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Aagot Kjeldseth rides a filanjana (palanquin) on her way to church, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1896

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Title: Aagot Kjeldseth rides a filanjana (palanquin) on her way to church, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1896
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1896
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: Misjonsmarka 12, NO-4024 Stavanger, Norway
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
USC does not control copyright for these images. For usage permission, contact Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University. Information is available at https://www.vid.no/en/historical-archive/ .
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Description: Everybody in the picture seems to be dressed up. The garden may be at Antsahamanitra Girls' School. The wall in the background is very typical and made of dark red soil. Aagot Kjeldseth was a missionary in Madagascar from 1896-1907. She was a teacher at Antsahamanitra Girls' School from 1896-1898. In 1898 she married Thomas Joergensen 1874-1957.
Antsahamanitra Girls' School was established in 1872 by Johanna Borchgrevink 1836-1924 and led by her until 1912. Hundreds of Malagasy girls were taken care of and given education during this long period.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints 11.3 x 15.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m1032 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A01-062
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1032
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A01-062.jpg
Subject: Norwegian Missionary Society
Kjeldseth, Aagot, 1870-1957
Transport
Group portraits
Carriers
Time Period: circa 1896
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Tananarive (Antananarivo)
Source: NMS/Photo/A01Ma/062 [File]
Relation: A01Ma by Joergensen, Thomas, 1874-1957
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
Photographs of the Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, ca.1870-1950
impa-m559

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