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Title: Tomb of Rigail de Lastours, in Gabon
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1889/1891
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
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Description: View of the tomb of Rigail de Lastours in Doume, Gabon.
Rigail de Lastours took part in the Mission de l'Ouest africain with Savorgnan de Brazza in 1882. He found several posts in Gabon and explored the Lekoni river, affluent of the Ogooue river. He died in Madiville the 15th of June 1885. In its memory, Madiville changed its name into Lastoursville.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 12x17 (18x24) cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m78656 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_GAPP065-03439_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m78656
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_GAPP065-03439_2.jpg
Subject: Death
Monuments
Vegetation
Time Period: 1889/1891
Place: Doumé (Gabon)
Gabon
Source: SMEP/GA.PP.065-03439 [File]

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