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Shrub with supporting posts in the lawn of Chinnery's garden, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Girl holding a small child with a jetty in the background, Rabaul Harbour, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Woman wearing a grass skirt holding a dish and a tin, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Devastated landscape after volcanic eruption, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Square garden at Mr. and Mrs. Norman Neal's place overlooking Wau Valley, New Guinea, 1937, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Four women sitting on verandah of marine house, Papua, ca. 1923 / Sarah Chinnery

Woman wearing a conical hat and a young girl standing in front of her, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Gazelle Peninsula / compiled by Laurie & Montgomerie, Consulting Engineers, for Department of Lands, Surveys, & Mines, Konedobu, Papua

A Marifutiga River native, Central New Guinea, 1933

An aerial view of the Wahgi river, Central New Guinea, 1933

Mr Thompson, Jacquinot Bay, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, 1945 / Alfred Amos

Bananas growing in the Suva Region, Fiji, 1929 / C.M. Yonge