Photographer in Wanganui (of Watkinson's Studio). Died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. His wife Elizabeth Pilkington Watkinson (née Paul) also died at that time.
Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882-1918
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Victoria Avenue, Wanganui
Date: 1910
By: Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882-1918
Reference: 1/2-003515-F
Description: View of Thain's hardware merchants on a corner of Victoria Avenue with other shops such as R Price, saddler visible. A tram and three men on bicycles are passing the building. Photographer was A E Watkinson. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
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[Postcard]. "Wiri" Webb, the world's champion oarsman / A. D. Willis, publisher. A. E. ...
Date: 1907 - 1909
From: [Postcard album of cards collected by May Stephens. ca 1905-1915].
By: Wilson, R Lois (Mrs), active 1990; Stephens, May, active 1906-1915; Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm); Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882-1918
Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-1-111
Description: Shows, in an oval inset, a head and shoulders portrait of Webb, with arms folded, wearing white singlet with the initials NZ and a silver fern. Beneath inset is a pair of oars and a cup trophy, and there are fern leaves arranged around the top. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Inscriptions: Verso - centre left - [Letter to May from Aunt Nettie Bowater in Kaitoke, Wanganui, dated 27 February 1908]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, black and white, 140 x 90 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs R L Wilson in 1982.
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Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882?-1918 :Upper drop scene, Wanganui River
Date: Between 1905 and 1918
By: Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882-1918
Reference: PA7-53-15
Description: View on the Whanganui River taken, probably ca 1910, by Arthur Edgar Watkinson of Wanganui. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - F.T. Series; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Upper drop scene, Wanganui River.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Photo by Watkinson Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 278 x 177 mm
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A Hatrick & Company Ltd :The Wanganui River, New Zealand. With the compliments of A Hat...
Date: 1910 - 1918
By: Hatrick & Company Ltd (Whanganui, N.Z.); Wilson & Horton (Firm); Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882-1918
Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wanganui-1910s-01
Description: Sheet folded into brown cover. Sheet shows a map of the Wanganui River flanked with photographs of 17 scenes on the river, including a photograph and description of Pipiriki House. Colouring is sepia, with blue highlights. The photographer A E Watkinson died in 1918; therefore this publication probably predates 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 435 x 295 mm, folded into brown cover, 119 x 154 mm, with gold-lettered title.
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Darcy Hadfield
By: Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882-1918
Reference: 1/2-C-22811-F
Description: Darcy Hadfield in a scull. Photograph taken by the Watkinson Studio. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).