Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Wellington photographer; participated in Gay & Lesbian Documentary Project. His memorial service gives his dates as 1953-2000.

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Manuscript

Correspondence - File labelled Strange

Date: [1995-1999]

From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7349-222

Description: Two cards and one letter from file labelled `Strange' by McLeod Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Manuscript

Correspondence with William Dart, Ian Kember, Nola Stevens, the Arts Council, Gary Wilb...

Date: 1993-1995

From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-5261-06

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

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Anderson, Thomas Neil Menteith, fl 1994 :Lesbian and Gay Documentary Project photographs

Date: 1994

By: Anderson, Thomas Neil Menteith, 1962-; Reeves, David Douglas, 1967-; Duffy, Mary-Jane, 1964-; Moore, Michael, active 1994; Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999; McGovern, Derek, active 1994; Welch, Sarah Helen, active 1994; Allison, Owen, active 1990-2010

Reference: PA-Group-00581

Description: Portraits of members of Wellington's gay and lesbian community Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 35mm-16303 to 16393, 17762 to 17781, 18931 to 18936, 120-0848 to 0851, 35mm-96059 to 35mm-96122. Quantity: 168 b&w original negative(s) strips containing 874 images. 14 b&w original photographic print(s) nine of which are contact prints. 11 colour original negative(s) 35mm negtive strips comprising 50 images. 2 colour copy photographic print(s) Both are contact prints. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1994. Reference number changed from PAColl-4150 to PA-Group-00581 in 2010.

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Kember, Ian Robert, 1953- :Photographs of Wellington, St Andrew's on the Terrace, Ngaio...

Date: 1980 - 1998

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-5734

Description: Two essays on Gay topics. The 13th Gay and Lesbian Fair, and a record of the life of a gay couple and the house and garden they lived in, and made, over 19 years. Ngaio School's 90th Reunion and some of the people attending. Views of Wellington sites -- the new State Highway 1 motorway interchange at Newlands, the Burma Motor Lodge, Johnsonville Railway line, Khandallah substation site and Thorndon New World Supermarket under construction. Transparencies include Youth for Christ summer programme, El Rancho camp, Waikanai in January 1980, Children at Timaru Highschool (1980), a concert in Civic Square, Wellington, by the National Youth Choir of Britain (1992), and various Wellington sites mainly in the Ngaio area Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 22294 - 22323, slides at PA12-1519 to PA12-1521 Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). 65 colour original photographic print(s). 12 b&w original negative(s). 16 b&w original negative(s). 54 colour original transparency/ies.

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Capturing change in Khandallah, Wellington City

Date: 1998

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-04

Description: Views of streets and houses in Khandallah, Wellington City. There are also views of Wellington from Khandallah looking across the harbour towards Mount Victoria. Several of the images show houses in the process of having extensions added. Photographed by Ian Kember 17 October 1998. Arrangement: Negs at 35mm, 37013 to 35mm,37019, and 35mm, 37277 Quantity: 24 colour original photographic print(s).

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Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999 :Photographs of Ngaio Streets

Date: 23 August 1999

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-7993

Description: Photographs of Streets in Ngaio, taken in August 1999 as a millenium project, with sponsorship by Ngaio Pharmacy Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-80140 to 35mm-80169 Quantity: 30 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 108 frames. 108 colour original photographic print(s).

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Men's public toilets, Wellington City

Date: 1999

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-01

Description: Photographic essay on the men's public toilets in Wellington City. Featured are those at the intersection of Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place, those in Ballance Street, and those in Thorndon Quay near the intersection with Tinakori Road. The Taranaki St/Courtenay Place toilets opened for use in 1911 and they were closed 27 January 1999. They have not been demolished as the building is listed in the council's heritage inventory as historically signifigant. They are still (as at 2002) awaiting some sort of reuse. The other two public toilets are still in use. This collection also contains documentation relating to these public toilets in the form of news paper articles, and Ian Kember's own notes Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36989 to 35mm, 36998 Quantity: 36 colour original photographic print(s).

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Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

Date: 1963-1999

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924

Description: Documents aspects of the built environment of Wellington; the Stadium, railway yards, buildings on the Kaiwharawhara Road, suburbs of Ngaio and Khandallah, men's public toilets. There are also sequences relating to the 1993 "Devotion" festival. Most of the negatives without prints are family photographs, images from Ian Kember's school days at Onslow and Newlands Colleges, his friends, his holidays, places where he lived, and buildings he worked in. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36989 to 35mm, 37277 Quantity: 287 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 7,489 images. 380 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s).

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Kember, Ian Robert, 1953- :Prints and negatives of public occasions in Wellington, 1993...

Date: 1993-1998

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-5623

Description: Views of VJ day ceremonies, 1995, opening of Te Papa (14 February 1998), moving state house from Ngaio site, Scout fair in Ngaio (1993) Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 22115 to 22139 Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 12 images. 49 colour original photographic print(s). 22 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 79 images.

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Aotea Ouay, Railway Station, and Westpactrust Stadium, Wellington City

Date: 1999

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-03

Description: Aotea Quay Wellington showing surrounding buildings, the constuction of the WestpacTrust Stadium walkways, the station yards and platforms. Photographed by Ian Kember 10 january 1999 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37006 to 35mm, 37021 Quantity: 24 colour original photographic print(s).

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Aotea Quay, Cruise ship "New Amsterdam", Murray Robert's wool store, Wellington City

Date: 1999

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-05

Description: Aotea Quay and the WestpacTrust Stadium under construction. Views of the Murray Roberts wool store building, and the cruise ship "New Amsterdam". Photographed by Ian Kember Sunday 10 January 1999. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37020 to 35mm, 37026 Quantity: 20 colour original photographic print(s).

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Opening event for art exhibition "Look Out! Gaze In"

Date: 1993

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-14

Description: Opening of an exhibition of Gay men's art entitled "Look Out! Gaze In" on Monday 23 November, 1993. The exhibition was held in a Wellington City Council building in Civic Square next to the present Public Relations Office. It was organised by architect David Frost and was associated with the 1993 Devotion Festival. Photographed by Ian Kember 22 November 1993 'Look Out! Gaze In' exhibition of gay men's art organised by architect, David Frost, as part of the 1993 Devotion Festival, Wellington. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37106 to 35mm, 37111 Quantity: 11 colour original photographic print(s).

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Ships in Wellington Harbour

Date: 1999

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-06

Description: Wellington Harbour and the city viewed from the harbour. Ships are the cruise ship "Nieuw Amsterdam", Tranz Rail's fast ferry "Condor 10", the container ship "Columbus Australia", and the Wellington tugboat "Kupe". Photographed by Ian Kember 10 January 1999. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37027 to 35mm, 37033 Quantity: 17 colour original photographic print(s).

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A family funeral, and a rugby game

Date: 1998

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-07

Description: Family photographs taken at the time of Olive Campbell Kember's funeral, houses in Khandallah and Paekakariki, and a rugby game played on a sports field at Onslow College between the Krazy Knights and Treasury on Sunday October 4, 1998. Photographed by Ian Kember in 1998 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37034 to 35mm, 37043 Quantity: 25 colour original photographic print(s).

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Men's public toilets, Wellington City

Date: 1998

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-08

Description: Men's public toilets at Hataitai, Island Bay, Brooklyn, Aro Street, and just before the Karori tunnel. All but one of these buildings are varients of a Wellington stripped classical toilet style dating from the 1920s. There are also in unprinted images of the Westminster Apartments at 56 Tanera Cresc, Brooklyn, built by the Fitchet family in the 1940s Photographed by Ian Kember 23 October 1998 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37044 to 35mm, 37050 Quantity: 17 colour original photographic print(s).

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The WestpacTrust Stadium and Wellington buildings

Date: 1998

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-09

Description: Commercial buildings at the harbour end of Kaiwharawhara Road, the WestpacTrust Stadium under construction, and restoration underway on the buildings of the Old Bank Arcade & Chambers Ltd. This last includes a photograph of a base isolator in place between the foundations and the base of an outer wall. Photographed by Ian Kember 18 October 1998 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37051 to 35mm, 37060 Quantity: 37 colour original photographic print(s).

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Views of Houghton Bay, Wellington City

Date: 1999

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-02

Description: Most of the images are of the bay itself with distant views of people surfing or swimming in wet suits. One photograph shows a dwelling faced with stone built to suggest a castellated tower. Photographed by Ian Kember on Sunday 10 January 1999 between 7.30 and 7.40 pm. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36999 to 35mm, 37005 Quantity: 18 colour original photographic print(s).

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Kember, Ian Robert, 1953- :Photographs of the last service of The Rev John Murray at St...

Date: 1993

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-5839

Description: Photographs of St Andrew's Church, showing John Murray officiating at Communion on 6 June 1993, the official farewell services on 22 June 1993 and 2 July 1993, and his last service on 4 July 1993. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 23397 - 23428 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 52 images. 10 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 36 images. 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Electrolux Limited :Electrolux and how to use it. [Booklet. 1940s?]

Date: 1940 - 1950

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSEHOLD-1940s-01

Description: Includes pictures of a woman using the vacuum cleaner and its various attachments in her home. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 22 pages, 180 x 103 mm.

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[Funeral notices and memorial services for individuals deceased 1995-2000].

Date: 1995 - 2000

Reference: Eph-A-FUNERAL-1995/2000

Description: Includes pamphlets discussing choice in planning funeral services. Includes services, obituaries, thank you cards and memorials for: 1995: Arthur Clendon, 1908-1995 1995: Kristen Marie Deane, 1968-1995 1995: Adrienne Frost, 1931-1995 1995: Erich Geiringer, d 1995 1995: Poul Gnatt, 1923-1995 1995: Peter Millais Harcourt, 1923-1995 (2 copies) 1996: Jill Barton, 1929-1996 1996: Winsome Castle, d 1996 (one sheet only) 1996: Grace Donovan, 1923-1996 1996: Lilian Eva Moss, 1996 1996: Leonard Derek Peffers, 1935-1996 1996: Rae Hogan Potter, 1923-1996 1996: Gerard Sampey, 1924?-1996 1996: Beatrice Rosemary Thomas, 1911-1996 1997: Betty Lilian Meads, 1920-1997 1997: Mother Teresa, 1910-1997 1997: George Austin O'Leary, 1919-1997 1997: Garth Andrew Reid, 1965-1997 1997: Desmond William Thompson, 1944-1997 1998: Rollo Davis Arnold, 1926-1998 1998: Graeme Augustine Dolan, 1938-1998 1998: John Thomas (Jack) Horncy, 1909-1998 (2 copies) 1998: George Porter, 1921-1998 (2 copies) 1998: Allona (Tim) Priestley - Omi, 1909-1998 1999: Joan Davies, d 1999 1999: Michael Avigdor Hirschfeld, [1944-1999] 1999: Moira McAuley Long, 1951-1999 1999: Reginald Vincent Moss, 1999 1999: Rana Norwood (1908-1999) 1999: Anne Cecilia Ralston, 1928-1999 1999: Patrick Maurice Smyth, 1925-1999 1999: Jackie Swanson, 1917-1999 1999: John Mansfield Thomson, 1926-1999 (2 copies) 2000: Alan Lindsay Ross Barwick 1942-2000 2000: Geoffrey Bertrand de Lautour, 1922-2000 2000: Pat (1916-1999) and Lawrie (1915-2000) Dennis. In memoriam card. 2000: Moe Alma Mary Dudfield, Q.S.M., 1910-2000 2000: Lauris Edmond, 1924-2000 2000: Dorothy Whitson Freed, 1919-2000 2000: Ian Robert Kember, 1953-2000 2000: Florence Rose Lyon, 1920-2000 2000: John David Needham, 1937?-2000 2000: Athalie Millicent Petre, 1919-2000 2000: John Michael Robson, 1939-2000 2000: Father Kenneth Edward Scully, 1928-2000 Quantity: 44 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Folded cards, booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 250 mm. Provenance: One item donated from the estate of Berry McCracken, by Joan McCracken, Wellington, in 2006; some from the Moxon family in 2016.