Nelson, Olaf Frederick, 1883-1944

Date: [ca 1914]

Reference: PAColl-D-0581

Description: View showing buildings and garden on the waterfront. Buildings are decorated with flags and there is a triumphal arch in the distance. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1914 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 380 x 480 mm mounted

Date: [Between 1905 and 1936]

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; Crown Studios (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-445

Description: Photographs of Samoa taken between 1905 and 1936, some taken by Samoan photographer Alfred James Tattersall, many by unidentified photographers. One photograph is not related to the rest, showing two young women flautists from Highcliff School, Dunedin, winners of a Dunedin competition in 1918 (P 90) The earliest ones, taken in 1905, show the damage caused by a volcanic eruption, and show lava pouring into the sea. The rest of the images are related to Donald Alexander John Rutherford, headmaster at Ifi Ifi School (Leififi School) from 1919, becoming Superintendent of Schools from 1923 to 1936. There are many scenes which include his family, with his wife and four children (including Alexander Mathieson Rutherford). Many of the scenes show school activities, including the ceremonies surrounding the opening of the new school at Avele; the schools at Malifa, at Ifi Ifi, Poutasi, Aleipata and other districts; sports teams; school parades, including boy scouts linked with the schools; and groups of teachers, both European and Samoan. General views of Samoa include the construction of a fale, the interior of a fale; fishing; cocoa beans and their harvesting and drying; copra industry, with Solomon Island workers; and sowing cotton seed. Several images show the celebrations for George V's birthday; school breakup feasts; and the farewell flotilla of canoes when the Rutherford family left Samoa in 1936. Social activities of the Europeans in Samoa include tennis, large groups of bowlers, and garden parties at Vailima, the Governor's residence. Inscriptions: Album page - "The Rutherford Family, November 30th 1936 ... Sae-Tupe" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cover bound in tapa cloth, light brown cloth spine; 25 x 30 cm

Date: 1928-1933

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Nelson, Olaf Frederick, 1883-1944

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0712

Description: Includes correspondence with H E Holland, Chairman of the New Zealand Labour Party, Nelson's wife Rosabel, and Mau leaders during Nelson's banishment from Samoa Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: [1920-1925]

From: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925- : Papers relating to Arthur Aris King and James Baxter Fleck

Reference: fMS-Papers-6704-05

Description: Articles and letters, mostly from the `Samoa times', on aspects of Samoan legends; includes contributions by G E L Westbrook Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1902-1937 nd

From: Westbrook, George Egerton Leigh, 1860-1939 : Further papers relating to Samoa

Reference: MS-Papers-5498-2

Description: Comprises (1) Correspondence and reports relating to Samoa and the New Zealand administration with a letter from Logan to Westbrook; Western Samoa Legislative Council debates, sessions 1924; several letters to the editor by Westbrook; a report on the pros and cons regarding the Chinese labour question in Samoa; a novel way of filling kerosene lamps; contrast in administrative methods, America and New Zealand; `Final act of the Berlin Conference on Samoan affairs' (1889); copy of photograph of Solf; and (2) Mau period papers including letters from G S Richardson to Westbrook (1928); Memorandum on...Samoan unrest by O F Nelson; extra from the `Samoa Guardian' re Tamasese (1928); order of banishment to Leota (1927); circulars and official papers Also includes letter from the administrator to the three elected members of the Legislative Council (26 Mar 1927); circular to Faipules (1927); Samoan chiefs to Hart (1932); O F Nelson, in the matter of the Samoan amendment Act (1927) and untitled mss re public meeting (Oct 1926) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1925-1929, 1934

From: Westbrook, George Egerton Leigh, 1860-1939 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0061-013

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca 1936

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-7171-03

Description: House of Olaf Frederick Nelson, Apia, Samoa, circa 1936. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 29/4/36 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 13.9 x 14 cm

Date: 1936

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: 1/2-020699-F

Description: Olaf Frederick Nelson, Samoan nationalist and Mau leader, photographed with his daughters in front of the Parliament building (Fale Fono), on their return to Samoa for the second time. Accompanying them are Europeans and Samoans. Photographed by Alfred James Tattersall in 1936. Olaf Frederick Nelson was the son of a Swedish sailor and a Samoan mother. By the 1920s he was a wealthy merchant trader living in Apia. As a result of Samoan dissatisfaction with the New Zealand administration of their country, Nelson emerged as a Samoan nationalist leader, especially associated with the Mau movement. This resulted in him being exiled from Samoa to New Zealand from 1928 to 1933, and again from 1933 to 1936. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 100mm x125mm. Processing information: Date of that the photograph was taken was changed from 1933 to 1936 on 31 August 2016.

Date: [ca 1924]

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-445-12

Description: Olaf Frederick Nelson seated on a verandah with four European men. The right had side of the verandah is occupied by European women, and the left hand side by Samoan women. A group of Samoan youths are seated on the grass facing the verandah. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1924. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mr O F Nelson at Mailifa Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 23.7 x 18.9 cm, on album page