194 - MADAGASCAR - JAMES SIBREE 1836-1929

MADAGASCAR - JAMES SIBREE 1836-1929 A collection of photographs by a French journalist, including personal photographs and studio portraits, primarily from Madagascar, ca. 1880–1900. Photographs. Approximately 114 period prints, including citrate and silver gelatin prints. Images: 4 x 4.5 cm to 22 x 27.7 cm; mounts: 30 x 37 cm Prince Saidina, family of the Malagasy corporal Razafimahatratra, journalists on a ship heading to meet General Stoessel, Aden, a valiha player in Antananarivo, a woman from Mayotte, a Sakalava woman, numerous figures and landscapes, construction of the Radoub dry dock, July 14, harbor, port, inauguration of the indigenous hospital, workers, portraits of Jean Henri Émile Bensch, the island’s administrator, and his wife, Majunga, settlers facing the waves, Malagasy people sleeping on a bridge, male figures, Comorians.