Coloured soldiers of a company of the German Schutztruppe, so-called Askari, marching out in the first days of the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

In the German colony of East Africa, the administration experimented with the use of zebras as mounts. For this purpose a zebra stud was established in Dar-es-Salaam / Photographer: Scherl

A German in a rocking chair in his house. A baboon sits on his shoulder / Photographer: Scherl

• description: Houses, trees, beehives* Photography

Members of the Massai hunted a lion / Photographer: Scherl

• description: Houses, trees, isolated people and mounts* Photography

Contains: among others: - Table of contents of the files up to 1911 - The preservation of natural monuments : Speech of the deputy Wetekamp, 30.03.1898 - Report on finds of gold, tellurium and precious stones in Australia - Outbreak of Mont Pelée on Martinique in 1902 - How to stop the crumbling of the island Helgoland? 1904 - Find of a sperm whale skeleton at Wennemannswisch - Expert opinion for awarding professor titles etc. an Max Blanckenhorn, Paul Oppenheim, Friedrich Solger, Hans von Staff - Questions concerning the occurrence of fossil dinosaurs in the Lindi hinterland in D e u t s c h -O s t a f r i k a , 1910 - Collection of fossil pebble sponges by the dentist Anton Schrammen in Hildesheim - Question of the divining rod - Collection of fossil plants and animals by Paul Richter in Quedlinburg.

Black employees with zebras at the zebra stud in Dar-es-Salam. One experimented with the breeding of zebras for riding purposes. / Photographer: Scherl