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Title
Lepers with medical staff, Isoko, Tanzania, 1929
Creator
Fischer, Dr. Walter Otto
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
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
"Isoko. Behandlung Aussätziger im Leprakrankenhaus. Dr. med. O. Fischer" ("Isoko. Treatment of lepers in the leprosy hospital. Dr. O. Fischer"). On the left the thatched treatment house
in the background a fence made of bamboo canes. On the right a group of ca. 20 crouching or seated Africans. Among them a standing African assistant with a medicine bottle in his left hand. In the center a group of four standing African men and a male patient seated on a chair. A European man and woman are treating and examining this patient.
Cf. photo no. 8704. -- 1 photo included from the box of duplicates.
Type
image
Format
2 copies, color slide no. 8705
photographic prints, 11.3 x 8.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8752 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08705
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8752
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08705.jpg
Subject
Leprosy
Medical treatment
Patients
Hospitals
Group portraits
Time Period
1929
Place
Africa
Isoko
Tanzania
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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