IDNO

LS.120758.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "New Britain, Bismarck Archip.
Herbertshohe.
Fish traps (2 slides)
14 shows anchor basket, filled with blocks of coral, & cables." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago; New Britain; Gazelle Peninsula; Kokopo [Herbertshohe]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Lucas, Walter Henry

Collector / Expedition

Woodford, Charles Morris (Esq.); Royal Geographical Society

Date

1899

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Simpson, Royal Geographical Society

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image in the collections of Royal Geographical Society, reference rgs055418, with the following information: "Fish traps, anchors and cables
Fish traps, anchors and cables, Location of photograph noted as 'Herbertshohe, New Britain', Papua New Guinea, 1899." [Image available at gettyimages.co.uk, JD 14/01/2025]

Photographer: In 'New Maps'. The Geographical Journal, vol. 14, no. 6, 1899, pp. 691–96. is the following entry: "Photographs.
Pacific Islands. Lucas.
Eighty-two Photographs of British and German New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Group, and New Hebrides. Taken by W. A. Lucas,
of Balmain, N.S.W. Presented by C. M. Woodford, Esq.
This set of photographs comprises 82 photographs of scenery and the natives of the Western Pacific, as will be seen by the following list:- ... (22) Fishtraps, anchors, and cables, Herbertshohe." [Source: JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774645, JD 14/01/2025]

Related Archive: Charles Morris Woodford papers and photographs on the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands, 1886-1918, Canberra, Pacific Research Archives, Australian National University Archives (hereinafter Wood
ford papers), ANUA 481. Included in this archive are photographs by Walter Henry Lucas. [JD 14/01/2025]

Bibliographical Reference: In Moore, Clive. 'Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire'. ANU Press, 2019., p.104, Moore notes
"During the final decades of the nineteenth century, cameras began to be used on some labour trade, missionary and naval vessels and by visiting professional photographers and others—usually wealthy amateurs.
At least 2,000 photographs have survived from the early decades of the protectorate. ... Walter Lucas from BP [Burns Philp and Company] also took a number of early photographs".
Walter H. Lucas, was Burns Philp’s ‘island manager’ in Sydney (p.97). [ http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvq4c1bt, JD 14/01/2025]

Bibliographical Reference: In Lawrence, David Russell. "Expansion of the Protectorate 1898–1900." The Naturalist and His ‘Beautiful Islands’: Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific, ANU Press, 2014, pp. 197–216., Moore writes "In 1899, following on from the tortuous negotiations over Samoa, the northernSolomon Islands of Choiseul, Isabel, the Shortland Islands, Fauro and Ontong Java (Leueneuwa) became part of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (Woodford papers PMB 1290 Items 8/19/2 & 8/19/3). With this proclamation in October 1900 Woodford finally had all ‘those splendid islands’ under his administration (The Advertiser 26 October 1900; The Sydney Daily Telegraph 26 October 1900; The Manawatu [New Zealand] Herald 21 November 1899: 2). The proclamation that the islands were now British was also announced in the Sydney press in an article by Walter Henry Lucas from Burns Philp illustrated with a photomontage of 12 images, 11 by Lucas and one of the ship’s company raising of the British flag taken by or belonging to Woodford... (The Sydney Mail & New South Wales Advertiser 3 November 1900: 1040 and 1051)." (pp.197-198). [JD 14/01/2025]