'some water damage up to sheet 408' - Tour to Lake Chad on 6.8.1904 (Governor von Puttkamer) - Preparations for the tour (among other tour requests

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The passenger steamer 'Admiral Tirpitz' enters the port of Tsingtau. In the background lies the battleship S. M. S. 'Fürst Bismarck' in the floating dock / Photographer: Scherl

The mail steamer is unloaded at the port of Tsingtau. / Photographer: Scherl

A carrier column crosses a river in the German colony of East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

The Duke of Mecklenburg as Governor of Togo before a journey through the country at the train station of Nuatja / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Establishment of a direct Tsingtaus steamboat connection with the Yalu estuary for the transport of raw material for silk production from Manchuria (application by the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society), (1903) 1904 Attacks on the German administration in Kiautschou in the Chinese press, 1904 Railway construction projects of the Chinese-German Tschunghsiang Coal Society of Ihsien in Schantung ("Ihsien Society") and question of German concession rights in the province of Schantung, 1904 customs collection procedure in Tsingtau, 1904

Lange, Erich (1889 - 1965) Prof. Dr.phil.; Professor of Fuel Geology 1946 President of the German Geological Survey; Director of the Geological Service of the GDR The estate contains: Excerpts from the file 1957 "Preparation of the commemorative event 10 years StGK (Staatliche Geologische Kommission) (contains among other things: material, elaborations and handwritten notes) Correspondences Personal letter of Gottlieb A. Seberna Handwritten notes among other things from and to geological books, to Cameroon, manuscripts to geological observation in French, German and English. Colonies (e.g. East-Adamaua), excerpts from the journal of the German Geological Society vol. 84(1932), photographs of tree trunks in a basalt stream near Meiganga

German colonial officials travel on the first section of the Dar es Salaam - Mrogoro railway / Photographer: Scherl

Undersecretary of State of Lindequist at Dar es Salaam railway station during his inspection trip through East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

The warship 'Hertha' is anchored in the harbour of Dar-es-Salaam / Photographer: Scherl

A ship has moored at the loading bridge of Tsingtau in the bay of Kiautschou / Photographer: Scherl