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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Views of Madagascar
Identifier/Call Number: 2002.R.38
Physical Description: 50 photographs(1 album)
Date (inclusive): ca. 1895
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 of Material: French.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album contains 50 gelatin silver printing-out paper (p.o.p.) photographs. They are taken from a French 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 such as waterfalls, lakes, and clearings within forests.
The album also includes several images depicting 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.
The album cover is red cloth.
Processed by Shilpa Rele.
Received in 2002.
Views of Madagascar, ca. 1895. Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute, Accession no. 2002.R.38
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r38
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photograph albums -- Madagascar -- 19th century
Photographs, Original
Gelatin silver prints -- Madagascar -- 19th century
Madagascar -- History -- French Invasion, 1895
Madagascar -- Description and travel
Madagascar -- Colonization
Madagascar -- Colonization -- 19th century
France -- Colonies -- Africa
Indigenous peoples -- Madagascar -- Social life and customs
Bastille Day -- Madagascar