cover image: Schoolchildren in front of school, Mbaga, Tanzania, ca.1929-1933

Schoolchildren in front of school, Mbaga, Tanzania, ca.1929-1933

"Schule und Klasse von Mbaga." ("School and class of Mbaga. ") Group portrait of African schoolchildren posing together with 2 missionaries and 2 African adults in front of a thatched schoolbuilding. Some of the children are holding slates. On the left missionary Michel and on the right deacon Nüßler is standing. Max Michel (1881-1962), from Saxony, joined the Leipzig Mission in 1903. At first he worked in Gonja, 1911 he took over the station in Vudee. After the First World War and a stay in Germany he returned to East Africa and worked from 1929 to 1933 in Mbaga. Friedrich (also known as Fritz) Nüssler (1900-1988), from Cologne, worked as a male nurse before serving the Leipzig Mission as a deacon in Machame from 1929 to 1931. Then he worked in Gonja until 1940, apart from a stay in Mbaga from 1933 to 1938.
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Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m65290
Date published
1929/1933
Dates
1929/1933
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic prints, 11.2 x 8.2 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Kilimanjaro Tanzania
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Tanzania
Reference
impa-m65290 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-01-1327.tif
Rights
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Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/0b96fa8625f0d5d2789e671deb7da306

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