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Title
Pastor Abela and Razafindrainibe's wedding, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1904
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1904
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
Among the wedding guests are: Abela, pastor Soavina (widower), Razafindrainibe, a teacher and earlier from Antsahamanitra Girls' School. She was the daughter of Rabeony's sister Agnes and Agne's husband, a teacher, Andreas, Ambato. -- First row from left: Johanne Borchgrevink 1836-1924, maiden name Wang. She married Christian Doederlein Borchgrevink in Tamatave on September 4, 1870, next the wedding couple, then Christian Doederlein Borchgrevink, a missionary in Madagascar from 1869-1912. Second row from left: Kristine Marie Elise Stafseth 1880-1968, a missionary in Madagascar from 1903-1947, Sigrid Rainivelo, Raliza, ? , Razafy (Mrs. H.Rabeony), Aagot Joergensen 1870-1957, maiden name Kjelseth and was a missionary in Madagascar from 1896-1907. She married Thomas Joergensen 1874-1957 in Tananarive on December 28, 1898. He was a missionary in Madagascar from 1897-1947, ? , Karen Dorothea Schaanning 1874-1940, a missionary in Madagascar from 1901-1940, Hans Rabeony.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 12.1 x 16.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m4249 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A05-776
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4249
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A05-776.jpg
Subject
Marriage
Rabeony, Hans
Norwegian Missionary Society
Borchgrevink, Christian Doederlein, 1841-1919
Abela, pastor
Razafindrainibe
Time Period
circa 1904
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Tananarive (Antananarivo)
Source
NMS/Photo/A05Ma/776 [File]
Relation
A05Ma by Pedersen, Andreas, 1877-1920
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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