item details
NameChristmas & New Year Greetings (from Albert Ellis Ocean Island Photograph Album)
ProductionUnknown; 1907-1908; Banaba
Classificationblack-and-white prints, Christmas cards, poems
Registration NumberO.027794
Overview
Thisgreetings cardmade by Albert Ellis. Ellis was sending hisgreetings from Ocean Island (Banaba) where he lived from1900 to 1911.Today Banaba is part of the Republic of Kiribati.
Albert Fuller Ellis (1869-1951) was a phosphate prospector, chemical analyst, mining manager and commissioner, and oversaw phosphate mining for the Pacific Phosphate Company.