Photographer in Napier in the 1880s. Opened a studio in Auckland, on the corner of Karangahape Road and Pitt street, which was destroyed by fire. Lived in Samoa from 1891 till his death in 1939. Further information in his obituary (New Zealand Herald, August 31, 1939).
Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
[Scenes in Fiji]
Date: 1897
From: Ranfurly family: Collection
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA1-f-195-37
Description: Views in Fiji taken by Thomas Andrew and others, circa 1897. The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-37-1) shows Fijian men and a Kava ceremony, exact location unknown, taken by an unknown photographer. The bottom left photograph (PA1-f-195-37-2) shows a Fijian man in traditional clothing, probably taken by Thomas Andrew. The bottom right photograph (PA1-f-195-37-3) shows a Fijian man in traditional clothing, taken by Thomas Andrew. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Three photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)
Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939 :Fijian photographs
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA7-01-05
Willis, Ida Grace, 1881-1968 :Photographs of NZEF in Samoa and Belgium
Date: 1915 - 1918
By: Willis, Lizzie Ida Grace, 1881-1968; Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Kennedy, T M (Lieutenant-Colonel), active 1980s?
Reference: PAColl-1682
Description: Some images taken by Thomas Andrew. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-148816 to 148892 Quantity: 50 photocopy/ies. 77 b&w copy negative(s).
Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939 :Fijian photographs
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA7-01-04
Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on one card.
"Savaii girl".
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA7-01-12
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.
Cusack Smith album 7
Date: [Circa 1892 to 1894]
From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Davis, John, -1893
Reference: PA1-o-548
Description: Album collected by Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith when British Consul in Samoa in the 1890s. Images taken by Thomas Andrew, John Davis, and unidentified photographers. Includes general scenes of life in Samoa, including the building of a fale (house); harvesting coconuts; fishing; canoes; boat races; and picnic scenes. Two photographs show the bombardment of Luatuanuu in August 1894. Numbers of portraits of people associated with the British Consulate, including various members of the Royal Navy; young European women; Fijian men, including Sir John Thurston, Governor of Fiji; and one of a Solomon Islander in native dress. Other Titles - British Consulate, Samoa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark grey album, black spine and corners, lettered in gold "British Consulate, Samoa", 25 x 30 cm
Group of Fijian men
Date: 1880s
From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 :Maori and Polynesian photographs
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA1-q-223-47-1
Lowe, M (Mr), fl 1965 :Photograph of a staged act of cannibalism, Fiji
Date: [ca 1890]
By: Lowe, M (Mr), active 1965; Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PAColl-2237
Description: Photograph of men pretending to cook human bodies, Fiji, taken ca 1890 by Thomas Andrew Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - The Banquet Inscriptions: Verso - centre right - Cooking of human bodies Fiji Customs (old) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 13.8 x 19.8 cm
[Scenes in Fiji]
Date: [ca 1897]
From: Ranfurly family: Collection
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA1-f-195-38
Description: Views of Fiji, circa 1897, taken by Thomas Andrew and others The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-38-1) is a scene in a Fijian village, with a group alongside thatched dwellings and palms, taken by an unknown photographer. The lower left photograph (PA1-f-195-38-2) depicts a Fijian group on a catamaran, taken by an unidentified photographer. The lower right photograph (PA1-f-195-38-3) shows a Fijian man wearing traditional clothing, and holding a spear and a fan, probably taken by Thomas Andrew. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Three photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)
Union Steam Ship Company :Original prints of Samoa, Rarotonga, Tonga and Tahiti
By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Homes, F, active 1880s; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-
Reference: PAColl-5426
Description: 1/2-115825 to 115869 Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s).
Portrait of Suega in Samoan costume
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA7-01-15
Description: Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Suega, a village belle Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.
Andrew ; Burton Brothers :Fijian photographs
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA7-01-06
Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on one card.
Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914 : Photographs taken in Fiji
Date: 1884
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914
Reference: PA7-01-09
Description: Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on one card. Provenance: No donor or provenance information available for this collection. Possibly part of a larger collection.
Samoan postcards
Date: 1889-1918
From: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925- : Papers relating to Arthur Aris King and James Baxter Fleck
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: MS-Papers-12198-1
Description: Folder of 48 postcards from Samoa with images photographed by Alfred Tattersall and Thomas Andrew. The postcards were all reproduced in the publication compiled by Alice Hunt 'Greetings from Samoa: Early Twentieth Century Postcards and a tribute to Alfred Tattersall' (Palmerston North: Manuia Books, 2016). The photographic postcards document Samoa, including historic events such as the cyclone of 1889, the volcanic eruption of 1905, and some are dated 1910. During this period Samoa was under German administration and consequently many of the postcards feature captions in the German language. Other subject matter depicted includes: - Volcanic activity, including lava running into the sea - Shipping, including naval vessels and fishing canoes - Shipwrecks of American and German naval vessels following cyclone of 1889 - Landscapes and scenery, including waterfalls - The build environment, including traditional and colonial buildings - Individual and group portraits of people, ranging from copra workers and to the king of Samoa, Malietoa Laupepa. - Natural history and indigenous costumes and adornments Some of the postcards bear the imprint of the "Deutsche Samoa-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Apia" Also two postcards not directly related to Samoa, one portraying two female subjects related to Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, and one depicting "The Mosque of Omar, at Jerusalem". These two postcards with inscribed messages from circa 1918, at the time of the Influenza Epidemic, by Olive Blanche King to her sisters Florence King and Amelia Cora King, describing the experience of severe illness suffered by the writer and her family, including mother Susana Key and brothers Edward and George. The postcards are mostly blank and not postally used, while some have messages and postal markings. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 48 postcards. Physical Description: Postcards.
Cusack Smith album 3
Date: Between 1889 and 1894
From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa
By: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929; Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA1-q-274
Description: Images of life and events in colonial Samoa during the time Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith was British Consul, between 1889 and 1898. Several images show the interior of a church, in which Cusack Smith carved several panels. Some of the photographs were taken by Cusack Smith, others by Thomas Andrew (including one of Cusack Smith (British consul), William Blacklock (US consul), and Herr Biermann (German consul), all on horseback), some by unidentified photographers. Included are portraits of his wife Winifred Cusack Smith, and daughter Maia; a series showing various performers in a play "Uncle" written by Henry James Byron; several of a hunting trip taken by Cusack Smith and his family; a scene of lawn tennis; followed by various newspaper cuttings talking about the political scene in Samoa in 1894. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown covered album, 38 x 28 cm
Andrew ; Burton Bros :Levuka, Fiji
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA7-04-34
Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.
Cusack Smith album 5
Date: Between 1890 and 1895
From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA1-o-546
Description: Album created by Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith. Scenes in England include two large houses "Gaynes Park", and "High Beech". Scenes of life in Samoa when Cusack Smith was British Consul there, some of which were taken by photographer Thomas Andrew; portraits of family members; people associated with the consulate, including William Blacklock (American Vice Consul-General), Herr Biermann (German consul). Other portraits include Agnes Bagot, Mary Hamilton, Mata'afa, A. Warren, Teo, and Arthur Harford. There are several photographs of Winifred Cusack-Smith, and of her grave after she died of a fever in 1894. Other images show tattooists at work; Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday party at Vailima (circa 1893); pupils and staff of Mrs Bell's School; the polo team from the ship Curacoa; the British Consulate building, and that of the American consul. Other Titles - British Consulate, Samoa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cover with black spine and corners, gold lettering "British Consulate, Samoa", 25 x 32 cm
Photographs of Samoa
Date: [1919 - 1924]
From: Tate, Robert Ward, 1864-1933 :Photographs of Samoa
By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PAColl-0026-1
Description: Photographs taken and collected by Colonel Robert Ward Tate during his office as Administrator of Western Samoa, 1919-1923. Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914 : Photographs taken in Fiji
Date: 1884
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914
Reference: PA7-01-10
Description: Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on one card. Provenance: No donor or provenance information available for this collection. Possibly part of a larger collection.
Ward, Charles Kay :Album of views of Samoa
Date: 1890-1915
By: Ward, Charles Kay, 1882-1918; Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; Ward, G Hannaford, active 2000
Reference: PA1-q-736
Description: Album compiled by Charles Kay Ward, a dentist with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force which occupied Samoa in 1914. It comprises views of the arrival and occupation of the NZEF, taken by Alfred James Tattersall, as well as Samoan scenes and personalities, mostly taken 1890s-1900s by Thomas Andrew. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: Typescript commentary on album by G Hannaford Ward filed with album.. Provenance: Album compiled by Charles Kay Ward (1882-1918), passed into the possession of his brother, Wilfred I Ward (d 1963), obtained from his estate in 1990 by G Hannaford Ward (nephew of Wilfred and Charles).