Postcards from Oceania : port towns, portraits and the picturesque during the colonial era
Description: "Photographically illustrated postcards reveal many insights on Pacific peoples and cultures, colonial rule, economic development and travel that support, but sometimes challenges histories based solely on documents, print and text. Postcards do reveal more about European perceptions and preconceived notions of the tropics, than about the indigenous subjects instructed carefully by the photographer. [...] Postcards from Oceania is about the colonial era, but also about how audiences defined the Pacific amidst the postcard deluge of belles, bananas, port towns, pirogues, and plantations."--cover.
Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Photographically illustrated postcards reveal many insights on Pacific peoples and cultures, colonial rule, economic development and travel that support, but sometimes…