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Title
Missionary and wife sheltering in cave with Malagasy men, Ambohimandroso, 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
"Mr and Mrs Rees ?roches d'Ambohimandroso, Betsileo". {now Fianarantsoa] Missionary and wife stand underneath rock. Malagasy men are seated beside them, probably carriers of the filanjana (Malagasy palanquin) which rests on the ground.
David Morris Rees served the LMS in Madagascar from 1891 to 1925, at Ambohimandroso until 1903 and then at Ambalavao until 1919 when he was transferred to Ambohimahasoa. Anonymous print pasted on to numbered board, used by the London Missionary Society as visual resources for publications etc. Most images have limited hand written captions.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 9.6 x 12.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m331 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-008-001-4
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m331
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-008-001-4.jpg
Subject
London Missionary Society
Rees, David Morris, 1857-1925
Transport
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Africa
Fianarantsoa
Madagascar
Source
SOAS/CWM/LMS/MA/PHOTO/01/008/001/4 [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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