Both photos Agnes Sasse Heeney Collection
These photographs were taken in about 1913-14 of a group of people partying , reportedly at the home of Mr Berking and his wife at the time , Mrs Caroline Berking ( nee Netzler ), at Letogo east of Apia . With a few exceptions most of the men appear to be Germans drawn from Apia ’ s commercial community , especially the large trading and plantation company , DH & PG ( Deutsche Handels und Plantagen Gesellschaft der Südsee Inseln zu Hamburg ).
A number of people can be provisionally identified in the photo at right ( identities also applicable to photo above ): man at top on left ( dark hair ) Gerhard Ihnen ; man in middle holding up a glass of beer , Mr Ludwig K . Schmidt ; man second row from top on the left leaning on handrail , Mr Werner Sasse ; woman beside him in long white dress , Mrs Caroline Berking ; woman on right with hand on shoulder , Miss Christine Kruse ; woman on left with hand on handrail , Mrs Antonia Schmidt ; man sitting on step with hand on chin , Mr
Rudolf Berking ; next row down , sitting on the bottom step , left-to-right Mary Swann , Margaret ( Maggie ) Swann , Mr Peter Fabricius , Agnes Swann ( later hotelier Aggie Grey ); man far right , Dr Max Bartel . ( Mr Fabricius married Margaret Swann in October 1913 ).
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