Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Date
Mar 1888, Jun 1906, 19 Dec 1915, [ca 1939-1945], Dec 1953, Dec 1965, [ca 1960s-1970s], 15 May 1981
By
Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999
Reference
PA-Group-00204
Description

Photographs relating to, and taken by, Charles Stanley Cooper.

Collection comprises:

- Album and loose photographic prints relating to Charlie Cooper, showing him during World War II as a pilot; as a journalist circa 1960s-1970s, and at his farewell from the Dominion newspaper on 15 May 1981. Taken by a range of photographers.

- Photograph album depicting visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Fiji, December 1953, taken by Cooper

- Transparencies of an expedition to Antarctica in December 1965, taken by Cooper

-Photograph album relating to Charles Stanley Cooper, showing everyday activities like camping and picnicking, with some relating to Cooper's service in World War Two.

-Photographs relating to Charles Stanley Cooper's service in World War Two

-Photographs relating to John Murrell, Stella Bruce (nee Murrell) and the Murrell family

Other - Archivist's notes relating to family relationship between Charles Stanley Cooper and John Murrell kept in staff backfile.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Quantity: 3 album(s) Album(s). 86 colour original transparency/ies slides. 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original transparency/ies slides.

Physical Description: Photographic prints, photograph albums, transparency slides

Provenance: Donated by Lachlan Mackay, Wellington, in 2007, 2008, 2014 and 2015. Donor is grandson of Charles S Cooper.

Transfers: Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive. Material transferred from here. - To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2361: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999: Papers - To Drawings & Prints Collection - C-174-005: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923- "Would you be so kind as to cast off for'ard?" [1981] - To Drawings & Prints Collection - (DP-2015-030) Various artists: 1. Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999. [House on the edge of a lake]. 1935. 2. Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999. [Unidentified three-masted sailing ship. 1930s]. 3. Artist unknown. [Miniature watercolour portraits of unidentified man and woman. ca 1800].

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3 album(s) Album(s), 86 colour original transparency/ies slides, 25 b&w original photographic print(s), 7 b&w original transparency/ies slides, Photographs, Photographic prints, photograph albums, transparency slides
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Photographs of aircraft and buildings, Antarctica

Date: December 1965

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6665

Description: Photographs of an expedition to Antarctica in December 1965, taken by Charles Cooper. Includes views of airplanes, the interior of buildings including a bedroom and dining room, and scenes probably at McMurdo Station. Quantity: 6 b&w original transparency/ies slides. 18 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Transparency slides, 35mm

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Photographs of various scenes, Antarctica

Date: December 1965

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6663

Description: Photographs of an expedition to Antarctica in December 1965, taken by Charles Cooper. Includes views of airplanes, buildings, a ship, and penguins. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency slides, 35mm

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Photographs of various scenes, Antarctica

Date: December 1965

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6664

Description: Photographs of an expedition to Antarctica in December 1965, taken by Charles Cooper. Includes views of aircraft, interior of buildings including a bar, and Richard E Byrd memorial at McMurdo Station. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies slides. 1 b&w original transparency/ies slide. Physical Description: Transparency slides, 35mm

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Photograph album relating to Charles Stanley Cooper

Date: 1935-1945?

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1918

Description: Photograph album with images taken in the Wellington region between 1935 and 1945 by an unidentified photographer, possibly Charles Cooper. First half of the album has detailed captions, but there are none in the second half. Includes images of: -Cars in 1935-1936 -Men competing in the Peck Shield Harbour Race in Petone -Picnic with the staff of 'Truth' at Rona Bay -Mourning decorations on Wellington buildings for George V's death -Images taken at Woburn and Silverstream, Lower Hutt -Camping -Spectators watching rugby in Kilbirnie -Family photographs -A photograph of Cooper's father, also named Charles Cooper. He appears in the image captioned "Just a little tub of mine". -Eight prints at the back of the album relate to Cooper's service in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album, with brown cover embossed with the label 'Snapshots', bound with a string tie

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Photographs of aircraft and landscapes, Antarctica

Date: December 1965

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6662

Description: Photographs of an expedition to Antarctica in December 1965, taken by Charles Cooper. Includes views of airplanes, huts, and ice formations. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency slides, 35mm

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Photograph album depicting visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Fiji

Date: December 1953

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1346

Description: Photographs of the visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Fiji, 17-19 December 1953, taken by Evening Post journalist Charles Stanley Cooper. Includes views of official receptions, street decorations, parades, houses, schools, farms, plantations, hospitals, brass bands, soldiers, journalists and photographers, and travel by flying-boat. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - [cover] FIJI; Album page - top centre - [cover] Charles Stanley Cooper Post's Journalist; Album page - bottom centre - Queen Elizabeth II Visits; Album page - centre - New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Burgandy album 22.7 x 31 cm

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Photographs relating to John Murrell

Date: Mar 1888, Jun 1906, 19 Dec 1915

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10389-2

Description: Contains four photographs and one postcard relating to John Murrell, Stella Bruce (nee Murrell) and the Murrell family. Comprises: -One portrait of John Murrell, taken in 1888 by A. Symmons in Newcastle, New South Wales -A formal portrait of the Murrell family taken in 1906 -One postcard depicting World War One soldiers in front of the Sphinx in Egypt. Postcard is from James Hayter Barter (service no. 2852) to Stella Murrell -One photograph of World War One nurses with trophies and shields. Stella Murrell is pictured. -One portrait of men on the steps of a building. Stella Murrell's husband, George William Bruce is pictured standing, with arms folded, 3rd from left. John Murrell was the grandfather of Charles Stanley Cooper's wife, Kathleen (nee Bruce). Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Photographs relating to Charles Stanley Cooper's service in World War Two

Date: 1943-1945

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10389-1

Description: Photographs relating to Charles Stanley Cooper's service in World War Two, taken between 1943 and 1945 by unidentified photographers. Includes images of: -Airmen in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War Two. Includes one photograph with signatures of men pictured on the back -Photograph of New Zealand troops marching -One photograph of British soldiers -One image of miners Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Photographic prints relating to Charlie Cooper

Date: [ca 1939-1945], [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10283

Description: Photographic prints relating to Charlie Cooper. Images show him in group portraits as a pilot during during World War II; also as a journalist circa 1960s-1970s. Taken by a range of photographers. Three images appear to have been taken as journalists, particularly Cooper, work on stories about the 1968 Wahine storm. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Photograph album of Charlie Cooper's farewell from the Dominion newspaper

Date: 15 May 1981

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-885

Description: Photograph album of images taken at Charlie Cooper's farewell from the Dominion newspaper on 15 May 1981. Photographer unidentified. Images show Charlie and others in a Dominion office, probably at Press House, Wellington. He recieves a gift, a leaving card in the form of an Eric Heath cartoon, and a cake. The album includes a page, with The Dominion letterhead, with the note: "To Charles, From all at Press House. 15 May 1981." Relationship complexity - The Eric Heath cartoon in the photographs is held by Drawings, Paintings and Prints section. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ring binder 29.3 x 25 x 3.6 cm, with adhesive pages