"Mbozi: Die Brettschneiderei. Br. Giersch. Ein Mann führt oben die grosse Brettersäge, der andere unten im Schneideloch." ("Mbozi: joiner's workshop. Br[other] Giersch. One man guides the big saw for planks through the top of the cutting hole, the other one through the bottom [of it]."). Under the roof of a thatched shed: Missionary Giersch standing in between four wooden boards that are cut by two African joiners. In the background: a pile of logs, bushes. 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-m10987
- Date published
- 1906/1929
- Dates
- 1906/1929
- Format
- Colored slide no. 4689 Photographs
- Pages
- photographic prints, 12.0 x 9.0 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Mbozi Tanzania
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Tanzania
- Reference
- impa-m10987 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-04689
- 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/6ee3caa8aa1fd6b1b14a9795f18825d5
