• 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.

Contains: Offers of collections; takeover of collection objects from New Guinea, Fidji (South Seas), West Africa, Bogainville (Solomon Islands, French Polynesia) Darin: Index of ethnographic objects donated by the Linden Museum to the Leather Museum Offenbach a.M., 1919; photo of a club from the Marquesas Islands (Polynesia)

Statements, petitions, minutes of board meetings; correspondence; Die Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft: Geschichte, Ziele, Satzung, Dr., 1903; Petition of the Deportation Association to the Reichstag concerning the settlement of released prisoners in the South Seas, 17 p., D., 1907; Initiation and purpose of the Deportation Association Appendix to this appeal, Dr., 1907; Koloniale Erziehungsstätten, Denkschrift, c. 1908; Miss. Simon: Memorandum on the question of the mission in the colonies, 10 p., ms., 1927; Statute and list of members of the colony German Colonial Society, Abtlg. Essen, Dr., 1930; Kolonialverein u. Dt. Kolonialgesellschaft, eine Grundsatzerklärung zur Unterscheidung, ca. 1930; newspaper reports on lecture by Dr. Johannsen: Südwest-Afrika - Urdeutsches Land, 1931; advertising letter concerning membership of the RMG, 1938; NN: Future missionary activity. Church and School of the Natives in Africa, 5 p., 1941; Statement by You. Berner to Colonial Secretary of State of Lindequist, 5 p., ms., 1941

Contains above all: Correspondence on cotton plantations and sales

• Audio* description: Inscription: Wirz New Guinea or Wirz New Guinea 1927 (in contrast to the second New Guinea collection of 1930). At EB Schneider: Wirz South Pacific New Guinea. Correspondence received.