Madagascar photographs
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Madagascar
topic: label: Topic
content: Portrait photography -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Natural landscapes
label: Topic
content: Vernacular architecture
label: Topic
content: Cultural landscapes
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs of Madagascar in the early French colonial period and Merina Kingdom in Central Madagascar, ca. 1887-1900. Portrait images include Queen Ranavalona III (exiled to Algiers in 1897), her husband, the Prime Minister, and other royals. There are images are of Malagasy women from other parts of the island.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 128 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 13 x 18 cm. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1885-1910
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchase, 2000. Conserved through a preservation grant funded by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee, 2006.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2000-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints