• Title
  [Views and portraits of the Pacific Islands]
• Creator
  Paula David
• Call number
  PXE 708
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1890-1899
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  70487
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (53 photoprints) - 31 x 37 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Paula and Moses David were early traders in Samoa.
• Scope and Content
  1. German School at Apia. On the verandah school headmaster and teachers
  2. Scene of fire which broke out on Bismarck's birthday, 1897. The last house on the left is the German Consulate
  3a. Newly erected house on the fire location
  3b. In the foreground the house where the fire started
  4. Picnic party at the Papasea-filling at Samoa
  5. Our nearest neighbour Dr. Funk in Apia (Resident Doctor)
  6. Street in Apia. First house on left is pharmacy
  7. Business houses of the German Trading & Plantation Company
  8. Soldiers from an English warship & natives on the verandah of the famous American poet ... Robert Stevenson (in the middle top illegible R.St.)
  9a. From l-r: Osborne (Stevenson's stepson), Mr Von Heydelbrand and a native (in the front middle is Mr Stevenson)
  9b. Natives at Apia carrying a roasted pig
  10a. Tattooing, Samoa
  10b. Natives preparing Kava
  11. Native girl in Apia
  12a. Friendly Islands, Vavau
  12b. Friendly Islands, Harbour of Neiafu Vavau
  13a. Natives at Vavau drinking Kava
  13b. At Neiafu, Vavau with a steamer belonging to Union Steamship Co. of Auckland
  14a. Native women from Fiji playing games at Vavau
  14b. Vauvau beauties
  15a. Natives of Vavau playing games [game of lafo], on right the first person in front of the house is our servant Dick
  15b. Imitation of roasting humans at Fiji in former times
  16a. Native woman making Tapa
  16b. Native man in dance ornamentation
  17. Native girl
  18. So called village virgin of Apia (meanwhile married and deceased)
  19. Vavau beauties with orange catcher
  20. Street in Apia
  21. Newspaper buildings at Apia (German Consulate at right)
  22. Former German Post Office and German Consulate in Apia (at the steps Dr. Sierig, lawyer)
  23. House, and grave and breadfruit tree at Mulinui, Apia
  24. Natives at Apia
  25. Proclamation of Malietoa as the King in Apia
  26a. Some native girls dressed in German clothes
  26b. Natives preparing Kava
  27a. Apia
  27b. Samoa beauty
  28a. The Spray which sailed around the world, coming from Boston. It had only the captain on board
  28b. Natives fishing
  29. The King & Queen of Tonga (she has died meanwhile)
  30. The woman desired by the King but rejected by his ministers
  31a. Landscape and natives of Tongatabu (Friendly Islands)
  31b. Mats offered as presents by natives at Tongatabu
  32a. Queen of Tonga
  32b. King of Tonga
  33-34. Natives of the Carolines
  35-36. Pictures from the Carolines
  37a,b. Landscape from the Carolines
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  The captions are handwritten, mostly in German, and almost certainly by Paula David, whose name is on the fly-leaf and whose writing has been compared to the diary of Paula David (ML B 1570) by Mr. Cummins, Mitchell Library client, in 1978.
  
  German captions were translated by Mr. Otto Neumann, volunteer, Pictures Section, Nov. 1989.
  
  The Paula David diary, May 1887 - Jan. 1897, at B 1570, is copied on the same preservation microfilm reel (CY 4850, frames 1-85).
  
  Microfilm available at CY 4850, frames 86 - 149
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824125
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "To Bob from Arthur, Dec 28th 1893 `For Auld Lang Syne'" on reverse of front cover.
  The captions at the lower edge of the photoprints are in German.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Photographs marked "T.A." or "Andrew" are by Thomas Andrew.
  
  Corrections to translation of the Contents List by James Bade, December 2009
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Andrew, Thomas
  
• Name
  Funk, Dr.
  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  Photograph albums.
  
• Topic
  authors
  boats
  consulates
  doctors (medical)
  English people
  fire-damaged buildings
  Germans
  graves
  groups (people)
  harbours
  houses
  national dress
  Pacific Islanders
  pigs
  schoolchildren
  soldiers
  steamboats
  streetscapes
  tattooing
  teachers
  
• Place
  Apia (Western Samoa)
  Caroline Islands
  Fiji
  Samoa
  Tonga
  Vava'u Island (Tonga)
  
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