Canals - Panama

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: October 1917 - March 1918

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-q-993

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on voyage from Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England, with 32nd Reinforcements. Left Port Chalmers 15 November 1917, called at Wellington (16-21 November), Balboa and Panama Canal (12 December), Colon (12-13 December), Newport News (19-24 December), Halifax (27-28 December), arrived Liverpool 7 January 1918. Includes views of locks on Panama Canal, damage caused by Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, ships Mount Vernon, Imo (damaged in Halifax Explosion) and HMCS Niobe. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album , 32 x 27 cm

Date: 1915-1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PAColl-9855-1

Description: Loose prints associated with Jessie Mary Mackersey's album. These include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey, London ca 1917. Portrait of Wastel Briscoe born 1888-died Gallipoli 19 May 1915. Group of Soldiers of 24th Rifles, Featherston Military Camp. Group on the deck of `Prinzessan' en route for New Zealand, 1919. Colon and Church of Christ by the sea, 1919. Views of the Panama Canal and its technologies seen from the ship, 1919. Albert Memorial, London. Holiday at Lake Waikaremoana includes - View of the lake, Papakorito Falls, and friends of Lindsay Mackersey. Photographs of soldiers include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey with unidentified soldier. Studio portrait of Leslie Mackersey, Blake Mason and two unidentified soldiers, 1916. Group of unidentified soldiers probably in New Zealand. Voyage to New Zealand on `Prinzessan' via Panama Canal 1919, and holiday at Lake Waikaremoana. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand.

Date: 1855

By: Saunders, Trelawny, active 1840-1855

Reference: MS-1850

Description: Draft notes on the feasibility of a canal through the Panama isthmus; includes tables Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (26 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (21cm, various paginations, brown linen)

Date: 1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PA1-o-1733

Description: Opens with views of Leverkusen, the Rhine, and the factory of F Bayer & Co (Bayer AG today). Other views include - Bayer's head office building used by New Zealand Divisional Headquarters. The Casino and the adjacent Bayer factory park. Suburban houses called "The Colony." Other German photographs include - Cologne, particularly the Hoenzollern Brisge and Cologne Cathedral. Kaiser Wilhelm (Mungsten) Viaduct. Mungstan Village. The River Wapper. Soldier with a camera. English photographs include - Brockenhurst and Margaret Mackersey as an ambulance driver. Birds in the London Zoo. Grays Inn Hall, London. Views taken during a trip on the thames. Sphinx at Cleopatra's Needle. Inns of Court. Inner Temple Library. Thames Embankment. Houses of Parliament. Trip back to New Zealand via Panama Canal. Includes - Colon. Views of the Canal and its technologies from the ship. Groups of passangers on deck. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1918-1935

From: Joplin, Elizabeth :Two photograph albums: World War One, Egypt and Gallipoli: Return from World War One, farming and family 1930s

By: Halse, George Clinton, 1895-1955

Reference: PA1-o-682

Description: The Album contains photographs of NZ troops returning from WWI (including life on board a troopship, crossing the Equator, views of Panama Canal); opening up farmland in the vicinity of Mt Ruapehu; new farm houses; various harbour scenes; sports teams; two photographs of a plane "crashed" at New Plymouth; a 1920ish motor car - later burnt out; one view of an iceberg "taken on the way to Archangel" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album approx. 207 x 252mm Transfers: Three loose photographs found in this album are at PAColl-3392-1.

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: October 1917 - March 1918

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-q-994

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England, with 32nd Reinforcements. Left Port Chalmers 15 November 1917, called at Wellington (16-21 November), Balboa and Panama Canal (12 December), Colon (12-13 December), Newport News (19-24 December), Halifax (27-28 December), arrived Liverpool 7 January 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers. Left Liverpool 3 February 1918, called at Colon (20-21 February 1918, Panama Canal and Balboa (21 February 1918), Auckland (15-16 March 1918) Wellington (18-28 March 1918), arrived Port Chalmers 29 March 1918. Includes views of Manawatu Gorge, Paekakariki railway line, locks on Panama Canal, Colon, Newport News, damage caused by Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, Auckland Harbour, Dunedin, and ships Mount Vernon, Imo (damaged in Halifax Explosion), Leviathan, HMCS Niobe and yacht Viking. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album , 32 x 27 cm

Date: 1919-1920

By: Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965; Cameron, Kate, active 1999

Reference: PA1-o-934

Description: Album compiled by Frederic Kingsford of 23rd Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company, ca 1919. It is a pictorial record of his tours around Britain and Ireland before embarking on the 'Tainui' for his return journey to New Zealand. The return journey by way of Panama, included a stop over at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, and another at Colon, Panama, before passing through the canal. The British section of the album includes shots of a regatta held on the river at Walton on Thames where the New Zealand Hospital and depot was located. There are photographs of the clergy and the Royal family leaving Westminster Abbey after the Memorial service for overseas fallen, 14 May 1919. Others show the Australian and New Zealand stands at the Henley Regatta where the Australians won the Kings Cup from Oxford. Finally about four days before leaving for New Zealand he attended the Peace Procession at Glasgow (4 August 1919) in which colonial troops took part. The Tainui cleared Plymouth Sound bound for North America on the 8 August 1919. Source of title - Title supplied by Library The album was compiled by Frederic Kingsford, A Company, 23 Reinforcements, NZEF. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1936-1938

From: MacGowan, Mary, fl 1936-1938 :Photographs of family friends and a world trip

Reference: PAColl-8692-4

Description: Mary MacGowan's journey out to new Zealand is represented by 8 photographs relating to Panama and the Panama Canal. There are some photographs collected during holidays in New Zealand which include views of Wairakei, Mount Ngauruhoe, Christchurch, Lake Kanieri, and Hongi's Track. Most of the photographs are associated with Mary's return trip to England. She left Wellington for Sydney on the "Awatea" visiting Hobart, Tasmania, and spending enough time in Australia to see Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. From Sydney she sailed for home on the "Orontes" via the Suez Canal. Groups of photographs record deck life and other passengers, the warves, people and places visited while in Colombo, Sri lanka (Ceylon), the approaches to Suez and a visit to the pyramids sphinx and temples in Egypt, a stop at Naples and a lot of photographs and some postcards of Pompeii, and finally views of Gibraltar including one of a Spainish guard at the boarder post. Quantity: 102 b&w original photographic print(s).

Reference: PA1-o-401

Description: Album using only four pages in the notebook, containing 2 diagrams of the Panama Canal, and 14 photographs. On the first page a diagram of the route of the canal is given; the other diagram (on p. 3) shows the Culebra Cut, the section of the deepest excavation along the route. The photographs are taken at various point along the canal. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album using a card notebook, entitled `Defiance drawing book'; 25 x 31 cm

Date: 1826-1837, n d

From: Thierry family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8832-02

Description: Letter to Emily de Thierry from her father, Frederick Rudge (24 Oct 1820?); Letter from Thierry's solicitor, Cecil Becke, London, re possible fraudulent use of Emily de Thierry's inheritance (1827); proposal by Thierry re canal at Panama (ca 1834); creditors' notes, mainly for gas lighting, for Thierry's company's bazaar in Paris (1826); draft poem (n d); letter of appreciation from J Montgomery to Thierry re his conduct of business while in charge of the French Consulate at Honolulu in 1832 (1833); description of location of Thierry's Waima land near Bay of Islands, given by `the chief Piro' 1837; note from Captain Crozier of HMS Victor ( n d); receipt for transport of the Thierry family from Tahiti to Sydney (1837) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1927-1929

From: Elston family: Correspondence and photograph album

Reference: PA1-o-947

Description: Album compiled by Elston family (Alf & Dot Elston, and children Joan & Alfie) during voyage from England to New Zealand on the Tainui in 1927, and first two years in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: June 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8799

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') return voyage from New Zealand to England on the Corinthic. The first 14 images show aspects of the Panama Canal including the Mireflores Locks, Pedro Miguel Docks, the Culebra (or Gaillard) Cut, Gamboa and the Gatun Locks. The last 10 slides show arrival in Curacao, and views of Willemstad. These show the wharves, Dutch facades on houses along the waterfront and in a small square, a market, the inner harbour, and views of huge oil tanks and an oil installation. Slides on this sheet are numbered 675-698. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: February - June 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1395

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 5 February 1919, called at Colombo (24 February 1919), Bombay (27 February - 9 March 1919), Karachi (11 March 1919), Suez and Suez Canal (20 March 1919), Port Said (21 March - 10 April 1919), Alexandria (11-15 April 1919), Gibraltar (21 April919), Southampton (25-26 April 1919), arrived Liverpool 28 April 1919. She carried 98 passengers from Bombay to Port Said; 1800 officers and men from Karachi to Port Said; 750 British soldiers and 60 passengers from Alexandria to Southampton; and 11 passengers and 7 ambulance cases from Gibraltar to Southampton. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with 1124 New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 17 May 1919, called at Colon (31 May - 1 June 1919), Panama Canal and Balboa (1 June 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 23 June 1919. Includes views of Suez Canal, wharves at Colombo. Bombay, Karachi, Port Said and Alexandria, Panama Canal locks and gates, French and British warships, soldiers embarking to return home, and Peace Day celebrations in Port Chalmers and Christchurch. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album with brown morrocco spine and corners, 21 x 19 cm

Date: 1967

By: New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-Rangitane-1967

Description: Includes menus issued during a voyage on the New Zealand Shipping Company vessel, M.V. "Rangitane", from New Zealand to England in July 1967, under Captain K Barnett. Also includes "Welcome aboard" funnel-shaped pamphlet, passenger list, plans of passenger accommodation (one dated May 1963 and one dated February 1966), Notes for passengers, Ports of call and shore excursions, two copies of a postcard of the ship, and a pamphlet about the Panama Canal. The menus have covers featuring different British scenes and buildings, and two feature Bermuda and Miami themes. The historic buildings featured on the menu covers include: Norwich Cathedral, The Tower of London, Big Ben, Mount St Michael, Peterborough Cathedral, Windsor Castle, Middle Temple Lane, St Bride's from Bride Lane, Edinburgh Castle. Quantity: 20 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 250 mm. Provenance: Donated by Susan Foster in 2003. Transfers: Other material - Research notes for art exhibitions transferred to Drawings & Prints..

Date: 1926

By: Shaw, Savill & Albion Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1926-01

Description: Passenger list booklet. Front cover shows a reproduction of the image by Harry Rodmell (See Eph-E-SHIP-1914-01). Inside front cover shows a bird's-eye view of the Panama Canal, and the inside back cover shows a map of the ship's path across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The commander was T Warren Jones; chief engineer J Naismith; puerser C J Hobden; suregeon R A Bennett. There are lists of passengers in 1st, 2nd, 3rd classes, listed by destination: Wellington, Auckland, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Napier, Gisborne, Timaru, Oamaru and Sydney. The back cover lists the fleet of Shaw Savill steamers: Arawa, Athenic, Corinthic, Ionic, Karamea, Kia Ora, Kumara, Mahana, Mahia, Maimoa, Mamari, Matakana, Matatua, Otira, Pakeha, Raranga, Tainui, Tairoa, Waimana, Waiwera and Zealandic. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages in cover, 222 x 138 mm.

Date: 1928

From: New Zealand Shipping Company: S.S. "Ruapehu" from Southampton on 2nd November, 1928 for Wellington & Port Chalmers via Panama. Commander A W McKellar. Passenger list.

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1928-01-1/2

Description: Shows a map of the Panama Canal on the left, and a photograph and historical account on the right. Extended Title - From the Company's Passenger list of S S Ruapehu, November 1928. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on double spread, 205 x 254 mm, in booklet of 205 x 127 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.

Reference: Eph-H-SHIP-1930s-01

Description: Poster advertising sailings of the New Zealand Shipping Company between England and New Zealand shows the two-funnelled steamship R.M.S. 'Rangitata' travelling through the Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal, with hills in the background. The calm water reflects the ship. The image is similar to the photograph reproduced in the Evening Post, 23 June 1934, showing the ship 'Mataroa' in the Gaillard Cut. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 980 x 1253 mm.

Date: 30 August 1919

From: Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965 :Photograph album of views of England, Ireland, voyage to New Zealand after World War I

Reference: PA1-o-934-72

Description: Album page of four photographs taken from the deck of the troop transport `Tainui' while passing through the Gatun locks of the Panama canal. Top left image - Entering the Gatun locks at 7am 30 August 1919. Top right image - View of the US Army barracks taken while in the lock. Bottom left image - In the lock at the level of Lake Gatun looking back towards Colon and the Atlantic ocean. View of the lock gates opening to let the ship into Lake Gatun 8am, 30 August 1919. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Top left image; Tainui entering Gatun Lock: 7am. 30/8/19. Top right image; Quarters of garrison of American troops. (Taken from deck while in lock) Bottom left image; At the lake level: looking back to Colon and the Atlantic. Bottom right image; The lock gates opening to let us through into Gatum Lake: 8am. Note emergency dam on right; adjustable electrically in 30 seconds or by hand in 5 minutes. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).