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Object Number
2005.9
Display Title
Photographic materials
Descriptions
Archival Scope and Content
Two boxes of photographic materials, one folio of photographs, two photo albums; Ceylon, Japan, Australia: Film Study Collection, B/W prints glued to cardboard or paper: Samoa: Bread fruit tree; banana palm; coast scenes; water chute; delta; coconut plantation; village scenes; New Hebrides; girls; girls with bark cloth; girls making wreaths; girl with parrot, Panga Panga; bathing; making lava lava from willow bark; kava making; man marking woman; Suray(?) Dance. Ritual-feasting. Women, Roman Catholic converts; woman, Church of England; princess; Fijian warrior; Solomon Islander; cricket team of Samoan girls. On the River Yarra, near Heathcote, Victoria; Heathcote; Bathing Lake; Apia; Fresh Water Lake. German Warship Illis, thrown on reef during [see Archival Inventory text entry for extended description]
Classification
- Documentary
Department
Photographic
Archival Inventory
Two boxes of photographic materials, one folio of photographs, two photo albums; Ceylon, Japan, Australia:
Film Study Collection, B/W prints glued to cardboard or paper:
Samoa:
Bread fruit tree; banana palm; coast scenes; water chute; delta; coconut plantation; village scenes; New Hebrides; girls; girls with bark cloth; girls making wreaths; girl with parrot, Panga Panga; bathing; making lava lava from willow bark; kava making; man marking woman; Suray(?) Dance; ritual-feasting.
Women, Roman Catholic converts; woman, Church of England; princess; Fijian warrior; Solomon Islander; cricket team of Samoan girls.
On the River Yarra, near Heathcote, Victoria; Heathcote; Bathing Lake; Apia; Fresh Water Lake.
German Warship Illis, thrown on reef during hurricane of 1889; provisions for troops; H.M.S. Kaloomba, German Warship Buzzard, German Warship Sperber, mail boat.
Chief Tamasese; chief's wife "Tamasse"; Mataafa, rebel king; fort on Manonoo; "Princess" who lead Matatowa's troops to battle; Samoan troops, before the Battle of Maler; Princess who led Mataafa's troops; American Consul and Mataafa; Mataafa's hut burned down after Battle; building hut; Samoan Princess, niece of King Mataafa; fort on Island of Manonoo from which Mataafa was taken (negative included); scene of the Battle of 16 June, 1893;
South Africa - Zulu war album(?):
Group photographs:
Picnic party, Gin Drinkers Bay, 1887: Hi-Fung, Pt. Plumb, C. S. Prichard, H.B. Drew, A.A. Lloyd, A. McClymont, J. Bruce-Robertson, J.C., J. Little, Ade C. Scanlon, G. Lowther, W.F. Fawcett, Col. Anderson, M.D. Graham, Maj. Dempster, A. Veitch, C.E. Bowles, Maj. Ellis, C. Hawkins, Martin R.N., G. A. Bramwell.
Picnic party, Gin Drinkers Bay, 1887: C. E. Bowles, C.H. Potts, M.D. Graham.
The Ranges, Wynberg, SA, 1885: Sgt. Miller, Major H.
Rourkes. Drift. 1885: Lt. Hill 58th, Lt. Prichard 58th, Lt. Brotherton RE, Lt. Yardley 6th, Lt. Rant 6th, Capt. Edwards 58th, Lt. Ponthiew 58th, DA.C.G. Stanley, Maj. Chaptor 58th, Maj. Boyle DAAG, Col. W. Bennett 6th, Maj. Froom 6th, Lt. Woods 58th, Capt. Jopp 58th, Dr. Peterken MS.
Sergts A Company 1887: Sgt. Everett, Sgt. Fricker, Sgt. Hutton, Sgt. McClure, Sgt. Delaney, Sergt. Reynolds.
Hong Kong Feb. 1887, Officers and Sergeants.
Wynberg, 1885; military cemetery, Maritzburg, Natal, grave of W.H. Bracken, MD;
Native Life: dressing hair; Zulu warriors; kraal; outside kraal; Zulu girls; cross on tree; Islingwayo - a Zulu at Ekowe with three wives; "Two choice Zulu maidens at home;" Kaffirs.
Fort Pearson and drift Lower Tugela; the camp of the Buffs - at (?) Post, December 1878; Church Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, S. Africa; Rorkes drift, Buffalo River; Isandhlwana from "fugitive" path, Isandhlwana monument, Pietermaritzburg, Natal; crossing the (?) River, Natal; Rorkes house and cemetery; Rorkes house, scene of defense; Isandhlwana - burying the dead; Isandhlwana, wagons as left by the Zulus; West Street, Durban, Natal; Field of Ginginhloro, 2nd April 1879; Boer wagon on the trek; Lower Tugela, Zululand; naval brigade, Fort Pearson; troops, Wynberg, S.A. 1885;
India:
Ruins; Ganges; architecture; people; a Hindu sacrifice; dhobies; Sikh soldier
Sri Lanka:
Plucking tea; Newrawa Eiyalia, 7000'; elephants bathing, Kandy (used for processions of Buddha's Temple of the Tooth); Sensation Rock, Colombo and Kandy Line.
Postcard: The Camp, Diyatalawa, Ceylon, Boer prisoners.
Burma:
Burmese girl; Kachin camp, Bhamo
Description of photographs compiled by Captain of the S. S. Jumna, 1860s:
Ship; Captain, 1852; S. S. Jumna; Raja Brooker Palace, Borneo, 1865-1870; huts.
Misc:
Geishas; aborigines? on river; skull with metal rings and pole
Singapore:
Singalese family
Nepal:
Nepaly mother
Italy:
Naples; street Arabs, Naples (hand colored)
Egypt:
Arab ladies, Egypt (hand colored); Port Said with canal;
Captain Clarke R.N.R. - his last voyage:
S. S. Orizaba, Melbourne, Jan. 4, 1899; Adelaide, Jan. 26; Albany, Jan. 29; Colombo, Feb. 8; Suez, Feb. 18; Port Said, Feb. 19; Naples, Feb. 23.
Bullock cart, Colombo; native boat, Colombo; boys coming on board to dive from life boats going under steamer, Colombo; Orizaba anchored, Colombo; Colombo; flying fish caught by fireman before Colombo.
The Lake, Kandy; Mount Lavinia; taken from below Adam's Peak throwing shadows.
Col. J. Norman Rae, 1890s: road to Mt. Lavinia from Colombo; girl with earrings; shaving man.
Tamil woman; Suez Canal; map of Suez Canal.
Landing place, Trincomalee, Ceylon; the beach, Madras; government house, Madras.
Kaminarebeloff, Russian Tartary; Vladivostock, Russian Tartary; souvenir of Vladivostock; Manchurian and cart; Aborigines of Siberia, "a race now nearly extinct," 1884.
2 plates from C. Worswick, "The Forty Seven Ronin," Ogawa Issain; collotype, ca. 1890:
#9 (?)rting of Okaru and Kampei
#13 (?)ma-kawaya Gihei put to the test
China Girl: Sycee Head Dress; P. Kramer from a daguerreotype by E. Brown; P. S. Duval & Co., Philadelphia
Court Interpreter Shin: Lew Chew; P. Kramer from a daguerreotype by E. Brown; P. S. Duval & Co., Philadelphia
Date
1860-1999
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
New Zealand
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Africa / South Africa
Oceania / Samoa
Oceania / Malaysia
Oceania / Australia
Europe / Italy
Europe / Holland
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Africa / South Africa
Oceania / Samoa
Oceania / Malaysia
Oceania / Australia
Europe / Italy
Europe / Holland
Credit Line
Gift of The Film Study Center, Harvard University
Historical Language
Museum staff recognize the offensive nature of the term "Bush" in describing individuals. The term is listed here as it is part of the original documentation of past collecting practices and past methods of analysis.
Provenance
Owner
Film Study Center, Harvard University
(6/28/05)
Donor
Film Study Center, Harvard University
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