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South Pacific
Portraits and views from the South Pacific

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer unknown. Views of Samoa, Fiji, and New Guinea. Late 1890s-early 1900s. 12 gelatin silver prints, mounted to boards. Each ca. 15,5 x 20 cm ( 22 x 28 cm) or reverse. Each with handwritten caption in black ink on the mount.

This group of photographs offers a rich visual record of life in the German colonial Pacific during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Likely taken by a missionary-affiliated or ethnographic photographer, the images depict a variety of subjects including Samoan families and women in ceremonial dress, Fijian schoolchildren in front of a thatched classroom, local architecture such as a bamboo church, and the construction of a large traditional meeting house. Other scenes include local converts and indigenous pastors, formal group portraits, and a canoe landing on the beach in the former German protectorate of New Guinea. – Some soiling and foxing of boards, some fading and signs of oxidation along the margins of a number of prints, otherwise all in good to very good condition.