Photographs taken in Fiji collected by the periodical Pacific Islands Monthly, 20 March 1938-1970

PXE 1132/Boxes 1-2

fonds

20 March 1938-1970

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Clippings

911149

492 photographic prints - 25 x 30.5 cm. or smaller
1 clipping - newspaper

Photographs depict a wide variety of aspects of Fijian life in the middle of the 20th century including politicians and official foreign visits, business meetings, factory life, social life and customs, students, Fijian scenery, houses and building projects, tourists, Fiji Museum, air crashes and natural disasters, swimming, musicians, broadcasters, livestock, women's groups, Fijian military, a foreign television production filming on location in Fiji, various sports, parades including the Hibiscus Parade and military parades, beauty contests, medical and dental procedures, Fijian police, Fijian Governor, boating, cruise ships, Boy Scouts, conferences, Fijian Cession Day Ceremonies, village life, choirs, Hospitals, power stations, saw mills, native dancing, graduating nurses and doctors, missionaries, Girl Guides, New Zealand Trade Exhibition, commissioning of new Fijian currency, British Army recruiting team in Suva, farming, sausage making, Soviet scientists studying Fijian marine life, University of the South Pacific, retail shops, polling stations, fishing, hotels, various Fijian media, sugar mills, Empire Games athletes, airport staff

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright.
Copyright holder:: Atiq Akbar, Australian Photographic Agency, Doug Balmer, C. L. Cheng, F. W. Caine & Co., Nitin Lal, Pacific Publications (Aust.) Pty. Ltd, Ramesh Studios, James P. Shortal, Stinsons Pty. Ltd, Sydney Morning Herald, Christopher Venning, Stan Whippy, Guenther Winkelkoetter, Rob Wright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and courtesy Atiq Akbar, Australian Photographic Agency, Doug Balmer, C. L. Cheng, F. W. Caine & Co., Nitin Lal, Pacific Publications (Aust.) Pty. Ltd, Ramesh Studios, James P. Shortal, Stinsons Pty. Ltd, Sydney Morning Herald, Christopher Venning, Stan Whippy, Guenther Winkelkoetter, Rob Wright

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.2262 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012

Most of the photographs have notes attached or inscriptions on the back describing them