Manuscripts
French Polynesia, Fiji, Samoa, 1908
- Description
134 photographs, many of native huts and villages. Also featured are Charmian London, Ernest "Nature Man" Darling, Martin Johnson, and Jack London. Places include Tahiti, the Marquesas, Savii, Papeete Tahiti, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Samoa, Suva, Manua, and the Snark at sea. Also shown is the ship S.S. Mariposa.
- Production date
- 1866-1977.
- Call number
- JLP 429
- Provenance
- The nucleus of the collection was purchased by Henry Huntington from Charmian London in 1925. Additional groups of material were acquired by both gift and purchase from Mrs. London and later from literary executors Irving Shepard and I. Milo Shepard over many years. Further material has been acquired from other sources; the provenance of these items is noted on the individual folders.
