- AU PMB PHOTO 13-01
- Stuk
- 28 April 1905
Part of Photographs from Bougainville, East New Britain and Kerema, Papua New Guinea
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Part of Photographs from Bougainville, East New Britain and Kerema, Papua New Guinea
Tom and self Easter '49. Tom and Gwen Taylor.
Part of Photographs from Bougainville, East New Britain and Kerema, Papua New Guinea
Part of Photographs from Bougainville, East New Britain and Kerema, Papua New Guinea
Meris awaiting births of babies at Monastic Mission 1954.
Part of Photographs from Bougainville, East New Britain and Kerema, Papua New Guinea
Basket work Buin Bougainville 1955. Tom Taylor with Buin basket.
Part of Photographs from Bougainville, East New Britain and Kerema, Papua New Guinea
Reel 2, British New Guinea Report for the Year Ending 30 June 1905
Logs and diaries kept by William Hamilton in the vessels Canomie, Ysabel, Gazelle and Kambin
Part of Diaries and pearling logs
Part of The Methodist Mission in New Britain and the Duke of York Islands, New Guinea
Captain Hamilton (1852-1937) was born in Scotland and came to Australia at the age of 10. In 1882 - 1883 he made voyages from Brisbane to Vanuatu (at that time the New Hebrides), New Britain and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) in labour recruiting vessels. For a dozen or so years from the late 1890s, he ran the Hamilton Pearling Co. with luggers operating out of Komuli in the Admiralty Islands and Gizo in Solomon Islands. This company also traded in copra, tortoise shell, black lip and green snail shell. Later, Captain Hamilton had big planting interests in the Solomons, mainly on Choiseul. He died in Sydney in November, 1937.
The papers copied on this microfilm are the most interesting and valuable historically of a large collection (in the Oxley Memorial Library) relating to Captain Hamilton's career. They comprise:
For further details of Captain Hamilton's career and of his other papers in the Oxley Memorial Library, see the Bureau's newsletter 'Pambu' October 1968:3, pp.3-6.
Hamilton, William