Commercially produced postcards

Groups include: men with canoe, Vunuha, Honggo, Florida Islands; missionary leading bugle band, Maravovo, Gaudalcanal; Captain Sinker with indigenous crew of Southern Cross in uniforms. Places and buildings include: married people's quarters, the Vanua, memorial chapel, dining hall, girls' sewing ro...

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Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/18, Box 37
Date(s) of creation: c.1900 - c.1920
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MM.07.1.18
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with Melanesian Mission 7/18, Box 37
callnumber MM/07/1/18
callnumber_txt MM/07/1/18
callnumber-sort MM/07/1/18
prefix_number 18
scb_previous_numbers Beattie No.s 9x, 12x, 17, 204, 221, 227.
title Commercially produced postcards
scb_date_creation c.1900 - c.1920
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 24 postcards
format Archive
description Groups include: men with canoe, Vunuha, Honggo, Florida Islands; missionary leading bugle band, Maravovo, Gaudalcanal; Captain Sinker with indigenous crew of Southern Cross in uniforms. Places and buildings include: married people's quarters, the Vanua, memorial chapel, dining hall, girls' sewing room and Bishop's house, St Barnabas, Norfolk Island; canoe, Ugi [now Uki Ni Masi]; Patteson memorial chapel, Norfolk Islands; Siota cathedral. Also includes: Southern Cross at Halavo Bay, Florida Islands; the Calvary, Maravovo beach, Guadalcanal; altar of St Barnabas church, Ulawa. Prints taken by/received from: John Watt Beattie; published by the Melanesian Mission; possibly from Ida C Wench.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright expired in Beattie postcards
scb_file_number 18
hierarchy_top_id_raw MM
hierarchy_sequence MM.0007.001.0018