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Title
Children, South Africa, ca. 1929-1939
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1929/1939
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
"Kinder. Geschw. Schaberg" ("Children. Brother and sister Schaberg"). Two toddlers, a boy and a slightly older girl, playing in a sandbox. The sandbox is situated between the walls of a buildig and a wooden, open structure.
Willibald Schaberg (1900-?) was born in Dresden where he worked as a teacher and theologian. In 1929 he married Elfriede Henrietta Johanna Nigrin in Herrnhut. That same year they went to South Africa West where Willibald worked as a missionary in Elim until 1939 and again from 1948. From 1934 he was Präses of the Mission in South Africa West. In 1935 he was in Moravian Hill / Cape Town. From 1939 until his return to South Africa he stayed in Germany.
Type
image
Format
2 copies
photographic prints, 8.3 x 5.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m13281 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAW-3-10399
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13281
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAW-3-10399.jpg
Subject
Children
Childhood
Double portraits
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Africa
South Africa
unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
Süd-Afrika-West 3
impa-m76

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