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Haurongo: Wohlers, Eliza rāua ko Wohlers, Johann Friedrich Heinrich

Eliza Wohlers, about 1877

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Eliza Wohlers in a hat, scarf, coat and gloves, standing beside a chair in a photographer's studio..

Eliza Wohlers brought to her missionary work on Ruapuke Island 'the courage of a Rebecca…and the mind of a Martha'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-066198; F

Photograph by London Portrait Rooms Dunedin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Sheila Natusch. 'Wohlers, Eliza rāua ko Wohlers, Johann Friedrich Heinrich', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990, whakahou October 2017. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2167/eliza-wohlers-about-1877 (accessed 4 June 2026).