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Joseph Rakotovao, a Malagasy artist, doing a bust of Christian Doederlein Borchgrevink, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1919

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Title: Joseph Rakotovao, a Malagasy artist, doing a bust of Christian Doederlein Borchgrevink, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1919
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1919
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: "En kunstner. Joseph Rakotovao" ("An artist. Joseph Rakotovao"). He is doing a bust of Christian D. Borchgrevink. The children on the picture are wearing special shoes - button boots. Christian D. Borchgrevink was a missionary in Madagascar from 1869-1912. He married Johanne Christiane 1836-1924, maiden name Wang, in Tamatave, Madagascar on September 4, 1870. He received the St. Olavs Order in 1900.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 11.3 x 8.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5016 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A08-1081
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5016
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A08-1081.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Fashion
Rakotovao, Joseph
Borchgrevink, Christian Doederlein, 1841-1919
Group portraits
Bust
Time Period: circa 1919
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Tananarive (Antananarivo)
Source: NMS/Photo/A08Ma/1081 [File]
Relation: A08Ma by Schaanning, Karen Dorothea, 1874-1940
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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