Summary

Lantern slide depicting thatched buildings. Although the location of this image is unknown, it appears to depict a building of a style traditionally constructed in Samoa. In Samoa, Tonga and Fiji the word fale is used for traditional style houses.

Part of a collection of 55 photographic lantern slides, glass negatives and acetate negatives of travel images taken in the Pacific Islands, probably in the late 1930s. The slide is numbered '5'.

Description of Content

Exterior view of three large grass buildings.

Physical Description

Photographic image in between two glass plates, paper frame inserted in between glass plates, strips of paper stuck around edges.

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