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Title
General Gallieni on his automobile in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 1900
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
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/ .
post@vid.no
Description
"General Gallieni paa sin Automobil, Antvo 1900" ("General Gallieni on his automobile, Antananarivo 1900"). The first new built road in Madagascar being tried by Gallieni. See also IMPA 1969 and IMPA 1970.
General Gallieni purchased the two first automobiles for Madagascar. They were both of the French make Panhard Levassor and made in 1898. They arrived Madagascar in 1900. The first trucks and buses arrived in 1904 when longer roads had been constructed.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 11.5 x 16.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2280 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-APG-001
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2280
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-APG-001.jpg
Subject
Transport
Roads
General views
Automobiles
Time Period
1900
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Tananarive (Antananarivo)
Source
NMS/Photo/APG/Ma/001 [File]
Relation
Album pages, two
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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