Finding Aid for Henry Lemasson views of Tahiti and Moorea, 1895-1897
Beth Ann Guynn
Descriptive Summary
Title: Henry Lemasson views of Tahiti and Moorea
Date (inclusive): 1895-1897
Number: 2002.R.22
Creator/Collector:
Lemasson, Henry, 1870-1956
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
(52 photographic prints)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The album contains 52 collodion photographs of Tahiti and Moorea by Henry Lemasson. Included are coastal views and interior
landscapes, views of Papeete's streets and buildings, and photographs of Tahitians.
Language: Collection material is in French.
Biographical/Historical Note
Henry Lemasson was stationed in Papeete, Tahiti where he served two terms as postmaster (1895-1904 and 1912-1925), as part
of the French PTT administration (the former French Postal and Telecommunications service). He photographed events, people,
and locations in Tahiti and other nearby islands. Paul Gauguin, who was in Tahiti during the same period, had his paintings
photographed by Lemasson and also seems to have owned some of Lemasson's photographs.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Henry Lemasson views of Tahiti and Moorea, 1895-1897, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2002.R.22
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r22
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2002.
Processing History
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn and Jamie Allen in 20)5; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding
from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 2010.
Scope and Content of Collection
The majority of the 52 collodion photographs by Henry Lemasson contained in the album are views of Tahiti and Moorea. Included
are coastal views and interior landscapes, views of Papeete's streets and buildings, and photographs of Tahitians. Also included
are photographs of the king's palace, the tomb of King Pomare V (the last king of Tahiti), a police building on the island
of Moorea, and two photographic reproductions of art works (one of Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron's 1888
Soeur Saint-Henri de l'hospice de Janville s'oppose à un off and another of Jean Alexandre Coraboeuf's engraving after Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1846 painting
Le combat de coqs). Twenty-seven photographs are identified as Papeete, Tahiti, and nine views are of the nearby island of Moorea. This album
may be one of Lemasson's sample albums, which he used to sell his photographs.
The album is half bound in dark brown with brown leatherette covers. The paste-downs are green and yellow marbled paper. The
blue board mounts with printed orange borders are consecutively numbered by hand 0 to 51, above the center of each photograph.
French captions are written on the mounts below each image; these serve as titles for the photographs.
Arrangement
Arranged in a single series: SeroesI. Henry Lemasson views of Tahiti and Moorea, 1895-1897.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Grolleron, Paul Louis Narcisse
Coraboeuf, Jean Alexandre
Subjects - Topics
Pomare V, King of Tahiti, 1839-1891 -- Tomb.
Ships
Streets -- French Polynesia
Vernacular architecture -- French Polynesia
Indigenous peoples -- French Polynesia
Subjects - Places
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Description and travel.
French Polynesia -- Description and travel
Moorea (French Polynesia)
Papeete (Tahiti)
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
France -- Colonies -- Oceania
French Polynesia -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Genres and Forms of Material
Collodion prints -- French Polynesia -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- French Polynesia -- 19th century
Copy prints -- 19th century
Contributors
Lemasson, Henry, 1870-1956
Views of Tahiti and Moorea
Arrangement
In original order.
page 1 verso
2002.R.22-1v
0 Papeete. Le quai du commerce,
1895 Oct
Scope and Content Note
Possibly contains Lemasson's signature.
page 2 recto
2002.R.22-1
Habitation indigène aux environs de Papeete,
between 1895 and 1900
page 2 verso
2002.R.22-2
Environs de Papeete. La côte ouest,
between 1895 and 1900
page 3 recto
2002.R.22-3
Papeete. L'embouchure de la Tiperui,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Caption also includes illegible writing in pencil.
page 3 verso
2002.R.22-4
Papeete. Le pont de Vaininioré,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Caption also includes illegible writing in pencil.
page 4 recto
2002.R.22-5
Papeete. La rue des Remparts,
between 1895 and 1900
page 4 verso
2002.R.22-6
Le pont de Fautaua,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
See Special Collections accession number 93.R.92 page 42 for another copy of this image.
page 5 recto
2002.R.22-7
Papeete. Le palais du roi,
between 1895 and 1900
page 5 verso
2002.R.22-8
Papeete. La rade en les montagnes,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues:(Vue prise de Fare-Ute.) (Temps clair.)
page 6 recto
2002.R.22-9
Papeete. La rade en les montagnes,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues:(Temps sombre.)
page 6 verso
2002.R.22-10
Un paysage à Taone,
between 1895 and 1900
page 7 recto
2002.R.22-11
Environs de Papeete. Vue de la rade,
between 1895 and 1900
page 7 verso
2002.R.22-12
Le pont de Puooro,
between 1895 and 1900
page 8 recto
2002.R.22-13
La vallée de Tiperui,
between 1895 and 1900
page 8 verso
2002.R.22-14
Le
Duguay-Trouin et l'
Aube en rade de Papeete,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Includes note in pencil: Contretype OR-D-48.
page 9 recto
2002.R.22-15
Papeete. Le palais du roi,
between 1895 and 1900
page 9 verso
2002.R.22-16
Papeete. Le place du Gouvernement,
1896 Jul 15
Scope and Content Note
Caption also includes illegible writing in pencil.
page 10 recto
2002.R.22-17
Le
Papeete et le
Duguay-Trouin en rade de Papeete,
1896 Jul 14
Scope and Content Note
Includes note in pencil and inverted: durer du G Zelein [?] 31.
page 10 verso
2002.R.22-18
La rivière de Fautaua,
between 1895 and 1900
page 11 recto
2002.R.22-19
Le tombeau du roi Pomare V,
between 1895 and 1900
page 11 verso
2002.R.22-20
Papeete. L'avenue Dupetit-Thouars,
between 1895 and 1900
page 12 recto
2002.R.22-21
L'entrée de l'Hôtel du Gouverneur,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Caption also includes illegible writing in pencil.
page 12 verso
2002.R.22-22
Janville (1870),
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Includes note in pencil: (d'après Grolleron). Photographic reproduction of Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron's 1888 painting
Soeur Saint-Henri de l'hospice de Janville s'oppose à un off.
page 13 recto
2002.R.22-23
Combat de Coqs, d'après une gravure de J. Corabœuf,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Reproduction of Jean Corabœuf's engraving after Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1846 painting,
Un combat de coqs (also known as
Jeunes Grecs faisant combattre des coqs).
page 13 verso
2002.R.22-24
Papeete. Les entrepôts de charbons de Faré-Uté,
between 1895 and 1900
page 14 recto
2002.R.22-25
Papeete. Le 3 mâts
La France-chérie du port de Bordeaux,
between 1895 and 1900
page 14 verso
2002.R.22-26
Papeete. Le faubourg Ste. Amélie,
between 1895 and 1900
page 15 recto
2002.R.22-27
La mission catholique. L'evêché,
between 1895 and 1900
page 15 verso
2002.R.22-28
Portrait d'un vieux tahitien de Papeete,
between 1895 and 1900
page 16 recto
2002.R.22-29
Tahitiens venant de la provision dans la montagne,
between 1895 and 1900
page 16 verso
2002.R.22-30
Deux amateurs d'arts mécaniques et photographiques,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
See page 23 of Special Collections accession number 93.R.92, for another copy of this image.
page 17 recto
2002.R.22-31
Environs de Papeete. La côte ouest,
between 1895 and 1900
page 17 verso
2002.R.22-32
Le courrier le
Galilée en rade de Papeete,
between 1895 and 1900
page 18 recto
2002.R.22-33
La rade de Papeete. Vue prise de la poste,
between 1895 and 1900
page 18 verso
2002.R.22-34
Papeete. L'avenue Bruat (ou de Ste. Amélie),
between 1895 and 1900
page 19 recto
2002.R.22-35
L'avenue de Fautaua,
between 1895 and 1900
page 19 verso
2002.R.22-36
Le pont de Fautaua,
between 1895 and 1900
page 20 recto
2002.R.22-37
Une maison de campagne à Tahiti,
between 1895 and 1900
page 20 verso
2002.R.22-38
Papeete. La rue de l'Est,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
See Special Collections accession number 93.R.92, page 41, for another copy of this image.
page 21 recto
2002.R.22-39
Papeete. La place du Marché,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
See Special Collections accession number 93.R.92 page 14 for another copy of this image.
page 21 verso
2002.R.22-40
Environs de Papeete,
between 1895 and 1900
page 22 recto
2002.R.22-41
La vallée de Tiperui,
between 1895 and 1900
page 22 verso
2002.R.22-42
Moorea. La gendarmerie,
between 1895 and 1900
page 23 recto
2002.R.22-43
Environs de Papeete. La route de Patutoa,
between 1895 and 1900
page 23 verso
2002.R.22-44
Moorea. La baie de Papetoaï,
between 1895 and 1900
page 24 recto
2002.R.22-45
Moorea. La baie de Papetoaï,
between 1895 and 1900
page 24 verso
2002.R.22-46
Moorea. L'entrée de la baie de Papetoaï,
between 1895 and 1900
page 25 recto
2002.R.22-47
Moorea. La maison d'ecole de Papetoaï,
between 1895 and 1900
page 25 verso
2002.R.22-48
Moorea. Habitation indigène,
1897 Apr 18
Scope and Content Note
Written on pink label adhered to the photograph: 18 avril 1897.
page 26 recto
2002.R.22-49
Moorea. La plage à Papetoaï,
between 1895 and 1900
page 26 verso
2002.R.22-50
Une vue à Mooréa,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
See Special Collections accession number 93.R.92 page 19 for another copy of this image.
page 27 recto
2002.R.22-51
Moorea. La baie de Papeloai,
between 1895 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
"Papeloai" is crossed out in pencil with "'Opunohu" in pencil writing above. In ink in lower right corner: Avril 1897 Lemasson.
Also possibly includes a signature.
See Special Collections accession number 93.R.92 page 18 for another copy of this image.
