Nightingall, John Bernard, 1911-1993

Date: 1950-1955

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-06

Description: Photographs taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall during a trip to Fiji in the early 1950s. Arrangement: Proof sheets of these images can be found at PAColl-7167-10-28 to PAColl-7167-10-31 Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900s-1950s

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-01

Description: John Hough Nightingall, his wife Dorothy and sons Jack and Theo. Images of the two sons as babies and school boys in Tasmania, other family members and friends. With their father in the gardens at Melbourne and with their mother, father and friends on picnics and outings. There are also images of Jack and Theo as young men in New Zealand. John Hough Nightingall is shown with work collegues in factories and in formal groups, and there are two images of Dorothy dressed in traditional Maori costume. A section in this collection relates to the time in the early 1930s when John Hough Nightingall was associated with the flax fibre industry in the Foxton area. These photographs show flax plants, mills and machinary, and bails of finished fibre. They also seem to indicate that the whole family was involved in this work. Later in the 1930s images show Theo and friends at the Apollo Club, at parties, on the beach, at weddings, with friends, and with collegues in front of the Leicagraph Studio, Wellington, where he worked. There are also holiday and tramping shots, cross-dressers at a Christmas party at James Smith store, Wellington, and others at a private party. Arrangement: Negatives associated with the flax industry images are at 1/4-107380-F to 1/4-107429-F, 1/2-198297-F to 1/2-198334-F, and 1/2-198819-F to 1/2-198838-F. Many of these images are among the 150 lantern slides in this collection

Date: 1930-1939

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-12

Description: Airplanes associated with the Wellington Aero Club including photos taken during a flight over Wellington, also the flying boat "Centaurus". Nightingall family and friends. People on beaches. A grave covered with wreaths. New Zealand and other boxers. The clock tower at Blenheim. The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongotai, Wellington. The flax industry and coastal landscape views Quantity: 104 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940s-1970s

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-03

Description: Photos of Jack, Theo, and Dorothy Nightingall, their friends and associates. Three images show Theo with Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, and Keith Holyoake. There are social gatherings including dressing up as personalities like Hitler, and a mock wedding. One group of images is of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongotai Wellington, another of Jack in action in his role as Bernardi the Hypnotist, and a third are colour photographs of Norfolk Island in the 1950s Quantity: 104 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950-1955

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-05

Description: Photographs taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall during a trip to Fiji in the early 1950s. Arrangement: Proof sheets of these images can be found at PAColl-7167-10-28 to PAColl-7167-10-31 Quantity: 108 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1950-ca1985

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-09

Description: Photographs of Jack Nightingall on the street, on yachts with other people, with work collegues, and dressed for his "Bernardi" show. Two images show his newly refurbished yacht being moved for launching. Most of the rest of the photographs relate to Theo Nightingall and the airplane he built. Those taken during construction show aspects of the internal structure, and the partly compleated fusilage and wings. There are many of the finished plane, of the plane in flight, and as part of aero club events. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). 40 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1933

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, John Bernard, 1911-1993

Reference: PA1-o-1028

Description: Jack Nightingall and friends sailing a yacht on Auckland Harbour in the early 1930s. Photographed by Jack Nightingall Arrangement: Negatives associated with these images can be found at 1/2-198486-F to 1/2-198543-F, and 1/2-198710-G to 1/2-198749-G Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1950s-1990s

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-11

Description: Largest group of images relate to a trip Jack Nightingall made to Tasmania in the late 1980s or early 1990s. There are weddings, photos of family and friends including one of Jack and Theo (1970s), and their mother Dorothy as an old woman. Two images taken on a yacht in the early 1950s (proof sheets of images which include these two can be found at PAColl-7167-10-33). The other group of images are coloured postcards dating from 1965 and bought by Jack Nightingall during his Pacific voyage on his yacht to Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Others are of scenic tourist locations in the South Island and include Queenstown, the Te Anau caves, Lake Manapouri and Doubtfull Sound Quantity: 52 colour original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 38 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

From: TVNZ documentaries of Theo and Jack Nightingall

By: Nightingall, John Bernard, 1911-1993; Long, Margaret Constance, 1927-2015

Reference: OHInt-0638/2

Description: Interviewer(s) - Margaret Long Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHV-635 Quantity: 1 videocassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

By: Television New Zealand; Long, Margaret Constance, 1927-2015; Morrell, Ben, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0638

Description: Television documentaries of brothers John and Theo Nightingall on the subject of aviation including reviewing Theo's home-made plane. The subject of the second documentary is of conscientious objectors Interviewer(s) - Margaret Long Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHV-634, OHV-635 Quantity: 2 videocassette(s). 2 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Provenance: Collection forms part of the estate of Jack Nightingall, left to Colin Morrell on his death.

Date: 3 May 1990 - 03 May 1990

From: Conscientious objectors of World War II by Hautu Productions

By: Nightingall, John Bernard, 1911-1993

Reference: OHInt-0697/22

Description: John B Nightingale gives reasons for his pacifists beliefs. Refers to conscription notice and tribunal. Describes time at Strathmore and Hautu camps. Talks about attitudes after the War and mentions RSA (Returned Servicemen's Association). Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Margaret Long Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHV-0599, 0600, 0601, 0602, 0603 ; OHLV-0280, O281 Quantity: 5 videocassette(s). 1 folder(s) - handwritten notes. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Notes - OHA-3457.

Date: 1939-1945

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-04

Description: Photographs of New Zealand detention camps for conscientious objectors, and of men detained in them. Also images of a group of men on a tramping and camping trip, and others of a group of activists of the Wellington Branch of the Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors in the process of printing antiwar propaganda. Most of the photographs of the detention camps were taken by Theo Nightingall Theo and Jack Nightingall were conscientious objectors during the Second World War. Information relating to Theo's photographs published in \"Bread and Water\", W J Foote, Philip Garside Publishing Ltd, 2000, establish that he was at Hautu and Strathmore detention camps. Information relating to his escape from Hautu detention camp with two friends in 1944 can be found in \"Out In The Cold\", David Grant, Reed Methuen Auckland, 1986, pp 189-191. More is known about Jack from a video tape now in the Oral History section of the Alexander Turnbull Library. He described himself as a pacifist, and \"ethical objector\". Prior to conscription he and Theo planned to vanish into the bush. The anti war demonstrations at Pidgion Park Wellington decided them to stay and support those who opposed war. Jack was first sent to prison at Mount Crawford for refusing to relinquish a rifle he owned when it was requisitioned by the military authorities. He was then sent to the same prison a second time as a conscientious objector. As well as Mount Crawford Jack spent time in Witako prison, Trentham military camp, Strathmore, Whitanui, Hautu, Mount Eden, and Hautu again. At the end of the war he was sent to Mount Eden prison for his part in a strike protesting at still being held in detention after the end of hostilities. During his time in detention Jack practised wood turning, and learned esperanto. After the war he spent some time working for a friend making bandsaws. He then began his career in photography working for Bell's Camera House in Hastings Quantity: 108 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920s-1980s

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-02

Description: Jack, Theo, their mother Dorothy, and their father, John Hough Nightingall, and other family and friends. Theo in military dress, social gatherings, parties, groups of friends and associates. Two images of a motor accident, several of Theo and his Ford Prefect car, and images of an American ford car of about 1940. Also motorcycles and Theo with an airplane. Landscape views, unidentified towns, street scenes in Fiji (early 1950s), and photographs and text about Norfolk Island. An image of Dorothy in traditional Maori costume, and two others of the boys and their father visiting an unidentified thermal area. Some images of camping holidays probably while the family was still in Australia. Jack with friends especially yachting friends on yachts and larger sailing ships, winning a cup at possibly weight lifing and with Theo in an airplane. Many images of individuals and groups of people Quantity: 154 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1911-1973

From: Nightingall family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7582-5

Description: Material includes a ship radio station licence, certificate of enrolment as a reservist, certificate from Captain Dunsford's School of Navigation, restricted radiotelephone operators certificate and a certificate of vaccination Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscript

Date: [19--]

From: Nightingall family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7582-6

Description: Material includes a business card, brochure for the `Rapid' ore crusher, copy of the Australain official journal of patents and newspaper cuttings Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscript

Date: 1900-1939

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-08

Description: Photographs of Nightingall family and friends. There are a number of formal wedding groups including one taken at the time of the marriage of John Hough and Dorothy Nightingall in 1910. Family outings in motor cars, and playing polo from moving cars, Jack and Theo Nightingall as children in Australia, and other infants. Three photographs show electrical and radio apparatus of the 1909 period, and one shows a 21st birthday cake displayed on a table Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1929-1967

From: Nightingall family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7582-4

Description: Material includes deed between John Bernard Nightingall and Betty Duckworth Veale for the licence to use a boat shed and skids, telegram from the Wellington Manpower office, correspondence from National Service Department in relation to release from defaulters' detention, employers' letters of recommendation and correspondence to Walter Nighingall Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscript

Date: ca1890-ca1990

By: Nightingall, John Bernard, 1911-1993; Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986; Morrell, Ben, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7167

Description: Family photographs and photographs of aviation, model aviation, conscientious objectors, physical culture, the flax industry, hynotism, yachts and yachting, Wellington transvestites, and other topics, taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall. Collection also includes photographs taken by their father, John Hough Nightingall and some original negatives taken by C Spencer of Auckland in 1903/04. Arrangement: Negatives are at 1/2-197556 to 1/2-199010, 1/4-106082 to 1/4-107820, 1/1-028851 to 1/1-028870, and 35mm 38176 to 35mm 38225. Transparencies are at PA12-2297 to PA12-2384. Lantern slides are with the lantern slide sequence, but as yet have not been allocated a collection number Quantity: 546 b&w original transparency/ies. 1429 colour original transparency/ies of which an estimated 154 are coloured glass lantern slides. 130 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 2496 b&w original negative(s). 48 colour original negative(s). 1320 b&w original photographic print(s). 38 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 7 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Collection formed part of the estate of Jack Nightingall, left to Colin Morrell on his death.

Date: ca1939-ca1969

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, John Bernard, 1911-1993; Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-10

Description: Photographs and proof sheets of an acrobatic group called the Del Mars, Bernardi's (Jack Nightingall's) hypnotist show, domestic cats, men weightlifting, clowns, parties and other social events, a tramping and camping holiday, a trip to Hawke's Bay, Rotorua and the central North Island, yachts and yachting, views from a journey up the Wanganui River, airplanes, posters relating to the anti war/peace movement of about 1939-1945 and activists of the Wellington branch of the Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors printing leaflets in 1941. Related to these are a group of proof sheets recording a conscientious objectors social event at Mokoio Hall on 17 June 1946. There are also proof sheets of Carmen and some of her associates, and of performers at Carmen's nightclub "The Balcony" in Wellington. Two proof sheets have images of turned wooden bowls made up of different woods, and ornamental wooden boxes inlaid with different woods. These were made by Jack Nightingall while he was held in detention as a conscientious objector. Quantity: 82 b&w original photographic print(s).