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Image / Women fishing in the Anosy lake, Mahamasina, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1890

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Title
Women fishing in the Anosy lake, Mahamasina, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1890
Creator
Johan Smith
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
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
These women are fishing in the Anosy lake. It is a very swampy area. In the middle of the picture is the Prime Ministers residence. To the right up on the hill is the palace and to the left is the Catholic Cathedral. In front of the palace slightly to the left is a church where martyrs were thrown down the hillside and executed. See also IMPA 2455.
Johan B.Smith is the photographer of this picture.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints. 11.8 x 17 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m1983 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A241-296
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1983
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A241-296.jpg
Subject
Women
Lakes
General views
Fishing
Palaces
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
Africa
Antananarivo
Madagascar
Source
NMS/Photo/A241Ma/ 296 [File]
Relation
A241Ma 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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