cover image: A man working on a house, Bandawe, Malawi, 1936

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A man working on a house, Bandawe, Malawi, 1936

1936

"Aussenplatz Bandawe im Kondelland. Der Lehrer schlägt d. Rand des Grasdaches d. Kirchhütte glatt." ("Outstation Bandawe in Kondeland. The teacher beats the edge of the church hut's thatched roof smooth."). A working man is standing on a scaffold. On the right in the distance another man is looking at him. Ernst Hermann Schnabel (1904-1953) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine and served in East Africa until the end of the 1930s. In 1934, he married Käthe Prellwitz in Kyimbila.
workers buildings housing construction portraits

Authors

Schnabel, Ernst Hermann, 1904-1953

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11311
Dates
1936-02
Format
Photographs
Pages
2 copies photographic prints, 6 x 8.9 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Bandawe Malawi
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Malawi
Reference
impa-m11311 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10342
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/e9d766663e610794d866d905bdcf61c6

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