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Title
Building of a school in Mahajanga, Madagascar
Creator
Couve, Daniel
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1919
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/index.php?id=266
http://www.defap.fr/contact.php
Description
Building of a school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) under construction in Mahajanga. The congregation bring the necessary materials to build the school: women carry baskets full of sand and men bring stones. On the photograph, a malagasy man drives a cart to carry some stones.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 12x17 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m75220 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_MGPP010-01511_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m75220
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_MGPP010-01511_2.jpg
Subject
Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, SMEP (Paris evangelical missionary society)
Transport
Mission school
School buildings
Time Period
circa 1919
Place
Madagascar
Mahajanga (Madagascar)
Source
SMEP/MG.P.010-01511 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Madagascar scolaire / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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