South Seas pictures

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Photographs, almost all undated, mainly of scenes in Samoa, the Cook Islands and the Gilbert Islands. The subjects include Samoan chiefs, villages, mission houses, schoolhouses, churches, carvings, a printing plant at Beru, a kava making ceremony, the Malua Jubilee Hall, fishing, indigenous pastors, the 'queen' of Rarotonga, the raising of the German flag in Samoa, the Reverend William Goward and Emmeline Goward, lava flowing into the sea at Savaii, the Samoan chief Malietoa, Samoan missionaries with R. Wardlaw Thompson (1897), Apia scenes, a wedding feat in Fiji, Pago Pago Bay, the John Williams Memorial Church, the raising of the British flag in Apia (1914), the London Missionary Society deputation to Samoa (1915), and a school at Niue.

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