"Das Neue Testament der Lena / des Missionars Georg Schmidt (mit Kasten)" ("Lena's and Missionary Georg Schmidt's New Testament (with box)"). Arranged on checkered fabric are the book the New Testament on the left and a wooden box on the right. The book is opened a page can be seen. The box is partially opened. Georg Schmidt (1709-1785), born in Kunewalde, was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa from 1737-1744. He served in Söte Mecks Valley and Sergeant Revier (Baviaanskloof, i.e. Genadendal). In 1744 he went back to Europe and two years later he married Maria Wahovsky[?] in Herrnhaag. He died in Niesky, Germany. -- A similar photograph can be found under record number 13302.
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2 copies photographic prints, 9.6 x 4.3 cm. photographs
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