Image / Queen Ranavalona III, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1890

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Title: Queen Ranavalona III, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1890
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1890
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: "Ranavalona III, (Madagascars sidste dronning)" ("Ranavalona III (the last Queen of Madagascar )"). She reigned from 1883-1896. Then Madagascar became a French colony and she was exiled. She died in Algeria in 1917. Her grave is in Madagascar. See also IMPA 2297.
Queen Ranavalona III is sitting in a beautiful throne chair. Beside her on the table is a great large Bible. She is wearing a royal gown, including the Queen's crown. The picture is taken in ca.1890 in Tananarive.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints. 21.5 x 18 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m368 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A01-034
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m368
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A01-034.jpg
Subject: Heads of state
Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar, 1861-1917
Portraits
Time Period: circa 1890
Place: Africa
Antananarivo
Madagascar
Source: NMS/Photo/A01Ma/034 [File]
Relation: A01Ma 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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