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Title: Old guest house with rice fields in the foreground, Antsirabe, Madagascar, ca.1895
Creator: Smith, Johan B
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1895
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: The guest house was built in 1888 to be used together with the healthy warm springs nearby in the valley. The building was later (from 1929-1955) used by the Norwegian School for missionary children. Demolished in 1974. The road on the west side of the building leads to the new cure bath at Ranomafana.
Type: image
Format: glass photo negatives, 11.9 x 16.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m9191 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A145-2271
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m9191
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A145-2271.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Norwegian Missionary Society
Topographical views
Fields
Guest houses
Time Period: circa 1895
Place: Africa
Antsirabe
Madagascar
Source: NMS/Photo/A145Ma/2271 [File]
Relation: A145Ma Filmsentralen, glass negatives, by Smith, Johan B., 1860-1922
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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