German Samoa: Civilian Population

German Samoa: Civilian Population

Contains among other things: Law concerning the friendship treaties with Tonga and Samoa and the friendship, trade and shipping treaty with Zanzibar of 15.02.1900 together with the implementing ordinance of 17.02.1900 Qu. 135, 140; ordinance concerning the expropriation of real property in the protectorates of Africa and the South Seas of 1903 Qu. 170; decrees concerning: declaration Kiautschous to the protectorate of 1898 Qu. 110, Declaration of Protection over the Caroline Islands, Palau and Mariana Islands of 1899 Qu. 123, Declaration of Protection over the Samoa Islands west of 171st degree of longitude w.L. of 1900 Qu. 142; Granting of corporate rights to the Schantung Mining Company Tsingtau and the German Society for Mining and Industry Abroad, Tsingtau 1899/1901 Qu. 126, 156

German office building in Mantantu on Samoa / Photographer: Scherl

Officers of the German warship SMS Cormoran with a Sanoan chief. 1st row, from left: Captain Lieutenant Engel, Mataafa, Corvette Captain Emsmann, Staff Physician Dr. Gelsam, 2nd row from left: Tolo, Private Secretary Mataafas, First Lieutenant Baron von der Goltz, Tuaefaiva, Interpreter Mataafas, and Truchsess Mataafas. / Photographer: Scherl

Detailed title: Samoa Islands Contains: 3 side maps: Rose Islands, Port of Apia, Port of Saluafata

Ausführlicher Titel: Kiautschou und Südseeinseln Enthält: Übersichtskärtchen: Kiautschou, Samoa-Inseln

Building of the imperial customs administration in the capital of the German colony Samoa / Photographer: Scherl

View of the court building in Apia, completed in 1902 / photographer: Scherl

Various publications, bundle of photos from unspecified context (possibly from the former Wang Collection?) with motifs from the colonial period: bundle of photos of natives in the German colonies around 1900 from the German colonies (approx. 50 pieces), some photos marked on the reverse with pencil, e.g. "Samoans (exiled) in the Bismarck Archipelago"/ "natives of New Ireland/New Mecklenburg with dance masks".

Contains among other things: Compilation of official documents concerning Samoa. Print, around 1890

Contains among other things: Death of chiefs Mataafa and Tamasese attacks of young Samoans on Europeans behavior of Samoans after outbreak of war O le Sulu Samsa. Printed aand published by the London missionary society. Vol. 14. N.S. Samoa, 1914 Scandal about the mixed marriages of the planter Michaeli

Contains among other things: First census in Samoa from 15 Aug - 30 Sep 1900 Map of Upolu and Savaii (o.M.) with registered itineraries, (o.D.) Leo Woerl, Samoa. Country and people. Leipzig 1901

Enthält u.a.: Erwerbung Samoas als Kolonie Abkommen der Kolonialmächte über eine Aufteilung der Inselgruppen Convention and declaration between Great Britain and Germany of november 14, 1899, for the settlement of the Samoan and other questions. Presented both Houses of Parliament by Command of her Majesty. London 1899

Contains among other things: Proposals on the division of Samoa among the colonial powers Affairs of Samoa. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London, Oct. 1899 Josefa Mataafa, The Cry of Mataafa for his People to the Three Great Powers. (Translation into English with comments by W. Cooper). Auckland, 1899

Contains among other things: W. Cooper, The Samoan Question. Auckland 1899 Election of a new chief

Contains among other things: Tumna Party conspiracy against Malietoa Intended constitutional amendment outbreak of new riots

Contains among other things: Uprising of the Mataafa group Rejection of the uprising, capture and banishment of Mataafas and other chieftains

Contains among other things: Contrasts between the indigenous chieftains Mataafa and Malietoa