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Pacific History Records Room collection

  • AU ANUA 406
  • Series
  • 1792 - 1982

Printed material and copies of historical publications on the South Pacific, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoan Islands, Philippine Islands; copies of correspondence, photocopies of ship logs, maps, thesis material, administrative papers relating to the management of the Department of Pacific and South East Asian records room, and sound reel tapes of interviews relating to the Rorovana Land Crisis, Bougainville Island, 1969.

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Richard Gilson Pacific Research papers on Samoa

  • AU ANUA 308
  • Series
  • 1830 - 1954

Research papers, drafts and notes on the Pacific Islands, with particular focus on the Cook Islands and Samoa relating to the publications Samoa 1830-1900, 1970 and The Cook Islands 1820-1950, 1980. Including material on Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Kiribati), Niue and PNG. Papers relating to the German Administration of Western Samoa, translated into English by Mrs Trudi Newbury, and collected by R.P. Gilson from Archives New Zealand.

Gilson, Richard

Early Australian maps

  • AU ANUA 289
  • Series
  • 1848 - 1947

This small collection of folded maps is attributed to Professor Spate who acquired them for the cartographic collection in the Department of Human Geography. Some are annotated with catalogue numbers. There is also a map of France and one of Lahore in India.

Spate, Oskar Hermann Khristian

Dorothy Crozier papers

  • AU ANUA 413
  • Series
  • 1872 - 1977

Research papers and essays on the Western Pacific, particularly Tonga and Fiji; correspondence, course, conference and teaching files, project and survey files, reports, Foreign Office confidential prints 1888-1890, British legislation concerning the Pacific Islands 1872-1953, archives administration files, WPHC shelf lists, inventories and calendars, publications and photographs.

Crozier, Dorothy Felice

Documents related to Woodford's honours and appointments - military, professional and official appointments,

Documents include: Letter from John Bates Thurston, Consul General, Fiji, dated 24 December 1894 appointing Charles M. Woodford to be the acting British Consul at Samoa ; Handwritten letter From John B. Thurston, dated 28 December 1894, informing him of his appointment as Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific, for the district comprising the Samoan and Union Groups (plus amendment letter dated 1 February 1895), together with the sealed commission document, 29 December 1894 ; Letter dated 15 February 1896 from Acting Colonial Secretary (Fiji) to Woodford appointing him as temorary Stipendiary Magistrate in the Province of Nadroga ; Commission dated 17 February 1897 as British Resident in the Protectorate established by Her Majesty in the Solomon Islands ; Letter dated 13 June 1912 informing Woodford of his apointment to the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, together with Woodford's replies dated 10 August 1912 ; Annual Service in St Paul's Cathedral, 23 April 1928 ; Woodford's Commission as an Officer (Lieutenant) in the Volunteer Forces from 7 January 1874 (Kent Artillery Corp, 21 September 1875) ; Commission as an Officer (Sub-Lieutenant) in the Volunteer Forces from 7 January 1874 (Kent Artillery Corp, 6 January 1874) ; Letter from the Director, American Geographical Society requesting Woodford's acceptance as a Fellow of the Society ; Letter from L. Harcourt, Downing Street, dated 15 June 1912, congratulating Woodford on his C.M.G. ; Certificate from the Zoological Society of London, electing Charles M. Woodford as a corresponding member of the Society, dated 21 November 1889 ; Certificate of Proficiency for Captains, Subalterns in Infantry and Artillery Drill, dated 27 October 1874 ; Letter from Henry Lambert, Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, January 1915 accepting Woodford's resignation of the 28 ultimo ; Newspaper clipping from the Morning Post, 23 June 1909, The King's Levee.

Joy London papers

  • AU ANUA 702
  • Series
  • 1874 - 1983

Correspondence and other papers relating to Kioloa, the Edith and Joy London Foundation and ANU; historical material, ledgers, journals, newspaper cuttings, printed material, transcripts of tape recordings, photographs, microfilm reels and slides.

London, Joy

Papers relating to the Methodist Church in Papua New Guinea and Rev Threlfall’s research on Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 305
  • Series
  • 1875 - 1985

Documents and research notes relating to the Methodist Church in Papua New Guinea and Reverend Threlfall’s research on Papua New Guinea.

Items 1 - 14 : Methodist Mission Papers: Minutes and reports of New Britain District Synods, 1896 to 1941; including Study Papers presented to the 1932 Synod.
Items 15 - 24 : United Church Papers: Minutes of the New Guinea Islands Regional Synod of the United Church of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, 1969, 1971-75 and 1979-82.
Items 25 - 40: Early Contacts and Settlements: Including extracts from New Bedford Whalers’ Logs notes from the memoirs of Eduoard Hernsheim, etc.
Items 41 - 78: German New Guinea: Official reports and other documents. Chinese settlers (Cahill, Wu).
Items 79 - 88: World War I. The Expropriation of German Properties (including Pat Hopper’s thesis, 'Kicking out the Hun').
Items 89 - 99: The Australian Mandated Territory, between World Wars 1 and 2.
Items 100 - 119: Extracts from Albert Hahl, 'Governor in New Guinea'. More notes from the between-wars period.
Items 120 - 129: Geological and volcanic history, especially the 1937 and 1941-43 eruptions.
Items 130 - 142: Post-WWII material; in particular land claims and disputes on the Gazelle Peninsula; Gazelle Peninsula/Rabaul. Problems over land & multi-racial Gazelle Peninsula Local Government Council, murder of District Commissioner Jack Emanuel, the trial and notes on the Tolai situation and the establishment of provincial government.
Items 143 - 172: Gazelle Peninsula/Rabaul and the problems over land and the multi-racial council.
Items 173 - 200: Pre World War 2 material: defence arrangements in Rabaul 1939 - 1941, the Japanese invasion in January 1942, personal memoirs, interviews from persons from 1910 - post World War 2.
Items 201 - 225: Chronology of prisoners' movements, civilians and soldiers, the Chinese in Chinatown until 1943.
Items 226 - 278: Methodist and United Church Papers, notes on New Britain/New Ireland from church papers in the PNG Collection, University of Papua New Guinea Library.

Threlfall, Neville A

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

Ian Maddocks' Papua New Guinea research papers

  • AU ANUA 691
  • Series
  • 1880 - 2013

Material relating mostly to Pari and Pari Village Study but also Papua New Guinea in general, particularly health and medical services. Includes research papers, photographs, genetics data, genealogical charts and notes, correspondence, notebooks, clinical data print-outs, serials, audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, index cards and maps. Material relates mostly to health of Pari people and medical services but includes material relating to a wide variety of subjects including genealogy, genetics, geography, Pari Church, anthropology, language, education, legends and stories, history, children and culture. Also includes material relating to Hiri, Motu and Koita people. Includes material in Pari and Motu languages.

Maddocks, Ian

Charles Morris Woodford papers on the Solomon Islands and other Pacific countries

  • AU ANUA 481
  • Series
  • 1886 - 1918

The collection was compiled by Charles Morris Woodford, naturalist and First Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 - 1915. The collection includes diaries, photographs, correspondence, sketches and research notes related to the natural history, geography and ethnography of the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands from 1884 - 1915, as well as family papers and documents related to the administration of Solomon Islands Protectorate. There are documents about relations between the missionaries and the traders, matters associated with labour and the alienation of land, economic activity and tourism. The collection includes Woodford's 'Journal of a voyage from Suva Fiji to the Gilbert Group' from 4 March 1884 - 22 June 1884 ; Woodford's diaries from 1886 - 1889 ; 140 photographs taken on the voyage to and residence in the Solomon Islands in 1886 ; photographs of Rennell Island and inhabitants signed by Northcote Deck c1909. Of significance are ten large photographs of various scenes of the Solomon Islands, c1901, some published in The discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568, by Lord Amherst of Hackney and Basil Thomson (1901).

ANUA 481 is a consolidated collection of all four parts of the Woodford donation:
ANUA 481/1 is a photograph album containing 140 photographs taken in from April - October 1886 ;
ANUA 481/1 - 282 are items from 'bundles 1 - 30' ;
ANUA 481/ 283 - 317 relate to the second donation (ie PMB 1381) ;
ANUA 481/318 - 322 and 324 - 327 are eight large format photographs c1884 ;
ANUA 481/323 is a presentation plaque given to Woodford in 1905 ;
ANUA 481/329 is a collection of 126 photographs [ie PMB Photo 58]

Woodford, Charles Morris

Folder entitled 'Historical Notes'.

Includes a letter from N. Amherst to Woodford, London, 5 July 1888, enclosing sketches to compare with Gallego's Sesarga (Guadalcanal) ; W. R. H. Rivers to Woodford, Cambridge, 10 July 1907 requesting help during his proposed trip to the Solomons in 1908 ; Henry Welchman to Woodford, Mara Na Tabu, 30 March1908 ; J. Edge-Partington to Woodford, nd, with extracts from Dalrymple of Mendana's discovery of the Solomons ; Proclamations and Instructions, Western Pacific High Commission, 1899-1903 (Extension of Protectorate, 28 January 1899 and 6 October 1900 ; Revocation of Protectorate over Tasman Group, 8 January 1902, and others) ; Booklet, 'Australia and the New Hebrides', reprinted from Sydney Daily Telegraph of article by Senator Staniforth Smith, 1904 ; Press clippings ; Article by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The late Dr Hyde, R.L. Stevenson's noble vindication of Damien', The Austral Light, January 1900, pp61 - 4 ; Typescript of article by Senator Pulsford ‘The Western Pacific’, Melbourne, The Senate, 28 November 1905, 6pp ; plus various handwritten notes by Woodford mainly about ships, Betel nut, kava, toddy.

Five journal articles on natural history.

Proof copy of 'Coral Islands and Savage Myths', by H.B. Guppy, a paper for presentation to a meeting of the Victoria Institute, 19 March1888, 16pp ; Reprint of Woodford, C M, 'Exploration of the Solomon Islands', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, June, 1888, 26pp ; Mason, George E, 'On an extinct undescribed fruit-bat of the genus Pteropus from the Mascarenes', Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, Vol XX, September 1907, pp 220 - 222 ; Bernays, Claude L, 'The British Solomon Islands, Read before the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland, 27 May 1909 ; Thurnwald, Richard, 'Im Bismarckarchipel und auf den Salomoinseln 1906 - 1909', Reprint from Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, book 1, 1910, pp98 - 147.

Photographs of Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 334
  • Series
  • 1895 - 1905

Black and white photographs of New Guineans, plantation workers, missionaries and buildings in Daru, Port Moresby, and Goaribari Island in Papua New Guinea

Unknown

London Family business papers

Includes contracts, patents, correspondence and assorted papers relating to properties and land in England and Australia. Oversized house plans removed.

Correspondence about the vessel, the Albatross.

Letter dated 16 June 1897 to Woodford from the Austro-Hungarian ambassador in London expressing gratitude for Woodford’s help to the vessel Albatross while it was engaged in scientific pursuits in Solomon Islands; a second letter to Woodford dated 23 October 1902 from Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Charge d’Affaires, on the same matter; and a calling card of Le Chevalier Joseph Mauler d’Elisenau, Capitaine de Corvette, Commandant S M cannon ere, Albatross.

Articles and reports on the Solomon Islands, by various authors

Contains: a paper from the AZAAS 42nd Congress (Port Moresby 17-21 August 1970): paper No. 11. The Role of the Civil Engineer in Developing Societies by R. G. A. Feachem; West Indian 'Dioscorea alata' Cultivars by H. J. Gooding (1960); The Scientific Report of "S. M. Albatros" 1895-1898 by K. u. K. Fregatten-Kapitan J. von Mauler and K. u. K. Linienschiffs-Lieutenant Wilhelm Kesslitz (1899); The Management of Coconut Plantations in Western Samoa by D. R. A. Eden (1953); Premier Troc, Double Illusion by Daniel de Coppet (1973)

British Indian Ocean Territories legislation

• The Seychelles Judicial Order in Council, 1899, p/c, 6pp.
• Seychelles Judicial Order in Council, 1903, p/c, 2pp.
• The Seychelles Legislature Order in Council, 1903, p/c, 3pp.
• British Indian Ocean Territory Royal Instructions 1965, P/c, 4pp.
• British Indian Ocean Territory Order 1965; p/c, 5pp.
• Merchant Shipping (Registration of Colonial Government Ships) (Amendment) Order 1967’ p/c, 2pp.
• Overseas Territories. Emergency Powers (Amendment) Order 1968, p/c, 1p.
• Seychelles Royal Instructions 1970, p/c, 4pp

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

Literary papers and lectures

  • AU ANUA 108
  • Series
  • 1901 - 1961

This series includes original poems by LH Allen, translations from Latin, Greek and German into English, translations from English into Latin, lectures on English and Classical literature, and scrapbooks.

Allen, Leslie Holdsworth

Collected historical documents of or about Fiji

Includes:
• Fiji Ministry of Information, News release, ‘Statement from Lt. Col. Rabuka, Royal Fiji Military Forces’, 14 May 1987, 1p., p/c
• ‘Commission to Review the Constitution’, Fiji Republic Gazette, Vol.9, No.24, 21 Apr 1995
• Man’s Emigration Pass, Calcutta, 15 May 1901, for Chiria on board SS Fazilka proceeding to Fiji, 1p., p/c
• Department of Education, School Certificate Examination, 1964, Geography, p/c
• Poster, ‘Fiji Silenced, Public Forum, 17th August 1987, Teachers Federation , 300 Sussex St...’, authorised by the Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific Co-ordinating Committee

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.

Folder entitled 'Lord Howe's Group'.

Includes correspondence between Clements R. Markham and Woodford, dated '1907' dealing with Tasman's 'Onthon Java' and Woodford's reply dated 17 January 1908 ; Letters 19 January 1908, 19 January 1908 ; Letter from Dr Sarfert to Woodford, Leipzig, 17 May 1911, about the publication of his book on Lord Howe as 1913 (includes translation from German and Woodford's reply 5 September 1911 ; Handwritten manuscript on the 'Lord Howe's Group', written in 1886 ; Typescript of 'Notes on Leuneuva or Lord Howe's Group', 'written c1906 or 7' ; Handwritten notes on 'Lord Howe's Group, Turtle, cooking stones', November 1909 ; various handwritten notes by Woodford ; Photograph of a 'Cemetery at Lord Howe's group showing tombstone erected to memory of late chief Biba? c1903 (Photo by F. J. Barnett) ; Photograph of two groups of natives of the Lord Howe's Group (Photo by F. J. Barnet) ; Manuscript of notes made by Woodford of an interview with Shackell into the cause of complaints against him, 1910(?), related press clippings and a clipped copy of an article written by Reverend Dr Brown, 'Notes of a visit to the Solomon Islands and Ontong Java', published in The Missionary Review in 1911.

Miscellaneous documents and letters to and from Woodford.

Includes:
(a) Letter dated 21 April 1864 from Henry Pack Woodford to his son 'Charley'; (b) letter dated 3 October 1890 from William MacGregor, Government House, British New Guinea, to Woodford; (c) letter dated 5 August 1893 from Walter Rothschild to Charles M. Woodford; (d) letter dated 3 October 1921, identity of signatory uncertain (e … Oswalds …?) to Woodford; (e) letter (in Samoan?) dated 1894 addressed to 'Le Ali’i Konesula Peritania'; (f) Draft [in Woodford’s hand?] of letter to Admiral Wharton about problems with charts, 4p ; (g) letter dated 23 July 1895 from Wharton, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, to Woodford, thanking him for his report; (h) letter dated 17 October 1895 from Foreign Office to Woodford expressing approval of Woodford's performance while in charge of Apia consulate.

Edward Adley Owen photographs

  • AU ANUA 571
  • Series
  • circa 1909- 1910

Photographs of Fiji from an employee of the Colonial Sugar Refinery at Labasa, Fiji, originally in two albums. Removed from the original albums for conservation purposes. Items 1-65 are photographs from a 'Postcard album' and most are printed to be postcards. Items 66-89 were in a separate photograph album.

Owen, Edward Adley

Correspondence to and from C. M. Woodford, June 1910 - September 1914.

Includes one sepia photograph with no identifying text, showing three Europeans in white (one of them Woodford?), a line of standing Solomon Islanders in uniform ( police?) and other Solomon Islanders, men and women, seated. Among the letters is correspondence between Woodford and Charmian Kittredge London (the wife of the American writer Jack London).

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