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Title
Ragnhild Soerensen in the Soavina Mission Station garden, Madagascar, ca.1927
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1927
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/ .
post@vid.no
Description
"Ragnhild Soerensen. Soavina". This is probably Anne Marie Wilhelmsens 1843-1879 grave. Her maiden name was Sunde and she was married to Hans Wilhelmsen 1841-1886. He was a missionary in Madagascar from 1869-1886. He was the manager of Soavina Mission Station 1870-1886. Ragnhild Soerensen was a missionary in Madagascar from 1915-1945. Wilhelmsen and wife are burried here and also two children. Two twins died in Antananarivo and was burried at Ambatovinaky church. "Wilhelmsen eni mianaka" is written on the memory stone and means: SIX of the Wilhelmsen family.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 11.7 x 17.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m5189 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A09-1171
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5189
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A09-1171.jpg
Subject
Missionary work
Norwegian Missionary Society
Soerensen, Ragnhild Antoinette, 1886-1968
Portraits
Graves
Time Period
circa 1927
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Vakinankaratra
Source
NMS/Photo/A09Ma/1171 [File]
Relation
A09Ma by Schaanning, Karen Dorothea, 1874-1940
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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