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Title
Title unknown
Creator
Delpech, Jacques
Date Created and/or Issued
1914
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/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description
[The Great Zimbabwe National Monument : the conical tower inside the Great Enclosure]
Comment : Great Zimbabwe is a ruined city in the southeastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo, close to the Chimanimani Mountains and the Chipinge District. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country's Late Iron Age. Construction on the monument by ancestors of the Shona people began in the 11th century and continued until the 15th century.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on glass, 8,5x10 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_LSPV145-13008_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-87787
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_LSPV145-13008_2.jpg
Subject
Historic monuments
Traditional architecture
Structural elements (buildings)
Time Period
1914
Place
Africa
Zimbabwe
1980-
Source
SMEP/LS.PV.145-13008 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
Fonds Delpech : Voyage du pasteur Jacques Delpech au Basutoland et au Zambèze - Boite 2 (1914) / Delpech, Jacques
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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