"Whittlesea. Vor dem Laden des Juden Schaffer. Heidinnen. An den Röcken sind unten schwarze Bänder aufgenäht. Perlenhalsbänder. Armringe" ("Whittlesea. In front of the shop of the Jew Schaffer. Heathens. Down on the skirts black ribbons are sewed on. Pearl necklaces. Bangles"). Five women wrapped in draperies and with headscarfs in front of the entrance of a building. Three of them are standing, two of them are sitting. Except one, all of them are looking in one direction. In the window of the building objects are cognizible (apparently dinnerware). Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland). c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-6-09558.
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