Item 9 - Album of photographs of Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea in 1935

Forty eight (48) black & white photographs, 6cm x 8.5cm, mounted in an album

Album of photographs of Rabaul, East New Britain, New Guinea taken in1935. The album has the inscription - “To Peggy Nickle’ with love & best wishes for August 17 & may it return often, Gordon”.

1. Rabaul Harbour, showing W.R.C. [W.R. Carpenter & Co]
2. Mount Mother [Kombiu, large volcano]
3. South Daughter [Turanguna, small volcano]
4. Fish traps Blanche Bay
5. Government House Rabaul
6. Sir George Pearce and General McNicoll inspecting Native Constabulary, Rabaul, August 1935
7. Fish trap Blanche Bay
8. Members of the Duk Duk Secret Society, Blanche Bay
9. An old native (“Lapoon”), Blanche Bay, New Britain
10. Women arriving at Rabaul with produce for the "Bung”
11. Children from villages near Rabaul
12. Natives with canoes
13. Rabaul natives
14. Ready for the market [women with food in canoes]
15. Natives with canoes – Rabaul any morning
16. W.R.C. wharf Rabaul
17. Offices for the Public Works Department, Rabaul
18. Women from Gasmata, South New Britain
19. Blanche Bay dancers in a “malagine”
20. Native canoes – Manus Admiralty Islands
21. A corner of Blanche Bay, Rabaul, showing W.R.C. store
22. Trading station – Kokopo
23. Coconuts – “consoles of the East” – in the husk
24. Davies Drug store where the ice creams are
25. The Rabaul Club
26. The Cosmopolitan Hotel once the famous “Ah Chee’s Pub”
27. District Office Rabaul
28. The old New Guinea Club now demolished and the new one in course of construction
29. Pacific Hotel – one time known as “Ching Hing’s Pub”
30. The Lands Office, Rabaul
31. The Customs House
32. Bright young things from the Western Islands – Aua women
33. Dr Brennan and Mrs McNieve at the commemoration ceremony, Betapaka Memorial, 1935
34. New Guinea youths dolled up for the photographer
35. Native women from the Ninigo Islands
36. Bulolo – Morobe goldfields
37. The Toboi Copra Wharf
38. SS Montoro on the reef bear Finschafen, New Guinea
39. Blanche Bay natives
40. New Guinea mainland native with boar’s tusks
41. Having a shave
42. Mainland New Guinea – native with pipe
43. Road on North Coast through a coconut plantation
44. Salomana Port for the Morobe Goldfields
45. A New Ireland belle
46. Unveiling the Bitapaka [Bita paka] Memorial to the First Australians who fell in the Great War
47. Another view of Rabaul Harbour
48. Where the administrator lives - Namanula
49. A New Guinea gentleman togged up to work …..? and impress the tourists