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Title: Andafiatsimo, NMS's first printing press, Ambohijanahary, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1903
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1903
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/ .
http://www.mhs.no/arkiv; Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
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Description: "Vort hus paa Ambohijanahary" ("Our house in Ambohijanahary"). Thomas Joergensen (1874-1957), a missionary in Madagascar from 1897-1947, lived in this house with his family. He was the manager of the printing press. He was married to Aagot Kjeldseth (1870-1957), a missionary in Madagascar from 1896-1907. The printing press later was moved to Andohalo ca. 1903 and then to Antsahamanitra in 1953.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints. 8.3 x 11 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2777 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A06-380
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2777
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A06-380.jpg
Subject: Buildings
Norwegian Missionary Society
Joergensen, Thomas, 1874-1957
Printing presses
Porches
Gardens
Time Period: circa 1903
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Tananarive (Antananarivo)
Source: NMS/Photo/A06Ma/380 [File]
Relation: A06Ma 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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