Nauru - Social life and customs
Diary
Date: Oct 1941-Jun 1942
From: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992 : Diaries and papers
Reference: MS-Papers-10108-013
Description: Diary covers Nauru, evacuation to Australia and work as nurse with Chinese wolfram miners at Hatches Creek, Northern Territory Quantity: 1 folder(s) 1 item.
Published items relating to Ocean Island and Nauru
Date: 22 Jun 1911-Dec 1932
From: Ellis, Albert Fuller (Sir), 1869-1951: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11813-7
Description: Contains journal articles, newspapers clippings, and programs relating to life on Ocean Island, Nauru, and Gilbert Island. Includes souvenir program of events at Tabian, Ocean Island, celebrating the coronation of King George V on 22 June 1911; the 'Journal of the Polynesian Society' (December 1932), including an article on 'The social organisation of Banaba or Ocean Island'; a monograph on Gilbert Island weapons and armour; and typscript extracts from 'The Equatorian' on legends, history, and customs of Nauru (15 July 1923). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter
Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992 : The deductions of Dmaro, or It happened on ...
Date: [ca 1960]
By: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992
Reference: MSX-2892
Description: Draft detective novel, set on Nauru (`Arua') before World War I. Describes life among the Europeans on the island at that time Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Diary
Date: Jan-Sep 1941
From: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992 : Diaries and papers
Reference: MS-Papers-10108-012
Description: Diary kept while working as a nurse, then teacher, on Nauru Island Quantity: 1 folder(s) 1 item.
Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939 :Mr Harris (a resident of 40 years) and his family, Pleasant ...
Date: [January 1887]
From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 :Maori and Polynesian photographs
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA1-o-469-39
Description: William Harris, a resident of Nauru since 1842, photographed in January 1887 by Thomas Andrew. Thomas Andrew, in company with Frederick Joseph Moss and George Dunnett (the supercargo), was in the course of a Pacific voyage on Henderson and Macfarlane schooner "Buster", which arrived in Nauru on 22 January 1887. (Source: "Through atolls and islands in the great south sea", by Frederick Moss) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.2 x 19.6 cm mounted on album page
Nauru
Date: [ca 1885]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-003221-G
Description: A group of Nauruan men and boys, armed with rifles, photographed ca 1885 by a staff photographer of the Auckland Star. The carrying of rifles dates this photograph to the period of the "ten-years war", a civil conflict which began around 1878 and ended with the incorporation of Nauru into the Imperial German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands on 1 October 1888. Most of the firearms on the island were handed over to German authorities during October 1888. Sources: "Nauru", by Nancy Viviani (1970); "Nauru, 1888-1900", by Wilhelm Fabricius (1992). Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 4498 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches