Register of the South Seas Marine Products, Book of snapshots

Mandeville Special Collections Library 0175S
UC, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
Phone: (858) 534-2533
Fax: (858) 534-5950
Email: spcoll@ucsd.edu
Repository Website: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/
© 1997
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Register of the South Seas Marine Products, Book of snapshots,1946-1947

MSS 0162

Mandeville Special Collections Library

GEISEL LIBRARY



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

La Jolla, CA 92093-0175

Contact Information:

  • Mandeville Special Collections Library 0175S
  • UC, San Diego
  • La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
  • Phone: (858) 534-2533
  • Fax: (858) 534-5950
  • Email: spcoll@ucsd.edu
  • Repository Website: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/
© 1997 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
This file last updated: July 1997.

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title: South Seas Marine Products, Book of snapshots,
Date (inclusive): 1946-1947
Collection number: MSS 0162
Extent: 0.10 linear feet (1 album (115 photoprints))
Repository: Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, UC, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
Shelf Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language: English.

Preferred Citation

South Seas Marine Products, Book of snapshots, MSS 0162. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.

ABSTRACT

Photograph album titled "A book of snapshots secured during exploratory fishing trips conducted by South Seas Marine Products Limited in the waters of the Fiji Islands (South-Western Pacific)." Contains 115 photoprints taken to reflect the activities of the company's surveys of fishing waters during 1946 and 1947. The purpose of the surveys was to establish whaling and tuna export industries, and the work disclosed the presence of extensive schools of tuna and bonito, as well as an annual run of humpback whales. The album is accompanied by a carbon copy of a typescript letter, signed, from Harold Gatty, regarding an agreement with the South Seas Marine Products Project Syndicate; and two maps of the Fiji Islands, 1914 and 1939.