Image / Ambohipiantrana, a home for leprous patients, Antsirabe, Madagascar, ca.1900

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Title: Ambohipiantrana, a home for leprous patients, Antsirabe, 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: Misjonsmarka 12, NO-4024 Stavanger, Norway
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
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Description: "Spedalske udenfor sin by. Pastor Rosaas og s.Sina til venstre" ("Leprous outside their area. Pastor Rosaas and nurse Sina to the left"). Ambohipiantrana was built of several "cities" and this one was called Tanambao.
Standing to the left: Thorkild Guttormsen Rosaas, a missionary at Madagascar 1869-1907, has a grieving ribbon on his helmet. His daughters Theodora died on March 6, 1900, and Johanna on May 23, 1905 Standing behind him nurse Sina Loeken. She was a missionary at Madagascar 1900-1934.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 12 x 17 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m1653 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A03-149
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1653
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A03-149.jpg
Subject: Leprosy
Buildings
Norwegian Missionary Society
Rosaas, Thorkild Guttormsen, 1841-1913
Loeken, Sina, 1868-1938
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1900
Place: Africa
Antsirabe
Madagascar
Source: NMS/Photo/A03Ma/149 [File]

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