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Description
Class of girls seated at desks listening to female teacher, Amparibe annex to Andohalo Girls' High School. Prints of Bible stories decorate the walls. This print is one of a set taken by the commercial photographer Ramilijaona specifically for exhibition at L'Exposition Coloniale de Paris in 1931. Ramilijaona, who had begun working as a photographer in 1894, ran one of the largest studios in Madagascar, taking many family portraits against his trade mark classical backdrops. He was awarded a medal in recognition of his photography at this Exposition. He was also a politician and writer.
Type
image
Format
gelatin silver prints, 15.8 x 21.7 cm. photographs
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