'Merry Christmas and a Happy New Century! First landsman's greeting from German Samoa on the day of the arrival of the first news of the acquisition by Germany...'

• Author: According to Miss's diary. Päsler. Scope: pp. 74-78* 89-93. Includes, but is not limited to: - (SW: visit to Chief Schangali; language studies; exchange and gifts; Swahili service; contact to Madchame people; construction work hindered by the beginning of the "small rainy season") - (SW: food and cattle breeding; postal traffic with "home"; legal ownership of a piece of land - Kwarango - new station name; Christmas and New Year festival; fire at the station)

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,1 X 11,2. Description: Infant lying on blanket in the living room.

Photographer: Frau Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 12,1 X 8,9. Description: Group photo on lawn in front of trees; children standing in line, girls further back, in boys row middle Leonhard Blumer; European garments).

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,6 X 8,0. Description: in front of church in Arusha, dancing Arusha women, spectators, children.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 6,0 X 14,0. Description: Text on photo back: A European chieftain wedding. There were 1200 natives and 36 Europeans as guests. You see the unstoppable progress of civilization. The chief has immediately plunged into very big expenses. You can't see anything of the screaming shortage of money in the country. But so it always is, a whine and nothing keeps people from saving when it's for their own purposes. And they're Christians.

Photographer: Mergner?. Type: Photo. Format: 5,8 X 8,8. Description: right margin: Church, people in front of church and around bell cage (from far away). Reference: See postcard box, P 25 a (14.0 X 9.0) and P 25 b (13.9 X 9.0) m. Title "The Kilimanjaro from Madschame (East Africa)".

on the left the "important man", Mr. Schauer? (or Schwär?). Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,8 X 5,9. Description: small truck in savannah landscape, Africans in and on it, 1 in front of it, Europeans standing on the left. Reference: Cf. album 22, no. 22, 26 (8,6 X 5,5) "Das Missionshaus".

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,7 X 7,5. Description: a group of Africans with partly European clothes, rectangular house with roof made of plant fibres. Remark: a little dark. Reference: Cf. album 19, no. 382. Cf. N. Bl., Number 759.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 3,2 X 8,2. Description: Full body shot (only part of a larger photo?).

Author: Anonymous. Scope: pp. 160-163. Includes, among other things: - (SW: various Christmas trees; translated Christmas carols; Christmas Eve; famine and illness in the Wakamba stations; Miss.'s illness)

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,2 X 7,5. Description: 9 girls with white dress/headscarf, wreaths and palm branch in row.

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,7 X 9,0. Description: View to the altar, Christmas tree to the left of the altar, in front of the crib, Guth am Harmonium, 3 people sitting on a bench.

Author: from a letter from Missionary Will. Scope: pp. 136-137. Includes, among other things: - (SW: Christmas; divine service)

Author: Excerpt from Miss's diary. Cooper. Scope: pp. 131-132. Includes, among other things: - (SW: lack of food; cattle from Moshi; preparation and celebration of the festivities)

Author: Report by Miss. Althaus, Dec. 1896. Scope: pp. 155-157. Includes among others: - (SW: Celebration of Christmas)

Author: After a letter from Miss. Fight in Jimba. Scope: pp. 142-144. Includes, among other things: - (SW: Pallisade fence - Boma built around mission station; 9 catechumens; teaching; description of Christmas)

Author: Report by Miss. Segebrock in Mamba. Scope: pp. 144-148. Includes, among other things: - (SW: Miss. Segebrock - preparation and celebration of Christmas with the 3 chieftains of the surroundings - Bararia, Koimbere and Mlawi and their entourage)

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,1 X 11,2. Description: View to the altar, women left, men right sitting, Christmas tree. Reference: Plate and cardboard no. 87 in negative box.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,6 X 8,0. Description: African crowd under trees on the lawn (European garments).

Curriculum vitae, vows of secondment and instructions, 1932; recommendation and assessment, 1932; correspondence, 1931-1959; "Christmas in Kamatschumu, 1933; "Fahrt nach Kanyangereko, 1933; "First impressions of Kanyangereko, 1933; Four editions of "Badener Land with stories by Gerda von Kries, 1936

Back text: Christmas 1904, dedicated by the grateful Congregation of the Pallottines, names: Top row from left to right: P. Joh. Bayer, P. Paul Bernh. Wienold ; P. Clemens Berkenkopf ; P. Artur Wynen, P. Meyer, P. Bernh. Schnitzler; Bottom row: P. Peter Girke; P. Peter Resch; P. Joh. Hettenkofer; Bishop Heinrich Vieter ; P. Mich. Kolb; P. Andreas Kohl[and a Negro boy in front of the table]Dating: 1904; Format/Size: 24x30

Photographer: Wilhelm Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,1 X 8,3. Description: View to the altar, bananas and other plants as decoration, 2 cushions in front of the altar, flowers lying in the corridor.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,5 X 12,7. Description: Group picture 25 persons (European men, women and children).

Author: According to Br. Hofmann's diary. Scope: pp. 195-199. Includes, inter alia: - "First God's protection in snake danger." (SW: snake killing) - "Second drought and inflation." (SW: Drought; victims; capture of old debtors by some Wakamba) - "3. Our Christmas party." - "Fourth move and move. New division of Ukamba Province." - "Fifth Missionary Work." "6th Br. Säuberlich's Arrival."

Author: From Miss's diary. Muller. Scope: pp. 121-124. Contains, among other things: - "First arrival of Br. Room." (SW: reception by Chief Schangali; teaching and worship services; conflicts - intervention of Miss.) - "Second Conference and Christmas Party." (SW: Visit of the chiefs Schangali and Makungu of Naruma; Christmas; Drought)

• Author: From Miss's diary. Muller. Scope: p. 202-206* 269-270. Contains, among other things: - "1. The first pagan baptisms in Madschame." (SW: Baptism; Schangali's participation in the celebration; Johanna and Stefano baptized) - "2nd Missionary Work to the Women of Madschame." (SW: Miss Müller at the market at Kikafu to preach; attending church service) - "3rd school lesson." (SW: rehearsing songs; vocabulary; frequent visit of Chief Schangali) - "4th Christmas." - "Fifth, a campaign against the Masai." (SW: Lieutenant Merker; Chief Schangali; against the people of Toilito in Sira) Darin: Illustration "The board students in Madschame. (Family Müller and Miss. Room.)"

Author: By Miss. Muller. Scope: pp. 160-163. Includes, among other things: - "In September." (SW: pews; baptismal students; arrival of Miss Fuchs; lessons) - "2 October." (SW: language studies; banana grove; 6th anniversary of the arrival in Madchame; birthday of Miss. Müller - gifts) - "November and December." (SW: starving Wataita eat several soldier boys at Moshi; school of food; Shangali no longer wears magic; celebration of Christmas)

• Author: According to Miss's diaries. Althaus and Bleicken. Scope: p. 158-161* 181-185. Includes, among others: - "First of October." (SW: guests from the English neighbouring station Taweta; printing house; showing pictures; lessons in Mwika also by chief Mbararia; lessons with chief Koimbere) - "2. work on the female sex, new christening candidates etc.". (SW: lessons for women; school building in Marangu by chief Mareale; baptismal requests; Miss. Bleicken after Moshi; weather observations; formation of local teachers; repair of the church; attendance at church service) - "3. admission of two boarding students." (SW: Construction of a girl's house; church services with presentation of pictures) - "4th Christmas." (SW: feast; giving of AT and NT in Kiswahili; attendance at church service; Christmas in Mwika)

Author: After Br. Bleickens monthly chronicle, Dec. 1897. Scope: pp. 158-159. Includes among others: - (SW: Arrival of Miss. Bleicken, Walther, room; miss. Walther - printing house; division of labour; lessons with the chiefs Mareale, Mbararia and Ngoia; good harvests; preparation for the construction of a stone house; Christmas - people from Mwika, Msae, Kondeni and Marangu)

• Author: From Miss's diary. Pfitzinger. Scope: p. 99-101* 112-114. Contains, among other things: - "One. Much rain - but still hard ground." (SW: heavy rain showers; find of a strange fish; Miss. Unger enriches the station) - "2nd Christmas among pagans in Mbungu." (SW: Christmas)

Author: From Miss's diary. Cooper. Scope: pp. 177-182. Contains, among other things: - "1. Exterior work, a lot of anxiety." (SW: construction work; equipment; storms) - "2nd Sermon on the Gentiles and teaching." (SW: attendance at church service; school and lessons; visit by Miss Raum) - "3. the christmas." (SW: Christmas service; gift for chief Meli) - "January 4, 1898." (SW: services; school) - "The baptism of the four catechumens." (SW: Baptism; transmission of the baptismal order and songs to Kimoshi)

• Author: From Miss's diaries. Fassman and Bleicken. Scope: p. 266-269* 281-284. Contains, among other things: - "First work on the heathens." (SW: Miss. Fassmann - Landscape Pokomo; Subchief Mlatie; Beer; Teaching house; Residents' concerns about the mission; Sermon; Chief Meli - Attending church service; Thoughts of a baptismal disciple) - "2nd school. (SW: Miss. Bleicken takes over the lessons; girls take part; separation of the school into two departments; school set on imperial station) - "3rd Christmas. " (SW: gifts; complaints about Chief Meli for assault) - "4. Locusts and shortages. " (SW: hayflock swarms; food shortage; mission garden; water shortage) - "5th Conference of Missionaries." (SW: language exam; station work and construction) - "6. All sorts from the month of March." (SW: Lessons with Meli restricted; successes in Moshi; attendance at church service; children's service) Darin: Illustration "Our mission school in Moschi.

Author: Quarterly report by Miss. Cooper. Scope: pp. 196-199. Includes, inter alia: - "First, a new comrade at work." (SW: arrival of siblings room; lessons; boarding school) - "2. All sorts of nasty things." (SW: Fire in the work shed; start of construction of a new building; lightning conductor system; printed booklet in progress; fever attacks; riots caused by Waaruscha; Christmas)

Author: From Miss's diary. Clean. Scope: pp. 276-278. Includes, among other things: - "First end of famine in Kitwi." (SW: rainy season; harvest) - "2. A new breeding rod." (SW: Vaccination against smallpox; release of many from sorcery) - "3. Our orphans." (SW: Christmas; full dedication to the costume students; instruction of the baptismal students; writing, reading and biblical stories; singing)