cover image: Children playing football, Mbozi, Tanzania, 1935

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Children playing football, Mbozi, Tanzania, 1935

1935

"Die Schüler der Swahilischule in Mbozi spiel. Fussball." ("Schoolchildren of the Swahili school in Mbozi are p[laying] football."). Children are hardly recognizable because they are running. In the background large trees. 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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Authors

Tietzen, Theodor, 1893-1973

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11265
Dates
1935-12
Format
Photographs
Pages
2 copies photographic print, 11.5 x 8.6 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Mbozi Tanzania
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Tanzania
Reference
impa-m11265 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10315
Rights
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
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/a4f3612eba667f350eafc0bc5b3226ed

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