Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

"Totenklage im Kondeland." ("Lamentation in Konde land."). In the background banana trees: a group of ca. 50 women is sitting together closely on the ground. Some of them are sitting …

Nice stone graves and crosses. Many people are gathered for a memorial service. Some are wearing tropical helmets.

"En kunstner. Joseph Rakotovao" ("An artist. Joseph Rakotovao"). He is doing a bust of Christian D. Borchgrevink. The children on the picture are wearing special shoes - button boots. Christian …

Full-length portrait of Nji Monkouob, an uncle of the Bamum king Njoya, in Hausa robes. The photograph was send by Anna Wuhrmann to Jean-René Brutsch, missionary of the Société des …

Urbain Teisseres, missionary of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society), talks with people in a village in Gabon.

Distribution of bananas in a village, under the supervision of missionaries of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society).

Portrait of a malagasy family. The mother is holding her child on her knees. Rainimaro was the first convert in the mission station of the Société des missions évangéliques de …

"Der Enthaltsamkeits-Verein in Gnadenthal." ("The abstinence club in Genadendal."). The picture shows 39 people. All 23 men are wearing dark suits, 14 of the 16 women are wearing white dresses, …

"Kleinkinderschule in Mamba mit ihrer Vorsteherin, Missionslehrerin Seesemann" ("Toddlers' school in Mamba with its principal, mission teacher Seesemann"). A large group of children outdoors, Miss Seesemann among them. Johannes Schanz …

Woman sitting along a river and smoking a pipe. She works on the construction of a house in Gabon and she is taking a break.