Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Views of Madagascar
Date (inclusive): ca. 1895
Number: 2002.R.38
Physical Description:
50.0 photographs
(1 album)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The album contains 50 photographic prints by an anonymous photographer. The photographs depict the indigenous peoples of Madagascar
and their surroundings from a (French) colonial perspective.
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Language: Collection material is in
French
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Views of Madagascar, ca. 1895. Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute, Accession no. 2002.R.38
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r38
Acquisition Information
Received in 2002.
Processing History
Processed by Shilpa Rele
Scope and Content of Collection
The album contains 50 photographic prints. They are taken from a colonial perspective. They capture social life and customs,
public gatherings, and oratory or Kabary traditions.There are portraits of women belonging to different tribes, showing their
hairstyles and different types of dress. Numerous photographs also capture the natural beauty of the island i.e. waterfalls,
lakes, clearings within forests and so on.
The album also includes several images of the French colonial or military presence. Two photographs capture French public
celebrations of Bastille Day (July 14th). There are also photographs of a harbor and large ships which attest to the French
military presence in Madagascar.
Handwritten captions appear on the album page below each photograph and are transcribed as they appear. Cataloger's notes
are in brackets.
Album cover is red cloth. Photographs are gelatin silver printing-out paper (p.o.p.) prints.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Bastille Day--Madagascar
Indigenous peoples--Madagascar--Social life and customs
Subjects - Places
France--Colonies--Africa
Madagascar--Colonization
Madagascar--Colonization--19th century
Madagascar--Description and travel
Madagascar--History--French Invasion, 1895
Genres and Forms of Material
Gelatin silver prints--Madagascar--19th century
Photograph albums--Madagascar--19th century
Photographs, Original