In Vureas Bay - Vanua Lava - Banks Group

photograph

In Vureas Bay - Vanua Lava - Banks Group

1900-1906

160 mm. x 210 mm. (full plate)

Child

John Watt Beattie South and Western Pacific negatives

glass/inorganic material

Gelatin dry plate negative

Glass plate negative

Negative

Photographic techniques

Banks Islands (Vanuatu)/Library of Congress subject headings

Vanua Lava Island (Banks Islands, Vanuatu)

Melanesia--Missions

negatives/photographs/AAT Visual Works

Inscription on glass plate reads: "In Vureas Bay - Vanua Lava - Banks Group. 340 - Beattie - Hobart."

"Coast at Vureas, from Mission Landing" Catalogue of a series of photographs illustrating the scenery and peoples of the islands in the south and western Pacific, p.10.

John Watt Beattie, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, began photography in Hobart, Tasmania in 1882. He travelled to Melanesia in 1906 in the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross". Beattie was well known in Tasmania as a photographer/explorer.

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01 Dec 2023