"Taufversammlung auf einem Aussenplatz Kyimbila's. Br. Jansa. Die Täuflinge in weissen Kleidern" ("Christening assembly on an outskirt of Kyimbila. Br[other] Jansa. Those to be baptized [are wearing] white clothes"). Missionary Jansa and six Africans are sitting in front of a group of others wearing white clothes. On the left: four missionaries seated on stools facing them. In the background: more people, trees, mountains. 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.
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black-and-white slide no. 4698 photographic prints, 11.8 x 8.9 cm. photographs
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