Rutherford, Alex album 4

Date
1922-1936
Reference
PA1-o-448
Description

Photographs of Samoa, related to the period when Donald Alexander john Rutherford was a teacher, and then Superintendent of Schools in Samoa, between 1922 and 1936.

Inside the front cover is a list of names of over a hundred native Samoan teachers who trained in Western Samoa during that period.

There are group portraits of members of staff in the Samoan Education Department, teachers, students, sports teams; groups of boy scouts on parade; and one of a group attending the Conference on the Education of Native Races in the Pacific held in Honolulu in 1936.

Several images show local and visiting dignitaries, including the Duke of Gloucester, Sir Herbert Hart, General Richardson, and Lord Bledisloe; and the visit to Samoa of a group of New Zealand teachers.

Many of the images relate directly to the farewell ceremonies held at the departure from Samoa of Donald Alexander John Rutherford and his family in 1936. They include images of his home and personal servants.

Inscriptions: Album page - "Staff of Native Teachers, Western Samoa, 1922-1936"

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Album with cover bound in tapa cloth; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

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Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa
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1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with cover bound in tapa cloth; 24.5 x 32.5 cm
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Group photograph of teachers at a refresher course, Samoa

Date: [ca1926]

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-448-11

Description: Group photograph of teachers at a refresher course at Malya School, Samoa. General George Spafford Richardson, New Zealand Administator of Samoa, is standing in the centre of the group. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1926. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Refresher course for teachers. Visit of Gen. Richardson to Malya School. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24 x 19 cm

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Education Department, Samoa

Date: 1924

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-448-04

Description: Education Department, Samoa, photographed in 1924 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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Lord Bledisloe and Brigadier General Hart, Western Samoa

Date: ca 1931

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-448-30

Description: A group of European men and women which include Lord Bledisloe, Governor General of New Zealand and Brigadier General Herbert Ernest Hart, New Zealand High Commissioner for Samoa, proceeding between two lines of Samoan young men. Photographed by an unknown photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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The Duke of Gloucester and party at Vailima, Samoa

Date: February 1935

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-448-40-4

Description: Photographed taken 1935 by an unidentified photographer. Shows Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester and a group of white uniformed military men and three European women photographed on the veranda of Vailima, Western Samoa. Group identified, seated from left to right; Helen McCarthy; Herbert Hart; Prince Henry; Minnie Hart; Major-General Richard Howard-Vyse. Standing: Captain Derek Schreiber; Captain A. Curtis; Bettina Hart; Captain Howard Kerr; Captain Monty Fairbrother. Source: Similar photograph - Hart, Minne Alma, Eleanor. "Official party, Duke of Gloucester at 'Vailima', Samoa : digital image". Wairarapa Archive, 14-183/10. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Description updated 28 June 2023 following information from a researcher.

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Photograph of champion basketball team, Western Samoa

Date: 1927

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-448-21

Description: Group portrait of the champion basketball team, Western Samoa, taken in 1927 by an unknown photographer. Until ca 1970, the sport now known as netball was known in New Zealand and the Pacific as basketball, or women's basketball. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 19.1 x 23.9 cm, mounted on album page