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Articles and reports on the history of the Solomon Islands, by various authors

Contains: On the Cross-Cultural Study of Circulation by Murray Chapman (1978); Red Feather Money by William Davenport (1962); Preliminary Excavations on Santa Ana Island, Eastern Solomon Islands by William Davenport (1972); Anthropology in the British Solomon Islands by William H. Davenport (1968); Sexual Patterns and Their Regulation in a Society of the Southwest Pacific by William Davenport (1965); Social Structure of Santa Cruz Island by William Davenport (1964); The "Hawaiian Cultural Revolution": Some Political and Economic Considerations by William Davenport (1968); A Late Prehistoric Sequence from Su'ena Village, Uki by R. C. Green; Religion, Medicine, and Magic by C. E. Fox; A Late Prehistoric Settlement in Star Harbour by R. C. Green; Conclusion by R. C. Green; An Introduction to the Southeast Solomons Culture History Programme by R. C. Green; Rainforest Composition and Histories of Disturbance: inland settlement in Solomon Islands before European contact, a hitherto unrecognised control over floristics by Tim Bayliss- Smith, Edvard Hviding, and Tim Whitmore (2002, unpublished).

Department of International Relations newspaper clippings

  • AU ANUA 489
  • Series
  • 1959 - 1990

Microfiche copies of newspaper clippings arranged by countries in the Asia, Southeast Asia, and Pacific regions.

Country files include subject matter relating to foreign relations, political process, defence, economy and trade.

Files on Asia include subject matter relating to the Great Powers in Asia, the United Nations, aid, conferences, defence, economy and trade.

Files on world issues include defence, nuclear energy, world aid, economy and trade, Great Powers, environmental problems, resources diplomacy, Antarctica, principles of international relations.

ANU Department of International Relations

Country subject files from the Division of Pacific and Asian History

  • AU ANUA 420
  • Series
  • 1926 - 1986

Contains subject files and newsletters on countries kept by the Division of Pacific and Asian History: Cook Islands, Fiji, Gilbert and Ellis Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Papua/New Guinea, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), New Zealand, Nauru, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tahiti. Includes research papers and notes, governmental papers, publications, newspaper clippings, school readers and Cook Islands photostats.

ANU Division of Pacific and Asian History

Jim Davidson papers

  • AU ANUA 57
  • Series

The series includes administrative files maintained by Davidson as Professor of Pacific History and Dean of the Research School of Pacific Studies, dealing with staff including appointments, students, the Coombs building, the New Guinea Research Unit and committees of which Davidson was a member. There are two files which include material about his death. There are also research files which include correspondence, research notes, press cuttings from the Fiji Times, South Pacific Commission papers, articles by Davidson and others, and typescript copies of his Peter Dillon biography and Samoa mo Samoa. There are also parliamentary debates from Samoa and Kiribati and photographs related to the four-volume book 'Pacific Islands' published in 1943-1945.

Davidson, James Wightman

William McGrath papers

  • AU ANUA 792
  • Series
  • 1880 - 2010

Documents relating to McGrath's work as a land consultant, particularly regarding regions in Micronesia.

McGrath, William Adrian

Edward Freeman Paton Memorial Hospital collection

  • AU ANUA 602
  • Series
  • 1958 - 1976

Dr Edward (Ted) Freeman OAM served with his wife, Dorothy, as a medical missionary under the Presbyterian Board of Missions in the New Hebrides from 1963 - 1970. During this time he worked as a medical superintendent at the Paton Memorial Hospital, under difficult situations. He established a blood bank, updated anaesthetic procedures, taught family planning and supervised the training of many local and expatriate doctors and nurses while working in the New Hebrides. Collection includes correspondence, diaries, printed memorabilia, menus from the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, slides of the New Hebrides taken between 1963 - 1970 and slides of Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby) taken in 1963.

Freeman, Edward (Ted)

Papers of Gordon Thomas

  • AU ANUA 584
  • Series
  • 1900 - 2004

This collection of documents and images relating to Gordon Thomas's time in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea includes correspondence with the Department of External Territories regarding persons lost on the Montevideo Maru and proclamations from the Chief of the Japanese Army during the Japanese occuptaion of Rabaul. Photographs from the 1910s and 1930s are of people and places in German New Guinea.

Thomas, Edward Llewellyn Gordon

Photograph of remains of Ralum wharf

Handwritten on verso: instructions for the reproduction of the photograph for publication, and a note: used Dec 1962.
Also written, but crossed out: Queen Emma [Illegible] All that remains of the Ralum wharf June 1962. Appended to verso is a clipping: This is all that remains of the once flourishing establishment called Ralum, on the shores of Simpsonhaven, New Britain.

Photograph of native police or army, German New Guinea

Photograph taken by E. S. Merriett, an American tourist, in 1901. The photograph was sent to Sub-Inspector Max R. Haynes of the Rabaul Police Station after an appeal for material relating to the early Police Forces of Papua and New Guinea in Pacific Islands Monthly.

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