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Powles family :Photographs
- Date
- [1860s-1980s]
- By
- Powles family; Powles, Michael John, 1939-
- Reference
- PA-Group-00627
- Description
Sir Guy's activities as Commissioner in Samoa, High Commissioner to India and other diplomatic positions, and as Ombudsman. Also material relating to Sir Guy's father who saw service in the South African War and World War I and some material relating to his grandfather. The most signifigant part of the archive belonging to Guy Powles' father consists of 520 negatives, 432 of which are a personal record of the British Military campaign in Palestine against the Turks during 1917-1918. Prints from many of these negatives are contained in two albums which begin in Alexandria and end in Jaffa. Powles Senior was also Camp Commandant at Waiouru during World War II.
Source of title - Title supplied by Library
Quantity: 1492 b&w original photographic print(s). 54 colour original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 677 b&w original negative(s). 20 album(s). 2182 colour original transparency/ies. 17 colour original negative(s).
Physical Description: Photograph albums, photographic prints, negatives, transparencies
Finding Aids: List of slides that are at PA12-1268 and PA12-1269 is in Photographic Archive back file 'Powles family'.
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0480 : Powles family : Papers. See also Drawings, Paintings & Prints Collection, and Oral History Collection. - To Ephemera Collection - One photograph envelope from H.E. Perry Limited, Christchurch.
- Access restrictions
- Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission - Access to the photographs that show Sir Guy Powles and his immediate family require the written permission of the donors, or in the event of their unavailability, access requires the written permission of the Chief Librarian. The restriction does not apply to the photographs that show Sir Guy Powles' father, Charles Guy Powles, or grandfather, Charles Plummer Powles.
- Format
- 1492 b&w original photographic print(s), 54 colour original photographic print(s), 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), 677 b&w original negative(s), 20 album(s), 2182 colour original transparency/ies, 17 colour original negative(s), Photographs, Photograph albums, photographic prints, negatives, transparencies
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Photographs
Date: 1895-1915
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-810
Description: A family album, photos unidentified. Women, children, family groups, South African War contingents on Newtown Park Wellington, and a soldier photographed on the day troops began evacuating the Gallipoli Peninsula. There are also 2 photographs of the house at Tutu Totara Station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Colonel Charles Guy Powles' family and service photographs
Date: [ca 1890-1930]
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9773
Description: Contains Powles family photographs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Includes: a group portrait of the Levin Football Club, `Cup winners, 1898'; a view of Wellington Harbour with masted ships; views of a harbour town, probably on the south coast of England; views of two churches probably in the south-east of England; a photograph of an aqueduct, possibly part of the Wey and Arun canal; landscape and village scenes from the south-east of england and New Zealand; portraits of military officers; photographs of Colonel Charles Guy Powles on a horse and meeting soldiers while serving in Egypt; unidentified photographs of people and locations, probably taken in the Wellington Region. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Powles family photographs from Samoa
Date: [ca 1949-1960]
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9770
Description: Contains photographs relating to Guy Powles' time as High Commissioner to Western Samoa. Includes: photographs of Guy Powles at official occasions, in both formal and informal dress; photographs of working life of Samoans; photographs of a small hydroelectric project; photographs of the visit of an unidentified New Zealand Government minister; photographs of Samoans at ceremonies and in traditional dress; idealised photographs of Samoan women; photographs of traditional and modern buildings Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Postcard album
Date: [ca 1911], [ca 1940]
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1663
Description: Includes postcards depicting Swindon and Brighton. Also includes postcards from the New Zealand centennial exhibition, 1940. Inscriptions: Album page - top right - A reminiscence of 24 hours in one fo England's beauty spots 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Album; Guy Powles, New Zealand High Commissioner to India, part two
Date: 1960-1962
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-607
Description: Record of Sir Guy Powles term of office as New Zealand's first High Commissioner to India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and Ambassador to Nepal. Photos mainly of diplomatic and social events. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Formal photographs of Guy and Eileen Powles
Date: [ca 1950-1970]
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9774
Description: Contains large photographs of Guy and Eileen Powles, with Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole and other officials, taken by photographer Leo Rosenthal of New York City, probably in New York City. Also contains photos of Guy Powles with local people in Samoa and possibly also in American Samoa, along with a portrait of Eileen and Guy Powles possibly taken in Wellington. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Photograph album of Samoan ceremonies
Date: [ca 1948-1960]
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1662
Description: Includes photographs of Samoan dancers, Samoans in traditional costume, Samoan dignitaries in formal dress, and a photograph of United Nations dignitaries. Also includes loose captions describing the contents of the photographs. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photographs, mss
Mainly family photographs
Date: ca1920-ca1925
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-825
Description: Family photographs taken when Sir Guy Powles was a late teenager and a young man. Mainly family, holidays, camping and walking trips with friends, and a military training camp for (presumably) volunteers in the 1920s. The tramping trips include views of native forest, areas of which have been burnt off for land clearance. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
View from Oriental Bay towards Saint Gerard's Monastery
Date: [ca 1960s]
From: Powles family :Photographs
Reference: PA12-8231
Description: View from Oriental Bay towards Saint Gerard's Monastery, Mount Victoria, Wellington, ca 1960s. Also includes original slide mount. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparency