Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

Date
1890 - 1898
By
Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929
Reference
PA-Group-00372
Description

Photographs showing topography, inhabitants of Samoa during the tenure of Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith as Her Majesty's Consul, 1890 - 1898. Particularly strong on the social life of the British, United States and German representatives.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Quantity: 8 album(s) Album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0066, papers of Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith.

Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1993. Reference number changed from PAColl-1499 to PA-Group-00372 in 2009.

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8 album(s) Album(s), 4 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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William Churchill, United States Consul-General in Samoa.

Date: 1896

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-545-11

Description: William Churchill, United States Consul-General in Samoa, photographed in 1896 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.2 x 14.1 cm, mounted on album page.

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Cusack Smith family and friends

Date: 1890s

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929; Davis, John, -1893

Reference: PAColl-1499-1

Description: Photographs of Cusack Smith family and friends, comprising: family and friends playing fives, grave of Winifred Cusack Smith, Cusack Smith family at waterfall, stereoscopic view of woman and horse on reverse of Kilburn stereo card showing decorated cart. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939 :The consuls to Samoa of Great Britain (Thomas Berry Cusack-S...

Date: ca 1894

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939

Reference: PA1-q-274-39

Description: The consuls to Samoa of Great Britain (Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith), the United States of America (William Blacklock), and Germany (Herr Biermann) photographed on horseback by Thomas Andrew, ca 1894. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - TBCS, HBM Consul; Mr Blacklock, U.S. Consul; Herr Biermann, I. German Consul. Samoa. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.1 x 19.9 cm, mounted on album page.

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Wedding of Ida Schmutz, in Samoa

Date: [between 1890-1898]

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-545-01

Description: Wedding of Ida Schmutz. Group portrait including the bride, groom, and others, outside the British Consulate in Samoa. Photograph taken between 1890-1898 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Ida Schmutz wedding Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 20.1 x 14.8 cm, on album page

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Fortification, Samoa

Date: Between 1890 and 1899

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-547-19

Description: Group of men armed with rifles at a fortification in Samoa, takenm, probably in the 1890s, by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.6 x 20.9 cm mounted on album page

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Photograph of Richard John Seddon and party in Samoa

Date: 1897

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-545-37-1

Description: Richard John Seddon (seated at left), his wife (centre, in dark dress), his daughters Mary and Louise, Frederic Wallis, (Anglican Bishop of Wellington, right, kneeling)) and his wife (centre, with hand in kava bowl), W Crow (Seddon's private secretary), British Consul to Samoa Thomas Berry Cusack Smith (centre, at rear), and the Samoan King, Malietoa Laupepa (seated at right). Photographed in 1897 by an unknown Photographer. On the 15th of April, 1897, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Richard John Seddon and party left Wellington on the RMSS Alameda to attend the Diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. Their first port of call was Apia Samoa where these photographs were taken. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 100 x 142 mm mounted on album page

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Portrait of a Samoan woman

Date: ca 1890

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929

Reference: PA1-o-548-40-2

Description: Portrait of a young Samoan woman standing in the parting of two curtains. Photographed by Sir Thomas Berry Smith in about 1890 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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King Malietoa, Thomas Berry Cusack Smith and some of the best polo players

Date: 1897

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-545-36

Description: King Malietoa (wearing hat), Thomas Berry Cusack Smith and polo players, Samoa, 1898. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - King Malietoa, myself and some of the best Polo Players Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.2 x 20.5 cm

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An interval in the polo match

Date: ca 1897

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-545-31

Description: Samoan and European polo players and some of their ladies lined up for a photograph during an interval in a match. Photographed by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photograph of Richard John Seddon and King Malietoa Laupepa taking kava

Date: 15 April 1897

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-545-38-2

Description: Richard John Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, and King Malietoa Laupepa of Samoa, seated on a mat with a kava bowl. Seddon is is holding a coconut drinking cup in his hand. Photographed in 1897 by an unknown photographer On the 15th of April, 1897, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Richard John Seddon and party left Wellington on the RMSS Alameda to attend the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Their first port of call was Apia Samoa where these photographs were taken. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 92 x 140 mm mounted on album page

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