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Royal Navy/New Zealand/ Samoan War album :Photographs
- Date
- 1887-1891
- Reference
- PA1-q-610
- Description
There are three main themes in this album.
1. The Royal Navy, Australian Squadron, based at Sydney. Pictures of naval cadets and war ships, some of which are in dry dock. The creator of the album, or a relative, seems to have been associated with HMS Orlando. Many photos of this ship appear in the album. The Orlando served as the flagship of the Australian Squadron from July 1888 to December 1897. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 11th Feb 1889 that HMS Orlando and Dart were docked in Calliope Dock, Auckland, because Sydney facilities could not undertake the work. There are a number of Photographs of HMS Orlando in dock at Auckland in this album. Thus the photos of officers and naval cadets may also have associations with the Orlando. There are also 3 photos of a gun accident which occurred on the HMS Cordelia of the Australian Squadron. This happened on the 26 June 1891 while the Cordelia was on a cruize from Fiji to Noumea. During Gun Practice a gun burst killing 6 ratings and wounding 13 others. The photos show the broken gun casing littering the deck.
2. Of the New Zealand section much of it concentrates on the town of Lawrence. Many of the captions and photographs relate to the Anglican parsonage at Lawrence. This suggests the possibility of the album belonging to the Vicar or a member of his family. If this were the case, and given the period of the late 1880s-early 1890s, it may be associated with the Rev George Pice Beaumont vicar and archdeacon from 1872 to 1900. On the other hand the name of Beaumont does not appear anywhere in the album.
3. Samoan civil wars of the late 1880s and the hurricane of 1889
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
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- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs
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UnknownThe interior of the drawing room, the parsonage, Lawrence, New Zealand
Date: [ca 1887]
From: Royal Navy/New Zealand/ Samoan War album :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-610-25-2
Description: Interior of the drawing room at the parsonage, Lawrence, photographed circa 1887. Photographer unidentified. Other - A photograph showing the other end of this room is at PA1-q-610-25-1 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Drawing Room, The Parsonage, Lawrence Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.9 x 16.1 cm, on album page 29.2 x 22.4 cm
Photograph of Malietoa Laupepa
Date: ca1880s
From: Royal Navy/New Zealand/ Samoan War album :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-610-40-2
Description: Malietoa Laupepa, one of the contenders for royal status during the Samoan civil wars prior to the German occupation in 1899. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photograph of Mata'afa Iosefa
Date: ca1890s
From: Royal Navy/New Zealand/ Samoan War album :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-610-38-1
Description: Portrait of Mata'afa Iosefa, one of the contenders for royal status in Samoa prior to the German occupation in 1899. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photograph of the first chief [unidentified] killed during the Samoan war
Date: ca1880s
From: Royal Navy/New Zealand/ Samoan War album :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-610-40-1
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
The interior of the drawing room, the parsonage, Lawrence, New Zealand
Date: [ca 1887]
From: Royal Navy/New Zealand/ Samoan War album :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-610-25-1
Description: Interior of the drawing room at the parsonage, Lawrence, photographed circa 1887. Photographer unidentified. Other - A photograph showing the other end of this room is at PA1-q-610-25-2 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Drawing Room, The Parsonage, Lawrence Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.6 x 15.6 cm, on album page 29.2 x 22.4 cm
Photograph of Tamasese Titimaea
Date: ca 1890s
From: Royal Navy/New Zealand/ Samoan War album :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-610-38-3
Description: Photograph of Tamasese Titimaea, one of the contenders for royal status in the Samoan civil wars prior to the German occupation in 1899 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Group with guns outside a fort, Samoa
Date: 1888
From: Royal Navy/New Zealand/ Samoan War album :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-610-34-2
Description: Group with guns at Fort Samoa, Apia, Samoa, 1888. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall. Source of descriptive information - Descriptive information same image for 1/2-020681. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12.9 x 20 cm, on album page