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Title	Missionary Giersch on a one-wheeled handcart, Tanzania, ca.1906-1929
Description	"Br. Giersch auf der Buschkarre [sic] in Nika. Erhalten von Br. Giersch 1929." ("Br[other] Giersch on the bushcart in Nyika. Received from Br[other] Giersch 1929."). On a footpath in front of a hilly landscape: Missionary Giersch sits on a unique one-wheeled handcart. One African pulls, another draws the vehicle.; 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, née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Travel Vehicles Rural transport
Geographic subject (country)	Tanzania
Geographic subject (region)	Nyasa
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1906/1929
Photographer	Unknown
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1906/1929
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	photographic prints, 11.1 x 8.3 cm.
Format (aacr2)	2 copies, color slide no. 6649
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m3583
Part of box	Nyassa 2
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
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-2-06649
Archival file	impa_Volume168/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06649.tiff

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