[Maslyn Williams Ocean Island photographs]
[Maslyn Williams Ocean Island photographs]
About this item
Full title
Date
1901-1959
Call Numbers
PXB 293 (v.4)
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 138 silver gelatin photoprints
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Scope and Contents
Contents
A contents list compiled by Maslyn Williams is available in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXB 293
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Maslyn Williams Ocean Island photographs]
Notes
General note
"In May 1900, A.F. Ellis, a young man working for a London based company, The Pacific Island Co. Ltd., discovered phosphate deposits on Ocean Island and Nauru in the Central Pacific. At the urging of the Company the British Government annexed Ocean Island to its Gilbert and Ellice Protectorate. Nauru was already included within Germany's Pacific po...
Signature / Inscriptions
Most are annotated and dated on reverse
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased 1985
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 293 (v.4)
Record Identifier
Yr867wDn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr867wDn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
52745
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