File 6: [Photographs of New Caledonia]

PXE 673/vol. 6

file

ca. 1870

Graphic Materials, Photographs

64230

1 album (67 photoprints) - albumen - 27.5 x 38 cm.

1. [View looking towards the Infantry barracks]
2. [Military or penal settlement, New Caledonia]
3. [Church on the hill behind Noumea]
4. [Bay at Noumea, residence of the Procureur de la Republique at bottom right]
5a-d. [New Caledonian studio portraits -- a. Two males, one in native costume, one in European dress -- b. Two males with rifles and clubs -- c. Two males with guns -- d. Two males in native dress holding implements]
6. [Noumea and harbour, looking over timber yards]
7. [Plantation]
8. [Noumea and harbour]
9. [New Caledonian studio portraits -- a. Two males with rifles -- b. Two males, one with spear]
10. [Noumea]
11. [unidentified town]
12. [Section of township, New Caledonia]
13. [Studio portraits of New Caledonians -- a. Female -- b. Female in grass skirt -- c. Male with rifle -- d. Male with club]
14. [Township, New Caledonia]
15. [Studio portraits of New Caledonians -- a. Bearded older male -- b. Female]
16. [Timber stacked at the docks, New Caledonia]
17. [Studio portraits of New Caledonians -- a. Female -- b. Three males, one dressed in European clothes -- c. Two males with rifles and club]
18. [Infantry barracks, New Caledonia]
19a. [Males seated under palms, houses behind]
19b. [View of houses, New Caledonia]
20a. [Paddon Hotel, named after an Englishman, the first European on Isle Nou when the French decided to settle in Noumea]
20b. [French supply shop, New Caledonia]
21. [Studio portraits -- a. Female -- b. Two males with clubs -- c. Male with implement -- d. Male with rifle -- e. Male with gun -- f. Bearded male with European male -- g. Two males holding implements h. Male holding rifle -- i. Male with club]
22a. [Artillery barracks, New Caledonia]
22b. [Male in front of house, New Caledonia]
23. [Four unidentified views of New Caledonia -- a. looking from harbour towards the shore and houses -- b. ships in harbour -- c. section of township -- d. looking over a headland]
24. [Studio portraits of New Caledonians -- a. Female -- b. Two females wearing long smocked dresses -- c. Male -- d. Female in victorian dress -- e. Child in dress -- f. Male with rifle -- g. Male with boy dressed in European clothing -- h. Two males with rifles]
25. [Timber piles and township]
26a-h. [Studio portraits of males holding clubs and other implements]

Scraps -- Cover title

Transfer from Mitchell Library Printed Books Collection Q988.7/P
Formerly allocated to PX*D 325
Some of the original photonegatives from which these prints were taken may be in the Hughan Collection. Location number: ON 1 Mitchell Library -

D. S. Mitchell signature on page [i]