"Abfahrt eines Brautpaares in Kyimbila zum Standesamt nach Neu-Langenburg." ("A bridal pair's departure from Kyimbila to the registry office in Tukuyu."). Two white women, holding a white parasol, are sitting on a carriage pushed and drawn by six African men. A white man on a mule standing in front of them and two others behind it. An African girl, also holding a white parasol and carrying a baby on her back, three white children, one of them hidden behind a mule, and a lady are standing to the left. In the background: large trees. Low flowery bushes in the foreground. Imprinted on the image: "[3]211". 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.
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2 copies, colored slide no. 3211 photographic prints, 15.1 x 11.0 cm. photographs
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