Plantations - Fiji

Date: [ca 1873-1875]

By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-330

Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.

From: Burton Bros

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-06-23-1

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1941-1948]

From: Fiji Forces Association :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9783-2

Description: Contains photographs of important pieces of infrastructure, economic activities, social activities and customs of Fiji. Photographs include: Medical training and teacher training; traditional village life; public health programmes; plantations; gold mining; traditional songs; ports and shipping; copra and banana trade activities; buildings and townships; Indian immigrants. Also includes a photograph of the 20th field company of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force's A and B rugby teams Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, with typed captions

Date: 1874

By: Graphic (London, England)

Reference: A-018-002

Description: Views of landscape and houses; portraits of Fijians. Titles are: A planter's residence at Taviuni; Levuka, looking south [houses, roads and the port]; Native woman of Roko Tonga; Types of the natives - female royalty [two seated women]; A cannibal [a seated man]; A plantation at Loma Loma; In the bush near Levuka. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings 90 x 160 mm to 100 x 112 mm on sheet 352 x 254 mm

Date: 1881-1912

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1637

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1875]

From: Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand album

Reference: PA1-q-330-52-2

Description: View taken from a hill above the cotton plantation. It shows the cotton plants in rows and the associated buildings as well as the countryside beyond. Taken ca 1875 by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Cotton Fiji Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.2 x 19.4 cm mounted on album page

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-08

Description: View of young coffee plants in rows. Beyond them can be seen an area of newly cleared ground still littered with the remnants of tree stems and trunks. A European man stands on the extreme left near the foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: ca 1930s

From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji

Reference: 1/4-020926-F

Description: Unidentified Fijian Indian farmers on their plantation in Fiji, photographed circa 1930s by William Hall Raine. Shows two men and a group of children, in a field, alongside a pile of corn cobs. Exact location unidentified. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - beneath image - 163 [mirror image] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-07

Description: View of land rising towards the bungalow at Na Soqo. The slope is covered with coffee plants. To the right of these is a belt of Banana palms. At the top of the slope to the left of the bungalow, a grove of trees stand behind three Fijian buildings Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-09

Description: View of Fijian plantation workers among the coffee plants. A European stands on the extreme right in the middle distance leaning on a stick. The bungalow can be seen in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: ca 1875

From: Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand album

Reference: PA1-q-330-49-2

Description: Large group of Fijian plantation workers and two European men photographed ca 1875 against a fenced construction by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Labourers on Plantation Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 12.3 x 19.4 cm, with upper corners rounded, mounted on album page

Date: 1796-1959

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2780-2793

Description: Comprises papers, files, correspondence and reports dealing with Fijian anthropology and administration. Includes material on history and myth, social life and consepts, as well as replies to questionnaires on material culture. Also records of the Cession of Fiji, and papers on early Native Administration. Includes photographs and articles on Fijian culture. Quantity: 14 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.