"Missionar R. Schmidt. Eselskarre" ("Missionary R. Schmidt. Donkey cart"). A neatly dressed man and two boys on a cart drawn by two donkeys. In the background a buiding, probably a church. The missionary on the cart is Rudolf Schmidt, born in 1872 in Elim, South Africa. He worked as locksmith in Genadendal, South Africa. He married Anna Schmitt in 1902 in Upper Paarl near Kapstadt. From 1901 he served as a missionary in South Africa West. From 1904 stationed in Sea View. Schmidt died 1963 in an unknown location.
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2 copies, positive no. 10397, f. photographic prints, 8.1 x 6.1 cm. photographs
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