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Title
Supervisor visiting in Befandriana while travelling to Morondava. Morombe, Madagascar, 1936
Creator
Fagereng, Edvin
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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
"De passage à Befandriana, pour aller à la conférence à Morondava" ("Taking a rest in Befandriana while travelling to a conference in Morondava"). On the picture it is written in Malagasy: "Ny Surintendant efa mianaka sy ny namany ary ny zanany madinika eto Befandriana Sud 2 Juin 1936". -- Valborg Wersland was a missionary in Madagascar from 1927-1940. She married Thollef Steen in the USA in 1942. Edvin Fagereng was a missionary in Madagascar from 1922-1937 and Madagascar Inland 1940-1960. He married Louise, maiden name Roullot, in France on September 6, 1928. This picture is taken outside of Fridtjov Birkeli's home.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 11.6 x 16.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m7693 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A155-1951
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m7693
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A155-1951.jpg
Subject
Norwegian Missionary Society
Fagereng, Edvin Kristian Herbert , 1898-1993
Wersland, Valborg Amalie, 1903-1968
Religious communities
Group portraits
Supervisors
Time Period
1936
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Source
NMS/Photo/A155Ma/1951 [File]
Relation
A155Ma by Fagereng, Edvin Kristian Herbert, 1898-1993
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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