South Sea Islanders

A collection of photographs mounted on card with handwritten captions on the reverse of the mounts. No record has been found of the firm W. and E. Dufty (their stamp on the reverse of the print mounts gives the firm's location no more explicitly than 'South Sea Islands'), but it would seem almost certain that it was connected with the work of Francis H. Dufty, a photographer in Levuka in 1871.

Francis H. Dufty arrived in Levuka, Fiji in June 1871. His brother, Alfred W. B. Dufty, arrived to join him from Sydney on 29th December 1871. They opened a photographic and jewellery business next to the 'Fiji Times' office in Levuka. Alfred Dufty moved to Suva in 1883 and Francis followed in 1886. Alfred eventually left Fiji for Sydney in June 1887. Francis returned to Melbourne in 1892.

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Includes index.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

This collection is available on microfiche: Oceania, fiche number 4.

Fair condition apart from overall yellowing.

This collection level description was entered by WS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Dufty Brothers