Images from Tahiti

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Images from Tahiti

93.R.90

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Images from Tahiti, Series I. 1870-1895

Images from Tahiti (digitized version): 1870-1895

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Arrangement

In no discerable order. Collection arranged by cataloger.

Mounted photographs, 1870-1891

Spitz, Charles, Le Palais Royal, tendu de draperies de deuil, après la mort du roi, 93.R.90-1 1891

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Title from ink caption on mount along right edge of image.

Spitz, Charles, Interieur du Palais Royal, chambre mortaire, 93.R.90-2 1891

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Title from ink caption on mount along right edge of image. Wet stamp in red ink on verso: Photographie instantanée G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti.

Spitz, Charles, Pōmare V, dernier roi de Tahiti, sur son lit de mort, 93.R.90-3 1891

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Title from ink caption on mount along right edge of image. Caption continues...né à Taravaõ le 3 Novembre 1839, roi de Tahiti le 24 Septembre 1877, decedé à Papeete le 12 Juin 1891. Wet stamp in red ink on verso: Photographie instantanée G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti.

Spitz, Charles, Le char funebre quittant a Palais Royal, 93.R.90-4 1891

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Title from annotation written on verso. The image is made from two glass plate negatives.

Photographer unknown, Tamatoa a-tu Pōmare, frère du Roi Pōmare V, 93.R.90-5 between 1870 and 1881

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Title from annotation on verso. Portrait of Tamatoa V, of Raiatea and Taha'a. The photographer is likely either Charles or Sophia Hoare.

Spitz, Charles, Terutapunui, frère du Roi Pōmaré, 93.R.90-6 between 1880 and 1888

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Title from annotation on verso.

Spitz, Charles, Admiral Marc de Saint Hilaire commandant le Duquesne, 93.R.90-7 between 1885 and 1888,

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Title from annotation on verso. The unarmored steamer, Duquesne, the flagship of the French navy's Pacific squadron, toured the South Pacific from 1885 to 1888. During its anchorage in Papeete King Pōmare V made a state visit to the ship.

Spitz, Charles, Cardella, maire de la ville de Papeete, 93.R.30-8 1880s

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Title from annotation on verso.

Spitz, Charles,Tahitienne, demi-blanche anglaise, 93.R.30-9 1880s

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Title from annotation on mount below image.

Spitz, Charles, Naufrage d'une goèlette sur les récifs de Papeete, 93.R.90-10 1880s

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Title from annotation on verso. Wet-stamp in red ink on verso: Photographie instantanée G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti.

Photographs from disbound album, 1870-1895

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The album pages are from a disbound album previously owned by Joseph Armstrong Baird and are annotated on the mounts in his hand. Annotation by Baird in the back of the album reads: These are by Charles Spitz who was there when Gauguin was in Polynesia. Are similar photos in a series of five volumes by Louis Agassiz seen at Lowell 1976. Severson says mid-1880's. Note inserted in album: Stephen White, L.A. has 125 Spitz photos (& my two rare Tahitian cats, that I traded to him).

Hoare, Sophia, La famille royal, Papette, Tahiti, 93.R.90-12 1885

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Title from photograph. This is an oval-shaped photomontage of individual oval-shaped portraits of members of the royal family of Tahiti. Two rings of portraits surround a portrait of Pōmare I. The montage was created by French photographer Sophei Hoare, from earlier paintings and photographs by others, including Charles Hoare, as well as from photographs taken by herself.

Spitz, Charles, Papeete, 93.R.90-13 1887 or 1888

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Title from annotation on mount below image. View looking down on Papeeete and its harbor.

Spitz, Charles, [Lighthouse at Venus Point], 93.R.90-14 1880s

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Annotation on mount belwo image: Venus Point Tahiti.

Spitz, Charles, [Street View, Tahiti], 93.R.90-15 1880s

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Annotation on mount below image: Tahiti.

Spitz, Charles, Danse tahitienne la Upa Upa, 93.R.90-16 1880s

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Title and date from Grob Gallery exhibition, Gauguin, Tahiti and Photography. Annotation on mount below image: Tahiti.

Hoare, Sophie (?), [Four Tahitians], 93.R.90-17 1870s

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Annotation on mount below image: Tahiti. Studio portrait of a young Tahitian man and two young Tahitian women, seated, with another young man standing behind them and carrying fruit on a pole.

Spitz, Charles, [Portrait of the Pueu Family], 93.R.90-18 approximately 1895

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Annotation on mount below image: Tahiti. The family is sitting in front of a thatched house.

Spitz, Charles, Tahitien pêchant au harpon dans les reifs à Afaahiti, 93.R.90-19 1889

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Title and date from Grob Gallery exhibition, Gauguin, Tahiti and Photography. Annotation on mount below image: Tahiti.

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