| Remarks: Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz (July 16, 1834 - October 30, 1886) was a German merchant and founder of the first German colony in Southwest Africa. He was born in Bremen, where he engaged in the tobacco business with his father, who died in 1878. Adolf Lüderitz succeeded to the management of the business. He had traveled to the United States from 1854 to 1859, In 1881, he established a factory at Lagos, and in 1883, he acquired land in southwest Africa which he placed under the protection of the German Empire in 1884. He drowned in the Orange River in 1886. (from Wikipedia), Photos by Andreas Vogt on behalf of the National Monuments Council |
| Date: December 1989 |
| Remarks on Dating: undated |
| Persons on image: Lüderitz, Adolf |
| Photographer: Andreas Vogt |
| Medium: Image |
| Colour: Col. |
| File format: Electronic image |
| Copyright holder: National Monuments Council |
| Acknowledge: NAN |
| Contributing institution: Namibia University of Science and Technology |
| Custody: NAN |
| Version: 35 mm colour slide |
| Type: Electronic image |
| Source: 35 mm |
| Date digitised: January 2012 |
| WWW Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Lüderitz |
| Collection name: National Monuments Council |
| Date added: 04-11-2012 |
| Data capturer: RM |
| Metadata entry tool: ISIS |
| Digitisation specs: JPEG for display. Archives TIFF image was scanned at 1200 dpi with Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner. 24 bit colour. 35 mm colour silde |
| File name: NAN_SLI_RNG_img_039717.jpg, NAN_SLI_RNG_img_039735.jpg, NAN_SLI_RNG_img_039736.jpg |