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| Title: |
Images from Tahiti |
| Dates: |
1870-1895 |
| Number: |
93.R.90 |
| Extent: |
1.5 Linear Feet
1 box (19 photographic prints)
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| Abstract: |
The collection of 19 photographs taken
by Charles Georges Spitz and Sophia Hoare depicts people and events as well as everyday life
in Tahiti during the last three decades of the 19th century. Included are portraits of the
Tahitian royal family; photographs depicting the funeral of Pōmare V; and a group portrait
of M. Chessé and the chiefs of Tahiti and Mo'orea, taken at the time of France's annexation
of Tahiti in 1880.
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| Language: |
Collection material is in French and English
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| Repository: |
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
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| Author: |
Beth Ann Guynn |
