Marist Mission, France-USA-Italy
"Rade de Port Vila, l'Eglise et l'Ecole. Nouvelles-Hébrides".
Mission des Pères Maristes en Océanie.
Sous-procure des missions - 6, rue des bagneux, Paris VI°
The following cards possibly are of missionary origin too. The catholic "Church of the Sacred Heart" in Port-Vila - built in 1903 by the Rev. Father R. Rouge - burnt down completely on 30 November 1922.
"What remained after the fire of the Pro Cathedral, Vila New Hebrides".
editor unknown.
"POST-VILA - 1929 - La petite BRETAGNE aux Nouvelles Hébrides
editor unknown
"Vicariat Apostolique des Nouvelles-Hébrides - nothing more known.
L'oeuvre apostolique
Paris
(new 2/2019)
(new 2/2019)
Souvenir card 1937
(new 12/21)
SOUVENIR DU CINQUANTENAIRE DE LA MISSION DES NOUVELLES HEBRIDES ( 1887 - 1937 )
Editeur : Ed. N.-D des Anges 6 , rue Jean-Ferrandi Paris (N.-D: Notre Dame). ("SeSi" coll.)
Souvenir card 1937
(new 12/21)
Souvenir card 1937
(new 12/21)
ST. JOSEPH CHURCH View from Residency looking over the harbour at Vila , N.H.
Color photograph by John Lum & Fung Kuei Editeur : CHROMCAST Lithographed by Hickory Hill Folks , Bath , Ohio , USA. ("SeSi" coll.)
Souvenir card 1937
(new 12/21)
Postcards from Australia & New Zealand - editors unknown
British Constabulary (native), - Port Vila
Editor unknown. Postcard from Australia
About 1910 - "SeSi" coll.
The Hospital, Ambrim
Editor unknown. Postcard from New Zealand
20 April 1911 Albury N.S.W. - "SeSi" coll.
(new 9/2019)
(new 9/2019)
L'œuvre de la propagation de la Foi
32 "Le St. Joseph" Bateau des Missionaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides. Fides Photo
L'oeuvre de la propagation de la Foi.
Lyon, 12 rue sala
A health card - editor unknown so far
A postcard from the John Paton organisation I think - printed in Germany
John Paton digging a well
(new7/2020)
Collection P.B. Cherbourg - nothing else known to me so far
L.B.F. Noumea = Louis Balland et Fils (Informations thanks to Fred Petit, Vila
20 "NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Indigeènes de Tanna"
L.B.F.
41 "NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Franceville - Embarquement des régimes de bananes"
L.B.F. -- I think printed by Simi-Bromure. A. Breger frères, 9, rue Thénard, Paris
Reproduction interdite - (Noumea)
(new 05/2018)
(new 10/2020)
"Agence Générale des Colonies" - nothing else known to me about this editor so far.
unknown publisher #3
Very old postcards (about 1904) - editor unknown
Caption italic with number
"Nlles Hébrides - 47 Retour de la Pêche."
editor unknown
"51 - Types Néo-Hébridais".
editor unknown.
"94 - Types Nehobridais".
editor unknown.
(new 8/2020)
unknown publisher #4 (CA or GA or AC or AG, Nouvelle Calédonie)
Very old postcards - editor unknown
Caption italic with number
"Nlles Hébrides - 51 Couple canaque."
editor unknown
unknown publisher #8
Very old postcard - editor unknown
With number, about 1904
unknown publisher #9
Old postcard - editor unknown
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - NÉO HÉBRIDAIS"
editor unknown
unknown publisher #5
Very old postcard (about 1900 - seen used 1902) - editor unknown
"Poppinée Néo-Hébridaise."
editor unknown
Société Lumière, Lyon
Very old photo-postcard - editor: Société Lumière, Lyon
unknown editor
PACIFIQUE : Good quality for 1908
Coll. Barrau, Nouméa
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Un Coprak (sic!) Maker traficant avec les Indigènes d'Ambrym."
Coll. Barrau.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Intérieur de la Brousse - Ils Auba." - about 1910
Coll. Barrau.
Cocotier
Délimitation
Indigènes
Tenue de guerre
Indigènes de Malicolo
Indigènes de Malicolo
A. Bergeret & Cie., Nancy,(1898-1905) about 1904
Albert Bergeret *8.12.1859 +1932
Bergeret 1898
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Malicolo - Nambués et danses d'enfants. Les Nambués sont des troncs d'arbres creuses au couteau qui servent de cloches
dans les cérémonies."
undivided back
Bergeret A. & Cie., Nancy.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Danse guerrière."
undivided back
Bergeret A. & Cie., Nancy.
Another edition: "NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Type de guerrier chrétien." - other typeset in caption
Bergeret A. & Cie., Nancy.
Another edition: "NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Aoba - Femme en costume de Fête, revêtue d'une natte fine en feuilles de pandanus."
undivided back
Bergeret A. & Cie., Nancy.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Paysage - A droite: Fougère arborescente de 15 - 20 mètres de hauteur.
Bergeret A. & Cie., Nancy.
C.B. & Co., Ltd. S.
( = Collins Brothers & Co. Ltd., 106 Clarence St.; Sydney,
most likely photographed by Talma & Co, Melbourne & Sydney)
Pentecost Woman Carrying Provisions, New Hebrides"
"Graphic" series, C.B. & Co., Ltd. S. - Australia.
William Henry Caporn, Nouméa. He often signed as W.H.C. only.
He had a clothes and tobacco shop in Noumea.
(source: philippe bourgoin)
He was active there from about 1901 to 1914. He published the first New Caledonian picture postcards in 1901. (source:
Crane Emmanuelle). In 1923 he lived in 120 Charles-Street, Ryde, N.S.W., Australia and had a lollies and candy fruit shop..
William Henry Caporn *1871 - + 12. August 1951. He was knocked down by a car when attempting to cross a road.
W.H. Caporn
20 March 1915
(new 8/2022)
"14. - Deux canaques ayant des Manous - Nouvelles Hébrides - Two natives dressed with trade prints - New Hebrides."
W. Henry Caporn, éditeur.
J.W. Beattie, Hobart, Tasmania.
(= John Watt Beattie, 1859 - 1930. Beattie toured the Islands from 25 August to 10 November 1906 on the Melanesian Mission Yacht "Southern Cross". The photos in the Banks Group
were were taken around 24 September 1906 according to his diary.)
Beattie photocard
Beattie photocard
Beattie photocard
Beattie photocard
Beattie photocard
Beattie - Hobart - Melanesian Series - Raga woman and child. New Hebrides - Rotary Photo EC - Nr. 3 Beattie Hobart
Published by The Melanesian Mission, Church House, Westminster. Printed in Britain
Klinger collection
Beattie photocard
Art series Australia
about 1905
"Landing stores Erromanga New Hebrides"
Art Series Copyright - Printed in Australia -
F.D. à Thio
(New Caledonia - no details known so far)
R. Domège, Périgueux
France - maybe the son of the Photographer Oscar Domège in Pégueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Caféier sous bois"
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - La rade de Port-Vila"
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Ilot de Iririki"
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Cocotiers et banian"
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Cocotiers et bétail."
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Lagon."
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Tabou."
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Chemin sous bois"
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Palituviers."
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Hutte canaque."
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Un coin de la côte à Épi."
R. Domège édit., Périgueux.
Hume
(Maybe the photographer & editor is Mr. Frank L. Hume, a lay assistant for the missionary Frank Paton, who was in Tanna from 1900-1902. No other details known so far)
"TWO TANNA WOMEN, NEW HEBRIDES,
Hume's Copyright 29
"TWO TANNA WOMEN, NEW HEBRIDES,
Hume's Copyright 200
H&B = Harding & Billing, 250 Pittstreet, Sydney, (in 1909, in 1905: 12 Spring St., Sydney)
Harding & Billing, "fine art publishers" in Sydney at the beginning of the 20th century. Not much more known.
"NEW HEBRIDIANS"
Harding & Billing
"New Hebridean Christian Family" younger than the PC at left as the logo of H&B is newer.
Harding & Billing
"New Hebridean Women" also newe H&B logo.
Harding & Billing
Collection H. Guérin
Maison d'Art Colonial, Eugène Bistaque, 51, rue de Maubeuge, Paris 9ème)
The cards were sold in small booklets with all 20 of the series.
Numbers present:
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20
Front
(new Dec 2018)
Reverse
(new Dec 2018)
"4. NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES. - Indigènes en forêt. - Natives in the woodland."
Cliché Maison d'Art Colonial
"13. NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES. - Port Vila (Ile Vaté). - Coin de la rade. - A nook inj the roadstead."
Cliché Maison d'Art Colonial
"18. NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES. - Port Vila (Ile Vaté). - Habitation d'un planteur. - A planter's dwelling." (The house of Mr. Frouin)
Cliché Maison d'Art Colonial
MP. Catala (frères), édit & imp., 31 rue de Bellefond, Paris. Distributed by "UNIS-FRANCE"
(sometimes I'm not sure if a card is from Catala but they seem to have serial numbers without a full stop.) Many cards use the same negatives as the cards by Maison d'Art Colonial.
Numbers present:
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23
"5 -- NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES (Ile Malicolo) - Mission catholique de Port Sandwich"
Catala Frères, Paris
"6 -- NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Femmes indigènes en toilette européenne"
Catala Frères, Paris
"7 -- NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES (Ile Vaté) - Panorama de Bellevue"
Catala Frères, Paris
"9 -- NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES (Ile Vaté) - Chapelle de Port-Vila"
Catala Frères, Paris
"11 -- NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Groupe d'indigènes"
Catala Frères, Paris
"13 -- NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Allée des cocotiers dans une cacaoyère"
Catala Frères, Paris
"16 -- NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES (Ile Vaté) - Panorama de Port-Vila"
Catala Frères, Paris
Chocolaterie-confiserie Cantaloup-Catala, Perpignan (1887-1962)
Cantaloup-Catala produced collection series of images and series of panorama postcards from all over the world.
This one here is number R 564
(new 2 Jan 2019)
G. de Béchade, éditeur, Nouméa
(Gabriel de Béchade, 1858-1917, Société des Établissememnts de Béchade.)
Numbers present: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - and - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30
"Campagne du "Kersaint" : Indigènes des Nouvelles-Hébrides" - same image but no number and no Vao anymore.
possibly G. de Béchade, éditeur, Nouméa
(new 4/2019)
"Campagne du "Kersaint" : 22. - NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Pointe Dip"
G. de Béchade, éditeur, Nouméa
"Campagne du "Kersaint" : 23. - NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Pointe Dip"
G. de Béchade, éditeur, Nouméa
"Campagne du "Kersaint" : 25. - NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Indigène d'Ambrym"
G. de Béchade, éditeur, Nouméa
"Campagne du "Kersaint" : 26. - NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Arrestation d'une tribu"
G. de Béchade, éditeur, Nouméa
"Campagne du "Kersaint" : 27. - NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Débarquement d'assassins à Port-Vila"
G. de Béchade, éditeur, Nouméa
Édition veuve G. de Béchade, Nouméa
(I suppose that this are the editions after the death of Gabriel de Béchade, 1858-1917, Société des Établissememnts de Béchade.)
"Campagne du "Kersaint" - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Tribu de VAO"
Édition veuve G. de Béchade, Nouméa
"Campagne du "Kersaint" - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Ile IRIRIKI, vue de Port-Vila"
Édition veuve G. de Béchade, Nouméa
"Campagne du "Kersaint" - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Plage de VAO"
Édition veuve G. de Béchade, Nouméa
unknown editor - maybe Béchade too.
"Campagne du Kersaint - Femmes des Nouvelles-Hébrides"
unknown editor - maybe Bechade. Kersaint is written without speech marks.
"Campagne du Kersaint - 2. Milice Française des Nouvelles-Hébrides"
unknown editor - maybe Bechade. Kersaint is written with speech marks.
(new 8/2020)
(new Dec 2018)
du Kersaint
(new Oct 2020)
(new Dec 2018)
Pilou-pilou
C.F.N.H. (Comptoir Français des Nouvelles-Hébrides, Nouméa)
These cards sometimes come with the inscription "E.B." too.
Numbers present: 101 - 102 - 103 - 104 - 105 - 106 - 107 - 108 - 109 - 110 - 111 - 112 - 113 - 114 - 115 - 116 - 117 - 118 - 119 - 120 - 121 - 122 - 123 - 124 - 125 - 126 - 127 - 127 - 128 - 129
"102. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Une Vue prise à Port-Vila" - variety E.B.
E.B., Nouméa
"105. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Indigènes d'Aisse - Santo" - variety
C.F.N.H. Nouméa
"106. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Jeunes Boys de Paouma" - variety
E.B., Nouméa
"107. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Canaques en pirogue" - variety E.B.
C.F.N.H., Nouméa
"110. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Place de Danse - Ouala" - E.B."
E.B. Nouméa
"111. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Poccas à dents - Ouala" - variety E.B.
E.B., Nouméa
"112. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Présents offerts au Chef de l'Ilot Ouala
C.F.N.H., Nouméa
"115. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Un Village d'Ambrym" - variety
C.F.N.H. Nouméa
"116. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Indigènes d'Ambrym" - a variety
C.F.N.H., Nouméa
"119. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Pirogue de guerre - Ilot Toman" a variety
C.F.N.H., Nouméa
"119. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Pirogue de guerre - Ilot Toman" a variety E.B.
E.B., Nouméa
"121. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Cascade de Pentecôte"
E.B., Nouméa
"122. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Bushmen nain de Mallicola
C.F.N.H., Nouméa
"123. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Chez un Colon d'Api"
E.B., Nouméa
"127. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Femme d'Ambrym"
C.F.N.H., Nouméa
"129. - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Vue g6eacute;nérale de la plantation Lançon, à Api" - a variety
C.F.N.H., Nouméa
Ile Ambrym
E.B.
(new 4/2019)
T.J. McMahon - Australia
(Thomas J. McMahon (1864-1933) published photos of the South Seas Islands in "Austalasian" in 1916/17 and in 1917-22 in "World Wide Magazine".)
J. Raché éditeur, Nouméa
(Postcards are not numbered. Many of the Raché postcards can be found with the faked 11 AOUT 08 French Port-Vila postmark and the Syndicat Français des Nouvelles-Hébrides cinderellas.)
"Tribu Canaque - NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES"
J. Raché Éditeur, Nouméa
"Pirogue des NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES"
J. Raché édit., Nouméa
"NOUVELLES HÉBRIDES - Embarquement de bananes de Franceville"
J. Raché édit., Nouméa
Braun et Cie. TBE No. 11- copy of a Raché card - no details known so far
11 "Ile Api - Une Tribu"
carte with the same image as Raché's "Cases indigènes" above.
Unknown so far #1 - about 1906
(Postcards are not numbered. The caption always starts with "Nouvelles-Hébrides. --" in an old time font.
Many of these postcards can be found with a New Caledonian stamp but are untravelled. They are possibly Raché
cards too.)
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Dans un village indigéne / In a native village."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Cueilleurs de Café / Coffe Pickers."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Une vue à Vila / a view in Vila"
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Rue de Commerce à Vila 1903."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Femmes indigènes."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Rade de Vila / Vila Harbour."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Rue du Commerce, Vila."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Un indigène de Sancto-Espiritu / A Santo Native."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Entrée du Maewa Cone / Land entrence to Maewa Cone."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. -- Un beau chou, Vila / A big cabbage, Vila."
Editor unknown so far, Nouméa
'B & F' or on some cards 'B et F'
(I don't know anything about this producer
of postcards. He must have made more than these of the New Hebrides. I saw one card
picturing the Messageries Maritimes building in Noumea. The flag of the Noumea shipping company
Ballande et Fils showed the letters "B & F" so they possibly published these cards.
These photos here were possibly made by Monsieur Charvin, Captain of the steamer PACIFIQUE
or by Mr. Wilson le Couteur, official interpreter of the Joint Court who was on board the PACIFIQUE too
when she passed the desaster. Capitain of the U.C.N.C. ('Union Commerciale et
de Navigation Calédonienne') steamer FRANCE in December 1913 was Monsieur Morin and his
supercargo Monsieur Choyer. They rescued hundreds of people from Ambrym.)
Picture postcards printed in England: origin H.M.S.Sealark
H.M.S.Sealark, a survey-ship, left Sydney harbour on 24 April 1914 for a journey to the New Hebrides. She arrived at Vila on May 3, and after coaling at Burns Philp hulk,
left for Ambrym on May 6 with a view to correcting the chart. This was necessary on account of the violent volcanic eruptions in 1913 which had completely altered the
shoreline and soundings and had created new anchorages. There was volcanic activity in 1914 too. The captain of H.M.S. Sealark detected ten small active volcanoes at the
site where Dr. Bowie's hospital stood before the 1913 eruption. At end of June 1914 H.M.S. Sealark proceeded to the Solomon Islands.
Images thanks to Fred Petit, Vila, Vanuatu
June 1914
June 1914
June 1914
June 1914
June 1914
D. Gubbay, Nouméa
The postcards were printed at Imprimerie E. Le Deley in Paris.
Numbers present: 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 9 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 30 - 35 - 63 - 65
"5. PORT-VILA - NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Vue après le cyclone." - on reverse: "Imp. E. le Deley, Paris"
Editor D. Gubbay, Nouméa
"26. Habitation d'un Colon aux NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES"
Editor D. Gubbay, Nouméa - printed at E. Le Deley, Paris
(new Jan 2018)
"35. PORT-VILA - NOUVELLES-HÉBRIDES - Habitation d'un Colon."
I think that this is the same building as the one at left!
Editor D. Gubbay, Nouméa
Maroney
I have no further information about this publisher.
Numbers present: 1 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 8 - 9 and some without numbers
"(4). Nouvelles-Hébrides. - Première habitation d'un colon."
Editor: Maroney
"(8) Nouvelles-Hébrides. - Arrivée de nouveaux recrues à bord d'une Goelette" - seen used 1906
Editor: Maroney
"(9). Nouvelles-Hébrides. - Premier debrousse d'un colon"
Editor: Maroney
"New Hebrides. - A planter and his native labourers"
Maybe the english version from Maroney of the card at right
Editor: Maroney ??
unknown coll.
"Nouvelles-Hébrides. - Planteur à Vaté et ses engagés."
Editor: Maroney
unknown coll.
"Un Chef Indigène de Santo, Nlle Hébrides"
Editor: Maroney ?
coll. unknown
"New Hébrides. - A Native Belle." - same image, maybe not from Maroney but copied
Editor: Maroney ?
coll. unknown coll.
unknown publisher #7
Very old postcards - editor unknown
about 1906, caption mostly containing "Nlle. Hebrides".
Many images are the same as with Maroney above so these here could be from him too.
The same card but with caption in French: "Nouvelles Hebrides. - Prmiere habitation d'un colon."
editor unknown.
"Un champ de culture et Caférie, Nlle. Hebrides"
editor unknown
"Tuyaux en bambou servant de conduite d'eau aux Nouvelles Hebrides, femme Canaque".
editor unknown.
"New Hebrides. Native recruits on board Malakula".
editor unknown.
"Un groupe d'Indigènes civilisés au bord de la mer avec leurs pirogues. Nlle Hébrides"
editor unknown
"Plusieurs Perogues Indigenes a l'abri du (mer Nlle. Hébrides)"
editor unknown
unknown publisher #2
The cards are rather thick and of low quality. They may have been published in the late 1930s are made by "Photo Dunn", New Caledonia.
"Rue de Port Vila"
Editor: unknown #2
"Village indigène de l'ilot Vila"
Editor: unknown #2
"Danseurs indigènes d'Aoba"
Editor: unknown #2
"Village indigène de l'ile Vila"
Editor: unknown #2
"Grand chef indigène des big nambas de Mallicolo"
Editor: unknown #2
"Jeunes filles de Port- Vila"
Editor: unknown #2
"Cuisine des travaileurs indigènes"
Editor: unknown #2
"Une double pirogue indigèe met à voile"
Editor: unknown #2
"In the New Hebrides - a native with his 'fetiches'"
Editor: unknown #2
From the coll. Petit I have some postcards signed "Photo Dunn" which look exactly like these here. I have seen some postcards by "Photo Dunn" with New Caledonian views. Maybe this was a small New Caledonian publisher in the late 1930s, his name could have been "Frederick Dunn".
Photo Dunn
Caption: Photo Dunn, Aux Nouvelles-Hébrides - Un indigène des Nouvelles Hébrides avec ses fétiches. In the New Hebrides, a native with his fetiches. (Coll. F. Petit)
Photo Dunn
Photo Dunn
Photo Dunn
Caption: Photo Dunn, Aux Nouvelles-Hébrides - Plantation sur la cote. Plantation on the coast. (Coll. F. Petit)
Photo Dunn
Photo Dunn
Photo Dunn
Photo Dunn
Photo Dunn
Caption on reverse: Photo Dunn, Un indigène des Nouvelles-Hébrides - A native of the New Hebrides, at home in the palms
Photo Dunn
Quite often real photo postcard show up which are just more or less private photos made with postcard paper. Somtimes they show objects or events which are not presented in the normal professional editor series and are rather interesting.
Iririki Island
Iririki Island with British Resident Commissionar's residence seen from Vila. 1930s maybe
Iririki Island
Vila harbour
Vila harbour. 1930s maybe
Vila harbour
Vila harbour
Vila harbour. 1930s maybe
Vila harbour
On Vao Island
Vila Church
Benediction of Vila Church 1924 maybe
Vila Church
Saint André
Saint André in Vila Harbour. 1920s maybe
Saint André
Vila Bay
Volcano Yasur Tanna
Volcano Yasur Tanna. 1913
Yasur Tanna
Volcano Yasur Tanna
S.S. Makambo 1929 pssibly
Yasur Tanna
Station Bourcois
Station Bourdois à Tagabé, Ile Vaté
Station Bourcois
Children Tanna 1915
Children Tanna 1915
Tanna 1915
The following postcards are of Japanese origin. (Information thanks to Fred Petit, Vila)
Ambrym
Women at Dip Point, Ambrym. About 1910 maybe
Ambrym
Taboos
The following two postcards are promotional cards from the MUSQUIT Company. Images thanks to Abacus Auctions
A Council of War
A Council of War, Sandwich Islands, New Hebrides
With compliments from THE MUSQUIT CO., 21 Elisabeth Street, Sydney
reverse
Malicolo Tribe
A South West Bay Tribe, Malicolo Islnad, New Hebrides
With compliments from THE MUSQUIT CO., 21 Elisabeth Street, Sydney
reverse
Ad of MUSQUIT 1006