"Kumase: Missions Personal. "
Item Details
Title:
"Kumase: Missions Personal. "
Alternate title:
"Kumase: mission workers."
Description
Names
Creator:
Berger (Mr)Name: Berger (Mr)
Biography: Uncertain whether the name of the photographer is Berger, Richard (Mr) or Berger, Jakob (Mr).
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Biography: Uncertain whether the name of the photographer is Berger, Richard (Mr) or Berger, Jakob (Mr).
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Dates
Date early:
1911
Proper date:
1911
Geography
Location:
[Geography]: Africa {continent}: Ghana {modern state}: Ghana {modern regions}: Ashanti {modern region}: Kumase {place}People:
Subject
Keywords:
economy - general, employee m, communication, group, men's wear, religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, mission assistant m, missionary m, pastor m, teacher m Individuals:
Adate (Mr)Name: Adate (Mr)Profession: mission assistant (Missionsassistent)
Geographic references: Land of origin: Ghana {country of origin}
Need more information?, Asare, N. (Mr)Name: Asare, N. (Mr)
Date of Death: 30.11.1939
Biography: Asare was ordained in 1909.
Profession: mission assistant; pastor
Geographic references: Land of origin: Ghana {country of origin}
Need more information?, Berger (Mr)Name: Berger (Mr)
Biography: Uncertain whether the name of the photographer is Berger, Richard (Mr) or Berger, Jakob (Mr).
Need more information?, Berger, Jakob (Mr)Name: Berger, Jakob (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1689
Date of Birth: 09.03.1883
Profession: gardener (Gärtner)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Jost, Friedrich Adolf (Mr)Name: Jost, Friedrich Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1353
Date of Birth: 22.06.1871
Date of Death: 19.10.1942
Biography: Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in Switzerland from 1918 to 1926. After his first wife , Elisabeth Jost-Brugger, died in 1907 he married Emma Jost-Raedelfinger in 1912.
Profession: saddler (Sattler)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: [leer] N
Need more information?, Kwaso (Mr)Name: Kwaso (Mr)
Profession: mission assistant
Geographic references: Land of origin: Ghana {country of origin}
Need more information?, Lädrach, Otto (Mr)Name: Lädrach, Otto (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1427
Date of Birth: 21.07.1875
Date of Death: 23.05.1949
Profession: secondary school pupil (Gymnasiast)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
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Relationships
Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 8.8cm x 13.5cm
[Condition]: medium; retouched
[Type of support]: cardboard
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, collodion
[Condition]: medium; retouched
[Type of support]: cardboard
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, collodion
Identifier
Reference:
D-30.17.016
Citation:
Reference: BMA D-30.17.016
Title: "Kumase: Missions Personal. "
Creator: Berger (Mr)
Date: 1911
Berger (Mr), “Kumase: Missions Personal. ,” BMArchives, accessed April 22, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/56795.
Title: "Kumase: Missions Personal. "
Creator: Berger (Mr)
Date: 1911
Berger (Mr), “Kumase: Missions Personal. ,” BMArchives, accessed April 22, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/56795.
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