Long Beach Road

Date: [187-?],[ca 1895], [ca 1914-1940s], 1953

From: Harper, James Edward, fl 2004 :Photographs

By: Busch, Louis W, active 1872

Reference: PAColl-9885

Description: Photographs collected by Jim Harper. 23 relate to the New Zealand airforce. 12 are of other subjects. Comprises: Photographs relating to James Frederick Henessy Harper's (donor's father) service with the New Zealand airforce between 1935-1940s, and 1953. Includes a set of images of Hobsonville Airbase, Auckland; a set of images showing the HMS Dunedin in 'Gulf'; airforce aeroplanes -Gipsy Moths, Fairey IIIF floatplane, Hawker Hind; military personnel including the 'Houhora Boys'; J F H Harper at Hobsonville with the aeroplane 'Faith in Australia' circa 1936; RAF pilot Ian Reid during training at Bell Block, New Plymouth; fully identified group portrait of RNZAF Signals conference, April 1953. A range of other images including a carte-de-visite of a scene with horses at (Belfast, Canterbury?) taken by L W Busch circa 1872-3; photographs given to the donor by the famiy of Frances Hodgkins showing Cobb & Co coaches and a homestead of Oamaru stone taken circa 1890s; WWI soldiers; views of the Bay of Islands beaches - Long Beach and Paihia, circa 1920s; the Hermitage Hotel, Mount Cook in 1938; group in a canoe at Halcombe, Manawatu, circa 1920s-1930s; buildings on the road by the Chateau Tongariro (State Highway 48) circa 1938; group portrait of the Spinsters' Club, circa 1942 Accompanying information - Copy of a newspaper article about the Spinsters' Club is at PAColl-9885-34 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s) comprising 36 images. Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1977

By: Coy, Robert, active 1970s

Reference: A-017-010

Description: A front view of a Spanish mission style building, probably dating from the early 1970s Reproduction of original signed pen and ink drawing dated 1977 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w 230 x 300 mm