cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59292
title: Camp at the Tolequalado, Ethiopia, 1928

description: "[Am] 8. Juli 1928, 16. August 1928, 12. September 1928 lagerten wir dort" ("We camped there on July 8th, 1928, August 16th, 1928, September 12th, 1928"). Photograph depicting a camp site with five tents, several mules, and ca. 14 travellers. The site is surrounded by trees.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59293
title: Camp at the Tullu Diimtuu, Ethiopia, 1928

description: Photograph of a camp site with four tents and several travelers. In the background a treeless elevation.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59294
title: Continental Grand Hotel, Djibouti, [s.d.]

description: Frontal view of the Continental Grand Hotel on Menelik Square in Djibouti.; The photograph was probably taken in 1928.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59295
title: Preparation of the caravan, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, 1928

description: In the court of the rented mission house, five set up tents, to the left a haystack, in the front five Ethiopian workers who are making "Polster für die Daula, Tragsättel ("cushions for the Daula, saddles"). "Ato Cassa, der Aschkarischum [Karawanenleiter], erteilt die Befehle dazu" (Ato Cassa, the Aschkarischum [caravan leader], is issuing commands").
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59297
title: Hermann Bahlburg on horseback, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, 1928-1931

description: Hermann Bahlburg on horseback in the court of the rented mission station house. In the background the three-storied house of the mission.; The photograph was probably taken in 1928. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59298
title: Motorcycle, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, ca.1938

description: A Wanderer motorcycle in a half open wooden transportation box. Because of the transport "[sind] das linke Trittbrett und der Stützbock des Hinterrades verbogen" ("the left footboard and the stand of the rear wheel [are] deformed").; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 72.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59299
title: Camp in Holota, Ethiopia, 1928

description: "Links steht das Zelt des Nagadi [...] Bruder Grabe flickt gerade einen Sattel" ("To the left the tent of Nagadi [...] Brother Grabe is mending a seddle"). Photograph of a site with two tents and Hermann Grabe mending a saddle.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 21 -- Hermann Grabe (1901-1984) was a ship carpenter and deacon. He was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 to 1935.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59300
title: Caravan in the highlands, Ethiopia, 1928

description: "Die platten Bäume sind Mimosen, der typische Baum der Steppe. Auf dem Bilde sind etwa die Hälfte der Tiere [zu] sehen" ("The flat trees are mimosas, the typical tree of the steppe. On the picture there are about half of the animals visible"). Distant view of a caravan of ca. 25 mules and 20 persons climbing a hill.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59301
title: Dietrch Waßmann sen. at the Managasha Mountain, Ethiopia, 1928

description: To the left a grazing horse, to the right Dietrich Waßmann sen.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 100 -- Dietrich Waßmann (1897-1954) was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 on. In 1928 he married Martha, née Asmus. He worked at first at the mission station of Aira, where he established a protestant church and built an infirmary together with his sister Martha Waßmann. In 1935 he had to leave Ethiopia. He returned in 1938 and went back to Aira. In 1942 Waßmann  went back to Germany. He returned again to Ethiopia in 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59302
title: Tent under a tree, Ethiopia, 1929

description: Photograph of Hermann Bahlburg's tent under a Qilxu-tree.; Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Adis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59303
title: Motorcycle, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, ca.1938

description: Rear view of a damaged motorcycle.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 67.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59304
title: Oromo woman selling beer and grain, Ethiopia, ca.1928

description: An Oromo woman is sitting at the caravan route under a tree, in front of her a clay vessel, next to her a covered basket. To the left three Ethiopians on a rocky path, one of them is lifting the lid of the basket.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 617. -- The picture was probably taken on the first or second mission caravan to Aira.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59305
title: Caravan crossing a river, Ethiopia, ca.1928-1929

description: Photograph of heavily loaded mules and Ethiopans wading through a tributary of the river Gudar, in the background on the other bank of the river the rest of the caravan, among them several missionaries.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59306
title: Hermann Bahlburg on a bridge over the river Gaba, Ethiopia, 1929

description: Bahlburg in trunks balancing loads over a bridge made out of logs. In the foreground and in the background fellow travelers with baggage.; cf. pictures nos. ELM/AE/Fotos - 89, 172. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59418
title: Train of the Ethiopian Railway, Ethiopia, ca.1927-1936

description: "Rechts sieht man einen Teil der I. und II. Klasse Wagen" ("To the right are visible parts of the first and second class cars"). Photograph of five cars of a train of the Ethiopian Railway from Djibouti to Addis Abeba. In the cars travelers are visible, on the track people.; The photograph was probably taken in 1928.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59419
title: Meal in the hall of the rented mission house, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, 1928

description: In the hall on the first floor of the rented mission house in Addis Abeba in front of a window (from left): The interpreter Hans Borinski, Adolf Müller, Dietrich Waßmann sen., and Hermann Bahlburg are seated on trunks and having a meal. Another trunk is serving as a table.; Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007. -- Adolf Müller (1905-1936) was a mission artisan of the Hermannsburg mission. He started his work as a missionary in Ethiopia in 1927. From 1928 he served in Aira, later in Bedele. He was married to Minna, née Nottorf. In may 1936 he left Bedele with his wife and baby to flee to Addis Abeba. He was killed on the way in an attack on the caravan. -- Dietrich Waßmann (1897-1954) was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 on. In 1928 he married Martha, née Asmus. He worked at first at the mission station of Aira, where he established a protestant church and built an infirmary together with his sister Martha Waßmann. In 1935 he had to leave Ethiopia. He returned in 1938 and went back to Aira. In 1942 Waßmann  went back to Germany. He returned again to Ethiopia in 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59420
title: Children's party on a steamboat, [s.d.]

description: Group portrait of children and caretakers at a celebration on a steamboat. Some of the children are in disguise.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59421
title: Sewing of a tent, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, ca.1928

description: Photograph of six Ethiopian men sitting in the court of the rented house of the mission station in Addis Abeba, between them a light-colored piece of cloth. They are handsewing a tent.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59422
title: Caravan in the highlands, Ethiopia, 1928

description: A caravan of mules and travelers on foot climbing a hill and crossing a timber bridge.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59423
title: Car accident in Kilile, Ethiopia, 1938

description: Photograph of a car accident in Kilile. A lightly loaded truck that is beeing stuck with the front side deeply in the slope can be seen. To the left the driver and Dietrich Waßmann sen., in the background to the right two tents, in front of them Hermann Bahlburg and Capitano Olla.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 82. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007. -- Dietrich Waßmann (1897-1954) was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 on. In 1928 he married Martha, née Asmus. He worked at first at the mission station of Aira, where he established a protestant church and built an infirmary together with his sister Martha Waßmann. In 1935 he had to leave Ethiopia. He returned in 1938 and went back to Aira. In 1942 Waßmann  went back to Germany. He returned again to Ethiopia in 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59424
title: Car accident in Kilile, Ethiopia, 1938

description: Photograph of a lightly loaded truck being stuck with the front side deeply in the slope. To the left the driver and Dietrich Waßmann sen. can be seen.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 81. -- Dietrich Waßmann (1897-1954) was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 on. In 1928 he married Martha, née Asmus. He worked at first at the mission station of Aira, where he established a protestant church and built an infirmary together with his sister Martha Waßmann. In 1935 he had to leave Ethiopia. He returned in 1938 and went back to Aira. In 1942 Waßmann  went back to Germany. He returned again to Ethiopia in 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59425
title: Camp in Abelti, Ethiopia, 1938

description: Photograph of a camp site. Jürgen and Hermann Bahlburg are working on a car tire, in front of them several bundles. To the left a round tent, in the background a high and bare conical mountain.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 3 -- The picture was taken on a travel to Bedele in order to assess war damage. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59426
title: Breakfast at the river Gibe or Omo, Ethiopia, 1938

description: "am 2. Tag der Reise" ("on the second day of the journey"). In front of a black car from left Hermann Bahlburg, Jürgen Bahlburg, and Kurt Schumacher, all standing and eating. In the background the river is visible.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 48. -- The picture was taken on a travel to Bedele in order to assess war damage. --Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59427
title: Europeans around an orange tree, Nervi, Italy, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of five European women and men standing around an orange tree. One of them is shaking the tree.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59428
title: Missionaries on deck of a steamboat, 1927

description: On deck of the steamboat "Ussukuma" (from right): Hermann Bahlburg, Max Grühl, Dietrich Waßmann sen., Adolf Müller, Hermann Grabe, behind them the Ethiopians Ayelle and Gibbi. All are wearing ties.; The picture was taken on the passage from Genova to Aden. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Adis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007. -- Hermann Grabe (1901-1984) was a ship carpenter and deacon. He was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 to 1935. -- Max Grühl was a German traveler.  With his son he travelled throughout parts of Egypt and Ethiopia. He accompanied the first missionaries from Hermannsburg in 1927 to Ethiopia in order to help them to establish themselves in Adis Abeba. He soon split up with the mission because of his political entanglements. -- Adolf Müller (1905-1936) was a mission artisan of the Hermannsburg mission. He started his work as a missionary in Ethiopia in 1927. From 1928 he served in Aira, later in Bedele. He was married to Minna, née Nottorf. In may 1936 he left Bedele with his wife and baby to flee to Adis Abeba. He was killed on the way in an attack on the caravan. -- Dietrich Waßmann (1897-1954) was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 on. In 1928 he married Martha, née Asmus. He worked at first at the mission station of Aira, where he established a protestant church and built an infirmary together with his sister Martha Waßmann. In 1935 he had to leave Ethiopia. He returned in 1938 and went back to Aira. In 1942 Waßmann  went back to Germany. He returned again to Ethiopia in 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59429
title: Steamboat leaving the port, Aden, Yemen, 1927

description: Photograph of the steamboat "Ussukama" leaving the port of Aden.; The picture was taken from the steamboat "Tuna" that took the missionaries from Aden to Djibouti.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59430
title: Port entrance of Aden, Yemen, 1927

description: "Links die Stadt. Alles ist kahler Felsen. Kein Grün erfreut das Auge" (To the left the town. Everything is bare rock. No greenery delights the eye"). Photgraph of the port entrance of Aden.; The picture was taken from the steamboats "Ussukuma" or "Tuna", that took the missionaries to Aden and from there on to Djibouti.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59431
title: Bridge over a river, Ethiopia, 1929

description: Photograph of travelers on a timber bridge made of round logs. The bridge leads maybe over the river Gabbaa between Gore and Bedele.; cf. picture nos. ELM/AE/Fotos - 75, 172. -- The picture was taken on Hermann Bahlburg's second return journey. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59432
title: Lunch under a tree, Ethiopia, 1928

description: Three Ethiopian travelers are sitting at the wayside under a tree, their packed lunch and a calabash with them.; The picture was taken on the first mission caravan to Aira.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59433
title: The head of the caravan leaving the wood, Ethiopia, 1928

description: "Hermann Grabe reitet vorauf" ("Hermann Grabe rides ahead"). Photograph of the head of a caravan leaving the wood and entering open bushland. A missionary with a sun helmet is riding ahead followed by heavily loaded mules and Ethiopian travelers on foot.; The picture was taken on the first mission caravan to Aira. -- Hermann Grabe (1901-1984) was a ship carpenter and deacon. He was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 to 1935.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59434
title: Crossing the river Tsor, Ethiopia, 1929

description: A caravan of mules crosses the river over a timber bridge with stone pillars.; The picture was taken on Hermann Bahlburg's second return journey. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59435
title: Hunting trophies, Ethiopia, 1929

description: Hermann Bahlburg (head not visible) beside two slain bushbucks whose heads are held high by two Ethiopians. To the right behind them fellow travelers, to the left a young man with two bags and a stick.; The picture was taken on Hermann Bahlburg's second return trip. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59436
title: Cleared wood, Ethiopia, 1929

description: Cleared wood, in the foreground a fast running river and an Ethiopian.; The picture was taken on Hermann Bahlburg's second return trip. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59437
title: On deck of the steamboat "Tuna", 1927

description: "[Das Schiff] Tuna, mit der wir von Aden nach Djibouti fuhren" ("[The ship] Tuna, by which we went from Aden to Djibouti").  Five persons in the second class area on deck of the the ship "Tuna". Among the persons are two seated Indians, at the reling maybe Dietrich Waßmann sen.  To the left the rudder of the steamboat is visible.; The picture was taken on Hermann Bahlburg's second return journey. -- The picture is laterally inverted. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59456
title: At the airfield of Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia, 1955

description: "Begrüßung der beiden Ärztinnen: Frln. Dr. Knoche + Frln. Dr. Freimann nach Rückkehr letzterer aus Deutschland." ("Welcoming of the two female physicians: Miss Dr Knoche and Miss Dr Freimann after the return of the latter from Germany.) Photograph of several persons in front of an EAL airplane.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59458
title: Trade near a waiting train, Ethiopia, 1928

description: Trade at the tracks: Ethiopian women are seated on the ground offering their goods in covered baskets. To the left and to the right market-women with braided hair.; The picture was taken on Hermann Elber's and Ernst Greb's journey to Ethiopia. -- Hermann Elbers (1906-1944) was a carpenter and served the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1928 to 1935. He married Martha Böttcher in 1933. -- Ernst Greb (1904-1965?) was a carpenter. He served the Hermannsburg mission as lay brother in Ethiopia from 1928 to 1931.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-84734
title: Makonnen Street, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, 1938-12-15

description: "Die Makonnenstrasse nach dem [italienisch-abessinischen] Kriege mit ausgebrannten Häusern. Im Hintergrund der Antotto." ("The Makonnen Street after the [Italian-Abyssinian] war with burnt out houses. In the background the Antotto.")