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Fanua in her wedding dress

German corvette Olga wrecked at Apia, Samoa - Photograph taken by John Davis

`Samoanische Zeitung' and `The Pull-Thro'

Room, Henry, 1802?-1850 :Mamoe; a chief of the Samoan Islands. Painted by H Room. Engraved by J. Cochran. [London, ca 1850?]

New Zealand soldiers, on board a troopship en route to Samoa, during World War 1

G A Read :Photograph of street scene, Apia, Samoa

View in Samoa [probably near Apia], taken from a narrow pier looking across calm water back to palm and coconut trees

View in Samoa [probably near Apia], showing a straight road at the edge of a beach

Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866 :Pirogue a la voile (Ile Opoulou). Dessine par L. Le Breton. Lith. par de la Plante. Paris. Gide Editeur. Imp. Lemercier, Paris, [1846].

Malietoa Laupepa and his Rarotongan wife Fa'asisina

Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Trading place at Anamokka or New Rotterdam Isles [May 1777]

[Artist unknown] :Town and harbour of Apia on the Island of Upolu, Navigator Group, South Pacific [ca 1867]