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Names

Name PrimaryPacific Photograph Collections

IDs

ID LocalAM0018

ID UriOffline Only

Descriptions

Brief DescriptionDonated and collected albums, prints and negatives documenting Pacific Islands and PNG from late 19th C to around 1930. Collections include those of traders, travellers and missionaries. Includes around 15 smaller collections. Of particular note are the Percy Money Collection from Collingwood Bay (1900-1910), albums from Santa Cruz and Solomon Islands c 1900, Charles Marshall collection from PNG 1927-1933, Robert Ethridge Collection 1900-1920 and the Waterhouse family collections from New Britain and Fiji.

AccessBy appointment Australian Museum - Archives

Subjects

local1930; Melanesian Culture; Pacific Island Culture; Photography

pontPhotographs

Coverage Spatial

TextPapua New Guinea; Fiji; New Britain; Solomon islands

Coverage Temporal

To1890

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Dates

Date Record Updated2012-05-30 23:41

Date Created in MME2011-03-08 15:58