"Elim. Die Kirche wird gedeckt" ("Elim. The church is being tiled"). In the center the church. On the roof workers tiling. On the longside of the church a scaffold and two ladders. In front of the church cows and a cart full of hey. Willibald Schaberg (1900-?) was born in Dresden where he worked as a teacher and theologian. In 1929 he married Elfriede Henrietta Johanna Nigrin in Herrnhut. That same year they went to South Africa West where Willibald worked as a missionary in Elim until 1939 and again from 1948. From 1934 he was Präses of the Mission in South Africa West. In 1935 he was in Moravian Hill / Cape Town. From 1939 until his return to South Africa he stayed in Germany.
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3 copies, positive no. 10402, f photographic prints, 11.4 x 7.5 cm. photographs
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