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Title
Streetscene, Farvaohitra, Madagascar, ca. 1913
Creator
Rasolonjatovo
Date Created and/or Issued
1910/1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
View of road leading into town, with people and carriages. Trees in foreground, houses in background.
Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) was the twenty-seventh governor of Michigan serving one term from 1911-12. He travelled widely and visited Madagascar between 1912 and 1914, publishing Madagascar, Land of the Man-eating tree in 1924. A number of the prints in this album are reproduced in this title. The album comprises prints, mainly printing-out paper, either taken by or collected by Osborn. The album is inscribed "This album was made by natives of Madagascar. The bark of the "Tati" was used for the cover".
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 16 x 11.6 cm.
Identifier
impa-m245 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-007-013
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m245
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-007-013.jpg
Subject
London Missionary Society
Osborn, Chase Salmon, 1860-1949
Townscapes
Time Period
1910/1920
Place
Africa
Antananarivo
Madagascar
Source
SOAS/CWM/LMS/MA/PHOTO/03/007/013 [File]
Relation
Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Madagascar, Land of the Man Eating Tree
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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