A yucca tree at Berlin Mission station, Manow, Tanzania, ca. 1898-1914

"Auf der Berliner Station Manow. 10jährige Iucca. Br. Jauer." ("At the Berlin [Mission] Station Manow. 10-year-old yucca. Br[other] Jauer."). View of a large yucca tree in front of which Missionary Jauer is standing, reaching up to a branch with his right hand. Two African men wrapped in cloth are standing next to him. Two white girls are standing under a branch to the left. 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.