• Title
  [Views of New Guinea, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Samoa and Tonga]
• Call number
  DL PX 170
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1885-1925
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records
• Reference code
  403872
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 20 albumen photoprints, 31 silver gelatin photoprints - 7-24 x 6-30.5 cm.
  Textual Records - 1 envelope - 10.5 x 13 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Trading with natives. G.S.A. New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885 [including Thursday Island]
  2. S.S. Bonito. G.S.A. New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885 [including Thursday Island]
  3. Thursday island. G.S.A. New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885 [including Thursday Island]
  4. Sumaate village. G.S.A. New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885 [including Thursday Island]
  5. Trading on river Strickland. G.S.A. New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885 [including Thursday Island]
  6. Sumaate village. G.S.A. New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885 [including Thursday Island]
  7. Thursday island port. G.S.A. New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885 [including Thursday Island]
  8. Sumaate village. G.S.A. New Guinea Exploring Expedition 1885 [including Thursday Island]
  9. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  10. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  11. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  12. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  13. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  14. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  15. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  16. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  17. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  18. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  19. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  20. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  21. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  22. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  22a. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  23. Streetscenes in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Ewan Papers
  24. The Cottage, Heretanga, Xmas 1907, from the Ewan Papers
  25. The Cottage, Heretanga, Xmas 1907, from the Ewan Papers
  26. Chang, from the Ewan Papers / Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco
  27. Maori implements and weapons
  28. Maori implements and weapons
  29. Maori meeting house "Toma-te-kapua" (copy photoprint)
  30. View showing mound where the first shot in the Taranaki War March 17 1860
  31. The old goal, Kingston. Views of Norfolk Island / Kerry
  32. Kingston. Views of Norfolk Island / Kerry
  33. Bloody bridge. Views of Norfolk Island / Kerry
  34. Bloody bridge. Views of Norfolk Island / Kerry
  35. Emily bay. Views of Norfolk Island / Kerry
  36. The old jail, Kingstone.Views of Norfolk Island / Kerry
  37. Mr Nobbs House, Norfolk Island
  38. Mr Nobbs House, Norfolk Island
  39. Papasea Falls, Samoa / Andrew
  40. [Portrait of Samoan Girl] / [Andrew ?]
  41. "A Happy New Year from all Samoa" [portraits and views] / Davis, Samoa
  42. Kilmuir, Inverness, N.B.
  43. Vavau. Tonga [views]
  44. Wesleyan Church, Nuku'alofa. Tonga [views]
  45. Tonga [views]
  46. Kurkdjian, Soerabaia [volcano]
  47. Kurkdjian, Soerabaia [volcano]
  48. Kurkdjian, Soerabaia [volcano]
  49. Procession in Ceylon / [hand coloured photoprint]
  50. Port Antonio Harbour, Jamaica
  51. Cloud Picture, Barbados Harbour
  52. [Envelope for negatives with inscription for Nos. 50-51 in Sir William Dixson's hand]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pencil inscriptions on reverse of some images
  Captions printed on some images
  See DL Q 89/84 p. 115 for a possible identification of this item. Item bears words "TOMA-TE-KAPUA" and in Q89/84 a picture of a "meeting house at Ohinemutu, lake Rotorua" and note reads: "This carved house was erected in 1878 as a token of the ratification of peace between the Arawa and the Waikato tribes and to induce Tawhiao (the so-called maori King) to pay the Arawa people a friendly visit... It is named after Tama-te-Kapua, the great ancestor of the Arawas. The house measure 52'x30' inside. The porch is 12'."
  Handwritten note filed with DL PX 170/29
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  boats
  buildings, structures & establishments
  canoes
  cars
  horsedrawn carts
  elephants
  footbridges
  harbours
  houses
  indigenous people
  palm trees
  pedestrians
  portraits
  processions
  roads & streets
  rocks (landscape)
  ruins
  ships
  shops
  tramways
  trees
  villages (overseas)
  waterfalls
  weapons
  workers
  
• Place
  New Guinea
  New Zealand
  Norfolk Island
  Samoa
  Thursday Island (Qld.)
  Tonga
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries - State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)
• Open Rosetta viewer
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