi: brickyard. In wooden mortars, hard clay soil is being pounded into powder. The clay is being moistened a[nd] treaded. Drying sheds of the brickyard. "). On the left: ten men sitting on the ground with mortars and pestles next to a pile of powdered clay soil. On the right: men standing next to a narrow channel watching others treading clay inside. In the background: men walking towards thatched shelters, trees, savanna-like landscape.
Type
image
Format
black-and-white slide no. 4682
photographic prints, 12.0 x 9.0 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m10982 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-04682
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10982
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-04682.jpg
Subject
Labour
Bricks
Building materials
Workers
General views
Place
Africa
Mbozi
Tanzania
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 1
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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