Album with 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Diego Suarez/Antsiranana (Port and Roadstead, Cap Diego, Pointe du Corail, Ville Basse, Rue Colbert, Antsirane Neighbourhood), French military Camp d’Ambre and Forests of the Montagne Ambre, Betsileo, Hova, Sakalava, Antemoro People, Inhabitants of Comoros and Sainte-Marie Island/Nosy Boraha, Malagasy Tirailleurs, Scenes of Kabary, Views of Antananarivo and Toamasina, &c. Ca. 1900s.
Historically Significant Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Antananarivo (Royal Palace, Andafiavaratra Palace, St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro, Silver Palace, Andohalo/Jean Laborde Square, &c.), Portraits of Queen Ranavalona III, Prime Minister Rainilaiarivony, General Gallieni and His Staff, General Théophile Pennequin and Queen Binao of the Sakalava People, Numerous Settlements and Sites Across the Island (Antsahavola, Ambohimanga, Tsinjoarivo, Mandraka Falls, Analamazaotra, Maromby, Mahatsara, Fianarantsoa, Tamatave/Toamasina, Ile Sainte Marie/Nosy Boraha, Maroantsetra, Vohemar, Diego-Suarez/Antsiranana, Nossi-Be/Nosy Be, Antongombato, Majunga/Mahajanga, Fort-Dauphin/Taolagnaro, Farafangana, Mananjary, & Others), Scenes of French Weddings and Parties, Portraits of Indigenous Noblemen, Workers, Dancers, Musicians, Warriors, &c. Ca. 1895 – early 1900s.
Album of 84 Gelatin Silver Photographs of Madagascar, Showing Portraits of Rulers (Sakalava Queen Binao, Antankarana King Tsialana II; Anjouan Princes Abdallah and Halid), Portraits of Malagasy People (Sakalava, Betsileo, Tanala, Antankarana; Fianarantsoa, Diego-Suarez (now Antsiranana), Maintirano, Nosy Be, Sainte-Marie (Nosy Boraha)), Views of Villages (Ambositra, a Betsileo Village, a Tanala Village), etc. Ca. late 1890s-1900s.
[Le Roux, Pierre]. Historically Significant Collection of Two Albums with ca. 200 Original Well-Annotated Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Folders with ca. 140 Original Film Negatives, Taken by a Young French Military Man during His Service in Madagascar in the 1930s; With Interesting Images of Antananarivo, Ambatolampy, Toamasina, Fenerive, Foulpointe, a Sugar Cane Distillery in Mamandrahana, Environs of Antsirabe, French Military Compounds, Camps and Exercises, Portraits of the Compiler, French and African Servicemen, Malagasy Farmers, Shepherds, Families, the Compiler’s Cousin Thérèse Lamiot Who was a Local Head of the Catholic Society of Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, &c. Ca. 1930s.
Historically Important Album with Eighty-Four Original Photos of Colonial Madagascar, Taken by a French Tourist Involved in Vanilla Export and Showing Open-Air Markets of Carpets and Hats, Workers Moving Boxes of Vanilla from a Warehouse to a Truck, Missionary Rosalia Razarinia Ramatoa Departing the Village of L’Imerina, as well as Views of Tananarive, Tamatave, Diego Suarez, Vohemar, Saint-Marie, Mahajanga, Nosy Be, and Ambodiana; also, with the Photos of the Compiler’s Voyage to Madagascar via the Suez Canal. Ca. 1920s.