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Series 01: Photographic prints of missionaries and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, ca. 1885-1938 / probably photographed by Rev. John Wear Burton, R. H. Rickard, and others for the Methodist Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions

Full title: Series 01: Photographic prints of missionaries and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, ca. 1885-1938 / probably photographed by Rev. John Wear Burton, R. H. Rickard, and others for the Methodist Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions

Author/creator: Rickard, R. H, Anderson, A. E, Burton, J. W. (John Wear), 1875-1970.

Date: ca. 1885-1938.

Call Numbers: PXA 1137

Record Identifier: 1l4dXkV1

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Formats: Pictures, Photographs

Contents: 1110 photographic prints (4 boxes) - 25.5 x 24 cm or smaller - gelatin silver

Publishers:

Notes: Original negative number is written on reverse of prints. Nos. 255-326. 21 prints missing: negative nos. 1,49, 51-52, 54, 57-61, 63-64, 67, 88, 90-96 missing. Negatives held for some of these (see ON 305/386-399) Nos. 182-254. 16 prints missing: negative nos. 2-3, 6, 9-11, 13-14, 24-25, 33-37. Negatives held for some of these (see ON 305/400-410) Nos. 1-1103 are copies of nitrate negatives since destroyed because of unstable medium. Contents list filed with collection. (PXA 1137) A.E. Anderson cited as photographer in Sample Catalogue of South Seas Photograph Collections (Australian National University) See also photograph albums at Mitchell Library call nos. MOM 239-MOM 255 Transferred in 1991 from MOM 125, MOM 172, MOM 173, MOM 263

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    Series 01: Photographic prints of missionaries and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, ca. 1885-1938 / probably photographed by Rev. John Wear Burton, R. H. Rickard, and others for the Methodist Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions

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    1l4dXkV1

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    Series 01: Photographic prints of missionaries and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, ca. 1885-1938 / probably photographed by Rev. John Wear Burton, R. H. Rickard, and others for the Methodist Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions

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    Series 01: Photographic prints of missionaries and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, ca. 1885-1938 / probably photographed by Rev. John Wear Burton, R. H. Rickard, and others for the Methodist Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions

    Full title

    Series 01: Photographic prints of missionaries and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, ca. 1885-1938 / probably photographed by Rev. John Wear Burton, R. H. Rickard, and others for the Methodist Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions

    Date

    ca. 1885-1938

    Call Numbers

    PXA 1137

    Record Identifier

    1l4dXkV1

    Formats

    Pictures and Photographs

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    1110 photographic prints (4 boxes) - 25.5 x 24 cm or smaller - gelatin silver

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Series

    Arrangement

    Filed mainly by negative number (annotated verso of prints).

    Publication information

    Publisher's series notes

    Some photographs published in the journal The Missionary review / Methodist Church of Australasia.

    Access and use

    Terms of use

    Restricted : Written approval should be sought from Archivist, Uniting Church in Australia Assembly, 16 Masons Drive, North Parramatta, NSW 2151. Tel: 02 8838 8982

    Finding aids

    Contents list held for all photographs except nos. 725-773. Some prints listed in contents lists are missing.

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Duke of York Island (Papua New Guinea) Fiji India Lyttelton (N.Z.) New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) Samoa Cocos (Keeling) Islands Goulburn Islands (N.T.) Milingimbi Island (N.T.) New Caledonia Solomon Islands Thursday Island (Qld.) boats churches Fijian customs Fijians fish traps groups (people) headdresses hospitals houses indigenous people Missionaries missions (church settlements) mosques Pacific Islanders Papua New Guinea customs Papuans plantations Samoans sugar cane plantations teachers trepang Tongans villages (overseas) Aboriginal customs body-marking bush huts camps rites & ceremonies corroborees leper colonies Discovery (Ship) Gilmour, M. K. (Matthew Kerr) Lord of the Isles (ship) John Wesley (Ship) Montoro (ship)

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    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    1-32. Papua New Guinea : scenes including wharf at Ulu Island, Malakuna, Chinese school at Rabaul, Miss March’s girls, Dr. Pockley’s and Mr Nietsch’s graves, the hospital, drying copia, New Britain girls.

    33-95. Papua New Guinea : village scenes [Dobu island], scenes and people including the Vive Warwick at Fergusson Island, Rev. Jacob’s ho...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Series 01: Photographic prints of missionaries and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, ca. 1885-1938 / probably photographed by Rev. John Wear Burton, R. H. Rickard, and others for the Methodist Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions

    Variant title

    Series previously titled Series 01: Photographic prints of missionaries and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and India, c 1885-1938 / photographed by RH Rickard and others for the Methodist Church of Australasia, Dept. of Overseas Missions.
    Title amended based on information provided by Dr Christine Weir...

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Artists

    — NOTES

    General note

    ...

    Attributions / Conjectures

    Most photographs in this series attributed to Rev. John Wear Burton (1875-1970) by Dr. Christine Weir, Honorary Lecturer, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University, September 2018.

    Rev. John Wear Burton was the General Secretary of the Australasian Methodist Missionary Society from 1925 to 1945, and as part of his duties...

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Pic.Acc.7061

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    PXA 1137

    Record Identifier

    1l4dXkV1

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l4dXkV1

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    825535

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