Photographs - Queen Emma

What we know about Queen Emma's life can seem to us exotic and daring, with a  dark, unresolved ending

Here is a link to the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia, which has plenty of excellent photographs as well as a brief outline of Queen Emma and her family.

Here is  the first part of a more comprehensive account, and this is the second part. Read it and imagine...

Queen Emma

Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection




Queen Emma, family and FriendsPhotograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

Outside the German Club, 1912.German Governor, Hahl, seated behind the driver.

Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

Queen Emma later in life

Emma with her second husband, Paul Kolbe, in San Francisco 1896
Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

From the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

From the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

 San Francisco, 1896
Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

Richard Parkinson and family

Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

Parkinson was married to Queen Emma's sister Phoebe and was employed by Emma to manage some of her plantations.