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Durch Sand, Sumpf und Wald : Missionsreisen in Zentral-Afrika

Geyer, Franz Xaver · 1914 · Freiburg : Herder · 16 pictures

A 1914 German mission travel account by Franz Xaver Geyer, published by Herder in Freiburg, written for a Catholic readership interested in missionary work in Central Africa. Its photographs show colonial government buildings and flooded Port Sudan streets, thatched village huts, and a group of students in front of a brick mission school, offering a documentary record of early twentieth-century colonial settlement that a designer might use for period texture, muted sepia tones, and hut or architectural forms.

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