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Title
View of city of Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca. 1865-1885
Creator
Parrett, John, 1841-1918
Date Created and/or Issued
1865/1885
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
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"Antanànarìvo from the N.N.W" View of hilltop town from the outskirts. Showing houses and royal palaces and rooftops.
John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital Tananarive [now Antananarivo] then, following a period of furlough in England from 1873 to 1875, at Amparibe. Parrett sailed to Madagascar in 1862 as part of a large missionary party comprising Dr and Mrs Andrew Davidson , Mr and Mrs Robert Toy, schoolmaster Charles Thomas Stagg and Mrs Stagg, Reverend John Duffus and Reverend William Edward Cousins. The party was sent to aid Reverend William Ellis who had pioneered the re-introduction of missionaries to Madagascar in 1862 on the accession of King Radama II to the throne, following the death of Queen Ranavalona I in 1861.
Type
image
Format
albumen prints, 11.1 x 15.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m33 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-002-029
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m33
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-002-029.jpg
Subject
Housing
Monuments
London Missionary Society
Parrett, John, 1841-1918
Townscapes
Time Period
1865/1885
Place
Africa
Antananarivo
Madagascar
Source
SOAS/CWM/LMS/MA/PHOTO/02/002/029 [File]
Relation
Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
Views of Madagascar
impa-m971

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