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143 x 199 mm. A view showing the base of a large Banyan tree, with a group of Europeans and Fijians standing on the branches a few feet from the ground. Their identity is not known nor whether they are inhabitants or members of the expedition to the Coral Islands. It is possible Burton is among the group, and if this is so he would be the figure with a white beard standing at the centre of the main group. Very tentative identification, however.

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Shows the first attempt at milling sugar by Paul Joske and partners.

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Shows the first attempt at large scale planting by Paul Joske and partners.

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Landscape format. [Trees reflected in the river].

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7455-7491; 7334-7344 and 7494-7634. Added numbers are: 7519A-7528A; spoiled: 7484-7486, 7525, 7562, 7611-7614, 7621 and 7626; not used: 7459-7460, 7463, 7526-7528, 7336, 7340, 7543-7544; missing: 7455-7456, 7458, 7462, 7464, 7471, 7473, 7476, 7480, 7489, 7334-7335, 7337-7339, 7341, 7533, 7535-7537, 7540-7541, 7547, 7550, 7560-7561, 7570, 7585, 7608, 7618, 7620, 7624, 7631. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order...

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Print at RCMS 353/2/229.

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[No print]. [Missing].

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[No print]. [Missing].

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Landscape format. [European in pith helmet and uniform with sword takes salute with them].

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[No print]. [Missing].

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Landscape format. [Fijians in neat row with dark jackets and white skirts with tooth-edged hems, with European in uniform]

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Landscape format. [Two Europeans in uniform in front of them].

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[No print]. [Missing].

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[Two buglers and a drummer].

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Landscape format.

Scope and Contents 228 x 175 mm. A view showing a European officer in charge of a squad of the Fijian police (unarmed and dressed in white). Behind them, and largely obscured, stands a squad of the armed constabulary in blue blouses and white sarongs cut into a serrated pattern round the hem. Formed in the early 1870s, the force was used extensively against the hill peoples of the interior, and in the days of King Cakobau, this small army was said to have numbered 1400 men. The Europeans standing in the...

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Print at RCMS 353/2/226.

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195 x 141 mm. A view showing a posed group of young Fijian women.

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Print at RCMS 353/2/224.

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Half-plate. Sir Everard Im Thurn's Collection at Suva.

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Half-plate. [No print]. [Missing].

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Contains Kodachromes processed in Australia, arranged by processing number. Some items from H possibly originated in this group.

Scope and Contents 229 x 173 mm. A view looking along the front façade of Government House, with parts of the town and harbour visible in the distance. Built in 1882 when Suva became the capital of Fiji, although the decision to move from Levuka, on the small island of Ovalan, had been made some years before, Levuka being situated on a narrow strip of land between sea and high mountains which allowed no room for expansion. The move was providential: in 1885 Levuka was devastated by a powerful hurricane....

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227 x 170 mm. A view showing the side and front of this long and narrow wooden bungalow.