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Title
Portrait of new guards, Madagascar, ca. 1900
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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
"The new guards of the city". Three young men in uniforms with rifles. Their uniforms are dishevelled and torn and they are barefoot.
Part of set of mounted prints, probably commercially produced, stamped as being from the Loan Department of the LMS. Also bears the reference number 53297. Possibly from Miss Gilpin.
Type
image
Format
albumen prints, 20.4 x 15.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m362 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-015-005
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m362
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-015-005.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
London Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Source
SOAS/CWM/LMS/MA/PHOTO/01/015/005 [File]
Relation
Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
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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