"Bersaba: Br. Gericke m. kaffrischem Dolmetscher." ("Bersheba: Br[other] Gericke w[ith] Kaffir interpreter."). The picture shows a man of African origin in the center and a man of European origin. The old man wears a big hat. He rests on a wooden stick. The man of European origin wears a light colored jacket and is seen from the side. In the background a tree. Written on the card board: "P. Theile, 1934." Bersheba is a village near Enon. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Gericke (1868-1944) was a missionary in Labrador from 1896 to 1907 and in South Africa (Genadendal, Elim and Enon) from 1909 to 1935.
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image
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2 copies photographic prints, 6.8 x 11.1 cm. photographs
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