"Taufhandlung auf einem Aussenplatz von Isoko. Br. Zeeb tauft." ("Baptism in an outskirt of Isoko. Br[other] Zeeb administers baptism."). Large group of Africans sitting with their backs facing the viewer. They are watching Missionary Zeeb baptizing an African under a tent. Sister Bachmann is sitting next to him. In the background palm trees and hills. Imprinted on the image: "9349 (?)". The photo was presumably taken during Bachmann's and Zeeb's joint stay in Isoko 1908-1910. -- Elisabeth Marie Bachmann (1885-?) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine together with her husband Emil Karl Bachmann (1875-1940) from 1908-1916. During that time they stayed in Isoko (1908-1910), Rutenganio (1910), Mwaja (1910-1912) and Rungwe (1912-1916). For the following three years they were British prisoners of war. After they were released, they became missionaries of the Berlin Mission. -- Wilhelm Friedrich Zeeb (1866-1933) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Nyasa, East Africa, from 1898-1911. From 1900-1910 he stayed in Isoko together with his wife Anna Mathilde Zeeb (born 1875 in Surinam, died 1913). After his return to Germany, he married his second wife Gertraud Adolphine Wünsche (1878-1952) in 1914.
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2 copies (?), one missing, colored slide no. 1077 photographic prints, 15.5 x 10.8 cm. photographs
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