"Georg Schmidt's Birnbaum. Gnadenthal." ("Georg Schmidt's pear tree. Genadendal."). The picture shows a high tree which seems to stand in the center of two ways crossing each other. Bushes on the sides of the path to the left and right. Cf. photo no. 1706. -- The pear tree was planted by the first missionary, Georg Schmidt, at Genadendal about 1739. -- Georg Schmidt (1709-1785), born in Kunewalde, was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa from 1737-1744. He served in Söte Mecks Valley and Sergeant Revier (Baviaanskloof, i.e. Genadendal). In 1744 he went back to Europe and two years later he married Maria Wahovsky[?] in Herrnhaag. He died in Niesky, Germany.
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4 copies, colored slide no. 7082 photographic prints, 6.8 x 11.3 cm. photographs
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