IMAGE
Edwin family :Photographs
- Date
- [ca 1880s-1920]
- By
- Edwin family; Gorton, Millicent, 1877-1966
- Reference
- PA-Group-00056
- Description
Photographs relating to the career of Captain Alexander Mitford Edwin in the Mediterranean and East Africa during World War I and as a shipmaster for the Union Steam Ship Co. During the war Captain Edwin commanded the Wahine, the hospital ship Marama, and the Willochra. He brought the reconditioned Wahine back from England in 1919, and for 13 months before he retired in March 1922 he commanded the Tahiti in the San Fransisco service
Source of title - Title supplied by Library
Arrangement: Prints at PAColl-6231; Negatives at 1/4-090477 to 090482
Quantity: 3 album(s). 116 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original negative(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) ambrotype.
Physical Description: Albums, photographic prints, negatives, postcards
Provenance: Millicent (Lilly) Gorton was the daughter of Captain Robert Atherton Edwin, and sister of Captain Alec Mitford Edwin.
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0267 : Edwin family : Papers (except 2 albums which appear to have been given directly to Photographic Archive when the collection was originally received by the Library in 1966).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 3 album(s), 116 b&w original photographic print(s), 4 b&w original negative(s), 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards, 1 b&w original photographic print(s) ambrotype, Photographs, Ambrotypes, Photograph albums, Albums, photographic prints, negatives, postcards
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Copyright
Unknown
Edwin photograph album
Date: [1860-1876?]
From: Edwin family :Photographs
By: Hemus & Hanna (Firm); Morgan, W H M, active 1870s; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-071
Description: Album of portraits, many unidentified, and a collection of ships' crests. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover, darker corners and spine, spine title `Scraps', 28.0 x 24.5 cm
Photographer unknown :View from balcony of the Edwin house, 179 The Terrace, Wellington
Date: Aug 1940
From: Edwin family :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-D-0120
Description: Panoramic view of Wellington taken from 179 The Terrace (Edwin house on corner of Boulcott Street and The Terrace), Wellington. Shows houses in Boulcott Street (in foreground) and The Terrace (opposite Herbert Gardens). The T & G Building is on the far left and Antrim House on the far right. Taken by an unidentified photographer in Aug 1940. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Title; names of former owners of houses and names of some buildings; Verso - centre - Additional information written at time of deposit Similiar view at 1/2-058525 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 145 x 570 mm with mount (3 silver gelatin prints forming a panorama)
Cold water basins, White Terrace - Photograph taken by George Dobson Valentine
Date: Jan 1885
From: Edwin family :Photographs
By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890
Reference: PA1-q-229-07
Description: Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Cold water basins, White Terrace. 18 G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photographer unknown :Portrait of R A Edwin
Date: 1880 - 1900
From: Edwin family :Photographs
Reference: PA3-0334
Description: Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - R A Edwin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Wrigglesworth & Binns (Wellington) fl 1874-1900 :Portrait of unidentified woman
Date: 1874 - 1900
From: Edwin family :Photographs
By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PA3-0285
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Unidentified naval officer
Date: 1850s-1860s
From: Edwin family :Photographs
Reference: PA10-026
Description: Formal portrait of an unidentified uniformed naval officer who is seated holding gloves and a hat, taken 1850s-1860s by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 1/6 plate ambrotype (collodion positive), unmounted, 10.3 x 6.7 cm
Mary Ann Rhodes and unidentified woman
Date: [1854-1856]
From: Edwin family :Photographs
Reference: PA10-060
Description: Portrait of Mary Ann Rhodes as a child, and most likely her grandmother, Sarah King. The woman is holding the child's hand. Photograph taken circa 1854-1856, by an unidentified photographer. Title updated and metadata adjusted in June 2021. Mary Ann Rhodes (1852-1930) was the illegitimate daughter of William Barnard Rhodes and Otahui Tuhana of Wellington. Mary Ann Rhodes' grandmother, Sarah King, was the mother of Sarah Rhodes, nee King, the wife of William Barnard Rhodes. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) Daguerreotype. Physical Description: 1/6 plate daguerreotype in an embossed brown morocco case with cover missing, 9.4 x 8.2 cm.
Winter, W W (Derby) fl 1880s-1890s :Portrait of unidentified young woman of fashion
Date: 1880 - 1890
From: Edwin family :Photographs
By: Winter, Walter William, 1842-1924
Reference: PA3-0254
Description: Shows young woman fashionably dressed in evening or cocktail dress Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Mary Ann Mantell and two children
Date: [1850s-1860s]
From: Edwin family :Photographs
Reference: PA10-027
Description: Formal portrait of Mary Ann Mantell with a young girl and boy, taken 1850s-1860s by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Whole plate ambrotype with mat