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United States president Grover Cleveland
(1837-1908)
Photograph probably by B. F. Powelson (1823-1885)
c. 1881-82
Albumen print
Graphics File, Department of Prints and Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Cloth (lamba akotofahana) presented
in 1886 by Queen Ranavalona III to President Grover Cleveland
Merina peoples, Madagascar
Late 19th century
Silk
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 165,581
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Madagascar's Queen Ranavalona III
Photograph by J. Geyser, c. 1900
Collotype
Postcard Collection, MG-15-9
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
This photograph of Queen Ranavalona III was
taken in Algeria, where she was exiled after the French invaded Madagascar in 1896.
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First Malagasy diplomatic mission
to Washington, D.C.
Photographer unknown, c. 1883
Copy of a collotype
Courtesy Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Madagascar to the United States
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John Lewis Waller as a young man
Photograph by H. T. Martin, c. 1887-88
Collodion print Courtesy Kansas Historical Society, Topeka
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John Lewis Waller (1850-1907) was the first African-American consul to Madagascar (1891-94). As consul, he pressed the United States government to support Madagascar's struggle to remain independent and sought land in Madagascar where he hoped to establish a colony for African Americans.
Waller was born into enslavement in 1850 in New Madrid, Missouri, the son of Anthony and Maria Waller. Determined to share fully in the promise
of America, Waller hoped his professional success would help promote the civil rights of fellow African Americans.
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