Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Date: 1939-1940

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

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1033

Description: Day and night views of the buildings of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongotai, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: 1931-1932

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

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1032

Description: Most of this album shows the aircraft models made and flown by Theo Nightingall in the early 1930s. Images record in detail the structural framework of the models, the finished model aircraft, and Theo flying them in the open air. This record is interspersed with images of Kingsford Smith's "Southern Cross" in flight and on the ground. Theo Nightingall was a member of the Waitemata Model Aero Club in the early 1930s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(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: 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: ca1931-ca1934

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

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1030

Description: A record of the life of a man in his late teens which includes his interest in aircraft, motorcycles, physical culture and body image, sports, and accidents. Two images show flights of Gipsy Moth aircraft over Auckland, and four show Kingsford Smith's "Southern Cross" in flight. One sequence of images records a trip on motorcycles to the West Coast and Nelson with views of mountains, river vallies, towns, and tourist attractions such as glaciers, pancake rocks and gold dredges. Another group shows the gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers. Theo and some of his friends were interested in the physical culture of the time which was a combination of body building and gymnastic stunts. As a result there are several pages of men displaying their muscular development, or performing acrobatic balancing stunts on beaches, mountain tops and motorcycles. One group of photographs shows the machinary and workers in a factory, possibly for weaving fabric, and another group relates to the flax fibre industry in which his father was involved in some way after arriving in New Zealand in about 1931. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1946-ca1949

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

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1031

Description: Most of the images are records of holidays taken in the late 1940s. The first is a winter trip on motorcycles to the south Island showing Christchurch, the mountains and the countryside under snow. The next, also by motorcycle is a North Island trip first to Hawkes Bay and Napier via the Manawatu Gorge, then north to Rotorua and the thermal areas, then back through the central North Island taking in the Huka Falls and the Chateau. Next there is a fishing trip to the Marlborough Sounds which includes a visit to Blenheim, and a few images of a camping trip. The other theme is social. A birthday party for Theo's brother Jack. This includes detailed images of the guests, cutting the cake, beer drinking, and chess playing. Another group of images appears to be a card party combined with a meal and cash for gambling. One page of images shows the destruction of a building by fire photographed at night Arrangement: Proof sheets of the North Island trip can be found at PAColl-7167-10-25 to PAColl-7167-10-27 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).

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.

From: TVNZ documentaries of Theo and Jack Nightingall

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986; Long, Margaret Constance, 1927-2015

Reference: OHInt-0638/1

Description: Interviewer(s) - Margaret Long Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHV-634 Quantity: 1 videocassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

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: ca1935-ca1939

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

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1029

Description: Record of the life lived mainly in Wellington by a man in his early 20s. Photographs of Theo Nightingall, his friends, their social events and amusments, motorcycles, and cars. There are images of Theo and his friends as photographers photographed with their cameras; of Theo with a group in party mode with a car decorated with balloons and streamers; of fancy dress and theatrical skits relating to Dad and Dave (a popular Australian radio comedy of the 1930s and 1940s); of Theo and friends in evening dress at a ball; of Theo and friends performing gymnastic acrobatics on the beach, in the countryside and on motorcycles. There are photographs of young women and of departures on ships, and views of an unidentified port and town (possibly Wanganui), and work collegues probably at the Leicagraph Studio clowning with their cameras. These images also show something of social habits like smoking and beer drinking, and are especially rich in information on what young men were wearing in the late 1930s, and how they did their hair Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1911-1986

From: Nightingall family: Papers

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: MS-Papers-7582-2

Description: Material includes a death certificate, intermediate certificate from the Department of Education New South Wales, two achievement certificates from the Amateur Aircraft Constructors Association of New Zealand, showman's licence from the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, letter of recommendation from Frank Wiseman Limited, second codicil to the will of Theo Nightingall, New Zealand Weight-Lifters' Association competition booklet and a catalogue of electro-therapeutic and scientific apparatus produced by Victor Nightingall and Company Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscript

Date: 1937-1941

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

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-18

Description: Images of men who have achieved notable physical development, displays of physical culture, and in particular groups of men performing balancing acts (equilibrists) Quantity: 1 album(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: 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: 1927-1931

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

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-17

Description: Exaustive collection of aircraft images taken from news papers and magazines. The collection was compiled at a time when the aviator was hero, so there are many images of pilots and in particular those who made long, adventurous air voyages. Other images illustrate experimental aircraft such as early versions of the idea of a "flying wing", and the great airships are also featured in the collection Quantity: 2 album(s).

Date: 1927-1931

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

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-16

Description: Exaustive collection of aircraft images taken from news papers and magazines. The collection was compiled at a time when the aviator was hero, so there are many images of pilots and in particular those who made long, adventurous air voyages. Other images illustrate experimental aircraft such as early versions of the idea of a "flying wing", and the great airships are also featured in the collection Quantity: 2 album(s).