Streets - Israel

Date: [ca 1912-1945]

By: Cowan, Erica, active 1978-2001; Ginders, C A, active 1940s; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Mitchell, Trevor Vernon, -1942

Reference: PAColl-0324

Description: The collection includes two different sets of photographs. The first is the photographs from the collection of Thomas Vernon Mitchell taken while he was serving in the army in the Middle East in the Second World War. They include tourist scenes of the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane; the city of the dead in Cairo; street scenes in Jerusalem, Tiberias and Aleppo; tombs of the caliphs in Cairo; the Dead Sea; the tower of King David, Jerusalem; the Hotel Yarkon, Tel Aviv; the citadel entrance, Aleppo; and Tiberias Hot Springs. Other images are a 24th Battalion chuch parade in February 1941, two views of Mitchell's grave, the effects of a sandstorm on a military camp in the desert, Mitchell and his friends on rickshaws, Papakura infantry at Trentham in October 1940, and the 24th Battalion party at Cairo 1941. Most of the photographs are captioned and names given are: Warren, Abbott, Coleman, Braser, Wright, Scott, Hargreaves, Walton, Jamieson, Morpeth, Christianson, Battesby, Bullen, Ready, Procter, Pryde, Brash, Naismith, Steel, Shaw, Bush, Banks, Seavill, Allen, McCowan, Buckingham, Boyce, Hawke, Logie, Trubshaw, Olsen, Conder, Horrocks, Rawson, Gilfilan, Bradley, Pratt, Dow, Bremner, Ker, Stark, James and Cutler. The second set of photographs is of a trip by George Philips to the Rotorua area in May 1912. They include Philips and others at Tutea Falls, Okere; in front of Maori carvings and Ohinemutu; in a punt at Hamurana Spring; and on Hinemoa Step, Okere Falls. The photographer of this is Marsh of Rotorua. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s) loose. 18 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted.

Date: [ca 1918-1919]

By: Lupton, Roger Deller, 1897-

Reference: PAColl-0401

Description: Photographs of Palestine, Egypt and the Middle East, probably taken by Roger Lupton who was on active service there. As there are captions relating to the AMR, it is assumed that he was with the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment. They are mostly of places of interest in the area such as the Monastery of St George at Wadi Qelt; the Crusaders' Tower in Richon; the Mosque of Omar, the Garden of Gethsemane and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem; temple ruins at Luxor; the Agricultural College in Jaffa; the River Jordan; a Roman amphitheatre in Amman; the German Church in Bethlehem; the Church of Lazarus in Bethany; the inside of the Russian Church in Jaffa; and a man and a woman floating in the Dead Sea. However, there are others relating to the campaign: a pontoon bridge over the River Jordan; Kastal Railway Station on the Mecca line with a long goods train being loaded; the remains of the Turkish gun Jericho Jane (Turkish gun used in the Jordan Valley during the First World War so named as its range was long enough to hit Jericho from the opposite side of the vally, twelve miles away. The gun had an eighteen foot barrel); bombed houses in Jaffa; a cemetery; Algerian cavalry in Ismalia; railway lines at Tantah, Egypt; a stone Turkish bridge at Beersheba; the ruins of a Turkish patrol boat next to the Dead Sea; a railway engine destroyed by the retreating Turks; dead horses of the Auckland regiment in the Jordan Valley; a group of soldiers on board a troop ship; and three of men and horses, one showing the camp at Richon. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) loose prints. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) post cards. 1 album(s) Album(s).