Title:

South Pacific photograph album, circa 1901-1902

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

140+ b/w photographs of a voyage, probably by a British passenger embarking at London, on the New Zealand ship S.S. Rakaia. Images along the way include Tenerife (street sweepers, bullock cart, bull ring, harbor, panorama of Santa Cruz; fruit hawkers at Laguna); shipboard; Port Chalmers, New Zealand (panorama, streets); New Zealand countryside and friends, the Payne family; images of Robert Scott's ship Discovery in dry dock for repairs in Lyttleton Harbour, on the way to explore Antarctica, Nov. 1901. Also, images of an unusual multi-species 'menagerie' race involving penguins, pigs, lambs, and frogs. Numerous views of Fiji and inhabitants, including Indian laborers brought by the British to work on sugar plantations; Auckland (harbor, panoramas); Rotorua (Whakarewarewa geyser, government sanitarium, Maori men, women, and children at pools); Wellington (panorama, New Zealand troops leaving for South Africa during the Second Boer War); Canterbury (flax, pampas grass, eucalyptus trees, Canterbury River); Timaru (building the breakwater); Bluff (harbor, giant ferns, king penguins from Macquarie Island); Cape Horn; Montevideo, Uruguay (wharf, street scenes, gardens, news boys); Fernando de Noronha islands (Brazilian convict station 200 miles off the coast of South America); and Cape Verde Islands (St Vincent harbor, coaling boats, boys selling shells).

Date:

1901 (issued)

The collection is open for research.

Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.

Cite as: [Identification of item], South Pacific photograph album, Bernath Mss 283. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

0.3 linear feet

English

Origin:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

The collection is open for research.

Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.