Photography
Used in the Indian Ocean very early, photography constitutes half of the image library collection.
Albums by Charles Saunier and Raymond Decary. Photographs by Désiré Charnay. Bidel, Labarthe, and Jean Legros.
La Reunion, Madagascar, the Seychelles Islands, the Comoros Islands, Mauritius, Mozambique, India. Mid-19th century to the 1960s.
15000 pictures.
SOME EXAMPLES
MAURITIUS
Pope Henessy Street
and Theatre Square
Port Louis, 1917. Photograph: Gentil. Black and white. Departmental Archives of La Reunion, Postcard Collection, 5 Fi 9/21
MAURITIUS
The «long pond»
Pamplemousses Botanical Garden. 1911. Photograph: Gentil. Colour. Archives of the Department of La Reunion, Postcard Collection, 5 Fi 9/58
REUNION ISLAND
The port of
« la Rivière-des-Galets »
[1890-1900]
Department Archives of the Department of La Reunion, Photograph Album: Reunion Island, Egypt, Nubia, Aden. 7 FI 21
REUNION ISLAND
Saint-Joseph
Church Square. 1960
Photograph: [Lagnaux?]. Black and white. Archives of the Department of La Reunion, Prefecture Collection, 93 Fi 85
THE SEYCHELLES ISLANDS
Man in a Laboratory
1890-1910.
Photograph. Black and white. Archives of the Department of La Reunion,
Anonymous album of the Seychelles Islands [Album anonyme sur les Seychelles] 50 Fi. 51
THE SEYCHELLES ISLANDS
Hôtel Équateur
1890-1900.
Photograph. Black and white. Departmental Archives of La Reunion,
Anonymous album of the Seychelles Islands [Album anonyme sur les Seychelles], 50 Fi. 86
REUNION ISLAND
Indian man sitting at the foot of a jackfruit tree
Beginning of the 20th century.
Marius and Ary Leblond, The Enchanted Island.
Library of the Department of La Reunion, 969.81 LEB (REU) ARM
REUNION ISLAND
Type of a Creole woman
Reunion Island, French Somaliland, French possessions in India, [Ile de la Réunion, Côte française des Somalis, Établissement français dans l'Inde] Paris, 1931 Library of the Department of La Reunion.
© Département de La Réunion,
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