Vaea Street at Apia (Western Samoa) with Mount Vaea in Background (AM 78588-1)
1940 Apia, Samoa
Photographed in 1940, this view down Vaea Street in Apia, Western Samoa, shows Mount Vaea rising in the background. The hill is known as the burial place of the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived in Samoa until his death in 1894.
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