IMAGE
Cocoa beans drying in the sun, Samoa
- Date
- [ca 1912]
- By
- Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
- Reference
- PA1-o-445-122
- Description
Cocoa beans drying in the sun, Samoa, circa 1912. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall.
Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Cocoa beans (sun drying)
"Cocoa planting began around 1900 and by 1912 had become second only to copra production. Labour for copra and cocoa production was provided by indentured labour, from Melanesia from the 1880s, and later from China." (Caption from National Library exhibition `Va'aomanu' - celebrating the history and culture of Samoa.)
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.7 x 24.5
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa / Rutherford, Alex album 1
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 19.7 x 24.5, Orientation: Horizontal image
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