Image / Front gate of French residence, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1900

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Title: Front gate of French residence, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1900
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1900
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: There are military guards outside the residence. Gallieni is in the car in front of the building.
See also the next record 1970 and IMPA 2280 in the project. General Gallieni purchased the two first automobiles for Madagascar. They were both of the French make Panhard Levassor and made in 1898. They arrived in Madagascar in 1900. The first trucks and buses arrived in 1904 when longer roads had been constructed.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints. 11.9 x 16.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m1969 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A241-282
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1969
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A241-282.jpg
Subject: Motor vehicles
Transport
Exterior views
Automobiles
Residences
Gates
Time Period: circa 1900
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Tananarive (Antananarivo)
Source: NMS/Photo/A241Ma/ 282 [File]
Relation: A241Ma by Joergensen, Thomas, 1874-1957
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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