item details
NameSāmoa Scrapbook and Album
ProductionColonel William Moorhouse; creating agency; 1919
Classificationscrapbooks, notes, photographs, invitations, clippings, ephemera
Materialspaper, ink, photographic gelatin, photographic paper, dye, newsprint, printing ink
Techniqueshandwriting, photography
Registration NumberCA000315
Overview
Colonel Moorhouse was appointed to the Samoan Influenza Epidemic Commission and travelled during May and June 1919 through Samoa and Tonga gathering evidence.
Information contained in the scrapbook includes: photographs, diary notes and observations of culture, copies of invitations, newspaper extracts and other ephemera associated with the trip.
At present it is not known when and by whom these items were donated.