Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-599

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1960-ca1988

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-602

Description: Railway trains, locomotives, and carriage interiors in New Zealand, Britain and North America. The Volcanic Plateau and Wairakei geothermal project. Most of the album shows ships on Auckland Harbour and at the wharves, including the launch 'Manu', used to provide "Captain Cook Cruises" circa 1980, and the refurbished waterfront and cast iron gates near the Ferry Terminal Building. There are also shots of people taking the sun in this area. The final section records some of the demolition and rebuilding in Auckland during the 1980s. Rationalist House also features. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: ca1945-ca1946

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-o-807

Description: Album begins probably at the end of the Second world War. Avro Anson training plane, men in uniform and travells in trucks. Much of the rest of the album is about a skiing trip to Mount Kosciusko via Canberra. There are shots of people skiing, hotels, and the Canberra War Memorial as well as general views over Canberra and the surrounding countryside. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1948

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-597

Description: Family and friends. Australian cities and countryside. Women's fashions and current styles and makes of cars. Public buildings and houses. Australian holidays. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [ca 1955]

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-598

Description: South Island holiday - Central Otago, Queenstown, Dunedin, Blenheim, Picton and back to Wellington. Another holiday in a Humber car. Mainly Wanganui, Wairakei, and Volcanic Plateau. Quite an extensive section on trains and locomotives many photographed in Auckland Railway Station yards. Building and decorating a house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1947

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-o-806

Description: Holiday at Lord Howe Island, 1947. Many good views of the Island, its beaches and its forests. Tourists in holiday mood and local school and school children. The liner "Orion" and the Sunderland flying boat "Australis". There are also photographs of passengers on the flying boat eating meals in transit and a view of the cockpit. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1900-1986

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PAColl-5262-1

Description: Most photographs relate to Munro Robinson's Australian family and friends. Most date from the late 1930s to the early 1950s Quantity: 156 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1946

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-o-805

Description: Studio photographic prints in the pictorialist style. Landscapes, gum trees, towns, ships and harbour views. Also a photograph of the photographer in his studio Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-600

Description: This album relates to a world trip which is fully covered in PA1-q-599 where most of the prints are identified. THis album is an anthology of the second part of the trip which begins in Europe in Holland and ends in Bombay, India. There are also a number of scenic New Zealand views and touist Hotels. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-601

Description: This album is the first part of two albums recording a world trip. The other part is PA1-q-600. Both of these relate to a third album - PA1-q-599 - in which most of the images are identified. This album has a contents list which gives a general ID to the images contaned in it and its twin. Both contain images which do not appear in PA1-q-599. This album contains prints recording the first part of the trip which began in Sydney where Robertson and his wife boarded the "Canberra" en route for Canada. The rest of the photographs record their Canadian, United States and British experience Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1945-ca1988

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PAColl-5262

Description: Photographs of Australia (1940s-1950s), New Zealand (1950s-1980s), travels in Europe, United States and Canada, railways around the world, motor cars owned by photographer. Includes record of visit to Lord Howe Island by flying boat in 1947. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-178252 to 178488 Quantity: 10 album(s) Album(s). 238 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 colour original photographic print(s). 237 b&w original negative(s).