Series 02: Glass negatives and slides of missionaries and indigenous people in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, ca. 1885-1938 / photographed by R. H. Rickard and others

ON 305/nos. 1-561
SLIDES 143

series

ca. 1885-1938

Graphic Materials, Photographs

825527

555 negatives (8 boxes) - glass - 16.5 x 12 cm or smaller
33 slides - lantern - 8 x 8.3 cm

ON 305
1-100. Papua New Guinea : portraits of natives, childrens games, ceremonies, buildings, hospital surgery, views of Salamo, Morima, Fergusson Island, mission houses, the launching of the Vive Warwick, Rev. Matthew Gilmore
Missing: nos. 40, 41, 81.
101-146. India, Pacific Islands and New Zealand : the Wesleyan Mission in India, monuments and memorials including the Black Hole of Calcutta, the Taj Mahal, the Ganges, European children on elephant, Indian children carrying the luggage of two Europeans, hospital surgery, missionaries, street and river scenes with bullocks, monkeys and elephants, churches, the ship “Discovery” in the Graving dock, Lyttelton, N.Z., 1901, men woodworking, storm damage, portraits.
147-203. India and Pacific Islands : group portraits, furniture mart in Beharipur, buildings and interiors, Indian man with pyre, missionaries with Indian families, shops, churches, villages and buildings with storm damage, river scenes, missionaries, children and elephants
204-238. Fiji : village elders, Fijian policemen, missionaries, village and boating scenes, sugar train, houses and interiors, storm damage to buildings
239-249. Papua New Guinea : Dobu Island, woman with child (probably Mrs M.K. Gilmour, identified from Pic.Acc.1380), missionary meetings, musicians with kundu drums
250-296. Papua New Guinea, India, New Zealand and Fiji : ship passengers with Royal Geographical Society banner, motorcycle and passengers with sidecar, sugar train, missionaries, building interiors, furniture workshop, the ship “Discovery” berthed and in the Graving Dock, Lyttelton, N.Z., 1901; men and boys with masks and face paint, European children swimming, storm damage, waterfalls, churches
297-350. Fiji : village scenes, bures, storm damage, men working in field, churches, Naria, Indian and Fijian villagers, men with clubs, ceremonies, native missionary teachers, schoolchildren, waterfall and river scenes, river boating, Fijians in sailing boat with two Europeans, one holding camera
351-385. India and Fiji : missionaries, mission scenes, Indian people, village scenes and group portraits, snake charmers, camels and elephants, buildings and markets, the Soldiers Home, the Taj Mahal, Tardeo Road, Mumbai, Indian beggar, man being carried ashore, storm damage
386-410. New Britain : village scenes, ceremonies, Jubilee celebrations, dancers, Ulu Mission House, Nakanai villagers.
411-419. Fijian people in boat, map of Fiji, village scenes including preparation of a lovo, missionary meeting, Indian man
420-424. Fiji : man and 3 boys with tin mugs
425-429. Indian girls in native dress and ornaments, Indian children
430-443. India : mountains in Darjeeling, house interior with typewriter, missionary couple
444-446. Numbers not used
447-456. Fiji : missionary portraits and gatherings, Indian girls and schoolboys
457-470. Fiji : house interiors, villages, missionary meetings and Indian families
471-497. Numbers not used
498-552: New Britain and Duke of York Island, New Guinea and Fiji, photographed ca.1882-1893 by Rev. Richard Heath Rickard
498. 2 Fijian preachers setting out inland for Sunday morning services
499. Aminio Bale at his wife’s grave
500. Drinking water from a paura = water bottle of banana leaf
501. Armed even to bring vegetables from his plantation
502. [Demonstrating coconut preparation]
503. The missionary’s wife’s sewing class [Mrs R.H. Rickard]. These women made the garments they are wearing [Raluana, New Britain, 1883]
504. Dobu house in 1891
505. Dancing party of men in New Britain
506. Raluana fish trap [similar photograph taken at same scene, PXA 435, no. 510]
507. Raluana school boys 1885
508. Leading men at Raluana in 1885
509. Ulcered chest internal parts exposed, cured with [?] alum & oxide of zinc. Raluan man won by our medicines – wives & families soon also
510. Anchor for deep sea fish trap
511. New Britain native [Turadawai] with ‘midi’ collar
512. [Men holding drums]
513. The Duk Duk
514. Dobu boys watching us land in 1891
515. Babies hats in New ireland
516. [Men with head ornaments]
517. Women returning from plantation in [?] for evening meal
518. New Guinea women 1893
519. Madchen der Admiralitats – Inseln
520. Woman returning from plantation
521. Mission house Dobu as we left it in the Lord of the Isles 3 weeks after landing
522. Dobu storage shed for furniture &c till house was ready
523. Dobu family 1891
524. To-kinkin and his native wealth – the wealthiest chief at Raluana
525. Raluan students 1885
526. Teachers at meeting at Raluana in the mid eighties
527. Marine residence at Matupi 1883
528. Dobu house 1891
529. A Dobu home 1891
530. Village near Dobu
531. New Britain women dancing
532. Girl on attaining puberty shut in until married. This cage was inside a house which I paid him to pull down for me to take this photo
533. Mode of carrying babies
534. Fish trap making at Raluana [similar photograph taken at same scene, PXA 435, no. 959]
535. Dobu girls 1891
536. Superior native residence at Raluana
537. Bonka boys (Sol. Islands 1882)
538. Matupit home
539. First mission house at Raluana [1885]
540. New Guinea village near Dobu
541. Beehive rock, Blanche Bay New Britain
542. Lord of the Isles at anchor at Dobu
543. Canoes coming off to steamer
544. New Guinea house [copy of a W.J. Lindt photograph, Tree house, Koiari Village, 1886]
545. Parasitical vegetation on the limb of a tree, 1 nest fern & 3 orchids
546. A scene near Dobu
547. Port Hunter, where the first missionary landed
548. New Ireland boat, not a nail in it
549. Tropical growth on Duke of York island
550. Blanche Bay, Alexandrine which brought the family to Sydney, 1885
551. New Britain maritime chart
552. Lords prayer in New Britain
553-555. Missionaries and Indians, Hindustan school in Fiji
556-561. Fiji, group portraits

SLIDES 143
1-11. Scripture texts and images
12-33. Street scenes in Ceylon and India with rickshaws and bullocks, rural scenes, a marble Buddha, Cooks Tourist maps of India, Ceylon and the Middle East.

Arranged by negative number order where known

Restricted: Written approval should be sought from Archivist, Uniting Church in Australia Assembly, 16 Masons Drive, North Parramatta, NSW 2151. Tel: 02 8838 8982

Nos. 1-100 : negative contents list held with collection (Call no. ON 305)

Nos. 448-552 are from the “Marquis de Rays” case.
Titles taken from labels on the negatives. Some negatives are copies.
Information about plate No. 511 supplied by researcher.
Transferred in 1991 from MOM 125, MOM 172, MOM 173, MOM 263.