Colombo

Date: [ca 1935-1937]

From: Hampton, Richard George, 1906-2006: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1567

Description: Photograph album compiled by Richard George Hampton, circa 1935-1937, during an ocean cruise on the 'Strathaird'. Includes tourist views of Australia, voyage to London via Sri Lanka, India, Yemen, Sudan, Egypt and Malta, the proclamation and coronation of Edward VIII, Mahmoud's Derby at Tottenham, Doddy's restaurants, British AAA Championships at White City, New Zealand Olympic team in July 1936 at White City and at the Berlin Olympic Games including Jack Lovelock, the McMahon Incident, Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 155 x 230 mm

Date: 21 Nov 1943-10 Jun 1944, 2004

By: Stubbs, James Athol, 1922?-1944

Reference: MS-Papers-8101

Description: Transcription by Colin Bassett of diary kept by Gunner James Stubbs in World War Two beginning with an account of his military service from 1940 to 1943 when the diary begins (21 Nov 1943) and finishing 1 Jun 1944, shortly before his death in Wellington 10 Jun 1944 Stubbs describes his enlistment and training from 1940 to 1943 when he left New Zealand on the `Nieuw Amsterdam', arriving in Egypt in Aug 1943; he describes the voyage, places visited, and Cairo, then sailing to Italy and serving there including Cassino. He returned to New Zealand on the `Wanganella' but became ill on board and died on his arrival in Wellington Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr C Bassett, Khandallah, Wellington, Sep 2004

Date: 1934

From: Crump, Spencely Noel Stanley :Photographs relating to the British Empire Games of 1934 and 1938

Reference: PA1-o-967

Description: Photographs taken during the New Zealand British Empire Games team's journey to Britian on the SS Remuera. Passengers, boat drill and other shipboard activities are recorded. There are pictures of the Panama Canal, and a few of Colon. Though there are photographs of athletes and one or two of the events at the Games, this album is more about socialising and the places visited while in England. Swimming pools are prety well covered including the Kingfisher's Pool in Epping Forest where the New Zealand swimmers trained, and the big new covered Empire Swimming Pool in London. Views from their London hotel, Wimbeldon, and a visit to Eton College where they were looked after by school boys in top hats and tails. While visiting Croydon Airport they took a flight over the outer suburbs of London in a multi engined air liner. They saw Windsor Castle, the trooping of the colour, and visited Chester Cathedral. After the games, they travelled home with the Australian team on the Ormonde via Suez, Colombo, and Sydney Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1956

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-578

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1931

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1613

Description: Album relating to journey from New Zealand to England via the Suez Canal. Includes photographs of floral tributes to Zillah prior to her departure; embarkation in Wellington July 1931; Voyage to Sydney; Sydney parks, buildings, zoos, beaches; Dixon family in Sydney; Melbourne gardens, buildings; Adelaide buildings, parks, gardens; King's Park, Perth, buildings, opening pearls, Serpentine Falls and Western Australian aboriginals; Colombo, Ceylon, catamarans, coconut palms, native quarters, rickshaws, High cast Indian girl; Aden; Red Sea; Suez Canal; Bedoin Sheik; Ismalia; Port Tewfik; Port Said; Voyage on 'Balranald'; Fancy dress and deck tennis, and lifeboat drills on ship; Australian heavyweight George Cook training on ship; Malta; Gibraltar; Spainish coast; First sight of England, Chalk cliffs of Dover. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 18 x 30 cm

Date: [1972-1980?]

By: Scales, Helen Flora Victoria, 1887-1985; Tennant, Patty, active 1992; de Lange, Barbi, active 1960s-1998

Reference: E-584

Description: Six pages of sketches showing boats in a harbour (four pages are entitled "Colombo", one dated 1 May '77; and may refer to the name of the boat but probably to a port at Colombo. Flora Scales visited England and France in 1977 and may have gone by boat. One of the images is entitled "May at sea"). A page near the back lists what may be a shopping list: Easter cards, stockings, brassiere, hair grips, turps. Title and provenance from accompanying slip of yellow paper. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook of 36 leaves, 62 x 103 mm, 7 of which contain pencil drawings. Provenance: Lent to Barbi de Lange by the artist's niece Patty Tennant in 1992.

Date: 1902

From: Paubet, Lilian, fl 1902 :[Watercolour album of views in New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. 1902].

Reference: E-458-007

Description: Shows the front of a large spreading four-storeyed hotel building in park-like grounds. The beach is at the right. Extended Title - From her Watercolour album of views ... 1902. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page 115 x 255 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, Cold Spring NY, in 2004.

Date: [1951-1959]

From: Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0196-387/3

Description: Comprises letters from Sampal, possibly of the Embassy of India, Wellington (1953); from Russ of Peter Huston Pty Ltd, Sydney (1954); from Tai of Rotorua (1954); from H te Kani (1951); from Mahi and Owen Walsh of Hawera (1954); from Frances Winiata of Onehunga; from Bp J Liston (1954); from T T Daymond of Porirua Pa with invitation to a Workers' Banquet (1954); from a friend at the Australian Govt Trade Commission, Colombo (12957); from Hera of Frankton; from Ian Nicholson of Wellington re St Ronan's Terrace and Leithen Street (1953); from T E Y Seddon to the editor of `Dominion' re Historic Places Trust and St Paul's Cathedral (1956); from Tui of Takapuna (1954); from Ida and Bill Stewart of Keri Keri (1959); from ?Ivy, possibly of Auckland; from Florence T S of Oregon (1959) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1897

By: Morice, Louisa Jane Spotswood, 1873-1957

Reference: PA1-f-069

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Louie J Seddon in 1897 on a trip around the world on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. They include several photographs on the group's return, especially one of Parliament Buildings, and five views of a reception for Mr Crow (R J Seddon's private secretary) by Ministerial Secretaries celebrating his return. Beneath the main inscription inside the first page is further information in Louie Seddon's copper-plate writing which reads "Our party consisted of my Father (the Right Hon. R J Seddon; Mother; Sister (Mary); Myself and Mr W Crow (Father's private secretary). We left Wellington, 15th April 1897, went via San Francisco - New York route to London - and returned by the overland (to Naples) and Suez Canal route, arriving Wellington, 8th Sept. 1897". En route to England a number of photographs show shipboard life, and several of the party in Samoa, one with Bishop and Mrs Wallis, and King Malietoa. In England there is one photograph cut from an English paper showing R J Seddon at Hawarden Castle with the Right Hon. Sir Wilford Laurier, Rt Hon and Lady Carrington, Rt Hon and Mrs W E Gladstone, Rt Hon G H Reid and Sir Louis Davies, July 1897. Also a sequence of views of the "Agent General's River Excursion on the Thames". The group visited various British Seddon family members at Eccleston and Bickerstaffe; and they visited Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle's birthplace and grave. Photographs take up 32 pages with the rest blank apart from two newspaper cuttings attached to page 53. One is about Lady Freyberg at the Linen Guild (Evening Post, August 11, 1948?); the other about the ship Janie Seddon which was about to be sold (September 1946). On page 009 is a newspaper article on "King Dick" (Richard John Seddon), written in 1951 "By one who knew him" 45 years after his death. Inscriptions: Album page - "A memento of our trip around the world on the occasion of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, red leather corners and spine, entitled "Louie J Seddon, 1897" in gold lettering; 27.5 x 39.5 cm

Date: 1914 - 1918

From: Copland, Ethel Moira Frances, 1929-2001 :Photographs, postcards and albums of Egypt during World War I

Reference: PA1-o-109

Description: Album of photographs taken by Roger W A Morrison during his service in World War I, travelling through Colombo, and in the Middle East. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown card cover, tied with cord, 15 x 22.5 cm

Date: ca 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0429

Description: Princess Street Colombo showing the Colombo Apothecaries Company Ltd on the left and several rickshaws Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 136 mm

Date: 1942-1946

By: King, Gilbert Arthur Newman, 1923-2006

Reference: PA1-o-1453

Description: Album of photographs taken and collected by Gilbert Arthur Newman King (1922-2007) while serving with 2NZEF 1942-1945, and with J Force in 1946. Comprises: 87th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Lyttelton and Mt Pleasant, 10 June 1942 to 18 August 1943. Scenes in Florence, Siena, Pisa, Bari and Naples, 18 October 1945 to 21 February 1946. Voyage from Naples to Japan aboard "Strathmore" via Port Said, Suez Canal, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong, 21 February 1946 to 19 March 1946 Scenes in Japan, showing views of Kure, Yamaguchi and Kiwa Voyage home from Kure to Wellington aboard "Chitral", via Guam, 24 August 1946 to 8 September 1946. At home with family, 8 September 1946. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black card bound album 24.7 x 30.5 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr W R Schofield, Christchurch, in 2009

Date: ca 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0431

Description: Chatam Street Colombo showing cart drawn by two bullocks Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 86 x 136 mm

Date: 1931-1932

From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Photographs relating to Reo and Eileen Fortune

Reference: PAColl-8563-06

Description: Photographs taken on the sea voyage to France in 1931. These include deck scenes, views of Sydney Harbour and unidentified Australian locations, people and scenes in Colombo Sri Lanka, the Suez Canal, and Gibraltar. Other photographs record a holiday through the south of France to Italy in July 1932, and travells in France in September 1932. This included visiting Poitiers, and there is a group of postcards from that city. Other photographs show groups of people many of them young women, and most set in the countryside and on a farm or farms. One group of photographs associated with a street market show women in traditional costumes. Some of the photographs may relate to other students with whom she lived while in France, and two photographs may be of her fellow students and teachers in a class room. She also visited what looks like the International Colonial Exhibition which opened in Paris in May 1931. Quantity: 175 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-084-001

Description: Palm trees and cottages lining a broad earth road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title; Verso - CDB [stamp with the intials of the artist's father Charles Decimus Barraud, indicating that the artist either gave the work to his father at some stage, or was using his father's pre-stamped paper] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 87 x 127 mm Provenance: Donation: Barraud family

Date: 23 Oct 1931-26 Apr 1932

By: Hunter, David, active 1900-1932

Reference: MS-Group-1191

Description: Journal kept by Hunter while travelling from England to New Zealand on the `Rangitata' and his return to England on the `Makura' to Australia and the Orsova' from Sydney from 23 Oct 1931 to 26 Apr 1932. He travelled with Ena Hunter. He describes their preparations, embarkation at Southampton, the other passengers, food (including menus), sea sickness, entertainments, the comforts and otherwise of the ship, his cabin, their passage through the Panama Canal and Armstice Day. They disembarked at Wellington 24 Nov 1931, and left for Australia on the `Makura' 7 Mar 1932, and for England on the `Orsova' from Sydney, 13 Mar 1932. In New Zealand Hunter spent time in Wellington, visiting the Alexander Turnbull Library, describing the work of the League of Nations Union in Wellington, visits Christchurch, the West Coast and Nelson where he spent some time, Wanganui, the Waitomo Caves, Rotorua and Auckland and back through Taranaki where he climbed Mt Egmont; he visited farms and factories, observed the opening of Parliament (24 Feb 1932) and visited the Gear Freezing and Meat Preservation Company. He attended many church services in various churches including the Congregational, Church of Christ and Presbyterian churches. Folowing his and Ena's departure for Sydney he describes the new Sydney harbour bridge, their visit to Tasmania and the House of Commons in Hobart, visiting to Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Colombo, the Suez Canal, Naples and Gibraltar, and an ANZAC commemoration service he declined to attend. The journal is illustrated and includes a water colour of the `Rangitata', newspaper clippings of portraits of various New Zealanders; and a copy of a letter from the Turnbull to the donor (1986). Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-1196

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka with two rickshaws in the foreground. Photograph taken in Colombo, Sri Lanka, by [George] Crombie ca 1900. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Crombie - photo; Recto - beneath image - A temple. Colombo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1931

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-763

Description: In 1931 Eric McCormick went to England to attend Clare College Cambridge. This is a record of his trip there via Australia, Sri lanka, Suez, The Mediterranean, Italy and Gibraltar. There are photographs, but most of the images are Postcards Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1945

From: Maffey, Eric Wagstaff, 1917-2000 :Photographs relating to Maffey's service in World War Two

Reference: PA1-o-1222

Description: Photographs and postcards of buildings and street scenes in various Italian cities collected by Eric Wagstaff Maffey during his service in World War Two. Includes scenes at Bologna camp and Maffey's voyage back to New Zealand via Colombo, taken ca 1945. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Purple plastic album 16.7 x 12.4 cm, containing 120 photographs

Date: Mar 1937

From: Thompson, Mary Anastasia Camillus (May), fl 1932 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9303-3

Description: Continuing the account of her voyage to England aboard the RMS `Mooltan' May Thompson describes shipboard life and calling at the ports of Colombo, Bombay, Cairo, Aden, Malta, Marcelles and landing by launch at Plymouth. From there she travelled by train to Liverpool and then on to London from where she left for France, travelling by train to Paris and then onto Marseilles, Nice and Monte Carlo.The record is accompanied by torist brochures, photographs and postcards. Also includes typescripts of lectures she subsequently gave about her trip. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter