Makambo leaving Sydney for Port Vila
- AU PMB PHOTO 60-100
- Item
- 9 May
Paton, Frank (1906-2002) and Rita (1904-1982)
Makambo leaving Sydney for Port Vila
Paton, Frank (1906-2002) and Rita (1904-1982)
Isaac Neilson Whyte and Mary Grace Whyte Photographs of New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
This collection of photographs illustrates the life of Rev Isaac Neilson Whyte and Dr Mary Grace Whyte durng their service with the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions in the New Hebrides, 1952-1957. With their children Michael, Robyn, Alistair and Peter, they were based in the village of Wintua in the South West Bay region of Malekula. Mary Grace and Neilson arrived in Wintua shortly after a hurricane had been through and destroyed much of the village infrastructure. In the years that followed, Wintua was rebuilt with the help of people from neighbouring villages, who helped to build a new church, mission house, district school and a small hospital. Rev Whyte was often away from Wintua, visiting other villages in his mission jurisdiction. He visited Big Nambas territory, which had in the previously been hostile to Europeans, and helped bring about a peace agreement between village leaders. Mary Grace practised medicine in Wintua and surrounding villages.
This collection of photographs depicts village and church life in South West Bay. It shows the reconstruction of the village, family photographs, Rev and Dr Whyte giving medical care and travel between villages by launch and canoe. There are also photos of a Big Nambas village and the Leviamp peace talks, as well as family photos taken on return to Australia.
Whyte, Isaac Neilson
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
Five men, some holding spears, Northern Territory, Australia.
Part of Louis Budérus, Photographs of Samarai, British New Guinea [Papua New Guinea], c.1900.
Handwritten caption in ink on reverse, see PMB photo 19-24b.
Unknown
Diary of a recruiting voyage in the schooner Lochiel from Brisbane to the New Hebrides
Part of Diaries and pearling logs
Hamilton, William
Part of Diaries and pearling logs
Hamilton, William
Part of Isaac Neilson Whyte and Mary Grace Whyte Photographs of New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Correspondence regarding Queensland labour traffic
Part of Manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings relating to Rev. William Gray
'The number of Kanakas employed in Queensland' and other notes
Part of Manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings relating to Rev. William Gray
Part of Manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings relating to Rev. William Gray