Espiritu Santo

Date: 1 Jan-31 Dec 1905

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Witts, Maurice Myles, 1877-1966

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0001

Description: Day-by-day account of copra planting at Hog Harbour, Espiritu Santo. Also relates attempt to capture terrorist Thingaru Relationship complexity - See Micro-MS-Coll-08-0008 for later diary of Witts for the year 1911 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) negative (76 frames). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index..

Date: 1935-1947

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1311

Description: Letters from Adam and Christina Wilson, mainly from the Tangoa Teacher Training Institute, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, to their family in Edinburgh Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2009

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-195

Description: Folder containing pages of typed diary entries (including lists of names of dental personnel), photographs and floor plans entitled `War diary of Dental Section, NZDC attached to No 3 Squadron, RNZAF. Subsequently Air Mobile Dental Section, No 1 (Islands) Group'. Photographs include interior and exterior views of Headquarters Section, Air Mobile Dental Section, RNZAF Base Depot at Espiritu Santo; interior and exterior views of Air Mobile Dental Sub-section 1, Guadalcanal, with accompanying floor plans of the hospitals at Espiritu Santo, Guadalcanal, and Bougainville, drawn by I.C.J, Feb 1944. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1906-1922

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2625

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1941-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-194

Description: Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: Woodbourne; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Whenuapai; Burnham; HMS Philomel; Hobsonville. Various captioned photographs. Includes: NZDC POW dental section at Oflag V B, Biberach, Germany; 2 NZEP IP (Treasury Island, Bourail, Green Island); Vella Lavella; senior dental officers in New Caledonia; officers of 10 MOB Dental Section, 1944 (named); group of medical and dental staff BHQ 30 NZ Bn, Nissan Island; group photo of Dental Section, Pacific Area (unidentified); 22 Field Ambulance; Dental Section CCS Guadalcanal, AWWS HQ Guadalcanal; No 1 Max-Fac Dental Section, 4 Gen Hospital, New Caledonia; ATD Camp, Nemeara Valley; Dental Section RNZAF Station, Espiritu Santo; mobile dental section, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal ; Fiji detachment, 1944; Base Hygiene Section; Bougainville staff and surgery, 1944-1945; Field force exercises, 1941-1942; prosthetic truck; aerial view of mobile Dental Section area at Guadalcanal and plan of the area; aerial view of 10 MOB Dental Section HQ, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal; group photo of staff at Bn HQ; Lt Col O E L Rout and staff at Dental HQ; No 2 Max-Fac Dental Section. No 2 NZCCS, Guadalcanal; dental mechanics at work at an under-canvas dental hospital; Field dentistry at 53rd [?] Tank camp at Nissan; embarkation from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, 1943 (group photo); 6 Squadron RNZAF 1945 (staff at Halavas); Dental Section at Emirau 1944-1945 (groups named and camp site). Quantity: 275 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1875

By: Messer, Adam Brunton (General), 1837?-1919; Potter, R B Lee (Group Captain), active 1950

Reference: A-093-035

Description: Shows a sailing ship off the coast of an island with steep mountains. Likely to be the work of Adam Brunton Messer who was in Vanuatu and other nearby Pacific Islands in 1875. The provenance is the same as other works by Messer, signed with his monogram Other Titles - Espiritu Santo Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 233 x 348 mm Provenance: Donation: Group Captain R. B. Lee Potter, Wellington, May 1950

Date: 1800

From: Artist unknown :[South Seas views from Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo. Venezia, Antonelli, 1841]

Reference: A-119-039

Description: Plate 70 volume 3 of an illustrated Italian publication. An upper plate showing two men of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. They apopear to be facing one another, in conversation. A lower plate show a man and a woman of Malekula, Vanuatu, with a bunch of flowers Other Titles - Inhabitants of Espiritu Santo. Inhabitants of Malekula Island [translation] Mallicolo Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two hand-coloured lithographs on one sheet, 296 x 201 mm

Date: 1943-1948

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-147

Description: Most photographs contain captions; some are stamped `Official RNZAF photographs'. Group photograph of a conference of padres in the RNZAF held at Frederic Wallis House, Lower Hutt, 1944 (all named on back); NZ Fighter Wing `score board' at New Georgia, Nov 1943 to record number of Japanese aircraft hit (group around the board includes Air Commodore S Wallington, Wing Commander T O Freeman, Air Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, Major General H E Barrowclough); RNZAF Band playing outside the USA hospital, Guadalcanal, 1944 (W/O R H Simpson conducting); Wings Parade - Course 61 medal presentation (Squadron Leader E T Mileski, Squadron Leader J R Welsh, Air Commodore A de T Nevill, LAC Johnson), Nov 1942; fighter pilots on return from battle in SW Pacific war zone, 1944; F/O R C Beazer of Feilding and P/O Letourneau of Canada (both of NZ RAF Mosquito Fighter Bomber Squadron). First NZ airmen repatriated from German hands welcomed by Air Vice Marshal L M Isitt and Air Secretary T A Barrow (group includes Warrant Officers D C Allen, J I B Walker and H M English); RNZAF ground crew on an amphibious truck (called a `Duck'); Lockheed Hudson bomber crew reporting back from a reconnaissance flight over the Solomons area; group photo of NZ Catalina flying boat crew, 1945 (all named); pilots being briefed before a `strike', Guadalcanal, 19 Jun 1943; RNZAF Corsair aircraft flying in formation at Guadalcanal, 1944. Catalina flying boats and RNZAF band on visit to Halavo Bay, the seaplane base in the Solomon Islands, 1944; Dakota aircraft at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1944; YMCA `tea truck' serving RNZAF ground crew who are maintaining Kittyhawks; Wing Commander de Willimoff and others in flying suits beside Corsair aircraft; group beside a Kittyhawk (includes Squadron Leader Newton); group photo of flight mechanics and riggers on airstrip in Pacific (all named); Brigadier General R L Owens, Deputy-Commanding-General, 13th Air Force, USAAF, presenting the American Distinguished Flying Cross to Flying Officer M T Vanderpump, ca 1943; Air Commodore Sir Robert Clarke-Hall talking with Major General R J Mitchell, USMC, prior to latter's departure from Bougainville (others in photo include Air Commodore G N Roberts, Wing Commander A B Greenaway & Wing Commander H R Wigley); Christmas Day in the mess hall, 1942; group of NZ pilots having a `Smoko' during Battle of Bougainville, 1943 (some name on front in ballpoint); aftermath on Bougainville (aerial photo of Japanese barge on beach); men of the RNZAF on board the `Wahine' at Torokina, Bougainville bound for NZ. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Kitch, George B D, active 1880s-1915

Reference: PA1-q-263

Description: Photographs of the ship HMS Ringdove, her crew, and various ports of call in New Zealand, Australia, Chatham Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), and Cook Islands. Some of the people are identified, and include men and women at the ports of call. Views in the Chatham Islands include Mrs Chudleigh and Emma Hodgson at the Chudleigh home, and a house built of ponga logs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover; 30.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1984

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12506

Description: Mounted colour slides dated 1984 and undated. Some with captions. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: 1968

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12509

Description: Mounted colour slides dated October 1968, some with captions. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: 1968

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12510

Description: Mounted colour slides dated October 1968, including some captioned. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: 1968, 1969, 1970

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12511

Description: Mounted colour slides dated October 1968, September 1969, and June 1970. Some captioned. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: 1974

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12517

Description: Mounted colour slides dated July 1974, all captioned. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: 1975

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12518

Description: Mounted colour slides dated August 1975, some captioned. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: 1975

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12519

Description: Mounted colour slides dated August 1975, some captioned. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: 1968, 1973, 1974

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12515

Description: Mounted colour slides dated September 1968, October 1968, October 1973, June 1974, July 1974. Most images captioned. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: [ca 1968-1988]

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA12-12524

Description: Mounted colour slides, undated, mostly captioned. Title transcribed from item or original enclosure. Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies - mounted slides.

Date: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971; date unknown

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-003

Description: Black and white photographic prints, documenting people and scenery, including portraits, many with caption inscriptions verso. Includes: - Portrait of "Matisa - master carver, Tongoa" - "Tribesman, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu" - "Santo Harbour, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu" - "Side street, Port Vila, New Hebrides (Old Condominium building in foreground)" - "Main street Santo, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu" - "Erakor Lagoon, Port Vila, New Hebrides" - "Port Vila harbour, Efate, Vanuatu" - "On the way to the north eastern plateau, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu" - "Melanesian girl at market, Port Vila, Vanuatu" - "Keith Beverley's diving H.Q. Port Vila waterfront, Vanuatu" - "The honeymoon bungalows, Le Lagon Hotel, Port Vila, Vanuatu" - "The Nagriamel settlement at Fanafo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides" - "Ceremonial slit gong, at the Nagriamel settlement at Fanafo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides" - "Jimmy Stephens, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, [leader of the Nagriamel movement]. - "Melanesian slit-gongs in grounds of Le Lagon Hotel, Port Vila, New Hebrides" - "Henri Crocq restaurant, Le Lagon Hotel, Port Vila, Vanuatu" - "Erakor Lagoon, New Hebrides" - "Ancestral figure from Malekula, New Hebrides" - "Roadside Market, main street, Port Vila, Efate, New Hebrides" - "Iririki Island from Rossi' Hotel, Port Vila, Vanuatu". - "Collecting coconuts, Efate, Vanuatu". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints.

Date: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-032

Description: Black and white photographic prints relating to Vanuatu, dated from the period 1968 to 1971 and undated. Some have caption information inscribed verso. Includes: - "Boys building out-rigger canoe out of tree trunk, Tanna, Vanuatu". - "Tribesmen carrying their gift of a pig onto the marum at Ikahakahup, Tanna, New Hebrides". - "Choosing presents at the circumcision celebration, Ikahakahup, Tanna, New Hebrides". - "Clearing bush for garden, Tanna, New Hebrides". - "The last house on the way to Ikahakahup". - "Tribesmen carrying off gift of Rava root - Ikahakahup, Tanna, New Hebrides". - "The laundry chez Mao, Santo Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides". - "Mao (l.) Mme- Mao (r.) and Germaine outside Mao's Bar, Santo, New Hebrides". - "Santo township, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides". - "At the custom 'danis', Ikahakahup, Tanna, New Hebrides". - "Women at Ikahakahup on the edge of the marum, Tanna, New Hebrides". - images of Air Melanesiae aircraft being loaded. - "Matelots in Santo township, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides". - "The winners of the Bastille Day bicycle race, Santo, New Hebrides". - "On the way to the volcano, Tanna, New Hebrides", "En route to the volcano, Tanna, Vanuatu". - "Children in a village near Bob Paul's bungalows, Epul Bay, Tanna, Vanuatu". - "New Hebridean woman climbs her fence which serves to keep the pigs out of her house, New Hebrides". Other images depict public sculpture, cranes, aircraft wreckage, and the airport. Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints.