2-716-642 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A View of Samarai, British New Guinea', c1909. '...showing the Quarantine Island. A very beautiful example of tropical scenery'. Samarai island is a former administrative capital in Milne Bay Province, in what is now Papua New Guinea. One of a set of stereocard views by George Rose, boxed as "Studies through the Stereoscope", to be viewed on a Sun Sculpture stereoscope made by Underwood & Underwood. [The Rose Stereograph Company, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington & London, c1909]