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Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
- Date
- 1963-1999
- By
- Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
- Reference
- PAColl-6924
- Description
Documents aspects of the built environment of Wellington; the Stadium, railway yards, buildings on the Kaiwharawhara Road, suburbs of Ngaio and Khandallah, men's public toilets. There are also sequences relating to the 1993 "Devotion" festival.
Most of the negatives without prints are family photographs, images from Ian Kember's school days at Onslow and Newlands Colleges, his friends, his holidays, places where he lived, and buildings he worked in.
Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36989 to 35mm, 37277
Quantity: 287 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 7,489 images. 380 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s).
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- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 287 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 7,489 images, 380 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s), Photographs
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Capturing change in Khandallah, Wellington City
Date: 1998
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-04
Description: Views of streets and houses in Khandallah, Wellington City. There are also views of Wellington from Khandallah looking across the harbour towards Mount Victoria. Several of the images show houses in the process of having extensions added. Photographed by Ian Kember 17 October 1998. Arrangement: Negs at 35mm, 37013 to 35mm,37019, and 35mm, 37277 Quantity: 24 colour original photographic print(s).
Men's public toilets, Wellington City
Date: 1999
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-01
Description: Photographic essay on the men's public toilets in Wellington City. Featured are those at the intersection of Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place, those in Ballance Street, and those in Thorndon Quay near the intersection with Tinakori Road. The Taranaki St/Courtenay Place toilets opened for use in 1911 and they were closed 27 January 1999. They have not been demolished as the building is listed in the council's heritage inventory as historically signifigant. They are still (as at 2002) awaiting some sort of reuse. The other two public toilets are still in use. This collection also contains documentation relating to these public toilets in the form of news paper articles, and Ian Kember's own notes Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36989 to 35mm, 36998 Quantity: 36 colour original photographic print(s).
Aotea Ouay, Railway Station, and Westpactrust Stadium, Wellington City
Date: 1999
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-03
Description: Aotea Quay Wellington showing surrounding buildings, the constuction of the WestpacTrust Stadium walkways, the station yards and platforms. Photographed by Ian Kember 10 january 1999 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37006 to 35mm, 37021 Quantity: 24 colour original photographic print(s).
Aotea Quay, Cruise ship "New Amsterdam", Murray Robert's wool store, Wellington City
Date: 1999
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-05
Description: Aotea Quay and the WestpacTrust Stadium under construction. Views of the Murray Roberts wool store building, and the cruise ship "New Amsterdam". Photographed by Ian Kember Sunday 10 January 1999. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37020 to 35mm, 37026 Quantity: 20 colour original photographic print(s).
Opening event for art exhibition "Look Out! Gaze In"
Date: 1993
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-14
Description: Opening of an exhibition of Gay men's art entitled "Look Out! Gaze In" on Monday 23 November, 1993. The exhibition was held in a Wellington City Council building in Civic Square next to the present Public Relations Office. It was organised by architect David Frost and was associated with the 1993 Devotion Festival. Photographed by Ian Kember 22 November 1993 'Look Out! Gaze In' exhibition of gay men's art organised by architect, David Frost, as part of the 1993 Devotion Festival, Wellington. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37106 to 35mm, 37111 Quantity: 11 colour original photographic print(s).
Ships in Wellington Harbour
Date: 1999
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-06
Description: Wellington Harbour and the city viewed from the harbour. Ships are the cruise ship "Nieuw Amsterdam", Tranz Rail's fast ferry "Condor 10", the container ship "Columbus Australia", and the Wellington tugboat "Kupe". Photographed by Ian Kember 10 January 1999. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37027 to 35mm, 37033 Quantity: 17 colour original photographic print(s).
A family funeral, and a rugby game
Date: 1998
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-07
Description: Family photographs taken at the time of Olive Campbell Kember's funeral, houses in Khandallah and Paekakariki, and a rugby game played on a sports field at Onslow College between the Krazy Knights and Treasury on Sunday October 4, 1998. Photographed by Ian Kember in 1998 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37034 to 35mm, 37043 Quantity: 25 colour original photographic print(s).
Men's public toilets, Wellington City
Date: 1998
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-08
Description: Men's public toilets at Hataitai, Island Bay, Brooklyn, Aro Street, and just before the Karori tunnel. All but one of these buildings are varients of a Wellington stripped classical toilet style dating from the 1920s. There are also in unprinted images of the Westminster Apartments at 56 Tanera Cresc, Brooklyn, built by the Fitchet family in the 1940s Photographed by Ian Kember 23 October 1998 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37044 to 35mm, 37050 Quantity: 17 colour original photographic print(s).
The WestpacTrust Stadium and Wellington buildings
Date: 1998
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-09
Description: Commercial buildings at the harbour end of Kaiwharawhara Road, the WestpacTrust Stadium under construction, and restoration underway on the buildings of the Old Bank Arcade & Chambers Ltd. This last includes a photograph of a base isolator in place between the foundations and the base of an outer wall. Photographed by Ian Kember 18 October 1998 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37051 to 35mm, 37060 Quantity: 37 colour original photographic print(s).
Views of Houghton Bay, Wellington City
Date: 1999
From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-6924-02
Description: Most of the images are of the bay itself with distant views of people surfing or swimming in wet suits. One photograph shows a dwelling faced with stone built to suggest a castellated tower. Photographed by Ian Kember on Sunday 10 January 1999 between 7.30 and 7.40 pm. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36999 to 35mm, 37005 Quantity: 18 colour original photographic print(s).