Special Collections Department
George Handy Bates
Samoan Papers
Photographs Appendix
1886 - 1893
Manuscript Collection Number: 125
Accessioned: Gift of Daniel Moore
Bates, 1924.
Extent: 143 items
Content: Photographs, portraits,
images.
Access: The collection is open for research.
Processed: 1992, by Anita
Wellner.
Special Collections, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267
(302) 831-2229
Table of Contents
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Contents List for the Papers
- Photographs Appendix: Contents List
Contents List
Box - Plate - Description
Un-numbered portraits and unmounted images
(13 items)
6A
na Happy New Year [collage of images]. J. Davis,
Photo. Samoa.
On verso: Bates
na Port of Apia on the harbo[r]. M. & W. Garrett,
Wilmington, Del.
On verso: M & W Garrett / 720 Market St /
Wilmington
na Fiti Akia [portrait].
On verso: From G.H. Bates. Wilmington, Del.,
Feb. 1/89
na Seuwanutafa [portrait]
On verso: From G.H. Bates. Wilmington, Del.,
Feb. 1/89
na Malietoa [portrait]
On verso: Return to Mr. Geo. H. Bates,
Wilmington, Del., 1Feb 89
na Malietoa [portrait]
On verso: From Geo. H. Bates, Wilmington, Del.,
Feb 1/89
na Shirley W. Baker [sp? portrait]. Hanna, 134 Queen
Street, Auckland.
On verso: Tonga, Oct 21/86
na [Otto von Bismarck, portrait] am Arbeitstisch in
Friedrichsruhe 27.12.86. Originalaufnahme v. A.
Bockmann, Lübeck, ges geschützt, 1886.
na [portrait]. Loescher & Petsch, Hof-Photographen
S.M.D. Kaisers, Berlin, Leipzigerstrasse132,
Atelier parterre.
na Charles S. Scott 18/6/89 [portrait]. Fritz Leyde
& Co., Hofphotograph, Berlin N.W., Unter Den
Linden 59.
na John Bates Thurston [sp? portrait]. Taber, 8
Montgomery Street, Opposite the Palace and Grand
Hotels, San Francisco.
On verso: Geo. H. Bates, with Kindest regards
from his colleague – “in factibus infidelium” –
John Bates Thurston [sp?], July. 1887
na Nukualofa, Tonga. 183. Q.V.
On verso: G.T. Chapman, Bookseller & Stationer,
Auckland
na Nukualofa, Tonga. 188. Q.V..
On verso: G.T. Chapman, Bookseller & Stationer,
Auckland
Numbered, mounted photographs
(16 items)
6A 1 King’s Palace. Honolulu.
v
2 H.H..M. Kalakaua [portrait].
3 Queen of Hawaii [portrait].
v
4 King’s Palace. Honolulu.
[5] Throne room, Palace. Honolulu.
v
6 New Government building. Honolulu.
7 King Lunalilo [portrait]
v
8 Royal Palms. Honolulu.
9 Ancient Hawaiian idol.
v
10 Date Palm Avenue. Honolulu, Hospital grounds.
11 Banana tree.
v
12 Residence of Hon. C.R. Bishop. Honolulu.
13 Statue of Kamehaweha I. Honolulu.
V
14 Newman Avenue. Honolulu.
15 Hula Dancers
V
16 Hula Dancing girls
Numbered, mounted photographs
(14 items)
6B
17 Bank of Bishop & Co.. Honolulu
v
18 Honolulu from clock tower
19 Hawaiian Hotel – Honolulu
v
20 Residence of John H. Paty - Honolulu
21 Residence of John H. Paty - family group
v
22 View from North chamber window of the Paty’s
residence
23 View from East chamber window of Mr. Paty’s home
v
24 Grove cottage near Honolulu. Maruana Valley
25 Residence of Princess Ruth. Hawaii
v
26 Coconut grove, Weikiki
27 Kailuaua Falls
v
28 Kalewauwau. The house of the everlasting fire
29 Kilauea Crater in eruption
v
30 Lava flow, 1871
Numbered, mounted photographs
(73 items)
6C 31 Plate 31 with two images
31a 2612-Apia – Samoa – From the Sea
31b 2613-Apia – Samoa – From the Sea
v
32 Plate 32 with two images
32a 2614-Apia – Samoa – From the Sea
32b 2615-Apia – Samoa – From the Sea
33 Plate 33 with two images
33a 2616-Apia – Samoa – From the Sea
33b 2617-Apia – Samoa – From the Sea
(all Burton Bros., Dunedin. Copyright Series)
v
34 Fiti, Maid of the Village at Apia Samoa
35 Plate 35 with four images
35a Portrait of two Samoan men
35b Portrait of Samoan woman
35c Portrait of Samoan woman, “Faapia”
35d Portrait of Samoan woman
On verso: J.R. Bates, Wilmington, Del.
36 Plate 36 with three images
[36a] 2646-Samoan house, Apia. Kawa making
[36b] 2661 Samoan village, Pango- Pango.
On verso:
[36c] 2726 Banyan Tree, Mua, Tongatabu
(all Burton Bros., Dunedin. Copyright Series)
37 Plate 37 with four images
37a Samoan hut and children
37b Samoan hut
37c Samoan huts
37d Copra Making
v
38 House of King Malietoa
39 Interior of a Samoan Hut. Pago Pago
v
40 Plate 40 with two images
40a Group, Honolulu
40b Capt Hamilton’s picnic to the officers of the
U.S.S Mohican and the H.M.S Miranda. Samoa
6C 41 Plate 41 with three images
41a U.S flag raised over the Samoan flag … 1886
41b Street in Apia, Samoa
41c Street in Apia, Samoa
v
42 Harbor of Pago Pago. U.S coal pile at the left
43 Harbor of Pago Pago
v
44 Plate 44 with three images
44a Mauga, Head chief of the island of Tutuila, Samoa
44b Samoan maiden, with fine mat, their most valuable
possession
44c Samoan hut
45 Plate 45 with three images
45a Samoan chief, Asi
45b Asi’s daughter. Faapeia
45c Samoan village
v
46 Plate 46 with four images, “Samoan Views”
46a Cocoanut Trees
46b Cocoanut tree
46c Cocoanut Grove
46d Bridge near Apia
47 Plate 47 with five images
47a Two Samoan men: Maliepoa anohis, Tuapali or
talking man
47b Samoan hut
47c Samoan Canoes
47d Samoan women Bathing
47e Samoan Canoes alongside the U.S.S Mohican
v
48 Plate 48 with eight images, “Samoan Women”
48a Samoan woman
48b Samoan woman
48c Samoan woman
48d Samoan woman
48e Samoan woman
48f Samoan woman, Faatulia, wife of Seumanatafa
48g Samoan woman
48h Samoan woman
6C
47 Plate 47 with four images
47a 2619 Apia- Samoa (large portion of image cut out)
(Burton Bros. Dunedin. Copyright Series)
47b Portrait of a Samoan woman
47c Portrait of a Samoan woman
47d Portrait of two Samoan men
v
48 Plate 48 with nine images
48a Samoan woman
48b Samoan man, Malietoa
48c Samoan woman
48d Samoan woman
48e Samoan woman
48f Samoan woman
48g Samoan woman
48h Samoan woman
48i Samoan man
49 Ko Ene Afio, Ko Kigi Jioaji Tubou, King George of Tonga
(print, Wilsons & Horton, Auckland)
v
50 Plate 50 with two images
50a 2720 Tongan Woman, Nukualofa
50b 2724 Tongon girls
(both Burton Bros., Dunedin. Copyright Series)
51 2709 At the Palace of Nukualofa, Tongatabu:
Princess Salote Mafileo, Daughter of King George,
Princess Anazien, Daughter of the King, Jiaogi
Fatafehi, Governor of Hadaii
v
52 Plate 52 with two images
52a 2681 Wesleyen Church- Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga
52b 2695 Neiafu, Vavua, Tonga
53 Plate 53 with two images
53a 2707 Nukualofa, Tongatabu
53b 2700 Nukualofa, Tongatabu, From Zion
v
54 Plate 54 with two images
54a 2716 R.C Mission, Tonagatabu
54b 2704 Tubou College, Nukualofa, Tongatabu
(all Burton Bros., Dunedin. Copyright Series)
Numbered, mounted photographs
(28 items)
6D 55 Plate 55 with two images
55a 2698 “Zion,” Nukualofa, Tonga
55b 2710 A German merchant’s, Funcalor, Tongatabu
v
56 Plate 56 with two images
56a 2699 Nukualofa, Tongatabu, Form “Zion”
56b 2715 Near Nukualofa, Tongatabu
(all Burton Bros., Dunedin. Copyright Series)
57 2721 A Tongan Belle
v
58 Plate 58 with two images
58a 2713 Houses of Europeans, Tongatabu
58b 2701 Kualofa, Tongatabu
(all Burton Bros., Dunedin. Copyright Series)
59 Tongan Dance
v
60 Tongan view
61 U.S.S Mohican, Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga Islands
v
62 U.S.S Mohican from the hill behind Neiafu, Vavau,
Tonga Islands
63 The U.S.S Mohican in the Habor of Neiafu, Vavau,
Tonga Islands
v
66 Plate 66 with two images
[66a] [Grave of Michael H. McAdams, 1868-1886]
[66b] Views of the grave of a naval apprentice who
fell from the Royal Yard of the Mohican and was
killed in the harbor of Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga
Islands
67 Pool, Fiji
v
70 Tara Plantation, Fiji
71 Plate 71 with two images
71a Sunset view, Fiji
71b Human sacrifice stones, Fiji, commemorating the
human bodies of which part were eaten by Ra Hudre
Hudre Chief of Ruke Suke. Each stone repesents
one. He had reached 872 when he died. His son
tried to exceed the number and had reached 40.
v
72 Levuka, Fiji
6D (cont’d)
73 Plate 73 with two images
73a Mormon Baptism, Tahiti
73b Sunset view, Tahiti
v
74 Plate 74 with two images
74a Papeiti, Tahiti
74b View in Tahiti
75 Plate 75 with two images
75a House of the Justice Gillies, near Auckland, NZ
75b Park of the Justice Gillies, near Aucklnad, NZ
v
76 Plate 76 with two images
76a Views in the Garden of the Justice Gillies,
Auckland, NZ
76b Meryta Sinclairii (sp?), Mr. Justice Gillies
Garden, Rockalnd … Auckland
77 Landscape view from the house of the Justice Gellies,
Auckland NZ
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