Germans - Pacific Area

Date: 1858-1937

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2993

Description: Selected papers from a variety of family and shipping company records, relevant to Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1871-1880

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Stanmore, Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, Baron, 1829-1912

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1636

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1885-1935

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0581-0589

Description: Papers of Wilhelm Solf, the first governor of Western Samoa, and later ambassador to Japan. Includes correspondence, both private and official, publications, speeches, lectures, essays and a biography. Papers cover Solf's career from being a district judge in East Africa, to president of the Apia Municipality, his governorship of German Samoa, and his later career as an ambassador. Quantity: 9 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Deatiled inventory on Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: 1899-1935

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1091

Description: Inward correspondence 1899-1933, outward correspondence 1921-1931; partial rtranscript of a diary 1919-1920; journal of the launch Overseas 1913-1915; formula book, notebooks and personal and legal documents Source of title - Transcribed The Zeitler family came from Germany to Austrlia per California in the 1850s. Adolphus and his wife, Lizzie Zeitler later set up a plantation at Ringdove Bay on Epi, in the New Hebrides. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1998

Date: ca 1890s - 1924

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-024

Description: Photographs of Samoa, circa 1890s to 1924, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of the commissioners to Samoa in 1900, the native guard of Mulinu'u, Samoan war canoes, the raising of the German flag in 1900, raising of the British flag and deportation of Germans in 1914, the British, American and New Zealand military, Rev Clarke and his staff of native pastors, street scenes in Apia, and the Faipule fono in 1924. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).

Reference: A-116-002

Description: Shows Tongans talking to a German naval officer and others sitting outside a native dwelling. Shows also a dog, fowls, and sheep, with a banana palm and coconut trees Other Titles - Vavao Island Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 145 x 205 mm

Date: 1882-1940

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1352

Description: Translations into English and Tok Pisin of articles about New Guinea and the South Pacific, taken from Die katholischen Missionen 1882-1912; Hiltruper Monatschefte 1914, 1919, and 1923; Steyler Chronik 1919-1924 and 1934-1938; Kleiner Herz-Jesu-Bote 1895-1901; Steyler Missionsbote 1901-1940 Source of title - Supplied by Library Fr John Tschauder SVD systematically gathered and translated large amounts of German language documents on New Guinea Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2011

Date: 1887-1916

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0016

Description: The records begin with a report from a German official in Jaluit to the Duke of Bismarck, dated May 6 1887, stating that local German dirms had suggested that the German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands should be extended to cover Nauru. A report written in Jaluit on October 31 1888 , by Herr Sonnenschein, the German Imperial commissioner in the Marshall Islands, describes the raising of the German flag on Nauru on October 2 1888. There are several extensive reports on conditions on Nauru. The remainder of the documents deal with the German administration of Nauru. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1845-1885

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2231

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1912

By: Kelly, Patrick William Henry, 1913-1999

Reference: MS-Papers-11007

Description: Speech (in German) given at the opening of the Casino Hotel, Apia, 1912, with English translation; notes about the firm Johann Caeser Godeffroy & Son, Hamburg who built the hotel; photographs of the Head Office of J C Godeffroy & Son, Apia ("Cotton-ginning shed removed for the Casino Hotel in background and re-erected left of Head Office) and the Casino Hotel Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and photographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by P W H Kelly, Auckland, 1987

Date: 1885-1889

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1631

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: Aug 1865-Mar 1868

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1319

Description: Transcript in modern German script by Jakob Anderhandt. Contains index to places visited and people met; journals of the first expedition, starting in Hamburg and ending in Hong Kong Aug 1865-Sep 1866; 2nd expedition, starting and ending in Hong Kong Oct 1866-Mar 1867; 3rd expedition, starting and ending in Hong Kong Apr 1867-Mar 1868 Source of title - Transcribed from item Captain Tetens explored and traded in the Caroline Islands, particularly Palau and Yap, on behalf of Godeffroy and Son and the Godeffroy Museum Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, 2010

Date: 1952

By: Furlich, James E, 1929-

Reference: Micro-MS-0899

Description: Thesis details European expansion into the Pacific from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries with particular reference to the role of France as a colonial power in the region and the impact of this on French culture A thesis submitted by James Furlich to the faculty of the Division of the Humanities (Department of History, University of Chicago) in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Typescript (Microfilm)

Date: 1900-1950; 1980-1996

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1160-10

Description: Papers collected by Fr Tschauder on the German colonial administration in New Guinea and in the Pacific in general. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1974-1990; 1879-1923

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1160-08

Description: Subject files on the Mission in New Guinea and on Christianity in the Pacific, compiled by Tschauder and arranged chronologically. Also, papers collected by Fr Tschauder on the German colonial administration in New Guinea and in the Pacific in general. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1892-1914

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1160-09

Description: Papers collected by Fr Tschauder on the German colonial administration in New Guinea and in the Pacific in general. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1888

By: Ullstrom, J, active 1888; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007

Reference: G-219

Description: View from the sea of a cluster of white buildings, two built on piles in the water, with two red flags flying. There is a background of palm trees. A small lagoon is in front of the buildings, a blue canoe is being rowed by about 20 people on the right and there is a small steamboat on the left. The open sea is visible on the left. The name of the artist and the name of the ship suggest that the artist may have been German. However the title written on the back of the work is in English. The S. S. Westfalia was built in Glasgow and was an British-owned ship. Ullstrom can also be a Swedish name. The Pacific Trading Post itself was established in 1860 by a German firm, J C Godeffroy & Co, and Samoa was a German colony at the date of this painting. The Pacific Trading Post was on the eastern side of Apia Harbour. The building later became the Tivoli Hotel. The S. S. Westfalia, built in Glasgow in 1882, was a British vessel, wrecked in the Bay of Biscay near the Spanish coast in 1889. Exhibited 'Va'aomanu' exhibition celebrating the history and culture of Samoa, based on the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, held in the National Library Gallery, 1 March to 28 June 1998. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.Ullstrom / S. S. Westfalia / 1888 (in brushpoint).; Backing board recto - The Pacific Trading Post. 75 /- [i.e. shillings] 1974. Also auctioneer's and former owner's label. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board, 205 x 383 mm. Provenance: Inscriptions on the verso suggest Dr Hogg brought the painting in 1974 for 75 shillings, perhaps from a British source.

Date: 1900

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

Reference: PAColl-3062-2-01

Description: A crowd of Samoans watching the German flag being raised. German officials can be seen dressed in white uniforms. Photographed by Alfred John Tattersall in 1900. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Raising of German flag 1900 Samoa Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 23.4 x 18.4 cm

Date: 1800 - 1860

Reference: A-119-053

Description: Shows two sailing ships firing on troops on a tree-lined shore. The troops may be German and the shore may be Samoa Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 275 x 378 mm

Date: 1872-1886, 1869-1885, 1835-1874

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2240

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).