A Colonial Photography Album and its Ties to the Present: Allan Hughan, Charles Malan, and 1870s French New Caledonia [DRAFT] (opens in new tab)

In 1870, 1000 miles off Australia’s northeast coast, the English maritime merchant Allan Hughan wrecked his ship on the reefs surrounding French New Caledonia, a group of islands claimed by France in 1853 and subsequently made into a penal colony. Taken with the place, Hughan abandoned his Sydney trade in livestock and mother-of-pearl shells and […]