Missionaries with students outside Ambohipotsy College. 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.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m448
- Date published
- circa 1930
- Dates
- circa 1930
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- gelatin silver prints, 16.1 x 22.4 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Madagascar
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Madagascar
- Reference
- impa-m448 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-034-010
- Rights
- 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/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/56303d2529591c6e641841af83d0dd2b
