Redwoods - New Zealand - Waikato Region
McWhannell album 26
Date: 1977 to 1979
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-q-279
Description: Photographs of family and friends, mostly taken in New Zealand by Rhoda McWhannell. There is one group of scenes relating to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family in the Kloof and Drakensberg Mountains areas of South Africa. The New Zealand scenes include friends at Rozel, the home of Rhoda and Frederick McWhannell at Ohaupo; numbers of different varieties of gum trees, which Frederick McWhannell had specialised in; friends' gardens; photographs of flowers including roses, dahlias, eucalypts, water lilies, acacia and irises; and the rose garden and fountain at Te Awamutu Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with purple vinyl cover; 35 x 30 cm
Nests, tree flowers and foliage etc. chiefly taken in the vicinity of Rozel, the farm, ...
Date: Between 1958 and 1960
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA12-8834
Description: Nests of hedge sparrows (one abandoned), goldfinch, linnet, fantail, blackbird, and lark, most of the images showing eggs in the nests. The second sequence shows tree flowers and foliage, bark and berries. These include a black walnut tree, liriondendron blooms, idesia berries, redwood trees in Rotorua, tristania conferta bloom, the bark of a eucalyptus tree, chestnuts, acacia blossom, and abies firma flowers (a Japanese fir tree at Cambridge). Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm