When this photograph was taken in the 1910s, the Madagascar town it was taken in was known as Diego-Suárez in honor of a Portuguese navigator. During World War II, it played an important role in the Battle of Madagascar. The town is now known as Antsiranana.
Image: “Streetscene, Antsirana [sic], Madagascar, ca. 1913” by Chase Salmon Osborn (c. 1913). From the University of Southern California Libraries
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