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Title
Ambatomanga' school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, in Madagascar
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1940/1970
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/index.php?id=266
http://www.defap.fr/contact.php
Description
Ambatomanga' school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, in Madagascar. On the left, this is the building for the final year of elementary school, it was built in 1949/50. In the background, this is the house of the director. In the foreground, this is the new building built in 1954/55 : classrooms for 7th and 8th grades, chemistry classroom and the room for manual work (weaving and sewing).
The first SMEP missionaries arrived in Ambatomanga in 1904. The french mission developed the school activities with two kinds of training: a teacher training school and a school to train the indigenous clergy.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 6.8x11.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m74280 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_MGPP005-00571_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m74280
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_MGPP005-00571_2.jpg
Subject
Mission school
Educational missionary work
School buildings
Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, SMEP (Paris evangelical missionary society)
Time Period
1940/1970
Place
Ambatomanga (Madagascar)
Madagascar
Source
SMEP/MG.P.005-00571 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Madagascar Scolaire Artisanal / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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