Thomas Andrew (photographer)

Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived in Samoa from 1891 until his death in 1939.

Andrew took photographs that are of significant historical and cultural value including the recording on camera of key events in Samoa's

Andrew was born in Takapuna, a suburb in Auckland on the North Island of New Zealand. He worked as a photographer in Napier. He later opened a studio in Auckland which was destroyed by fire.^[3] In 1891, he went to Samoa where he worked with two other New Zealand photographers, Alfred James Tattersall and John Davis.^[2] He died in Apia, the capital of Samoa.^[1]

Gallery

• Historical photographs by Thomas Andrew
• 
  Seumanutafa Pogai, a high chief (

  matai) of Apia

  , taken 1890-1910
• 
  Young man dressed as a manaia, son of a Samoan matai, taken 1890-1910
• 
  Burial and grave of Robert Louis Stevenson on Mount Vaea, Samoa, 1894
• 
  Exiled Samoan leader Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe (died 1915)
• 
  Two men in a canoe (paopao, va'a) fishing in Samoa, c. 1914
• 
  Samoan male with traditional tattoo (

  pe'a

  ), taken 1890s
• 
  Samoan traditional

  tattooist

  (tufuga ta tatau), c 1895
• 
  Interior of church building in Niue, 1896.
• 
  Two leaf-clad women, 1905.

References

External links

• Works by Thomas Andrew in the collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum
• Works by Thomas Andrew in the collection of the
  Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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