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A view from the shoreline, of moored boats. A ship can be seen moored in the distance.

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Film negatives with some matching prints, mostly of trees and flora, some of people and buildings, originally kept in three negative wallets from O'Brabant, Lae Photography. The prints with captions on the reverse have been listed.

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285 x 230 mm. A view showing a group of sailors, men and women, and two officers, in and around a ship's boat on the beach.

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285 x 230 mm. A view showing a beach scene with huts, canoes and Papua New Guineans, and one European standing by a canoe. Nearby Yule Island, off Hall Sound, was the headquarters of the Italian explorer Luigi Maria D'Albertis for his expeditions up the Fly River. An original photograph for a fairly freely redrawn illustration in Lyne, p. 48. H.M.S. Nelson and Yule Island in left distance.

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Series seven and eleven of a collection of postcards. The postcards are undated but probably originate from the 1960s or 1970s.

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Film negatives with some matching prints, mostly of trees and flora, some of people and buildings, originally kept in three negative wallets from O'Brabant, Lae Photography. The prints with captions on the reverse have been listed.

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View looking over the tree canopy to hills and the sea beyond.

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View looking over the tree canopy to hills and the sea beyond.

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Showing Corner seated with, presumably, Mrs McKillop and her three daughters.

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Showing Corner seated with, presumably, Mrs McKillop and her three daughters.

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Showing Corner seated with, presumably, Mrs McKillop and her three daughters.

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Photographs and (some) matching negatives of mostly trees and flora. The prints with captions on the reverse have listed.

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Trees.

Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...

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215 x 170 mm. Newly elected speaker of the house of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea.

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285 x 230 mm. Lyne gives a detailed description of Chief Semese, Paramount Warrior Chief of the Elema on p. 93. He poses beneath the flag while a sailor motions him to stand still, and people gather on either side. The photograph is an original for an illustration in Lyne, p. 117, and entitled 'Hoisting the British Flag'. It is also reproduced as an engraving in Chalmers' 'Pioneering in New Guinea', p. 202, entitled 'Keep still, Johnnie'.

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114 x 85 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of a New Guinean man, with a boar’s tusk through his nose, and a distinctive hair arrangement. The Solomon Islands is another possible geographical location.

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Showing a group standing before huts in a clearing.

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A view of the wooden office building surrounded by trees.

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A view of the wooden office building surrounded by trees.

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Contains Ektachromes with frames made in England (except 516A). Apart from the maps, all are numbered by Marnham. The maps are: numbers 15-17 three views of a map of the Pacific and numbers 18-19 two views of a map of the Western Pacific. Numbers 103, 105, 108, 111, 116, 212, 318, 406, 503, 504 and 519 are listed as missing with no attempt to catalogue them as they contain no further details.

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[From the air].

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[From the air].

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Contains Ektachromes with frames made in England (except 516A). Apart from the maps, all are numbered by Marnham. The maps are: numbers 15-17 three views of a map of the Pacific and numbers 18-19 two views of a map of the Western Pacific. Numbers 103, 105, 108, 111, 116, 212, 318, 406, 503, 504 and 519 are listed as missing with no attempt to catalogue them as they contain no further details.

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Contains Ektachromes with frames made in England (except 516A). Apart from the maps, all are numbered by Marnham. The maps are: numbers 15-17 three views of a map of the Pacific and numbers 18-19 two views of a map of the Western Pacific. Numbers 103, 105, 108, 111, 116, 212, 318, 406, 503, 504 and 519 are listed as missing with no attempt to catalogue them as they contain no further details.