Steve Higley posted this document to the Jarvis Island discussion group he operates. All credit belongs to him. I have re-posted it here to make it more accessible to other Jarvis Island enthusiasts.

Kodak photographs from the visit of J. T. Arundel to Jarvis Island in 1909.

These photographs were likely taken by Arundel's daughter Sydney.

John T Arundel, son of a LMS official, was born in England in 1841. His early work for a London firm with interests in guano, or phosphate, took him into the Pacific. By 1892 Arundel had formed his own company, J.T. Arundel & Co, which had acquired concessions over a number of islands in what is now Kiribati - Kanton, Enderbury, Gardner, Hull, Flint and Manra (Sydney) - to plant coconuts, make copra and mine phosphate. The Pacific Islands Company Limited (PIC) was formed in May 1897 and, in 1898, took over plantations and trade stores of Henderson & McFarlane Ltd in the mid-Pacific. Lord Stanmore, formerly Sir Arthur Gordon, the first Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, was Chairman of the PIC. Arundel became its vice-chairman. PIC business interests stretched from Mexico to Fiji, with ready markets for copra and phosphate in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Japan and the UK.

These pictures come from the National Archives of Australia: List of Kodaks - by Mr J T Arundel and Miss Arundel, Series R32: Collection of black and white and colour photograph albums, prints, negatives and slides of islands phosphate mining operations.