Photographs of views of New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines, the Communards, and various ships, [betwee...
Photographs of views of New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines, the Communards, and various ships, [betwee...
Photographs of views of New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines, the Communards, and various ships, [between 1870 and 1883] / photographs by Allan Hughan
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[between 1870 and 1883]
Call Numbers
ON 1/1-140
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
139 negatives (8 boxes) - 8.5 x 10.5 cm ; 11.5 x 16 cm ; 16 x 21 cm - glass
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Contents:
Ships
1. L'Allier
2. Caledonnienne, 28 April 1879
3. Caledonnienne
4. Caledonnienne[?] and unidentified ship
5. Calvados, June 1879
6. Creuse
7. Creuse
8. Dives
9. Fontenoy, 14 October 1882
10. Legond [&] Aoba
11. Loire, 20 October 1879
12. Navarin, 1881
13. Sendre[?]
14. Tage
15. Vi...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photographs of views of New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines, the Communards, and various ships, [between 1870 and 1883] / photographs by Allan Hughan
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Contemporary photoprints of some of these negatives are available in 7 photograph albums held at PXE 673/vols. 1-7
No. 75 is overlayed with no. 76
No. 82 see titled print in Q988.7 New Caledonia Photos
No. 134, 135 prints at Q988.7/N Nouvelle Caledonie - Photographies
No. 134-139 glass plates are broken. Copies of images are in box
Description source
Pictures detailed contents list
No. 17 title from print and original wrapper now discarded
No. 41 identified by comparison with no. 40
No. 43, 57, 59, 61, 62, 67 identified on wrapper
No. 61-64, 104, 106, 107, 118, 120 Inscription on old wrapper
No. 71 cf. no. 47
No. 73 title from print at Q988.7/N - Nouvelle Caledonie - Photograp...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by S. Mourot, 1945
Administrative / Biographical history
Allan [Ramsay Cunningham?] Hughan, was born ca. 1834 in England. He migrated with his mother and siblings to Australia, ca. 1851 and settled in Victoria. He had a maritime career and was Captain of the ship ‘Pilot’ and was shipwrecked in New Caledonia, in March 1870. His fourth daughter was born in Noumea, New Caledonia in 1871, where Hughan had se...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ON 1/1-140
Record Identifier
n7oVMqXn
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Other Identifiers
Reference code
825800
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