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Title
Malagasy girls singing, Madagascar, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1940
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
Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
138. - MADAGASCAR. - On repete les cantiques." ("The canticles are repeated"). Thirty adolescent Malagasy girls sit or stand in a circle while one women stands in the center. The women in the center holds a stick like a baton in her right hand and raises her left hand as if she is conducting the group in song.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the mission agency: "Pour &lt
&lt
l'OEuvre des Pretres Malgaches&gt
&gt
- 79, Avenue de Breteuil, Paris XVe. Ch. post. 567 39 Paris
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12441 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-005-0000-0032
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12441
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-005-0000-0032.jpg
Subject
Vocal music
Children
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Source
YDS/RG101/005/0000/0032 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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