IMAGE
Rutherford, Alex album 1
- Date
- [Between 1905 and 1936]
- By
- Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; Crown Studios (Auckland, N.Z.)
- Reference
- PA1-o-445
- Description
Photographs of Samoa taken between 1905 and 1936, some taken by Samoan photographer Alfred James Tattersall, many by unidentified photographers.
One photograph is not related to the rest, showing two young women flautists from Highcliff School, Dunedin, winners of a Dunedin competition in 1918 (P 90)
The earliest ones, taken in 1905, show the damage caused by a volcanic eruption, and show lava pouring into the sea.
The rest of the images are related to Donald Alexander John Rutherford, headmaster at Ifi Ifi School (Leififi School) from 1919, becoming Superintendent of Schools from 1923 to 1936. There are many scenes which include his family, with his wife and four children (including Alexander Mathieson Rutherford).
Many of the scenes show school activities, including the ceremonies surrounding the opening of the new school at Avele; the schools at Malifa, at Ifi Ifi, Poutasi, Aleipata and other districts; sports teams; school parades, including boy scouts linked with the schools; and groups of teachers, both European and Samoan.
General views of Samoa include the construction of a fale, the interior of a fale; fishing; cocoa beans and their harvesting and drying; copra industry, with Solomon Island workers; and sowing cotton seed.
Several images show the celebrations for George V's birthday; school breakup feasts; and the farewell flotilla of canoes when the Rutherford family left Samoa in 1936.
Social activities of the Europeans in Samoa include tennis, large groups of bowlers, and garden parties at Vailima, the Governor's residence.
Inscriptions: Album page - "The Rutherford Family, November 30th 1936 ... Sae-Tupe"
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with cover bound in tapa cloth, light brown cloth spine; 25 x 30 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Gelatin silver prints, Album with cover bound in tapa cloth, light brown cloth spine; 25 x 30 cm
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European women and local girls at Ifi Ifi, Apia, Samoa
Date: [early 1920s]
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-022-1
Description: Outdoor portrait of two European women with a group of local (school?)girls at Ifi Ifi, Apia, Samoa, in the early 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Ifi Ifi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.2 x 10.9 cm, on album page
Scene at Ifi Ifi, Apia, Samoa, shows local girls playing outside
Date: [early 1920s]
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-022-4
Description: Scene at Ifi Ifi, Apia, Samoa, in the early 1920s. Shows local (school?) girls playing outside. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Ifi Ifi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.5 x 10.8 cm, on album page
Teachers from the schools at Ifi Ifi and Malifa, Apia, Samoa
Date: [early 1920s]
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-029
Description: Group portrait of chiefly European teachers from schools at Ifi Ifi and Malifa, Apia, Samoa. Shows 12 men and women, outside a building. D A J Rutherford is in the second row, seated. Photograph taken in the early 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Ifi Ifi & Malifa Teachers Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.2 x 11.7 cm, on album page
Staff from the schools at Ifi Ifi and Malifa, Apia, Samoa, including Superintendent of ...
Date: 1924
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-082
Description: Group portrait of staff from schools at Ifi Ifi and Malifa, Apia, Samoa. Shows 16 men and women, both European and local, outside a building. Superintendent of Schools, D A J Rutherford, is seated in the front row. Photograph taken in the early 1920s by Alfred John Tattersall. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Ifi Ifi & Malifa Staff Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18.9 x 24 cm, on album page
Teachers from the schools at Ifi Ifi and Malifa, Samoa
Date: [early 1920s]
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-044
Description: Group portrait of teachers from schools at Ifi Ifi and Malifa, Samoa. Shows 16 men and women, both European and local, outside a building. D A J Rutherford is in the second row from the back, 4th from left. Photograph taken in the early 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Ifi Ifi & Malifa Teachers Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.7 x 11.5 cm, on album page
Flag raising day
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-025
Display of hand work by school children, Samoa.
Date: [ca 1925]
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-108-2
Description: Watercolour hand work by pupils of the Government school at Leifiifi (Ifi Ifi), Apia, Samoa. The work is on exhibition at the Apia Agricultural Show. A notice states that the work is 'executed by white and half-caste children'. Photographed by an unknown photographer about 1925. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Hand work; Verso - Water colour work of the scholars of the Govt School at Apia exhibited at the Agricultural Show..... Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15 x 11 cm
Europeans socialising in Samoa
Date: [ca 1925]
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-135-5
Description: Europeans gathered around a lawn tennis court, probably in Apia, Samoa. Behind then is a bungalow or club house. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1925. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11 x 6.4 cm
Europeans socialising in Samoa
Date: [ca 1925]
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-445-135-3
Description: Europeans gathered at the edge of a lawn tennis court, probably in Apia, Samoa. Behind then is a bungalow or club house. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1925. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11 x 6.4 cm
Group photograph of Grade 2 teachers, Samoa
Date: [ca 1930]
From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: PA1-o-445-083
Description: Group photograph of Grade 2 teachers in Samoa, circa 1930. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Native Teachers. Grade II Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18.9 x 23.9 cm