"Blick auf das Malira-Bergland." ("View of the Malira mountains."). A European woman, an African woman and European children are standing in a meadow. Behind them: mountains. Elise Schärf (1892-?) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. She was a deaconess and received training not only as a nurse but also in the care of mothers and lepers. She served from 1928 for many years at the leprosy hospital in Isoko. -- The pictue might have been taken in 1938.
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3 copies photographic prints, 8.7 x 6.1 cm. photographs
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