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A view showing armed warriors posed outside low sandbag fortifications. Print number 30.

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A view showing fishing craft in Apia harbour. The wreck at the right of the picture is probably one of the boats destroyed in the hurricane of 1889 (see Y309993A(LS)/24-26). Print number 20.

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125 x 105 mm.

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140 x 195 mm.

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100 x 58 mm. A view looking along the curve of the beach with a few houses visible and Mount Vaea rising in the background.

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See print 31, Armed natives at Mulinu’u,

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240 x 175 mm black and white photograph showing Taufaʻahau Tupou IV with Smedley at Apia.

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150 x 210 mm. View of Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb on Mount Vaea, Samoa.

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200 x 146 mm. A view looking towards the hill behind Apia on which Stevenson is buried, with a river, palm trees and two Samoans in the foreground. Stevenson’s hill is very faded in this print.

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138 x 103 mm. A view looking along an unsurfaced side street in Apia, with Samoans standing in the roadway. On the right can be seen the premises of the photographer J. Davis. Another print of the same photograph occurs at Y309B/59.

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136 x 103 mm. A similar street scene to Y309B/50, with the ‘Motel zum Stadt-Hamburg’ on the left. Another print of the same photograph occurs at Y309B/67.

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99 x 58 mm.

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98 x 57 mm. A similar street scene to Y309B/50, with the ‘Motel zum Stadt-Hamburg’ on the left. A duplicate print of Y309B/52.

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A view showing Samoans, and three Europeans in white uniforms, gathered in the village square for a Talolo, or ceremonial distribution of food. The ceremony itself is taking place in the background of the picture, partially obscured by trees. Print number 38.

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200 x 145 mm. A view showing Tamasese sitting on the ground, with rifles in front of him, and Samoans sitting around. British sailors stand on the veranda of the building in the background. Copyright registered 21 Oct. 1899.

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200 x 142 mm. A view showing the hall and staircase in the new Vailima. The photograph shows Robert Louis Stevenson leaning against the staircase, Fanny Stevenson (blurred) seated and holding a lute, Lloyd Osborne (Fanny Stevenson’s son by a previous marriage) sitting beside a piano, and Joe Strong (Fanny Stevenson’s son-in-law) standing behind the piano. Photograph signed ‘Andrew’.

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244 x 181 mm. View looking towards the circular thatched building, with a group of Samoan nobles seated on the ground in front and a group of soldiers on parade in the foreground. The caption reads 'This is the King of Samoa's Palace. The soldiers are the Kings of Honolulu who went to Samoa and endeavoured to take the island. I got it mostly to show the Kings Palace'.

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A view of the memorial tombstone with the names of the 12 men from USS ‘Philadelphia’ and HMS ‘Royalist’ who were killed in action in April 1899. Print number 41.

Scope and Contents This file contains a large number of detailed notes by Smedley on his various visits throughout New Zealand and beyond, including a lengthy report on a visit to the Pitcairn Islands, Tahiti and Samoa, as well as visits to Taranaki, Manawatu, South Island, Ashburton, Waioru, Hawkes Bay, Northland, Rotorua, South Canterbury, Palmerston North, Nelson, Waikato, Auckland, Stratford, Southland, Tauranga, Kawerau and Gisborne. This material is accompanied by two colour maps of New Zealand (circa...

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100 x 58 mm. A view showing two typical Samoan houses with walls partially hung with mats and thatched roofs.

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57 x 100 mm. A studio portrait of two Samoan men, one seated and one standing; the standing warrior holds a serrated club.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

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A view looking over the heads of spectators towards a company of soldiers and officers grouped around the flag-draped tombstone. Print number 40.

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A full length studio portrait of Chief Uo dressed in ceremonial skirts. Uo was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson.

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A coloured view looking across a pool of water towards the bungalow, with an American flag flying on a mast in front of the building. Print number 37.