Prints of people and alpine scenes

Photographs taken by Les Cleveland of people and alpine scenes, largely in the West Coast Region, between 1939 and circa 1980s. Printed between 1960 and 2010. Many prints include captions detailing the location of the photograph and the date it was taken and printed. Multiple prints are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph".

Identified people include Ben Sutherland (operating nozzle on claim at Goldsborough), Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken (eating fish and chips), Mike Sheldon (proprietor of the European Hotel, Charleston), Mick O'Neill (barman at Red Lion Hotel, Hokitika), Tex Smith (Southern Scenic Airways pilot), Kevin Blythell (meat hunter), and Lynne Rogers (seated in a Herbert Street coffee bar, Wellington). Also includes several nudes of Mary Cleveland taken on Mount Ruapehu and in Te Naihi Valley and a photograph of Les Cleveland boiling a billy.

Unidentified people include a World War Two soldier, a whitebaiter and his children, two small boys on tricycles in Te Urewera, an injured woman being treated by the ski patrol on Mount Ruapehu, fishermen, and women working in the Carters' Sawmill Store at Hannah's Clearing in Haast.

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Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order.

Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Photographic prints, includes some composite images

Transfers: Box three of five. See PAColl-10567-05 to 06 and PAColl-10567-08 to 09 for prints originally stored with these ones..

Processing information: Library staff arranged prints geographically and by subject where possible. The volume of prints required that they be housed in five separate boxes.