Image / At work inside LMS Press, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca. 1930

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Title: At work inside LMS Press, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca. 1930
Creator: Ramilijaona, 1887-1948
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1930
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
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Description: View of men at work inside Composing Room of LMS Press.
This print is one of a set taken by the commercial photographer Ramilijaona specifically for exhibition at L'Exposition Coloniale de Paris in 1931. Ramilijaona, who had begun working as a photographer in 1894, ran one of the largest studios in Madagascar, taking many family portraits against his trade mark classical backdrops. He was awarded a medal in recognition of his photography at this Exposition. He was also a politician and writer.
Type: image
Format: gelatin silver prints, 16.1 x 22.6 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m450 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-034-014
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m450
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-034-014.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Printing workshops
London Missionary Society
Interior views
Time Period: circa 1930
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Source: SOAS/CWM/LMS/MA/PHOTO/06/034/014 [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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