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Box 1, Folder 1

Correspondence between Garber and Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1963-1963

Box 1, Folder 2

Correspondence regarding the Samoa Guardian newspaper 1927-1928

Box 1, Folder 3

List of books that may have been or were part of Garber's library

Box 1, Folder 4

Hawiiana in the stock of John Howell Books 1972

Box 1, Folder 5

Miscellaneous 1921-1977

Scope and Contents

11 1/2 pages of a typed transcript (copyrighted) about the capture of the American Topsail-Schooner "Manila" by the German Auxiliary Cruiser "Seeadler" on July 8 1917. The Manila was sunk.
Letter to Mrs. Garber thanking her for a gift of a Samoan floor mat.
Letter to both Garbers from a shipmate of Dwight Wesley Garber.
Lists of hospital corpsmen who served at Ta'u. Garber made the notation that he was personally acquainted with four of them - Vrandenburg, Reed, Hardage, and Link.
Miscellaneous notes on various subjects (some of them hard to read).
Box 1, Folder 6

Programs for Graduation Exercise Class 1921, Samoan Hospital Training School for Samoan Nurses, Tutuila, American Samoa 1921-1924

Scope and Contents

Also includes Commissary Store Permit issued to Chief Pharmacist Mate D.W. Garber on August 14, 1924. The card was issued by USN Captain E.S Kellogg at the United States Naval Station, Tutuila, Samoa.
Box 1, Folder 7

Historical documents 1908-1924

Scope and Contents

United States Navy public health regulations, flag raising programs, a lease, ammunition sales regulations, certificate of land titles, orders to serve on board of medical examiners, proclamations, public safety announcements, and other documents. Some of the documents are in Samoan.
Box 1, Folder 8

Historical documents: American Samoa by D.W. Garber 1906-1960

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of typed and handwritten notes, as well as newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, and other materials pasted into the volume.
Box 1, Folder 9

United States Navy logbooks 1919-1921

Scope and Contents

Handwritten logbooks.
Box 1, Folder 10

Song books 1923-1924

Box 1, Folder 11

Handwritten story of Tlutiga

Scope and Contents

Written by someone identified as "John" by Dwight Wesley Garber. "John" was a prisoner in jail at Tutuila in October, 1924. Also written in Samoan.
Box 1, Folder 12

Mutinies and near-mutinies

Scope and Contents

Folder containing Garber's writings on a "Near mutiny on the U.S.S. Washington (U.S.S. Seattle) that took place while the USS Washington was lying at Galapogos Islands. Also several pages of notes on a mutiny that took place aboard the surrendered German ship Ostfriesland. Among the Americans aboard the ship were "Red" Cooper, John T. Dobbyn, Lyman A. Duckworth, Frank Everret and a man named Hayes. Garber transcribed Duckworth's narrative on January 28, 1928 off Gonaives and he has the narrative given to Garber by Chief Yeoman aboard the U.S.S. Arkansas at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on January 31, 1928. There are also notes on a semi-mutiny aboard the U.S.S. Georgia as told by Joe Baauer, Chief Printer, U.S.N. who was serving aboard the U.S.S. Georgia at the time.
Box 1, Folder 13

"Samoan Tales" transcribed by Garber

Scope and Contents

It is unknown if these stories were published by Garber.
Box 1, Folder 14

Samoan notes 1921

Box 2, Folder 1

Samoan notes, Upola stories 1922

Box 2, Folder 2

Samoa journal, 1924-1925 by D.W. Garber

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of typed and handwritten notes, as well as newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, and other materials pasted into the volume.
Box 2, Folder 3

Samoan diary and stories, 1924-1925 by D.W. Garber

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of typed and handwritten notes, as well as newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, and other materials pasted into the volume.
Box 2, Folder 4

Manu'a diary and stories, 1921-1923 by D.W. Garber

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of typed and handwritten notes, as well as newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, and other materials pasted into the volume.
Box 3, Folder 1

Observations in Manu'a, D.W. Garber

Box 3, Folder 2

Census, Manua Island 1924

Scope and Contents

Handwritten counts.
Box 3, Folder 3

Gafa ma tala o tuimanu'a by D.W. Garber

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of typed and handwritten notes, as well as newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, and other materials pasted into the volume.
The materials are in English and Samoan. According to Google Translate the title means, "genealogy and legends".
Box 3, Folder 4

Duplicate copies of materials loaned by Tuimanu Taliutafa IV 1924

Box 3, Folder 5

Flowering plants of Samoa. Erling Christophersen, Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin 128, Honolulu, Hawaii. 1935

Scope and Contents

The title on the spine reads, "Botanical exploration in Samoa D.W. Garber". The title on the front cover reads, "Flora Samoaensis, the Garber Collection".
Box 4, Folder 1

Bibliography of publications containing data or reference to Hawaiian flora and alphabetical index Hawaiian specimens with recapitulation

Box 4, Folder 2

Checklist of the flora of the Samoan Islands from the Botanishce and Zologische Ergenisse... Dr. Karl Rechinger 1910

Box 4, Folder 3

Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Volume XX. American Samoa. William Albert Setchell. 1924

Scope and Contents

The title on the spine reads, "Vegetation of American Samoa, Setchell".
Box 4, Folder 4

A revision of the pteridophyta of Samoa, by Carl Christensen, Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin 177 1943

Box 4, Folder 5

Samoan collection

Box 4, Folder 6

Geographical notes on the Samoan Islands - from Vol. 1 No. 2 Memoirs of B.P. Bishop Museum Index to the Islands of the Pacific by Dr. William T. Brigham 1900

Box 4, Folder 7

A contribution to Samoan and Tongan somatology 1921

Box 4, Folder 8

Public health notes: American Samoa

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of various publications about public health in American Samoa.
Box 4, Folder 9

Samoan report 1877

Scope and Contents

The agency of A.B. Steinberger in the Samoan Islands, message from the President of the United States. 44th Congress 2d session, House of Representatives, ex. doc. no. 44.
Box 5, Folder 1

Samoan affairs 1890

Scope and Contents

Bound volume titled Samoan affairs on the spine. The title page is, Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress...
Box 5, Folder 2

Our Navy, the Fleet Review and Leatherneck magazines 1921-1932

Box 5, Folder 3

Congressional Record and United States Census Bulletins 1920-1930

Box 5, Folder 4

News items on Samoa 1917-1926

Box 5, Folder 5

News items on Samoa 1920-1927

Box 5, Folder 6

News items on Samoa 1853, 1920-1982

Box 5, Folder 7

News items on Samoa 1917-1976

Box 5, Folder 8

Magazines and journals 1921-1977

Box 6, Folder 1

News items on Samoa 1921-1976

Box 6, Folder 2

News items and other materials about Robert Louis Stevenson, Hawaii, and Bully Hayes (part 1 of 2) 1909-1978

Box 6, Folder 3

News items and other materials about Robert Louis Stevenson, Hawaii, and Bully Hayes (part 2 of 2) 1909-1978

Box 7, Folder 1

Photographs

Box 7, Folder 2

Photographs

Box 7, Folder 3

Photographs

Box 7, Folder 4

Photographs

Box 7, Folder 5

Photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Garber aboard their schooner "Ajax"

Box 7, Folder 6

Photographs of Garber in Samoa

Box 7, Folder 7

Early photographs of Samoans

Box 7, Folder 8

Negatives

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