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Title	Wooden bridge leading over the Mbaka River, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1898-1914
Description	"Holzbrücke über den Mbaka-Fluss in den Bergen. Von der Regierung gebaut." ("Wooden bridge across the Mbaka River in the mountains. Built on behalf of the government."). A wooden bridge with stone fortifications leading over a river with rocky banks. Three people are standing on the other side of the bridge watching a man down by the river who seems to smack cloth against a rock in the water. Thick brushwood edges the opposite river bank.; Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917) was a mission trader of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Ipanya from 1898 to 1902 and in Kyimbila from 1903 to 1914. He was responsible for the plantations in Kyimbila and Rutenganio. In 1898 he married Helene Elisabeth, née Kootz (1872-1899) , in 1903 Anna, née Schulze.
Subject (aat)	topographical views
Subject (unesco)	Bridges Construction engineering Rivers
Geographic subject (country)	Tanzania
Geographic subject (region)	Nyasa
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1898/1914
Photographer	Stolz, Adolf, 1871-1917
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1898/1914
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	photographic print, 15.6 x 10.9 cm.
Format (aacr2)	2 copies, colored slide no. 3256
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m10824
Part of box	Nyassa 1
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
References	"Holzbrücke über den Mbaka-Fluss, im Auftrage des Bezirksamtes von Zwangsarbeitern erbaut." ("Wooden bridge across the Mbaka River, built by forced labor on behalf of the regional local authority."). In: Bernd Arnold: Steuer und Lohnarbeit im Südwesten
Rights	Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Access conditions	Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Repository name	Moravian Archives
Repository address	Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
Repository email	unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Filename	IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-03256
Archival file	impa_Volume114/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-03256.tiff

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