Weapons industry - Employees
Workers from a World War 2 munitions factory during their meal break, Hamilton
Date: 13 Jan 1944
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000865-F
Description: Unidentified workers from a World War 2 munitions factory during their meal break. Shows two Maori women dining at a table in the recreation centre restaurant in Hamilton, 13 January 1944. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Caption - Photographer's caption reads: "Another angle of workers in the Recreation Centre restaurant. The meals are substantial and the charges reasonable." Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 20865 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Woman working in a munitions factory in Hamilton during World War 2
Date: 1944
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000862-F
Description: Unidentified woman working in a munitions factory in Hamilton during World War 2. She is one of 557 women in the factory. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, in 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Female munitions worker at a factory in Hamilton, during World War II
Date: [ca 14 Jan 1944]
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000853-F
Description: Female munitions worker at a factory in Hamilton, during World War II. Shows an unidentified woman moving trays of cartridge cases. Photograph taken circa 14 Janurary 1944 by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for this photograph, the first of the set at 1/4-000853 to 000879, reads: "Before the war less than eighty people were employed in an ammunition works in the North Island. Now some 230 men and 557 women produce millions of rounds for small arms, for New Zealand forces overseas. This series of 27 photographs tell how these men and women work and play." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Woman worker in a munitions factory
Date: 30 August 1943
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000958-F
Description: Woman worker in a munitions factory, 30 August, 1943, photographed by John Pascoe. Original caption reads: "[In Wellington] Munitions are, of course, one of the industries that, more than others, have absorbed women workers." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Woman working in a munitions factory in Hamilton during World War 2
Date: 1944
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000857-F
Description: Unidentified woman examining bullets in a munitions factory in Hamilton during World War 2. She is one of 557 women in the factory. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, in 1944. Original caption reads: : "Examining the finished bullet is a preliminary to more searching tests later." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Lunch break for a group of women workers from a World War 2 ammunition factory in Hamilton
Date: 13 Jan 1944
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000870-F
Description: Unidentified women workers, from a World War 2 ammunition factory in Hamilton, on their lunch break. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe, 13 January 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Women assembling mortar shells, Swan Electric Company, Wellington - Photographer uniden...
Date: [between 1939-1945]
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0437
Description: Women assembling mortar shells, Swan Electric Company, Dixon Street, Wellington. Photograph taken between 1939-1945 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Dixon Street location from description of PAColl-0783-2-0435. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21.1 x 16.5 cm
World War II Official album. Internal, 1-437
Date: 1939-1945
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: PA1-q-291
Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. Views show the manufacture of various military weapons, machinery and vehicles and the men and women involved in the work. They include munitions (manufacture of hand grenades); Bren gun carriers, airframes, building navy trawlers and mine sweepers in Auckland; airplane construction at Rongotai, at the De Havilland Aircraft Factory; making caterpillar tracks; making sten guns; and constructing army huts. People from various military and civilian groups are shown working as fitters, flight riggers, flight mechanics; aircraft maintenance; welders, camouflage nets (made by Girl Guides). Activities include army exercises (p 106-110); river crossing exercises; preparation for a dawn departure of a New Zealand Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron; army training (p 76-97); and the New Zealand Air Training Corps for elementary instruction for youths aged 16 to 18 1/2. RNZAF training includes blind flying practice, Hawker Hind training planes, aircraft maintenance, flight mechanics, and Airspeed Oxford training planes. Other activities include the planting and growing of linen flax, used in the manufacture of planes, tires, gun covers and fighting equipment; agricultural and horticural work, including using bullock teams for breaking in new ground; army manouvres (in part in Franklin area, and in winter conditions in the South Island near the Southern Alps); territorial manoeuvres; coastal defence; Home Guard training; a remedial physical education training camp for recruits suffering from foot troubles, painful backs etc.; the making of a new raft designed in NZ which could be constructed in a few minutes and was easily transported; training despatch riders on motor bikes in the snow. Women, in different organisations including Women's National Service Corps, Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Lady Galway Guild, were engaged in driving and maintaining military vehicles; driving for Red Cross vehicles; digging trenches; on parade; as signallers; in clerical work; hospital duties; cooking and other branches of essential war work. Pages 63-75 show the arrival in New Zealand of the American forces; and pages 111-121 portray a visit to New Zealand of Australian and Netherlands personnel from the hospital ship Oranje when the NZ Government, as a mark of appreciation for their efforts in bringing Australian and New Zealand wounded troops, placed a special train at their disposal and took them to Chateau Tongariro for rest and relaxation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm
Group at work in a munitions factory during World War 2
Date: [during World War 2]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-5936-43
Description: Mrs Duncan, and others, working in a munitions factory during World War 2. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - Mrs Duncan works in an ammunition factory Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print