"Junge Tembu-Frau mit Kind von der Kirche zurück (Elsie Silinga)" ("Young Tembu woman with child back from the church (Elsie Silinga)"). A woman with a light coloured top, an earring and a dark headdress, carrying a baby on her back in a dark drapery and three books on her head, holding an umbrella in her right hand. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15535
- Format
- Photographic prints Photographs
- Pages
- 8.1 x 5.5 cm
- Place Discussed
- Africa South Africa Unknown
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- South Africa
- Reference
- impa-m15535 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-10025
- Rights
- Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany http://www.archiv.ebu.de unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/dda7a314fe5325ef1949ec0a6599e5d3
