Bismarckburg from Landside (east). Photo credit - Colonial Picture Archive from the University Frankfurt, Germany:
The Military Fort at Bismarkburg. Photo courtesy Holger Kotthaus.
Bismarckburg from Landside with Askari buildings in foreground 1912 (east). Photo credit - Colonial Picture Archive from the University Frankfurt, Germany:
Bismarckburg from Lakeside 1912 (south). Photo credit - Colonial Picture Archive from the University Frankfurt, Germany:
Bismarckburg district office building under construction 1911. Photo credit - Colonial Picture Archive from the University Frankfurt, Germany:
Bismarckburg from Lakeside 1912 (north). Photo credit - Colonial Picture Archive from the University Frankfurt, Germany:
Detachment Bismarckburg from the Boma with Askari buildings in background 1912. Photo credit - Colonial Picture Archive from the University Frankfurt, Germany:
The High Street Kasanga in the late 1950s. Photo Dorothy van der Linde
The Beach at Kasanga in Tanganyika as was. Kasanga was the next town up the east coast of Lake Tanganyika from Mpulungu.  Abercorn residents would visit this Arab settlement for its exotic atmosphere, so completely different from Northern Rhod
The remains of the German Fort at Bismarkburg, Kasanga on the East Coast of Lake Tanganyika. Photo taken by John Carlin in the late 1950s before much of the building was demolished for materials to built a school.
  Ruined interior of Bismarkburg at Kasanga in early 1959. Photo John Carlin.
A section of the ruined main defensive wall at Bismarkburg
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