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Title: Ambatovinaky. Mountain range from Amabtonakanga to the Queens Palace, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1885-1895
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1885/1895
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: Misjonsveien 34, 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
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Description: "Parti af Tananarive, Ambatovinaky" ("Parts of Tananarive, Ambatovinaky"). From album entitled "Fra Madagaskar" page 1. The picture is taken from the Faravohitra hill overlooking some stonecutters in the foreground. Rice fields are seen in the Ambohijatovo valley. The memorial church of Ambatonakanga is seen to the right and the Lutheran church at Amabtovinaky in the middle. In the background is the hill Ambohijanahary.
Thomas Joergensen (1874-1957) served as a printer for the Norwegian Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1897 to 1945 in the capital Tananarive (Antananarivo). He is the creator of this album. - - He started in a building at Ambohijanahary before switching over to the former Lutheran Hospital at Andohalo in 1904. He worked as a printer for 50 years, only interrupted by furloughs in Norway. This album contains the images NMS-032 to NMS-069.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 15.5 x 20.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m315 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A01-032
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m315
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A01-032.jpg
Subject: Religious buildings
Churches
Palaces
Topographical views
Townscapes
Time Period: 1885/1895
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Tananarive, (Antananarivo)
Source: NMS/Photo/A01Ma/032 [File]
Relation: Filmsentralen", a department of Norwegian Missionary Society
A01Ma by Joergensen, Thomas, 1874-1957
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, ca.1870-1950
impa-m559

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