"Im Hof der Regierungsnebenstelle Mwaja." ("In the yard of the Mwaya branch of the government agency."). View of a yard with three fenced in, circular areas in the middle. Missionary Stolz (?) and a white government agent standing at the first one. Two dogs lying in front of a tile-roofed building on the right. Another tile-roofed building in the background. Trees are standing next to the buildings. Small white blotches of color on the photo. -- Ernst Emil Böhme took this picture presumably in the period between 1900 and 1916. -- Ernst Emil Böhme (1870-1938) was a mission artisan of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1900 to 1903 as head of the joinery, as building foreman from 1903 to 1905 in Kyimbila, from 1905 to 1907 in Isoko and from 1907 to 1909 in Rutenganio. Until being interned in 1916 he was head of the station in Ipanya. In 1907 he married Emma, née Gründel. -- 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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