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Title
Photographs and postcards of the South Pacific including Fiji, Solomon Islands, Samoa and Tonga, 1905-1913
Creator
Bertram Forbes
Call number
PXA 1638
Level of description
fonds
Date

1905-1913
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints
Reference code
913977
Physical Description
20 photographs - chiefly gelatin silver - 13 x 17 cm. or smaller
Approx. 204 postcards - black and white - colour ; 9 x 14 cm.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Bertram Forbes left England and worked his way around the world, eventually settling in Australia. He was in Suva from 1905-1913 working on Pacific trading ships
Reference:
ML File 1544/81
Scope and Content
Includes scenes of village life such as fishing & dancing. There are individual and group portraits (all unidentified), landscapes, village architecture.
Description source

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5051 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
eRecords 2012-2013
General note

Most postcards titled at lower edge
Most photographs unidentified and undated
Attributions / conjectures

Some of the descriptions on the postcards are racist and/or sexist in tone
Subject
Islands of the Pacific--Description and travel--Pictorial works.
Place
Suva
Samoa
Tonga
Fiji
Rotuma Island (Fiji)
Solomon Islands
Fanning Island
Willis Island (Qld.)
Islands of the Pacific.

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