Great old photos, thanks for sharing!

Very nice. Thanks for posting.

Very nice, thanks for posting those pictures. What a time it must have been for your father to have lived in Africa in the early 20th Century.

Regards,

Terry

I liked the photo of the lion cubs! Where is the mother?

Thanks for posting the great pictures.

Willy,

Thank you for sharing your heirloomes...It is a privledge to see this photos...

Mike

Willy,

Thank you for sharing the photographs of your family with all of us. I Sometimes wish I could have been in Africa a hundred years ago.

Regards
Aziz

Cheers Willy,
That photo of the elephant Ivory - correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a picture of Tippu Tip, the greatest slave trader in East Africa?

Those are great, thanks.

Willy,
Thanks for sharing! Awesome stuff!

Great stuff....Love those old photos from anywhere..

I always think I was born too late when I see photos like these.

Thanks,

Wonderful Photos of another time. I love these.
Thank you for posting them.
Gene

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Originally posted by Bwanamich:
Cheers Willy,
That photo of the elephant Ivory - correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a picture of Tippu Tip, the greatest slave trader in East Africa?

Bwanamich:

Mi grandfather wrote about the man of the picture; he was a slave, ivory trader and his name was Malim Sefu, the tusk weighed 90 pounds, about 45 kilograms.
Willy

Malim Sefu AKA "Tippu Tip"

Tippu Tip died in 1905, so unless the date on the picture is wrong this is someone else.

Thanks for the great pictures!

Very nice pictures of old Africa. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Willy - Thanks for posting, these are great pictures. Your grandfather shot this elephant, correct? Do you know whatever became of the tusks? Regards, Bill

Willy,

Your photos are a true treasure, absolutely priceless. Thanks for sharing.

Bill
I don’t really know what happened with the tusks, my family was forced to leave the Tanganyika colony after the Germans where defeated in World War I.
Best regards

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Originally posted by Bill C:
Willy - Thanks for posting, these are great pictures. Your grandfather shot this elephant, correct? Do you know whatever became of the tusks? Regards, Bill

Outstanding photographs!Willy, are you in Argentina? I live in Uruguay.

Willy,
just came across your post now after searching for a different report. That is quite a coincidence! I think our grandfathers might have known each other.
My grandfathers name was Ludwig Kieser. He came to Tanzania / “Deutsch Ost-Afrika†in 1904 (in his early 20s) as an adventurer and hunter. (Boy did he hunt!!) Around 1910 he bought and built up his first sisal-plantation near Tanga. With the beginning of WW I he joined in the troops of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and fought the British for some time. He got capured and was in war captivity in Egypt for a while. He lost everything that he had but after being released he went back to Tanzania and once again bought and built up a sisal plantation near Tanga. The name of the plantation was Kwamkembe. Then came WW II and he again lost most of his assets and was deported with his family. Arriving in Germany during the war, he then bought himself a manor in what is Poland today. Well, when the Russians came from the east he - you will have guessed it already - lost everything he owned and fled via West Germany back to Africa, this time to South-West- Africa (Namibia) where he ended up first as a farm manager and then in his late 70s as a shopkeeper in Swakopmund.
As far as I know there are only two other families left in Namibia or elsewhere in Africa who where originally german settlers in Tanzania. Their names are “Ruppel†and “von Ditfurthâ€. Please see if you can find any documents from your grandfather where these names (Kieser, Ruppel and von Ditfurth) are mentioned.
Regards Kamaatu

Kamaatu: Thanks for bringing up this thread that I too had missed. Willy, if you are still out there, thanks for the photos. Have you been back to your father's old stomping grounds? I look at the photos and am reminded of "Out of Africa."

In the Photos the amount of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro is impressive but a bit of a worry after seeing how much is left .

Kamaatu,
In May I traveled through the Tanga area and visited the old Lutheran Church that ws transformed into a hospital during WW1.We also traveled through some of the areas many Sisal farms.
Regards,
ozhunter

Great photos Willy.

Willy. I don't know how I missed this thread, but enjoyed seeing the photos when I was with you. Your Grandfather was there about the same time as Carl Akeley was doing his expeditions.
Did he or your father ever mention if they met him? I just finished an Akeley biography,
"Carl Akeley, Africa's Collector, Africa's Savior." If you could get a copy I am sure you would enjoy it.

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
In the Photos the amount of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro is impressive but a bit of a worry after seeing how much is left .

I was thinking the same thing.

Very nice! Nowadays it is so nice to be able to put old photos on CD's and preserve them for generations to come. The interesting thing is that you know about each photo and who is in the photo. Thanks for sharing with us on AR.

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
In the Photos the amount of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro is impressive but a bit of a worry after seeing how much is left .

From the Northern or the Southern side. These photos would be from the South?


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Willy

Your family had a beautiful house with a lovely deep verandah for sitting in and escaping the heat of the day or baumy evenings.

Great photos. Thanks very much for sharing them with us here. Do you have any stories from those days?

I was born in the wrong century - what an experience it must have been to have lived in that era.....

I need Mr Peabody's "wayback" machine!!

Great photos! Thanks for sharing.