Pascoe family

Date: 1951-[ca 1961]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-01

Description: Views of open sea, of ketches transporting people, goods and mail to residents of the Marborough Sounds and D'Urville Island, views of the sounds and surrounding hills and islands from hilltop views. The group relating to D'Urville Island and Pelorus Sound was taken during a family holiday. There are group photographs of the family, of them camping, fishing and tramping. Some of these activities were done in the company of Maori friends. A few photographs record an unidentified climbing trip. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 24 December 1962-18 January 1963

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-o-1309

Description: In December 1962 the Pascoe family went for a climbing holiday in the Arthurs Pass area. There are photographs of Dorothy and the girls with mountaineering friend, Michael Clark among the mountains. The album is also a record of the transalpine crossing from the Waitaha in Westland to the Rakaia made by John Pascoe, Michael Clark and Stan Conway in January 1963. At the end of the crossing John reconnected with his family and there is a photograph of them as a group dated 18 January 1963. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1870]-1951

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-q-945

Description: There are several subject groups in this album. 1. Family childhood and youth. The earliest family photograph dates from the 1870s and is a portrait of John Pascoe's paternal grandmother as a young woman. The photographs become prolific from about 1918 to 1930. During the 1920s many photographs are of Pascoe and his friends as boys, often with family members, taken during outdoor activities such as staying at baches at Rakaia huts, at picnics, swimming, boating, tramping, hunting and horse riding. Several show John Pascoe with a banjo, and there is a group photograph of Bloys Banjo Band taken about 1930. 2. The next group relate to Christs College, Christchurch. These consist of views of some of the buildings including the interior of the chapel. Many are groups of college sports teams and sudents dressed in striped blazers, the school orchestra, the school cadets, school friends and some teachers. Some of the photographs show study interiors and boys at work in them. 3. Photographs of John and Paul Pascoe as young men in their first suits; Paul Pascoe at architectural school; John and Dorothy Pascoe's wedding in 1940 and of their first house. Related to this group, though scattered throughout the album are photographs of John's father's law offices when John worked there, of Paul Pascoe in England in the mid 1930s, and later of his wife and children at the time that his second son was a baby. 4. John Pascoe as a harrier with the christchurch Harrier Club in the late 1920s. There are photographs of individual runners, group photographs of harrier teams, and many more of races about to start or underway. 5. John Pascoe as a civil servant during the late 1930s and during the war. Some of these are official photographs such as the group at the beginning of the album which relate to the publishing of "Making New Zealand" and the team producing it. As well there are a number of small images of Pascoe's collegues at the Department of Internal Affaires, some photographs of him in operation as a war time official photographer, and a group photograph of Joseph Heenan and his staff standing on the steps of Parliament house. Other photographs include Dorothy, the children, and activities with children in the early 1950s. There is also a photograph of the window of Whitcombe and Tombs bookshop in Wellington displaying Pascoe's book "Unclimbed New Zealand." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1945-[ca 1965]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PAColl-8765-18

Description: Photographs recording the process of preparing the site and building John and Dorothy Pascoe's house in native forest at Eastbournel, Lower Hutt. Six photographs of a Japanese mountaineering expedition climbing in the New Zealand Southern Alps possibly some time in the 1960s. Photographs supplied by the Mainichi Press, Tokyo, Japan. This house was designed by John Pascoe's brother Arnold Paul Pascoe. Quantity: 128 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: December 1954-January 1955

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-o-1308

Description: A Record of a Pascoe family holiday in Pelorus Sound, Marlborough. There are photographs of the family at different moments in their progress, and throughout the album many photographs of the children. The album is also a record of the places they visited in the sounds. These include Te Towaka, Grevill Harbour and homestead on D'Urville Island, Waikawa Bay, Turners Bay and homestead, Admiralty Bay, Hopai beach and its sports day, Tennyson Inlet, Harvey Bay, Tuna Bay, and Havelock. Family activities recorded are fishing trips and fish catches, picknicing on cockles on a beach, swimming, boating, and tramping including a sequence of the family in the bush on Mount Shewell above Te Towaka. There are photographs of a number of people which they meet on the way or stayed with, including a wharf full of people waiting for the mail launch. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1909-1910

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-029

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Harold Hislop, including scenic views of Wellington Harbour (1909), and the Queenstown area (1910). Domestic scenes include interior views of three Wellington homes: Brentwood (Karori), Clovelly (Wadestown), and one on the Terrace (probably 148 Wellington Terrace, owned by David Milligan). Outings in the Wellington area include group portraits at the Botanical gardens, the Wellington Bowling Club, and the Wellington Zoo (one photograph of `King' the lion) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown mock crocodile cover, `Photographs' in gold lettering; endpapers decorated with gold tracery surrounding tiny blue-grey floral pattern; 19 x 40 cm

Date: January 1965

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-o-1310

Description: Album recording a Pascoe Family Holiday to the Arthurs Pass area. It involved tramping and mountain climbing and followed the huts along the Waimakariri River to the Bealy River. Next they drove to Te Towaka via Blenheim where they were joined by Sara Pascoe and they camped, tramped, fished and climbed Mount Shewell. The final group of photographs in the album were taken during another unidentified mountain climbing expedition where John was accompanied by his daughter Anna and her husband Ian Gilmore. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: December 1940

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-o-1311

Description: John and Dorothy Pascoe's alpine honeymoon in the mountains at the head of the Waimakariri River. They climbed Mounts Isobel, Campbell, Murchison, Mottram, and Stewart, then followed the Taipo river to the West Coast. The last group of photographs in the album relate to the Dillon family who lived in the Taipo River valley. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941-1972

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PAColl-8765-15

Description: Photos of mountains and of family members on climbing trips. Four photographs show John Pascoe demonstrating some sort of rope support in a mountain hut. Group of photographs show members of the Pascoe family on Peak Hill above Lake Colleridge on the 26th of November 1972 which was the day that they scattered John Pascoe's ashes. Photographs of Alice Pascoe and members of her family in England. Photographs taken by John Pascoe during his travells with National Geographic photo journalist, Howell Walker. Walker arrived in New Zealand in October 1941. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1969

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: 75-241-078

Description: Letters to his family from the United States while attending the World Conference on Records in Salt Lake City in 1969 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss (carbon copies)

Date: 1940-1965

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-q-947

Description: Original photographs and some other material assembled by Chris Maclean from Dorothy Pascoe's collection, for his biography of John Pascoe which was published in 2003. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1970

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8179-82

Description: Inward and outward general correspondence; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Also includes letters from Walter, [?] Oratia, Auckland; and Bill, Karori. Other Titles - NAZAC Wellington newsletter (n294, 296-297, Jan, Mar, Apr 1970) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1930s

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-412-016

Description: Top row, left hand photograph (PA1-o-412-016-01) man, boy and horse on open paddock backed by mountains. Photographed by an unknown phorographer Top row, second photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-02) two children sitting in a kitchen. Photographed by an unknown photographer Top row, third photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-03) woman at a kitchen stove. Photographed by an unknown photographer Top row, fourth photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-04) woman and child preparing mushrooms for cooking at a kitchen table. Photographed by an unknown photographer Middle row, left hand photograph (PA1-o-412-016-05) man milking a cow. Photographed by an unknown photographer Middle row, second photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-06) man standing by a clothesline. Photographed by an unknown photographer Middle row, third photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-07) man sitting against a boulder drinking from a tin mug. Photographed by an unknown photographer Middle row, fourth photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-08) Man sitting against a rock holding a tin mug. Photographed by an unknown photographer Bottom row, left hand photograph (PA1-o-412-016-09) Man sitting holding a tin mug. Photographed by an unknown photographer Bottom row, second photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-10) John Pascoe carrying a girl on his shoulders. Photographed by an unknown photographer Bottom row, third photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-11) woman sitting in doorway looking at a child. Photographed by an unknown photographer Bottom row, fourth photograph from left (PA1-o-412-016-12) John Pascoe staning with a woman who may be his wife. Photographed by an unknown photographer Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Twelve silver gelatin photographic prints mounted on album page 305 x 250 mm (page size)