PACIFIC MANUSCRIPTS BUREAU Room 4201, Coombs Building College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia Telephone: (612) 6125 2521 Fax: (612) 6125 0198 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu Catalogue of South Seas Photograph Collections Chronologically arranged, including provenance (photographer or collector), title of record group, location of materials and sources of information. Amended 7 July 2010. Date Provenance Region Record Group & Location &/or Source Range Description 1848 J. W. Newland Tahiti Daguerreotypes of natives in Location unknown. Possibly in South America and the South the Historic Photograph Sea Islands, including Queen Collection at the University of Pomare and her subjects. Ref Sydney. (Willis, 1988, p.33; and SMH , 14 Mar.1848. Davies & Stanbury, 1985, p.11). 1857- Matthew New Guinea; Macarthur family albums, Original albums in the 1866, Fortescue Vanuatu; collected by Sir William possession of Mr Macarthur- 1879 Moresby Solomon Macarthur. Stanham. Microfilm copies, Islands Mitchell Library, PXA4358-1. 1858- Paul Fonbonne Vanuatu; New 334 glass negatives and some Mitchell Library, Orig. Neg. Set 1933 Caledonia, prints. 33. Noumea, Isle of Pines c.1850s- Presbyterian Vanuatu Photograph albums - Mitchell Library, ML 1890s Church of missions. Includes some J.W. MSS.1893/ Items 1-4, Box Australia, Board Lindt photographs taken 1(16). of Ecumenical during his trip to the New Mission Hebrides in 1889 & article on Lindt, Age , 23 Sep. 1961. c.1863- Rev. Thomas Fiji Relics and family Mitchell Library, Methodist 1894 Baker photographs. Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions, Original: LR 83; Microfilm: CY 4172 (photographs only). 1863?- Charles William Papua New Abel Family Papers: University of PNG Library, 1967 Abel Guinea photographs. New Guinea Collection, ALX-1. (Lutton, 1980, p.53.) 1865- Photographer New Zealand, ‘Views of Australian Victoria & Albert Museum, 1867 unknown Fiji, Niue, Colonies, New Zealand and London, X2A. (Davies 1986, Tongatapu, South Seas Islands.’ One p.65.) Samoa, New album, 181 albumen prints, Caledonia, captioned. Collected and Solomon Is, taken by a soldier of the 14th Banks Is, Regiment. Initials in front of Vanuatu album ‘T.E.G’. 1865- Charles Webley Fiji Photographs, some taken by Alexander Turnbull Library, 1869 Hope J.B. Thurston, of Australia, qMS-0999-1002. Fiji, Rotuma and New Zealand in vol. 4 of the Hope journals. Catalogue of South Seas Photograph Collections 1865- J.B. Thurston Fiji. Thurston Collection: c.100 National Library of Australia 1897 photographs, including prints MS Acc 02/157 and PMB 1142; of Thurston’s own Cf. Thurston prints in Capt. photographs and Dufty prints. C.W. Hope Journals, Turnbull Library. n.d. Godeffroy & Samoa; Photographs supplied to the Godeffroy Museum, Hamburg. (1870s- Sohn / Deutsche Marshall Is.; museum by German (d’Ozouville, Pacific Studies , 1880s?) Handels-und- Caroline Is.; expatriate communities. 1997, pp.71-2.) Plantagen Kiribati; Gesellschaft Tuvalu; New Britain 1870- F. Pierson New 39 Photographs taken on a National Library of Australia. 1871 Caledonia ‘mission of exploration’. (Bolton, 1980, p.279.) 1870- Fiji; Tonga ‘Photographic scenes & Mitchell Library, Original: PXA 1875 portraits of Fijian natives, 951. Aborigines of Queensland, etc. ’ Includes 15 carte-de- visite portraits of Fijian and Tongan noble families. 1870- Francis H. Dufty Fiji; Tonga ‘Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, National Library of Australia, 1879 (1846-1910) and portraits’: 1 panorama PIC P665/1-14 LOC A127; comprised of 5 albumen images individually catalogued prints; 5 carte-de-visite and digitised at nla.pic- portraits of Fijian and Tongan an10975065. chiefs, including Enele Ma’afu and Ratu Seru Apenisa Cakobau, and 7 portraits of other Fijians and Tongans. 1870- F.H. Dufty Fiji; Tonga; Fiji and other Pacific Islands National Archives of Fiji; Fiji 1892 (1846-1910); Samoa photographs. Museum; Godeffroy Museum; Dufty Bros; Thurston Papers (NLA MS Acc F & A Dufty 02/157); South Australian Photographers Museum (AA415/1861); Baker Papers (PMB 1203). c.1870- William Busby Fiji William Busby family Mitchell Library, Original: PXE 1882 photograph album 893. 1870- Macarthur- Torres Strait; 21 photographs. South Australian Museum 1890 Onslow S.W. Pacific Archives: AA189/980. 1870- Keystone View South Sea Keystone-Mast Collection: California Museum of 1930 Company (and Islands 350,000 stereoscopic Photography, University of predecessor negatives (mostly glass) of California - Riverside. companies) which roughly 20,000 are Pacific images. 1870- Methodist Fiji, Tonga, Extensive collections albums, Mitchell Library, Sydney, 1951 Church of Papua New prints, glass plate negs and Methodist Overseas Mission Australasia, Guinea, New some sketches, sketchily Archives. Restricted access. Department of Britain, New calendared. Includes: Lindt’s Overseas Ireland, Picturesque Fiji , R.H. Missions Samoa, and Rickard & A.E. Anderson elsewhere in negs, New Britain; Fiji the Islands postcards; and Rev. T. Baker collection. 2 Catalogue of South Seas Photograph Collections 1870- NSW PNG: Papua; NSW Government Printing Originals at the State Library of 1988 Government and elsewhere Office collection of copy NSW. Some accessible on-line Printing Office in the Pacific. negatives (200,000+), SLNSW and NLA catalogues. includes at least two island series: 1. ‘Island views & natives’; 2. Photographs published in the Narrative of the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the South-East Coast of New Guinea. 1871+ London PNG: Papua; ‘Papuan Pictures Series’ School of Oriental and Asian Missionary Samoa earliest LMS series. Studies, University of London, Society Kiribati, Fiji Photographers: W.H. Abbott, World Mission Archives, Boxes B.T. Butcher, H.M. Dauncey, 1-10. E.A. Field, W.G. Lawes, C.F. Rich, W.J. Saville, H.P. Schlencker and others. 1871+ London Papua; Samoa A collection of 1,035 LMS London Missionary Society Missionary Kiribati, Fiji photographs from Collection of Photographs, Society Madagascar, India, China, World Mission Archives, Italy, Samoa, Zambia, Papua University of London. School of New Guinea and Fiji. Oriental and African Studies. Library, Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division. Accessible at University of California Digital Library <http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/sea rch/controller/simplesearch.htm >. 1871- Rev. William G. PNG: Papua; About 100 surviving prints Tyrrell Collection, Powerhouse 1907 Lawes (1839- Torres Strait have been identified. Pitt Museum, Sydney; Peabody 1907) Islands Rivers Museum has 30 prints Museum, Harvard University; purchased from Henry King. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne. (Webb, 1997a, p.17.) 1872- Allan Ramsay New Negatives of views of New Mitchell Library, Hughan 1885 Cunningham Caledonia; Isle Caledonia, the Isles of Pines Collection, Orig Neg 1, PXE673 Hughan of Pines and the Communards: 513 Vols.1-6, PIC/8057/1-20; photonegatives and some National Library of Australia, prints in 6 albums (at ML). LOC album 474. 1872- Allan Ramsay New D.C. New Caledonia. 1 Mitchell Library, PXE 673 (v.1) 1879 Cunningham Caledonia album, 70 albumen photo- Hughan prints + 1 map, 35 x 28 cm. c.1872- Allan Ramsay New ‘Nouvelle-Calédonie: Mitchell Library, Original: PXE 1878 Cunningham Caledonia photographies.’ 177 albumen 673 (v.3) Hughan photoprints. 1874 Rev. S.B. PNG: 26 photographs. South Australian Museum Fellows Trobriand Is. Archives: AA89/650. 1874- James Graham Fiji; Vanuatu ‘Views presumably of Fiji but Mitchell Library, ML MSS 899, 1875 Goodenough some possibly of the New Pts.8, 9. Hebrides…possibly taken by J.G. Goodenough.’ 14 photographs. 3 Catalogue of South Seas Photograph Collections c. 1875 Unidentified Fiji: Ovalau, One album of portraits and Alexander Turnbull Library, member of the Levuka, Rewa views taken in Fiji, New PA1-q-330. Australian R., Caledonia and NZ. HMS Division of the Somosomo, Blanche and HMS Pearl are Royal Navy. Waitovu R., associated with the album. [John Gaul, Taveuni, New (The latter was Commodore photographer?] Caledonia; NZ Goodenough’s flag ship.) 1875- Samoa Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum 1925 für Volkerkunde, Cologne. (Blanton, 1995) 1876- Rev. George Samoa; Tonga; 904 glass plates, with albums Australian Museum, V5998- 1905 Brown (1835- Fiji; Solomon of contact prints, briefly V6902. See also: Rev Brown’s 1917) Is.; PNG: New captioned. Photographs of album and photoprints, 1890- Britain, New people, missions, houses and 1905, held at the Mitchell Ireland, Duke landscapes. Negatives Library. of York Is., purchased from J.K. Tyrell in Trobriand Is., 1930. Dobu Is., Bismarck Archipelago. 1877- Wilfred Powell Papua New Letters, sketches and University of PNG Library, 1880 (1853-1941) Guinea photographs, re exploration in New Guinea Collection, AL-32. New Britain: 2 photographic portraits. 1879 Besse Fiji An Australian photographer. (d’Ozouville, Pacific Studies , 1997, p.73.) 1879- HMS Bacchante Fiji (?) ‘The Cruise of HMS Royal Archives, Windsor Castle 1882 Bacchante , 1879-1882, IV (Davies, 1986, p.110). Australia, Fiji.’ c.1880- Charles Kerry & PNG; The Tyrrell Collection: 6,500 Originals at Powerhouse 1920s Co. and Henry Solomons; glass-plate negatives of which Museum, Sydney (Stephen, King Studio, Vanuatu; Fiji; a small proportion is South 1993). 2,000 selected b/w prints Sydney Samoa; and Seas photographs. Includes at National Library of Australia, Niue. photographs by Revs. W.G. Pictures