Alfred James Tattersall was a New Zealand photographer,
who lived in Samoa for most of his life and contributed a significant collection of images of the Pacific Island country and its peoples during the colonial era.
German, British and American warships in Apia harbour, 1899
Mau movement leaders and Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III in front of the octagonal Mau office, 1929.
The death of Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III.
New Zealand police in Samoa, 1930.
German Samoa was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1920, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima and Manono, now wholly within the Independent State of Samoa, formerly Western Samoa. Samoa was the last German colonial acquisition in the Pacific basin, received following the Tripartite Convention signed at Washington on 2 December 1899 with ratifications exchanged on 16 February 1900. It was the only German colony in the Pacific, aside from the Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory in China, that was administered separately from German New Guinea.
Saluafata harbour (R. Hellgrewe, 1908), 10 miles east of Apia
Raising the German flag at Mulinu'u, 1900 (photo by Alfred James Tattersall)
Group with Governor Wilhelm Solf (wearing peaked cap), New Zealand parliamentarian Charles H. Mills and paramount chief Mata'afa Iosefo during a visit by Mills to German Samoa, 1903
Governor Wilhelm Solf at Apia in 1910