"Die Karre von Wittewater (Kretzschmer u. Conz). Die Farm." ("The cart of Wittewater (Kretzschmer a[nd] Conz). The farm."). The picture shows the profile of two men sitting in a cart drawn by two horses. A house surrounded by trees and mountains in the background. The picture might either show Rudolf Kretschmer or Theophilius Kretschmer. -- Rudolf Kretschmer (1901-unknown) was a merchant and a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in western South Africa. -- Theophilius Kretschmer was a merchant and a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in western South Africa. -- Ernst Gottlob Conz (1869-unknown) was a merchant and a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in western South Africa. He married Hester Helene Coetzee (1888-unknown). -- E. Baudert probably took the picture in 1830. -- The picture might have also been taken by Samuel Baudert (1879-1956). -- Eugen Baudert (1876-1953), born in Silo and died in Bonza Bay near East London, was teacher at and head of the Herrnhuter mission seminar in Mvenyane from 1904-1931. He married Margarethe Maria Baur in 1909.
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image
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2 copies photographic prints, 11 x 6.6 cm. photographs
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