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INVENTORY OF VIEWS OF MADAGASCAR, ca. 1895
2002.R.38
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Title: Views of Madagascar
Dates: ca.
1895
Collection Number: 2002.R.38
Extent:
50 photographs
(1 album)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
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
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Views of Madagascar, ca. 1895. Research Library, The Getty Research
Insititute, Accession no. 2002.R.38
Received in 2002.
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.
Bastille
Day—Madagascar
Indigenous
peoples—Madagascar—Social life and customs
France—Colonies—Africa
Madagascar—Colonization—19th century
Madagascar—Colonization
Madagascar—Description and
travel
Madagascar—History—French
Invasion, 1895
Gelatin silver
prints—Madagascar—19th century
Photograph
albums—Madagascar—19th century
Photographs,
original