Photographic collections

Chambers PMBPhoto09_011

'EVERY MONTH BEFORE AND AFTER BABY IS BORN VISIT THE CLINIC. SISTER WILL HELP TO MAKE YOUR BABY STRONG. GO TO HOSPITAL WHEN BABY IS READY TO BE BORN.' J. Chambers, Port Moresby, Infant Welfare Section, Department of Public Health, Papua New Guinea, n.d.. (PMBPhoto9_011)

The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau has digitised over 40 photographic collections. The photos, posters and slides have been scanned to digital format.

A list of the photographic collections is below.

The Bureau is currently working towards making these collections available to Member Libraries via an online database.
Please contact the Bureau if you have any questions about the Photographic collections.

PMB Photo 1	TONKIN, Sr. Lida: Collection of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland, 1911-1943 . Listed. Scanned. PMB Photo 1/1-72 on DSpace.
PMB Photo 2	DEXTER, Harry: Collection of photographs from Samarai, Kwato, Abau Island, Port Moresby and elsewhere in Papua, c.1910-1915. Listed. Scanned. PMB Photo 2/1-34 on DSpace.
PMB Photo 3	CROZIER, Dorothy. Tonga Social Services Survey, May 1950-May 1951: Photographs – Tonga and Samoa. Listed. Groups A-Z, AA-BB. 196 images (Apr 2005). Not on DSpace.
PMB Photo 4	BEARUP, A.J.: Photographs taken in Mount Hagen during parasitology survey by the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney, 1934. PMB Photo4/1-17. Not on DSpace.
PMB Photo 5	GRIMSHAW, P.G.: Collection of Papua New Guinea Photographs, 1946-1955. PMB Photo 5/1-107. Digitised. Not on DSpace.
PMB Photo 6	HASLUCK, Sir Paul: New Guinea Administration Series of Photographic Slides, Nos.00121-00188, 1956. PMB Photo 6/1-68. Digitised.
PMB Photo 7	WALKER, Rev. Francis Trafford and Mrs Emma M.: Photographs documenting the Methodist Missions at Kabakada, Watnabara and Vunairima, via Rabaul, New Britain, 1925-1930. Digitised.
PMB Photo 8	BAKER, Rev. Shirley W.: Photographs from the Baker Papers (PMB 1203). Digitised.
PMB Photo 9	CHAMBERS, Jean: Posters prepared for the Infant Welfare Section, Department of Public Health, Papua New Guinea, and for the introduction of decimal currency in Papua New Guinea, 1950-1965. Digitised.
PMB Photo 10	HEALEY, Lionel Rhys, OBE: Photographs documenting an investigative patrol following murders in Telefomin, Papua New Guinea, Nov-Dec 1953.
PMB Photo 11	FOSTER, Saxon W.B.: Photograph album, ‘Pacific Islands, 1919’, documenting an official tour by Lord Liverpool, Governor-General of New Zealand.
PMB Photo 12	WARD, R. Gerard (1933- ): Photographs of Niue, Oct 1956.
PMB Photo 13	TAYLOR, Gwen: Collection of photographs from Bougainville, East New Britain and Kerema, Papua New Guinea, c.1945-1954.
PMB Photo 14	RANSOM, Sr. Rhoda (1887-1968): Post cards and other photographs from the Methodist Mission in New Britain and the Duke of York Islands, New Guinea, Jul 1912-Mar 1913, and family photograph.
PMB Photo 15	GEYLE, Adrian Martin, Currents and Customs: stories of a tribal kind,Parts 1 & 2, a memoir and photographs of patrol work in Western District outstations and field assistance with oil search companies in the Gulf and Sepik Districts, PNG, 1951-1960, together with Iuri 1954, an account with photographs of a patrol to the Iuri people, Border Mountains, Sepik District.
PMB Photo 16	HERKENHOFF, Fr. Franz, SM, Photographs in Bougainville taken by Fr Franz Herkenhoff and Br Bryan Leak, 1990-1992.
PMB Photo 17	NIUE CENTENNIAL VOLUME, 1846-1946, London Missionary Society, Samoan District (photograph album, includes maps), c.1946.
PMB Photo 18	READ, W.J. (Jack), New Guinea Photographs, 1930-1940.
PMB Photo 19	BUDÉRUS, Louis, Photographs, Samarai, British New Guinea, c.1900.
PMB Photo 20	HILDER, Captain Brett, Digital copies of paintings and sketches, 1947-1968.
PMB Photo 21	PARHAM, W.L., Fiji photographs, scanned notebooks and press cuttings, 1932-1942.
PMB Photo 22	CLINGAN, J.M., (1942-…), Photograph albums and sketch book documenting the Baptist Mission in the Western Highlands of PNG, 1971-1973 & 1999.
PMB Photo 23	BARNARD, Rev. Lewis E., Photographs from the Methodist Mission in Fiji, 1929-1930.
PMB Photo 24	HOSKING, Dr H.C., Rabaul, 1937.
PMB Photo 25	READ, Chris, “Rabaul , East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, 19 September 1994-2008.”
PMB Photo 26	GROVES, W.C. and Doris, PNG transparencies
PMB Photo 27	WILSON, Robert Kent, PNG Photographs and slides
PMB Photo 28	NELSON, Hank, Collected Papua New Guinea movie posters, 1976-1985.
PMB Photo 29	DUNN, Marney, Photographs taken in Vanuatu, 1965-1967.
PMB Photo 30	FORWOOD, Charles Rossiter (1826-1890), Family photographs and records, 1849-1977.
PMB Photo 31	KERLEY, Fr Kevin SM, Bougainville photographs. Not used. See PMB Photo 16.
PMB Photo 32	FOCKEN, Ron (1937-2010), Photographs, Southern Highlands and Milne Bay, PNG, 1958-1963.
PMB Photo 33	CLINGAN, J.M., (1942-…), Slides documenting the Baptist Mission in the Western Highlands of PNG, 1971-1973.
PMB Photo 34	TOMMERUP, Jack, Slides taken at Wabag and Mount Hagen, 1950s.
PMB Photo 35	FIJI TIMES, Photo Archive – Selected Prints, 1970-2001.
PMB Photo 36	PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Photo Collection – Fiji, 1933-1987.
PMB Photo 37	HOARE, Charles (?), Album of Prints – Papeete, Nuku’alofa, Apia, Rarotonga, et al., n.d. (c.1875?).
PMB Photo 38	LINDLEY, Alan, Solomon Islands photograph albums, 1952-1969.
PMB Photo 39	HOWLETT, Diana, South Pacific Fesitival of Arts PNG mask posters, 1980.
PMB Photo 40	DUSTING, Ellestan, “Postcards GNG [German New Guinea] – Papua”, 1912-1916.
PMB Photo 41	TEDDER, James L.O. (1926- ), Solomon Islands Photographs, 1952-1974.
PMB Photo 42	METCALFE, John R., Photographs of the Solomon Islands: negatives in six albums, 1920-1941.
PMB Photo 43	GROVES, Murray, Photographs of the Motu People of Papua
PMB Photo 44	DUSTING, Ellestan, Pacific Island Slides, 1957-
PMB Photo 45	NORTON, Robert, Photographs of A.D. Patel and Federation Party meetings at Lautoka, Sigatoka Valley and Suva, Sep-Oct 1966.
PMB Photo 46	GAMMAGE, Bill and Jan. PNG slides. 19??
PMB Photo 47	GAMMAGE, Bill and Jan. PNG Posters, 1950-1965. Digitised.
PMB Photo 48	TEDDER, Margaret and James, Gardening: album of photographs of subsistence gardening in Eastern and Central Solomon Islands, 1955-1974.
PMB Photo 49	BEATTIE, J.W., Pacific Islands albums
PMB Photo 50	EVES, Richard, PNG health posters
PMB Photo 51	MARGETTS. Rev. John Harold (1884-1935), “Picturesque New Britain: Snaps from a Missionary’s Camera”, n.d. (c.1914)
PMB Photo 52	Anon., Fiji album, n.d. (c.1925).
PMB Photo 53	UNEVANGELIZED FIELDS MISSION / Asia Pacific Christian Mission / Evangelical Church of Papua: photograph collections
PMB Photo 54	COCKBURN, Michael and Margaret. PNG slides. 1941-1970.
PMB Photo 55	GAMMAGE, Jan. Photographs, 1996-2006.
PMB Photo 56	WOODFORD, C.M., Photographs taken during a voyage to and residence in the Solomon Islands from April to October 1886. Albums 1 and 2.
PMB Photo 57	KEEVIL, (Dick) R.A. Photographs, 1974-1984.
PMB Photo 58	WOODFORD, C.M., Solomon Islands photographs
PMB Photo 59	FAVETTA, Fulvio (1946 - ), Slides of life as a patrol officer in Popondetta and Tufi, Northern District, Papua New Guinea, 1968-1972 and Tari, Southern Higlands, Papua New Guinea, 1972-1977.
PMB Photo 60	PATON, Frank (1906-2002) and Rita (1904-1982)., Slides and photographs of missionary service on the island of Tangoa, New Hebrides (1931-33) and a trip for the 75th Anniversary Celebrations of the Tangoa Training Institute, (Aug 1970), 1931-1970.
PMB Photo 61	FREEMAN, EDWARD (Ted), Slides of medical missionary service at the Paton Memorial Hospital, New Hebrides (1967-).
PMB Photo 62	GAMMAGE, Jan. Solomon Islands Prints, Nov-Dec 2001.
PMB Photo 63	Gammage, Bill and Jan. New Caledonia prints, 2005.