Bookbinder in the "Arts & crafts" style, and keen photographer in black and white. Born in England; came to New Zealand with her family in 1876. Educated in Germany & France; trained as a book binder at Sangorsky & Sutcliffe (Southampton). On her return to NZ she set up a bindery in Dunedin. Article & photograph published in NZ Free Lance, 16 Feb 1938. Took photographs in the Southern Alps when climbing with New Zealand guides Peter and Alex Graham. See photographs in W A Kennedy Collection (PAColl-0959-29, nos 5-7, 10-11; PAColl-0959-32, nos. 37, 48-50, 56-57, 65, 148, 150-153; PAColl-0959-37, nos 1-19). (See also obituary filed in Alexander Turnbull Library New Zealand Biographies Index (1957, vol 1, p24))
Joachim, Mary Eleanor, 1874-1957
Joachim, Eleanor, 1874-1957
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Alpine scenes, birds and plants, [taken by] Miss K. Gardiner
Date: [Circa 1900s-1920s]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Beken, Charles Albert, 1859-1944; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Gardiner, Kate, 1885-1974; Joachim, Mary Eleanor, 1874-1957; Kurz, Marcel, 1887-1967; Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Theomin, Dorothy Michaelis, 1888-1966
Reference: PAColl-0959-32
Description: Photographs of various mountains and valleys, birds and plants in New Zealand taken by identified and unidentified photographers. A large proportion were taken by Kate Gardiner (nos. 1-10, 13-30, 33, 54, 66-94). Other identified photographers are G E Mannering (nos 136-141, 143, 146-149); Miss Joachim (nos 37, 48-50, 56-57, 63-65, 148, 15-153); Miss Theomin (nos 31, 35-36, 38-43, 53, 55, 144, 145); Tudor Collins (nos 45-47, 52); and Marcel Kurz (nos 95-135, 142). Note on the back of image no. 1 reads "1928 ascent of Malte Brun with Frank Alack and Peter Graham. Picture shows Frank Alack and Mrs Ivan Wilson (Mrs Mona Wilson). Info from Mrs Wilson's daughter, 1990." Additional note reads "one opinion. However in Frank Alack's book 'Share my joys' a similar photo of the same woman is identified as Katie Gardiner" [writer not identified]. Photographs numbered 34 and 35 are probably of the helichrysum species. Image no. 11 shows mountain guides Jack Lippe, Frank Milne, J Clarke (John Michael Clarke) and Jock Richmond (back row), and Alec Graham and Peter Graham (front row). Image no. 12 shows Guy (George Edward) Mannering with three undentified mountaineers. A number of images, chiefly taken by Miss Joachim, show various New Zealand birds and plants, including pied and spotted shags on Little Barrier Island (nos 45-47), gannets at Cape Kidnappers (nos 48-51, 56-57), kea and pukeko; and Prince of Wales feathers fern, a cabbage tree, two varieties of helichrysum and staghorn ferns. Many of the images by Marcel Kurz show mountaineers, bivouacs and camping sites in the mountains, including the Pioneer Ridge Bivvy. Image no. 133, taken by Marcel Kurz shows Ned Porter, Clive Barker and Doris Barker (later Mrs Porter), on the second ascent of Mount Haidinger in 1927. Most identified places are listed above. Other Titles - Miss K. Gardiner (with additional note which reads "includes photos by Mannering, Kurz, Gardiner, Joachim, Theomin".) Quantity: 153 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander." Some photographs have no information or identification of places, times or names of people..
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Personalities - Women - Surnames, Jo
Date: [1925-1960]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-135
Description: Mainly portraits, with some other photographs included, published (or considered for publication) in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1930s-1950s. All have names recorded on the back and most have date/dates of publication. Names of most of the identified subjects entered in Name field. Includes photograph of the Johnson quadruplets (photographer E A Phillips, Dunedin) & outdoors with their elder sisters (published 11 Nov 1936). Several photographs of English aviator, Amy Johnson Also includes photographs of the following: Mrs William Joyce (wife of Lord Haw Haw); Miss Pauline Gower, daughter of Sir Robert Gower; Mrs Valerie Jones, woman scientist with Commonwealth Fisheries at Port Hacking, NSW; Madame Made Jocelyne, the famous leader of fashion in Paris (published 25 Mar 1925); Silviane Jaonine (Miss Mediterranean 1960); Dr Joyce Jones (of Wellington?); Lady Jowitt, wife of Britian's Lord High Chancellor; Joan I Jones of Horsham, Victoria, winner of the Sun aria contest in Melbourne, 1937; Countess Johnson Lodd; Mrs G Jorian of France, whose husband travels to NZ on business as a wool buyer; Osa Johnson, fl 1937; Judith Johnson, fl 1958. Quantity: 111 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
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Alpine scenes
Date: [Circa 1900s-1920s]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Beck, Dick, active 1895; G P Abraham Ltd; Joachim, Mary Eleanor, 1874-1957; Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950; Sun (Christchurch, N.Z.); Theomin, Dorothy Michaelis, 1888-1966
Reference: PAColl-0959-29
Description: Photographs of various mountains and valleys in New Zealand taken by identified and unidentified photographers. Those identified include Miss Joachim, Beck, WAK, and Miss Theomin. An unidentified photographer from Sun Newspapers took several aerial views of Mount Cook. As well there are three postcards showing rock climbing in the Lake District in England, taken by G P Abraham Ltd, photographers in Keswick. Identified places are listed above. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander." Photographs numbered 12-14, and 17-18 have no information or identification of places, times or names of people..
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Alpine scenes [taken by Misses Joachim and Theomin]
Date: [Circa 1910s-1930s]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Joachim, Mary Eleanor, 1874-1957; Theomin, Dorothy Michaelis, 1888-1966
Reference: PAColl-0959-37
Description: Alpine views in the South Island, taken by Miss Joachim (nos. 1-19) and Miss Theomin (nos. 20-50). There are two North Island views taken by Miss Joachim (Papakura Geyser (no. 2), and Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua (no. 9)). Included in this box is a two-page letter to "Mr. Kennedy" signed by Dorothy Theomin. She starts off "I am always so very [proud when you think any of my films are worth turning into slides that I feel the "kindness" is all on your side for the honour you do me in using them...". She also refers to Peter Graham, Mr. Chas. Buchanan and a Mrs. Bickerton. There are also two pages, partially in Miss Theomin's hand-writing, describing a few of her images, though the numbering system in these notes, the pencilled numbers (possibly given by W. A. Kennedy) and the numbers in the typescript inventory all differ from one another. Most of the places identified are listed above. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".