"Geschwister Jansa mit ihren beiden 'Haustöchtern'[.] Th. Tietzen" ("Brother and Sister Jansa with their two 'house daughters'[.] Th. Tietzen"). In the background some trees. In the middle the standing couple on their left and right two young African women wearing patterned clothes. The German term 'Haustochter' was used to describe a young woman's position in a household, as distinct from a biological daughter or a domestic help. She lived with a family in order to receive instruction in housekeeping. -- Ferdinand Jansa (1868 - 1957) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in Ipanya from December 1899 to 1901, 1906 and from 1909 to 1910, in Mbozi 1901, in Kyimbila 1902 and from 1912 to 1916 and in Mwaya from 1907 to 1909. After the First World War he continued his service in Nyasa Province from May 1926 to Mai 1934. He married Caroline, née Jung (1873 - 1944), in 1899. -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
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2 copies photographic prints, 8.4 x 11.3 cm. photographs
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