Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

Procession of the princes and princesses in Antananarivo, Madagascar. This photography reproduces a drawing William Ellis, missionary of the London missionary society. Photography published in the Journal des Missions, June …

"Lemana. Élève fauchant" ("Lemana. Student cutting grass with a scythe"). Photographie d'un étudiant de l'École normale de Lemana fauchant un pré. Au premier plan, des arbres.Photograph of a student of …

Photographie d'un homme et de trois femmes d'origine africaine devant une hutte. L'homme est assis sur une chaise. Il porte des bottes, un pantalon, une chemise, une cravate, un gilet …

"Wäsche im Hof von Mbozi." ("Laundry in the yard of Mbozi."). In the background some tile-roofed houses, on the right a water feed pipe: three young male Africans are washing …

„Xhosa-Frau“ („Xhosa woman“). A woman, wearing a drapery, a blanket with fringes on her shoulder, bangles, necklaces, earrings and a headdress. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck …

"Seminaristen beim Feldbestellen" ("Seminarists tilling a field"). A bare field with furrows. People are working on it.

"Ferme Rossbach. Fabrication d'un toit" ("Rossbach farm. Construction of a roof") Photograph of the roof of a hut which is under construction. In the background, African people and huts. Photographie …

"L'évangéliste Abraham, de Mhinga et son fils Isaak. Instituteur à Valdézia [Valdezia]" ("The evangelist Abraham, from Mhinga and his son Isaak. Teacher in Valdézia [Valdezia]") Photograph of two African men …

"Baziya. Tembu von Centuli" ("Baziya. Tembu of Centuli"). A man with a beard and a cap, wrapped in a blanket. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), …

"Hova woman and slave in mourning" Portrait of Malagasy women with traditional hairstyles denoting mourning. One woman holds an umbrella. Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) was the twenty-seventh governor of Michigan …