[Thatched roof building in the South Sea Islands, Samoa]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Thatched roof building in the South Sea Islands, Samoa]
ca. 1855
Ambrotype with applied color
Image (1/2 plate): 3 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (8.3 × 11.4 cm)
Case: 6 × 4 3/4 × 7/8 in. (15.2 × 12.1 × 2.2 cm)
Purchase
1969.0204.0038
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 517
Entry 517 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Fine tinted half-plate ambrotype of an outdoor scene in South Sea Islands (Samoa) showing Missionary or Govt. thatched- roof cottage, with several men on porch. Luxurious tropical shrubbery. Very nice. Brot back by Capt. Edgar Waksman on one of his trips to Islands. 3.50 + tax.
Entry 517 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Fine tinted half-plate ambrotype of an outdoor scene in South Sea Islands (Samoa) showing Missionary or Govt. thatched- roof cottage, with several men on porch. Luxurious tropical shrubbery. Very nice. Brot back by Capt. Edgar Waksman on one of his trips to Islands. 3.50 + tax.
