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Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
- Date
- [ca1860]-1962
- By
- Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945
- Reference
- PA-Group-00110
- Description
Includes photographs of Edith Lyttleton, family, friends, and soldiers during World War I. Also trips to Britain, Switzerland, Canada, Norway, and Bali.
Negatives at 35mm-85611 to 35mm-85612. 1/2-231137-F to 1/2-231223-F. 1/4-114654-F to 1/4-114777-F.
Source of title - Title supplied by Library
Quantity: 3 album(s). 2 b&w copy negative(s) strips with 6 images. 229 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 b&w copy negative(s). 211 b&w original negative(s).
Provenance: Purchased from Margaret Garrett, niece of Edith Lyttleton, in 2006.
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1542 : Lyttleton, Edith : Papers.
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- Format
- 3 album(s), 2 b&w copy negative(s) strips with 6 images, 229 b&w original photographic print(s), 8 b&w copy negative(s), 211 b&w original negative(s), Photographs
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UnknownViews of Devon
Date: [ca 1900-1938]
From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
Reference: PAColl-9129-3
Description: Views of Bideford, Appledore, Westward Hoe, and Northam, Devon, England, ca 1913; view of homestead at Rokeby Station; and portrait of Edith Lyttleton, 1938. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).
Life at the Edelweiss Hotel, Englelberg, Switzerland
Date: 1909-1911
From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
Reference: PA1-o-1364
Description: Edith Lyttleton, her sister, brother, and friends on a winter holiday at Engelberg, Switzerland. A series of photographs show the party lined up ready for an excursion on skis. Fooling around on toboggans. Having fun in the town. Riding motor driven toboggans. According to a loose print (see PAColl-9129-49) and Terry Sturm, the Lyttletons visited Engleberg in 1911. According to a print in this album, they were there in December 1909. Quantity: 1 album(s).
Rokeby Station, Rakaia, Canterbury
Date: [ca1890]-1909
From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
Reference: PA1-o-1365
Description: House, garden, Lyttleton family and friends, Rokeby Station, Rakaia, Canterbury. Many views of the garden showing large macrocarpa trees. Boundary plantings of other conifers. Hedges, lawns and hebaceous boarders. The house, a one storied bungalow surrounded on three sides by a veranda hung with vines. Garden furniture in the form of a park bench and outdoor table. Some images show people in the garden. Other photographs show unidentified views of New Zealand countryside. Boys eating at the entrance to a tent. People on a beach. Wanganui and Wanganui river bridge. Unidentified wharves and ships. Scene on the Avon in Christchurch. South African War memorial and Masonic Hotel, Napier. Two people on the Illecillewaet Glacier, USA, on the 5th of June 1909. Edith Lyttleton's family lived at Rokeby from 1880 to 1908 when what remained of the station freehold was sold. Judging from the style of the women's dresses the Rokeby photographs date from the 1890s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Lyttleton Family and Rokeby homestead and gardens
Date: [ca1870]-1935
From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
Reference: PAColl-9129-1
Description: Edith Lyttleton's father and mother, Emily Lyttleton and Westcote McNab Lyttleton. Edith Lyttleton and her sister Emily in the 1890s. Edith's brothers Ray and Clyne. Grave of Westcote McNab Lyttleton. Unidentified carte de visite portraits. Family groups in the gardens of Rokeby homestead, 1890s. Group at Engleberg, Switzerland in 1911. Unidentified musical group. Unidentified railway track, probably on the Canterbury Plains. Franz Joseph Glacier Hotel, Westland, New Zealand. North American Indian, animals, and forest. Pet dogs. Edith Lyttleton in dog-drawn sledge, Yukon, Canada, 1920. Ships in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, ca 1870. Views of countryside, Halifax. Sailors, Halifax. Port and town, Australia. Australian military uniforms. Quantity: 71 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photographs of New Zealand, Australia, and Bali
Date: 1930
From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
Reference: PA1-o-1366
Description: Photograph of Margaret Lyttleton aged six. Edith Lyttleton's brother Clyne's house in Auckland. Group of Maori children in Gisborne. Pastoral view with cabbage trees, Gisborne. Aeroplane in which Edith Lyttleton flew to Toowoombala Australia. A typical Queensland bungalow. Scenes in Makassan, Celebes. Views of Bali. Views of Java. Street scenes, Singapore. Port scene, Sumatra. Views taken during a passage through the Suez Canal. Pontoon bridge, Port Said. Street scene, Algiers. Views of Gibraltar. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Portrait of a young boy
Date: [ca 1860]
From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
Reference: PA10-080
Description: Formal standing portrait of an unidentified boy holding an axe, taken ca 1860 by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Ambrotype in case without lid
Family, Friends, and travels
Date: [ca1912]-1940
From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
Reference: PAColl-9129-2
Description: Photos relating to Ellen (Nell) Lyttleton (nee Dwyer) wife of Edith Lyttleton's brother Clyne, ca1912-1920. Edith Lyttleton with Nell's brother, Thomas Dwyer, at Ealing, 1917. Unidentified military groups, 1914-1918. Photos of family and friends in England, 1914-1918. Unidentified portrait drawing. Unidentified buildings and views, probably Britain. Unidentified women and soldiers. Portraits of Canadian writer and academic, Paul Wallace. Edith Lyttleton in dog drawn sledge, Yukon, Canada, 1920. Photo sequence probably relating to Canada. Sequence relating to unidentified house and garden, Britain, 1920s. Street scenes in unidentified Moslem city. Portraits of Edith Lyttleton, 1920s-1930s. Edith Lyttleton nursing child seated by large fireplace, 1932. Edith Lyttleton's travels in the Ureweras, New Zealand, 1928. Photographs taken during passage through the Suez Canal, and of Bali. John Lane, The Bodley Head van promoting Edith Lyttleton's novel `Promenade' 1938. Postcard photographs of house at Phils holiday resort at Oslo fjord, Tjomo, Norway where Edith Lyttleton stayed in 1939. Nell Lyttleton and Charles Hugonin in Christchurch, New Zealand, ca1942. Margaret and John Lyttleton, 1937 and 1944. Quantity: 140 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 photocopy/ies.