Gerhard Howe (Inhaber Gerhard Phillipp Howe)
(K)Catharinenstraße 3, Bremen, (Freie und Hansestadt Bremen / Free & Hanseatic City of Bremen)
African Merchant - Exporter and coal handler
Known dates: 1880 - 1910. By 1910 the company was run by Carl Gerhard Phillipp Howe.
Reference: Bremen Adressbuch
![Gerhard Howe 2](pages/data/202004171440image0.jpg)
"Dorf Bombe" or Bombe village established in 1887, pictured circa 1900. Bombe was a European Christian mission station situated fifty miles north west of the capital city Douala.
![Gerhard Howe 1](pages/data/202004171438image2.jpg)
Cast "Gerhard Howe. Bremen" on the base of the featured goblet.
![Gerhard Howe 5](pages/data/202004171558Dorf Bombe.jpg)
Photograph of Dorf Bombe circa 1900.
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"Andenken an Kamerun", "Souvenir of German Cameroon". Tableaux shows fully rigged steamships which were in vogue in the last twenty years of the 19th century.