Image / Queen Rasoaherina, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1865

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Title: Queen Rasoaherina, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1865
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1865
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: "Dronning Rasoaherina der stansede kristenforfoelgelserne" ("Queen Rasoaherina stopped persecution of the christians"). Rasoaherina reigned during 1863-1868. Both the Queen's gown and cloak are beautifully embroidered. She is also wearing the Queen's crown.
Thomas Joergensen served as a printer for the Norwegian Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1897 to 1945 in the capital Tananarive (Antananarivo). He is the creator of this album. - - He started in a building at Ambohijanahary before switching over to the former Lutheran Hospital at Andohalo in 1904. He worked as a printer for 50 years, only interupted by furloughs in Norway. This album A06, contains the images NMS-345 to NMS-465.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints. 15 x 11.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2625 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A06-345
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2625
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A06-345.jpg
Subject: Fashion
Heads of states
Queen Rasoaherina of Madagascar
Portraits
Time Period: circa 1865
Place: Africa
Antananarivo
Madagascar
Source: NMS/Photo/A06Ma/345 [File]

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