"Mbozi. Kindermädchen mit Kind von Geschw. Giersch. Tuch auf dem Rücken echtes Safwafabrikat." ("Mbozi. Nursemaid with Bre[thren] Gierschs' child. Cloth on the back [is a] real Safwa product."). Profile view of an African girl wearing a dress with a baby tied to her back. As protection against the sun, she is holding an umbrella. In the background: a path sided by bushes and trees. Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena(1882-unknown), née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10976
- Date published
- 1906/1929
- Dates
- 1906/1929
- Format
- Black-and-white slide no. 4676 Photographs
- Pages
- photographic prints, 8.9 x 11.8 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Mbozi Tanzania
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Tanzania
- Reference
- impa-m10976 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-04676
- 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/062e657235d0bb0df8f954ca43eb3acc
