Image / Ambohipiantrana, a home for the leprous patients, Antsirabe, Madagascar, 1900

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Title: Ambohipiantrana, a home for the leprous patients, Antsirabe, Madagascar, 1900
Creator: Einrem, Johannes
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/ .
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Description: "Spedalskebyen Ambohipiantrana" ("Ambohipiantrana a home for the leprous"). Ambohipiantrana means the city of mercy. A survey picture of Ambohipiantrana with the Vohitra Mountains in the background. The tower of the church is hidden behind the trees. The planting of trees on the Vohitra has not yet begun when this photograph was taken.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints. 11.5 x 16.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2899 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A13-499
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2899
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A13-499.jpg
Subject: Leprosy
Buildings
Missionary work
Norwegian Missionary Society
Topographical views
Time Period: 1900
Place: Africa
Antsirabe
Madagascar
Source: NMS/Photo/A13Ma/499 [File]
Relation: A13Ma by Einrem, Johannes, 1868-1956
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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