Photographs of Samoa

Date: 1914

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-09

Description: Shows New Zealand Railway Engineers' camp in Samoa, Vaimea, during World War I, with the engineers standing around in front of the accommodation tents. A rail-track runs along through the camp. A tall palm tree stands on the camp grounds. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Vaimia Camp, 1914 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18.9 x 24 cm

Date: Ca 1900

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-20

Description: Siva siva or dance, Samoa, photographed ca 1900 by Alfred John Tattersall. Part of a traditional thatched building and breadfruit trees are in the background. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 18.9 x 24 cm

Date: January 1924

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-19

Description: Major-General Sir George Spafford Richardson (second row, centre) Administrator of Western Samoa 1923-1928, and the Fono a Faipule (advisory group), Western Samoa. Photograph taken January 1924 by Alfred John Tattersall. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Faipule Fono - Jan. 1924 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 189 x 241 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-18

Description: The British guard marching through Apia, Western Samoa. Photograph taken between ca 1900 by Alfred John Tattersall. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - British Guard Apia Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 190 x 241 mm

Date: 1909

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-07

Description: Lauaki Namulau'ulu Mamoe (left) and other chiefs, aboard a German warship taking them to exile to Saipan, in the Mariana Islands. Photograph taken by Alfred John Tattersall in 1909. Note on back of file print reads `Ravati and friends on deportation to Saipan'[?] Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Samoa. Ravati and friends on deportation to Saipan Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 190 x 240 mm

Date: 1890s-[1900]

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-12

Description: A parade of police in Western Samoa, possibly taken during the German administration, photographed in the 1890s-1900 by Alfred John Tattersall. Date of photography attributed to caption and historical context.The Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory. The islands Upolu and Savaii and the small islands of Apolima and Manono, were declared a protectorate of the German Empire, known as German Samoa, on 1 March 1900. According to the Samoa Police website information, a Western style police force existed in Samoa from the early 1800s, with a police headquarters building constructed in Apia circa 1890 (see 'Timeline'/History of Samoa Police' https://www.samoapolice.ws/about/history-of-police/timeline accessed 24 July 2023). Reference to a police force as early as 1878 appears in "'An account of Samoan History up to 1918' by Te'o Tuvale (see https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TuvAcco-t1-body1-d5.html accessed 24 Juy 2023). Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Samoan police - German Times Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 190 x 239 mm Processing information: Record updated 24 July 2023 with information on date of photography.

Date: [between 1893-1949]

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-32

Description: Village at Mulinu'u, on the island of Upolu, Samoa. Shows four buildings with thatched roofs, and surrounding palm trees. Photograph taken by the Tattersall Studio between 1893 and 1949. Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Dated from Tattersall's studio dates. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - stamped in ink: Tattersall Studio Apia Samoa Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.1 x 20 cm

Date: ca 1900

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-21

Description: Unidentified seated young woman, (Apia?), Samoa, circa 1900, photographed by Alfred John Tattersall. She wears a bead necklace. The garment about her shoulders is decorated with with lace and foliage. She holds a fan like item. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - A T [Apia?] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.7 x 14.9 cm

Date: [ca 1920]

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-25

Description: People meeting in the village of Saluafoli. There are two breadfruit trees in the middle distance, and thatched buildings and coconut palms beyond. Among the people ranged along the front of one of the buildings are two white uniformed administration officials. Photograph taken by Alfred John Tattersall in about 1920. Note on back of file print reads `Ravati and friends on deportation to Saipan'[?] Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Samoa. Ravati and friends on deportation to Saipan Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 24 x 18.9 cm

Date: 1914

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3799-27

Description: Colonels Robert Logan and Paterson seated in their uniforms, on a verandah, Western Samoa. Photographed by Alfed John Tattersall in 1914. Note on back of file print reads `Ravati and friends on deportation to Saipan'[?] Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Samoa. Ravati and friends on deportation to Saipan Colonel Robert Logan commanded the New Zealand expeditionary force which occupied German Samoa in 1914. He became the military governor of Samoa from 1 September 1914, and was New Zealand's first administator for a short period after the war. He resigned as administrator in 1919 after the catastrophe of the flue epidemic in that country. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 24 x 18.9 cm