Catholic Mission Church in Vuna-Pope near Herbertshöhe in New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago) / Photographer: Scherl

Bde 1-3 destroyed.

Contains among other things: Minutes, Resolutions of Meetings of the Board of Directors Invitations to General Meetings Entries in the Commercial Register Personnel matters

Reports by W. Döge

Contains among other things: Budget for the accounting year 1909; also contains: Budget of the protectorate debt Budget for the Reichs-Kolonialamt, the East African protectorate, the protectorate Cameroon, the protectorate Togo, the protectorate Samoa, the protectorate New Guinea including the island districts of the South Seas

Contains among other things: Budget for the accounting year 1909; also contains: budget for the East African protectorate, the protectorate of Cameroon, the protectorate of Togo, the protectorate of New Guinea, the protectorate of Samoa, the administration of the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands and Marshall Islands, the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t office

Contains among other things: Budgets for the protectorates Togo, Cameroon, New Guinea including the island districts of the South Seas for 1914 Budget draft for D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a for 1907 Use plan for the budget funds available at the Civil Administration for the financial year 1911

Letter from H. Emde (father of Lina Emde, Bösch's wife), 1889; private letters to inspectors of the RMG, 1890; letters and reports from New Guinea, 1889-1891; invoice for declaration of death, 1902; inheritance matter, 1903; letter from Mrs. Heemeier, Gelsenkirchen, to Missionary Diehl with thanks for a book about "Uncle and Aunt Bösch", together with pictures, 1936

• Audio* description: Marking of the rollers: Börnstein Bismar[c]k Arch. or Börnstein Südsee. In the original documentation only 108 rolls are mentioned. Another numbering counts until 190 (see postcard to Hornbostel from 1914: 6 Tins - 108 Walzen - 190 Phonogramme). There are many cross-references under the numbers. Correspondence available. Many of the rollers are transcribed by Hübner and Schneider. For collectors and collection see also Niles 2001. The open questions could not be clarified so far.

Reports by A. Hanke and K. Becker; Site plan of Bongu, 1909

Reports by Doctor Frobenius, A. Hoffmann, W. Diehl, A. Wullenkord, G. Eiffert and others; Situation plan of Bogadjim, 1909; "Gründung u. Entwicklung der Station Bogadjim", 13 p., ms., by W. Diehl, 1912

Contains: German and English language lists of other people's publications on the Bismarck Archipelago and New Guinea with source output

Vol. 1; Letters and Reports from Siar, 1900-1904; General Report of the New Guinea Mission for 1900 (1901); Conference Report on the Establishment of a Health Station, c. 1901; Conference Paper "The Importance of Literature among a Literature-less People! 1901; condolence of the imperial governor to Bergmann's death, 1904; correspondence with the German Foreign Office in Berlin for seduction of a Papuan girl by a German official, 1902-1904; correspondence with and for wife Karoline Bergmann, née. Ott, 1931-1950; Ein Brief des Siar-Christen Bel an Frau Bergmann, 1950; Obituary for Karoline Bergmann, with letter of condolence, 1952; Vol. 2; Letters and Reports from Siar (circulars, travel letters etc.), 1888-1896; Vol. 3; Letters and. Reports from Siar, 1896-1898; private letters to inspectors of the RMG, 1887-1900; letter from Missionary Bamler from Tami to Gustav Bergmann, 20.09.1896; vol. 4 Nachlass; Bergmann to his parents and siblings, 1880-1897; program of the memorial service for housemother Busch, 1886; comparison of words of the Siar- and. Bogadjim language, not published; Karoline Bergmann to the Bergmann family, 1887-1893; various correspondence to the Bergmann and Ott families, 1887-1946; Ida Helmich to Karoline Bergmann and son Theo, 1906; report on the first christening ceremony at Siar Ragetta, 1906; letters from Papua school children to son Theo, 1906

Letters and reports from New Guinea, 1893-1895; Report of the New Guinea Company about the hunting accident of Barkemeyer, 1895bequest; notebook with personal diary records, 1894-1895, with drawing of the volcano eruption on Dampier, 25.07.1895[ubi? August 2011]; recording of words of the Siar language ; "Waiting", poem by Andreas Bräm (1798-1882) from Neukirchen; letter, probably by Henriette Dielmann, the bride of missionary Albert Hoffmann, 1895

Annual Reports / Elders' Conferences of local staff; Minutes

The court system is well documented in numerous individual case files, both with regard to jurisdiction over natives and "Europeans".

The household and treasury system is essentially documented in the records of the governor's main treasury.

The administration can mainly be traced in the files of the district offices of Herbertshöhe, Rabaul, Friedrich Wilhelmshafen and Käwieng, whereby "administration" at that time also included jurisdiction over natives.

Only a few documents from the imperial stations have survived.

Großer Deutscher Kolonialatlas - The German Possessions in Silence Ocean and Kiautschou.Contents: German New Guinea western sheet, German New Guinea eastern sheet, Mariana Islands and Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, overview map of the German Possessions in Silence Ocean Kioautschou Reichskolonialamt Berlin.

Contains: No. 122/1: 1 fly swatter from Samoa No. 122/2: 1 stick with fibrous frond No. 122/3: 1 bone-drawn hard strand (handle-like) No. 122/4: 1 stick with whip-like frond (fly swatter?) No. 122/5: 1 piece of bast jewellery with straps and fringes No. 122/2: 1 stick with fibrous frond No. 122/3: 1 stick with bone-drawn hard strand (handle-like) No. 122/4: 1 stick with whip-like frond (fly swatter?) No. 122/5: 1 piece of bast jewellery with straps and fringes No. 122/2: 1 stick with fibrous frond No. 122/3: 1 stick with bone-drawn hard strand (handle-like) No. 122/4: 1 stick with whip-like frond No. 122/5: 1 piece with strap and fring No. 122/6: 1 ribbon with light, flat pieces of jewellery No. 122/7: 1 ribbon turquoise/brown No. 122/8: 1 animal-head-like painted piece of wood (end broken off) No. 122/9: 4 wooden sticks with attached wooden ring No. 122/10: 5 knitting needles of bone/ivory? (4 with brown wool) No. 122/11: 1 horn, turned No. 122/12: 1 part of bone/horn? beige with smaller hole at the end No. 122/13: bast bag black/beige (by Mr. Magi Magi... in East Africa), New Guinea; place of storage: magazine Westhafen

Description: 1st, 22nd and 23rd electric railway for sugar cane factory Groendjik 2nd railway with platform wagon, port Valparaiso. Chile 3. Usorathalbahn near Alibegovac. Bosnia 4. excavations of Assyrian royal buildings by Professor Felix von Luschan, Senschirli, Northern Syria 5. elevator at the monument of King Victor Emanuel in Rome 6. chain elevator for raft wood, Russia 7. sugar transport, Cuba 8. Deli Bultuur Maatschappy, Sumatra 9. gold mines. Cyanide works, Transvaal 10th bridge of the Irnowkabahn at Christinowka station, Russia 11th transport of leached saltpetre stones, saltpetre works. Chile 12th earth transport on Monte Gianicolo. Rome 13. unloading of sugar cane, sugar factory Soekodono, Java 14. unloading of Arthur Koppel's material in the port of Alexandria 15. plantation railway, Erima. New Guinea 16. Earth transport, locomotive operation. Córdiba, Argent. Rep. 17. rope lift with movable landing bridge, Kamyshin at the Volga. Russia 18th Guano camp on Lobos de Afuera. Peru 19. Goluckdihi Mines. India. 20. Charging the sugar cane in the field. Egypt 21. construction of the railroad from Mayaguez to Lares, Porto Rico album of splendour: leather binding, gilt edges, gold decoration, decorated book nails.