James Hay Lawrie photographs of Aneityum, New Hebrides, between 1879-1896

PXA 1168
ON 351
SLIDES 155

fonds

between 1879-1896

Graphic Materials, Photographs

832550

62 negatives - glass - 12 x 16.5 cm or smaller
95 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 12 x 16.5 cm
18 transparencies (in 2 frames, 1 with wooden box) - glass, black & white - 27.5 x 35 cm, 26.7 x 26.7 cm

Rev. James Hay Lawrie and his wife were Presbyterian missionaries from Edinburgh, Scotland to Aneityum, New Hebrides from 1879-1896. Later he was minister of several charges in New South Wales. The donor was the youngest of four children. Mrs Lawrie died in 1922 and Rev. Lawrie in 1929.
The photographs were developed and printed by Lawrie. His photographs of coral reefs were awarded 50 pounds by Kodak (London), because they are the first known to be taken looking from a boat towards the land.
Some of Lawrie's curios are in the "Edinburgh museum" and the "Sydney museum".

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Transferred to printed books collection:¶¶New Hebrides. Published by the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions¶Encounter. Volume 15 no.4, December 1970¶Coral and coral-islands / Rev. J.H. Lawrie. Paper read on 26 January 1898

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References:¶¶Corals and coral-islands : with special reference to the New Hebrides group / by J.H. Lawrie. [Edinburgh : Philosophical Society, 1898] ¶The New Hebrideans / by Jas H. Lawrie. [Edinburgh : Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1892]¶Framing the native : Rev. James Hay Lawrie's Vanuatu photographs, 1891-1894 : National Museum of Vanuatu, 3 August 1998-11 September 1998 [exhibition catalogue] / [text by Ron Adams]. Port Vila, Vanuatu : The Museum, 1998

Photographs are inscribed in ink on the reverse by the donor

Dated from the period J.H. Lawrie was a missionary in the New Hebrides. The glass plates were housed in Imperial Dry Plate Company (London) and Ilford Ordinary Plates boxes of the 1890's