Madagascan Collection

Gromphadorhina portentosa, hissing cockroach
A pair of hissing cockroaches also known as the Madagascan hissing cockroach. This species of roach is chocolate brown with no wings

Madagascan sunset moth, Chrysiridia rhipheus (Urania riphaeus). Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire

Madagascan crested ibis and grey crowned crane (endangered)
Madagascan crested ibis, Lophotibis cristata (near threatened) and grey crowned crane, Balearica regulorum (endangered). Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies

Madagascan cuckoo-roller or Courol, Leptosomus discolor
Madagascan cuckoo-roller or courol, Leptosomus discolor (Variegated cuckow, Cuculus discolor). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Madagascan sunset moth and pan hairstreak
Madagascan sunset moth, Chrysiridia rhipheus 1, 2, and pan hairstreak, Electrostrymon pan 3, 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Madagascar - Toamasina (Tamatave) - Cemetery for the local indigenous people. Date: circa 1906

Madagascar - Toamasina (Tamatave) - Rue de Commerce. Date: circa 1906

Madagascar - Tuamasina (Tamatave) - The Harbour. Date: circa 1908

Madagascar - Tuamasina (Tamatave) - The new Quayside. Date: circa 1908

Madagascar - Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez) - Rue Flacourt. Date: circa 1906

Madagascar - Traditional Malagasy Houses at Mahajanga (Majunga). Date: circa 1906

Madagascar - Shelling (De-husking) Rice Date: circa 1906

Madagascar - Tuamasina (Tamatave) - The Market Date: circa 1906

Madagascar - Tuamasina (Tamatave) - Boulevard Gallieni Date: circa 1906

Madagascan Sakalave (Sakalava) Woman
Woman from the Sakalava Tribe, who live on the western edge of Madagascar from Morandava to Nosy Be. Date: circa 1910s

Antankarana woman from Mahajanga, Madagascar
An Antankarana woman from Mahajanga (Majunga) a city and a district on the northwest coast of Madagascar. Note the distinctive balled hairstyle, nose jewellery and beaded necklaces

Xanthopan morganii praedicta, Madagascan sphinx moth
Darwins sphinx moth, found in Madagascar. The species as a whole is known as Morgans sphinx

View on Antsirabe, Madagascar
View on Antsirabe in central Madagascar from Hotel Terminus. Date: circa 1920

River port in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Port with pirogues at the Ikopa River transporting crops in Antananarivo (Tananarive), Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Girls school at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
A group of girls with their maid washing and grinding harvest at the girls school at Fianarantsoa (meaning good education ), Madagascar. Date: circa 1907

Gallieni, Colonial Administrator and Island of Madagascar
Map of the (then) French Overseas Territory, the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean - with inset portrait of Joseph Simon Gallieni (1849-1916)

Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar
RANAVALONA III (1862-1917) in 1883, at the commencement of her reign. In 1897 she was dethroned by the French and exiled to Reunion Date: 1883

Sunday at church in Antsiranana, Madagascar
European, dressed in white attenders of a Sunday church service in Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez), Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Post office in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Pedestrians walking past the post office in Antananarivo (Tananarive), Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Tax office in Toamasina, Madagascar
Tax office in Toamasina (Tamatave), Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Rue Colbert in Antsirabe, Madagascar
Rue Colbert and Comptoir National d Escompte de Paris in Antsirabe, central Madagascar. Date: circa 1908

Morondava, Madagascar
The town of Morondava at the west coast of Madagascar. Date: circa 1905

Barracks in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Barracks in Antananarivo (Tananarive), Madagascar. Date: circa 1908

Wrestling match in Madagascar
Audience around a wrestling match between two men in Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Ambodifotatra on Nosy Boraha island, Madagascar
Crowd at the beach of Ambodifotatra on Nosy Boraha island (ά e Sainte-Marie) in the Indian Ocean in front of the eastern coast of Madagascar. Date: circa 1908

Main radio station in Alarobia, Madagascar
Main radio station in Alarobia, a town in the centre of Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Hills near Antananarivo (Tananarive), Madagascar
Overgrown hills near Antananarivo (Tananarive) with lone country house, Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Madagascan women gathering water from a fountain
A group of Madagascan women and men around a fountain in a farm village with cottages in the background. Date: circa 1910

Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez) beach, Madagascar
View over Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez), a city on the northern coast of Madagascar, including the beach. Date: circa 1910

Madagascan sunset moth, Chrysiridia rhipheus.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Madagascar - Tananarive - The Municipal Theatre
Amparibe, Antananarivo, Madagascar - The Municipal Theatre and l Eglise Norvez© enne d Ambatovinaky (Norwegian Church of Ambatovinaky) - Lutheran Church Date: circa 1910s

Madagascar - A Filanzane, a sedan chair used for passenger transport. Date: circa 1916

Mining for Graphite in Madagascar, Africa
Mining for Graphite in deposits in Madagascar, Africa Date: 1910s

Madagascar - Tananarive - The Government Building. The architecture shows just a petit soupcon of French colonial influence...! Date: circa 1904

Daubentonia madagascariensis, aye-aye
Watercolour by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899). Plate 256 b. from the Richard Owen Drawings Collection held at the Natural History Museum

Polyboroides radiatus, Madagascan harrier-hawk

Urania speciosa, travellers tree
Plate 578 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Betsimisaraka man carrying reeds
A Betsimisaraka man from Madagascar carrying two large bales of rushes/reeds, canes. The Betsimisaraka constitute the second largest group (15%) of Madagascars population. Date: circa 1910s

Madagascar - St Mary Island - Lady in finest clothes
A Madagascan lady in her Sunday best bonnet - St. Mary Island, Madagascar. Date: 1913

Madagascar - Chief of the Bara People
Southern Madagascar - Chief of the Bara People Date: circa 1910s

Madagascar - Girl carrying a large round jar
Madagascar - A young Girl carrying a large round jar on her head Date: circa 1908

Madagascar, Africa - Antsiranana (was Diego-Suarez). A Sakalava Militiaman and his wife 1907

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