Orange, Sally Pat, active 1940s-1970s

Date: 1977 to 1979

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-279

Description: Photographs of family and friends, mostly taken in New Zealand by Rhoda McWhannell. There is one group of scenes relating to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family in the Kloof and Drakensberg Mountains areas of South Africa. The New Zealand scenes include friends at Rozel, the home of Rhoda and Frederick McWhannell at Ohaupo; numbers of different varieties of gum trees, which Frederick McWhannell had specialised in; friends' gardens; photographs of flowers including roses, dahlias, eucalypts, water lilies, acacia and irises; and the rose garden and fountain at Te Awamutu Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with purple vinyl cover; 35 x 30 cm

Date: 1976 to 1977

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-282

Description: Album of photographs relating to Rhoda McWhannell's family and friends. The bulk of the album consists of her travel to South Africa to stay with her brother Bill McCurdie and his wife Inga at their home in Kloof; visiting Mauritius on the way; and areas they visited in South Africa. The latter part of the album is in two sequences. The first shows Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat McCurdie and her fiance Keith Orange photographed at `Rozel' in November 1976; then their wedding at Auckland Cathedral on 18th December 1976. The second section is scenes at Rozel in January 1977 with trees and farmland; and a group of women playing croquet on the lawn. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with orange vinyl cover; 33.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1940 to 1948]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-561

Description: Family photographs relating to the family of Bill McCurdie (William J S McCurdie), the brother of Rhoda McWhannell. All the images were taken in England, Wales, and Madeira. They include a number of scenes at the christening of Sally Pat McCurdie, daughter of Bill and Inga McCurdie, at Clifford, West Yorkshire. Photographs of Sally Pat McCurdie range from babyhood at the christening, to a child of about 8, riding a horse. A few show Sally Pat's sister Kirstin. At the front of the album there are 16 loose photographs, including views of Madeira, and various family groups. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; label attached reads `Clifford, Boston Spa, Cardiff'; 16.0 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1985

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-280

Description: Photographs of family and friends, taken by Rhoda McWhannell, and some by Keith Orange (the husband of Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat (nee McCurdie)). A series of scenes show Mavis Commons in her home and garden at Cambridge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown vinyl cover, with embossed kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30.0 x 35.6 cm

Date: 1985 to 1986

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-281

Description: Photographs of family and friends, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell, many of them taken at her home `Rozel'. Most of the people are not named in this album, but many have been identified from images in earlier albums in the Rhoda McWhannell collection. Scenes include groups of friends, some at the celebration for Rhoda McWhannell's 90th birthday, some in the Rose Garden at Te Awamutu; a group outside Christ Church at Ohaupo on St Luke's Day, 1985 with the Rev. Ken Baigent; gardens; three of a group of school children at Te Awamutu planting a kauri tree with Rhoda McWhannell; two taken in the garden of Hazel Le Rougetel in Hampshire, England; one of Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat Orange (nee McCurdie) and her son, who live in South Africa, and a scene of poinsettias growing in her garden at Kloof. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon vinyl cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering; 30 x 35 cm

Date: [Between 1956 and 1980]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-283

Description: Album of photographs relating to family and friends, travel, farming (including horticultural nurseries), and gardens, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. The front page of the album contains 26 postage stamps from RSA (Republic of South Africa). One group shows individual children of different cultures issued for Christmas 1977; one group shows different varieties of South African plants inclduing proteas and leucodendrons; one image is of the university at Stellenbosch; and two are of historical events at Ulundi and Isandlwana. The first part of the album relates to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family. Several are of Bill McCurdie's daughter Kirsten and her children in England, including views of Christ's Hospital School at Lincoln; others are of Bill and Inga McCurdie, with Kirsten and her children Simon and Alex in South Africa. Photographs of `Rozel', the McWhannell farm and tree nursery are the main topic of the rest of the album. These range in time from the 1950s to 1980. One small sequence shows the township of Ohaupo in 1960, with comments on buildings later demolished, and the contrast in 1980. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue vinyl cover; embossed pattern of kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30 x 35 cm

Date: Circa 1950s to 1960s

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8858

Description: This set of slides shows friends and relations of Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell, and various pets (Inky the cat, and Snookie and Wanda the dogs). Identified people are listed above. Some with Christian names only are Ann, Joan & Bruce, and Wendy. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [Between 1918 and 1971]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

By: Bartlett & Andrew Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-565

Description: Collection of photographs, many of which were taken by Rhoda McWhannell. A number of photographs taken in 1976 were published in the Auckland Herald, one published in the Dominion (Wellington), probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell who had a strong interest in photography for many years. Scenes published in the newspapers include one of a team of six Clydesdale horses pulling a plough; one of black swans with their cygnets at the lake in Hamilton; one of a group of four children on a swing, and a young boy on a single swing; and one photograph entited "Happy days", with a Maori workman lying in in the sun in his wheelbarrow during `smoko' or tea-break, with a thermette, a billy and a mug beside him, reading a paper. Photographs of animals at the zoo, lions with cubs, koala bears and two hippopotamuses. Several images of royalty, with the Queen Mother at Hamilton, on her visit to New Zealand in 1958, and Princess Alexandra, visiting in 1971. Several photographs show brides and wedding parties, ranging from Dorothy Shires and Marjorie Nicolls, both married in 1920, to Joan and John McWhannell, married in 1953. A number of farming images, including those published in the Herald, include one of drovers' dogs "after completing four weeks trek with a large mob of cattle" in the Auckland area, mustering in the Craigieburn Range (Southern Alps), and new-born lambs (one a group of four black lambs, and one a white lamb). Scenes of Napier, particularly the sculpture of Pania of the Reef. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey mock lizard cover, entitled `Photographs'; 22 x 27 cm