Miscellaneous photographs of Samoa

Groups include: Missionaries, missionary children and Samoan women outsi de building; group at garden party to welcome Rev [William Edward] Clarke, Apia [Upolu]; female pupil teachers at Papauta, 1905. People include: Samoan women in traditional dress including shell necklaces; Events include: ar...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/South Seas/Photographs/Box 3
Date(s) of creation: c.1880 - c.1940
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/South Seas/Photographs/Box 3
Summary: Groups include: Missionaries, missionary children and Samoan women outsi de building; group at garden party to welcome Rev [William Edward] Clarke, Apia [Upolu]; female pupil teachers at Papauta, 1905. People include: Samoan women in traditional dress including shell necklaces; Events include: arrival of Rev [William Edward] Clarke; departure of Bati, West Samoa, June 1939; celebrations at John William 's memorial, Sapapalii, Savai'i. Places or buildings include: Atauloma school, Tutuila, "a monument to the Rev [Ebenezer Vicessimus] Cooper" [American Samoa]; [William Edward] Clarke's house and [Arthur Edward] Claxton's houses, Apia [Upolu]; Vaea mountain with location of Robert Louis Stevenson 's grave marked; interior of Jubilee Hall, Malu; view across mission compound Falealili showing school house and Samoan houses; John Williams 's monument, 1935, Apia [Upolu]; John William 's memorial, Sapapalii, Savai'i. Also includes: Memorial to Margaret Young, Queen of Manua [American Samoa]; wreck of H L L M S Adler, wrecked in freak hurricane 1889, Apia [Upolu]; Robert Louis Stevenson 's grave. Prints taken by/received from: [William Edward] Clarke; C G Stallan, Malua.
Extent: 25 items comprising 27 photographic prints, mounted and unmounted including 1 cabinet card; 1 postcard, silver gelatin and albumen prints.
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright possibly held by Council for World Mission
File number: 11
Format: Archive