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London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
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- London Missionary Society
- Reference
- PAColl-5558
- Description
Photographs of Polynesia, Melanesia and Papua New Guinea, from the collection of the London Missionary Society.
Copy negatives made on Polaroid copy camera by ATL Photograph Section at Castrol House.
Quantity: 46 b&w copy negative(s).
Provenance: Copies of photographs loaned to the Alexander Turnbull Library by the London Missionary Society, September 1979
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 46 b&w copy negative(s), Negatives
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UnknownScene with children, Pago Pago, American Samoa
Date: Date unknown
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
Reference: 1/2-094325-F
Description: Children, buildings and coconut palms, Pago Pago, American Samoa. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Men alongside a catch of turtles, Samoa
Date: Date unknown
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
Reference: 1/2-092843-F
Description: Samoan men, with spears, alongside a catch of turtles. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Date unknown. Inscriptions: On original postcard - bottom left front - Greetings from Samoa Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Two interior views of a church at Malua, Samoa
Date: 1905
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
Reference: 1/2-094321-F
Description: Two interior views of a church on Malua, Western Samoa, 1905. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :House interior with women on sleeping mats, Samoa
Date: Date unknown
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: 1/2-094329-F
Description: House interior with women on sleeping mats, Samoa. Photograph taken by Alfred Tattersall. Date unknown. Other Titles - Interior of a Native house Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - No 64 Interior of a Native House; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - A. T. Apia Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Views of churches in Rarotonga and Samoa
Date: [ca 1905]
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
Reference: 1/2-094319-F
Description: Two exterior views of unidentified stone churches, the top one in Rarotonga, and the bottom one in Samoa, photographed circa 1905. Photographer(s) unidentified. The upper image shows a building set amongst palms and other trees. Local men work with palm fronds in front. The lower image shows another church building, also set amongst palms and other trees. Children sit about on the grassy area alongside. A traditional Samoan building, with a rounded, thatched roof supported by an outer ring of posts, is on the left. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Copra drying, Samoa
Date: 1906
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: 1/2-092848-F
Description: Copra (dried kernals of coconut) drying on mats in Samoa, 1906. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Women making kava, Samoa
Date: [Date unknown]
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
Reference: 1/2-094331-F
Description: Photograph of three young Samoan women making kava in a bowl, possibly in a traditional kava ceremony, taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: On original item: Making kava Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Samoan group on Savai'i, Western Samoa
Date: Date unknown
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: 1/2-094327-F
Description: Samoan group on Savai'i, Western Samoa. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall. Date unknown. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - No 69 Native [House?]; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - A. T. Apia Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Young women wearing white dresses, with lace, Samoa
Date: [ca 190-?]
From: London Missionary Society :Photographs of the South Pacific
Reference: 1/2-094316-F
Description: Photograph of three Samoan women wearing white gowns, holding lengths of white lace, taken circa 1905? by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative