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Verlagsanstalt für Farbenphotographie Weller & Hüttig

Anecho in Togo in colonial times: Solid architecture, tidy environment and in addition to palm trees - on behalf of a Berlin publishing house around 1907 photographers traveled to Africa in order to bring the colonies closer to the Germans. Her pictures show colonial splendor with huge Gründerzeit villas and park-like tamed nature. The Cologne historian Jens Jäger says: "Practically the better Germany".

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