Three people waving at a steamer leaving Tanga, Tanzania, 1927

"Das Schiff, das letzte Stück Heimat, verläßt Tanga" ("The ship, the last bit of home, leaving Tanga"). View onto the sea. Two women and a man all dressed in white clothes. Seen from the back waving with handkerchiefs at the leaving steamer. Wilhelm Guth (1888-1980), from Zeiskam in the Rhineland Palatinate, studied commerce before joining the Leipzig Mission as a pastor. He served in Gonja (southern Pare) from 1913 to 1917 and from 1927 to 1938. He left a large number of photographs, mostly taken by himself but including some by members of his family or fellow missionaries.