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[From the air or high ground].

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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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285 x 230 mm. The picture is slightly blurred through camera movement. The third in a sequence of three photographs of this ceremony (see Y3084A/37 and 23) and shows the Union Jack being raised, while the officers party remove their hats.

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285 x 230 mm. Village scene taken at Argyle Bay, 20 November

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View of the valley, dissected by a road.

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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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285 x 230 mm. A view showing sailors posing by their boats on the beach, with H.M.S. Nelson and another ship visible out to sea.

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A pen and ink sketch, 8'' x 13'', of a chart of the Conflict Group of Islands at the eastern end of New Guinea, lat. 10°40S, Long. 151°10E, signed 'E. Boosé'. A chart of the Islands by H.A. Wickham was sent to James Boosé, Librarian of the Royal Colonial Institute, in November 1899, asking him to forward it to the Admiralty. This is presumably a copy of that chart. It is accompanied by the letter from Wickham that was sent with the original map.

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285 x 230 mm. A view showing natives sitting in front of their huts among the cocoanut palms with sailors standing on either side. It is possible that the figure second from the right is Charles Lyne.

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Showing a car parked beneath a tall tree on the roadside.

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A tall tree.

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165 x 120 mm. Showing natives standing in clearing among tall trees.

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165 x 120 mm. Showing an European in a small clearing in the jungle.

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165 x 120 mm. A dance with men in elaborate headdresses, holding hourglass shaped drums, with some wearing shell nosepieces. A European standing at right of picture.

Scope and Contents 285 x 230 mm. The second in a series of three pictures (the correct sequence being Y3084A: 37, 23, 35) showing the first proclamation of the protectorate from the verandah of the Reverend Lawes' mission house. Marines and sailors, formed into three sides of a hollow square around the verandah, prepare to fire the feu-de-joie while onlookers stand outside the square. The officers are removing their hats; Erskine, face hidden by hat, is second from the left in the middle section of the...

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215 x 170 mm. From left to right at Dais: Mr John Guise, Lord Casey (seated) and the Australian Minister of External Territories, Mr C E Barnes.

Scope and Contents 285 x 230 mm. A view showing marines and sailors grouped in a hollow square in front of the mission house (in what was named in honour of the occasion, 'Espiegle Square'). The White Ensign and the Union Jack are being hoisted while Commodore Erskine reads the proclamation. The Reverend Lawes, translating, is partially hidden by the flagstaff, while the officer party stands under the verandah of the house, shaded by an awning made from a sail. Directly in front of the verandah sit the Papua...

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285 x 230 mm. The first of a sequence of three photographs (see Y3084A/3 and Y3084A/39), showing sailors standing to attention while Erskine (to left of flagstaff in white topee, blue jacket, and holding a paper) reads the proclamation. Two officers stand by the flagstaff with the White Ensign and the Union Jack, waiting to raise the flags.

Scope and Contents 285 x 230 mm. The first in the sequence of three photographs of this ceremony (see Y3084A/23 and 35). Commodore Erskine is reading the proclamation before the flags are raised. In fact, Romilly had already mistakenly read the proclamation some days before, thinking these were his instructions. ('I made rather an ass of myself, or rather otherpeople made an ass of me ... we ... came up here and did it before the Commodore arrived. However, it did not make much difference, as he did it all...

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General view looking over the tree canopy.

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General view looking over the tree canopy.

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An album containing photographs with hand-written captions of buildings and students of the University of Papua New Guinea.

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Three loose prints, all signed, dated and captioned on the reverse. 'Baiaua' is possibly Bariana, south of Collingwood Bay. Sir Henry Wickham was an explorer and pioneer planter all over the Equatorial Belt, and planted rubber over Central and South America, India and New Guinea. He listed his recreation in 'Who's Who' as 'Pioneer Rubber Planting.'

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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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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.