Beschreibung:

Australia & Papua New Guinea. An album containing approximately 190 photographs, c. 1917-20, gelatin silver prints including some real photo postcards and mostly postcard size (8 x 13.5cm) or slightly smaller, pasted as multiples onto rectos and versos of paper album leaves with ink captions, approximately 23 photos loose including 10 real photo postcards, some with inscribed details to versos and some with stamp of photographer John S. Hoskins of Sydney, a total of approximately 60 Australia and 130 Papua New Guinea interest, the Australian photographs mostly pasted at the front of the album with a few at the end, including scenes of the Timber Lands of Atherton Tablelands [near Cairns, Queensland] including timber felling, cutting sugar cane, Mission people and children, a broken jetty at Cardwell after the Cyclone, 1917, Crossing the Johnstone River by Ferry, etc., three Aboriginals detained for murder of a missionary in North Queensland; the Papua New Guinea photographs predominantly of indigenous people, activities including sago pith beating, gathering nuts at Gili Gili, latex rubber factory production (including three larger photographs, 10.5 x 17cm, on two separate album mounts), the Vermauri River and Plantation, Laloki copper miners, Albino native of Trobriand Islands, Port Darwin natives, Villagers of Isuleilei, etc., contemporary linen-backed boards, soiling and wear, backstrip deficient and covers near detached, oblong folio (25 x 30cm), together with a large collection of approximately 450 related roll film negatives, 8 x 13.5cm, many loose and unsorted and unidentified but including over 200 in three contemporary negative film wallets, featuring similar Mission scenes and people, farming, fishing, working and village scenes, scenes from both Australia and Papua New Guinea, one of the cloth wallets with ink signature of J.S. Hoskins, and presumably all taken by him, some negative sleeves with captions and one wallet with legible index at rear, wallets damp frayed but contents largely unaffected (Qty: an album & 450 negatives) An interesting and large photographic archive covering various economic activities with indigenous people in both Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea. The photographs would appear to have mostly been taken by John S. Hoskins of Sydney between around 1917 and 1920. Commercial rubber was first planted in Papua New Guinea in 1903 with most production in the Australian Territory of Papua (now the Southern Region of Papua New Guinea). The Australian interest in copper mining in Papua began in earnest around 1912.