Chinese employees of the British Phosphate Commission playing football on Nauru Island, South Pacific.
Chinese employees of the British Phosphate Commission playing football on Nauru Island, South Pacific. The Chinese were employed on three year contracts and had their own community facilities on the island. The photographer was an apprentice serving on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Tymeric (1919) which was moored at the island to load a cargo of phosphate for delivery to Australia.
Object Details
| ID: | P49981 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Date made: | March - April 1939 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 45 mm x 65 mm |