Tananarive - Chanteurs Malgaches
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA MG-19-10
- Local Note
- temp 96
- Creator
- Maison Pierre Ghigiasso (Tamatave)
- See Also
- Madagascar, Antananarivo province, Antananarivo (Tananarive) (-18.91368, 47.53613)
- Interactive maps
- Place
- Africa
- Madagascar
- Madagascar, -- Antananarivo province, -- Antananarivo (Tananarive)
- Topic
- Music
- Men
- Musicians
- Singers
- People
- Creator
- Maison Pierre Ghigiasso (Tamatave)
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 26: Madagascar (MG)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- ca. 1912
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA MG 2012-001-0411
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Picture postcards
- Collection Citation
- African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Picture postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Original caption reads, "Tananarive - Malgasy Singersr." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Tamatave, Madagascar, 3 October 1912."
- Additional printed text on recto reads: "Edition de la Maison P. Ghigiasso, librairie, articles de ménage, Tamatave."
- Original hand-written address on verso, "Monsieur Le Wauf. Bastion 89 Tjry-les-Bains."
- Original hand-written text on recto, "I hope you are not tanned in Morocco with the climate. You will send me a few novelties, or at least the novelist. Since I am bored shift in this shoe polish box land if you have tanned send never the less news about yourself we shall correspond. Coilot sent me recently postcards from Tvry but did not mention your "mag face". Right now I feel lousy as we get drunk like pigs it is the most beautiful country to visit...well I finish with a handshake from far away and I count on a reply as soon as possible."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871088180-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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