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Date: [ca 1898]-1953

From: Waldie family : Photographs

By: Neville Studio (Levin, N.Z.); ACME Studio; Starlite Studios; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PAColl-8736-1

Description: Levin Jubilee procession and school jubilee February 1940. Levin School reunion ca 1950. A group of housemaids dating from the 1890s. South Island landscapes and mountains 1953. Places and events such as a view of Caroline Bay Timaru, people on the deck of the Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu, a tent in the bush, and the deck of the Tamahine in Picton, all 1953. A portrait of a man and a woman taken by S P Andrew during the Second World War. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1908 - 1947

By: St. John's in the City (Church : Wellington, N.Z.); Andrew, Earle William, 1909-1986; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982; Pattillo, Cecil Wright, 1875-1968; Thomson, James, active 1928-1929

Reference: PA-Group-00499

Description: Photographs of church leaders; Young Men's Bible Class, particularly camps attended by them in the 1930s and 1940s; the harrier team in 1932; soccer team in 1908; Douglas and Dulcie Ward on their wedding day at the doors of the church with choir members; senior girls' camp in 1931; J G W Aitken with boys from the Boys Institute; a studio portrait of the wife of an undertaker who lived near the cemetery ca 1920s (from notes with photograph); a bed with the caption "the John Boal cot" and others. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0268 (82-230) : St John's Church : Records. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1994. Reference number changed from PAColl-2823 to PA-Group-0499 in 2009. Prints originally housed at framed prints 65, 223, 228, 229, 231-234, 238, 242, 243, 249

Date: 1948

From: Wellington Manufacturers' Association :Photographs of members of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association

By: Wellington Manufacturers' Association; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PAColl-D-0553

Description: Portraits of members of the Jubilee Council taken by S P Andrew Studio in 1948 Inscriptions: Mount recto - Names beneath portraits; Mount recto - centre - Title Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s) all mounted together.

Date: ca 1930-1970

By: Wanganui Newspapers; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Elmar Studios; Stapleton, V A, active 1932-1938; Richards' Studios

Reference: PAColl-0725

Description: Photographs of Elsie Betts-Vincent spanning her lifetime. Studio portraits of her as a young woman ca 1930s; class photograph with her pupils at Wanganui Girls College 1925; two photographs of the girls in costume for productions produced by Betts-Vincent ca 1938; with a group of unidentified men at an event in Sydney ca 1926-1932; four photographs of her as the nurse in a production of Romeo and Juliet ca 1940s; at a music teachers' conference with J J Murphy ca 1960s; playing the piano ca 1970s; and at a lunch ca 1970s. Also include an unknown shipwreck and a table laid out in a hall with a wedding cake and other food. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: [Circa 1935]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-059

Description: Album of publicity photographs, taken by unidentified photographers, chiefly in 1935 At the beginning of the album there are a large number of photographs of the buildings, and crowds at a race meeting at the Trentham Racecourse. (See article by O.N. Gillespie in New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue, 12, March 1, 1935). The album has many publicity photographs, designs for railway advertisements and posters, all showing the advantages of travel by rail. The advertisements include methods for travel savings: `Buy travel stamps. Travel savings N.Z.R. 1/-, 2/-, 2/6, 5/-, from railway stations & booking offices'; also `Start saving to-day for your trip away...'. Other posters advertise cheaper travel in the off-season, including summer holidays at the Hermitage, with low combined rail and motor fares" as well as advertising full season trips to tourist destinations. There is one photograph of a programme [?] for "New Zealand Authors' Week, 1936. Souvenir". Near the start of the album there is a large group of views at Flock House, agricultural college at Bulls. They show pig farming, dairy cows, sheep, lucerne for pasture and vegetable growing (See New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 12, March 1, 1935); and in one of these Lord Bledisloe is bending down examining pasture (See New Zealand Railways magazine, Vol. 9, Issue 11, February 1, 1935) There are a few individual and group portraits, but only one or two are identified. Interior photographs of Union Steam Ship Company luxury liners Rangatira and Aorangi, are shown as individual pictures, as well as in a montage (published in New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, issue 4, July 1, 1935). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscelleous 5'; 41 x 59 cm

Date: 1899 - 1930 - 1938

By: New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PAColl-0552

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) framed. Physical Description: 6 x 8 inch sepia photographs, matted and framed 28 x 31.5 cm in one box

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

From: Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Collection

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Coster, Howard, active 1930s; Digby, Spencer Harry Gilbee, 1901-1995; Lafayette Ltd; Rawood Ltd; Swaine, F A, active 1919-1938; Topical Press Agency Ltd; W H Grove & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4431

Description: Personal and political photographs comprising: Michael Savage and Frederick Jones with an unidentified woman in a garden; three of formal dinners held in London attended by George Forbes, one of which was for Dominion Prime Ministers at Claridges Hotel in May 1935; three of Reginald Aitken, one taken on board the Queen Mary; Forbes and a delegation visiting a fruit market with apples on sale; Forbes and senior officers inspecting American troops; Forbes and others photographed in Santa Monica, the photograph insribed on the reverse with "compliments of William H Carter, mayor City of Santa Monica"; studio portrait of Emma Serena Forbes; studio portrait of Mark Fagan taken in August 1939; three of Michael Savage, one a photograph of a painting; studio portrait of Janet Fraser; studio portrait of Peter Fraser; and the shop of F Jeffery in Roxburgh, a booksellers, chemists, stationers and newsagents and an agent for HMV gramophones and records and Kodak supplies, with a car outside it; portrait of Michael Joseph Savage reading a booklet; three images of public works camps at Kopuawhara, Hawke's Bay, taken before and after the February 1938 floods that killed 21 people. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-1014 : Jeffery, Cecil Albert, 1888-1970 : Papers.

Date: ca 1890-1966

From: University of New Zealand: Photographs relating to the University of New Zealand

By: Elliott & Fry (Firm); Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943; S P Andrew Ltd; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wadds Bros (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0540-1

Description: Photographs of the University of New Zealand senate in 1904, 1913, 1919 and 1934 and various university chancellors and other dignitaries. Also included is a small photograph of the violinist David Oistrakh. Most of the photographs are captioned. The names of senate members (other than the ones listed individually in the names field) given are: Flower, Wild, Levy, Valentine, Rankine Brown, Acland, Wells, Ritchie, Newlands, Bakewell, Norrell, Smith, Lambourne, Fowlds, von Haast, Hanan, Hunter, Evans, Hight, de la Mare, Ranston, Segar, Gilray, Kirk, Wall, Collins, Tole, Benham, Marshall, McDowall, Brown, Cameron, Rev Evans, Chilton, Tibbs, Gordon, M Brown, Hogben, Fitchett, Scott, Hay, Baume, Sale, Shand, Bowen, Andrew, O'Rorke. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1955

From: Wellington Manufacturers' Association :Photographs of members of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wellington Manufacturers' Association

Reference: PAColl-D-0554

Description: Portraits of office bearers and members of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association Diamond Jubilee Council taken by S P Andrew Studio in 1955 Inscriptions: Mount recto - centre - Title; Mount recto - Names beneath each photograph Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s) all together on one mount.

Date: ca 1914-1931

From: Barrer, Nina Agatha Rosamond, 1879-1965 : Photographs of Rolleston House students at Canterbury University, Wellington Harbour Board and others

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Standish & Preece (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4237

Description: Two photographs of the Wellington Harbour Board from ca 1920s, the earlier one taken by S P Andrew indicates J M Barrer at the right hand side of the back row. A large group portrait of men and boys gathered outside a place of work with two large flags draped near the door and a soldier standing in the middle of the group. Some of the men are in work clothes. The photograph is not captioned and the photographer is unidentified. Four photographs of the student body resident at Rolleston House, Canterbury University in 1927, 1929, 1931 and another year. The photographs are taken in the quadrangle in front of a cloister. The names are all given with offices held where relevant. Two of the photographs were taken by Standish and Preece. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1931]

By: New Zealand Railways; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-056

Description: Mainly publicity photographs for New Zealand Railways, most taken by unidentified photographers, though there are several portraits taken by S P Andrew (Stanley Polkingorne Andrew); also a number of images near the beginning of the album have a pencilled note which says "Mr Hinge's negative". There are a number of photographs of advertisements and posters for New Zealand Railways, including one promoting safety at railway crossings. In this scene a young woman is holding up a banner "STOP! Safety first", wearing a hat labelled "Stop", a sash labelled "Safety first" and wearing a skirt with the image of a car crash at a railway crossing. At the end of the album there are several photographs of postage stamps. Several photographs were taken at the opening of the Auckland Railway Station. Then a number show luggage or goods being loaded onto the interislander ferry; and near the back of the album a series showing racehorses, with one view of a horse being lifted onto a ship in a crate. A large section shows the Wellington rally for Lord and Lady Baden-Powell at the Basin Reserve in 1931, and later in the album views of them laying a wreath at the Citizen's War memorial (Cenotaph). Pages 38-43 contain 20 black and white photographs of water colour paintings by Thomas Ryan, from the 1890s. The subjects are mostly lakes and mountains in the South Island, including Lakes Mahinapua, Wakatipu, Te Anau, Wanaka and Manapouri; Teremakau River, Bealey River, Teremakau River and Clinton Valley; and in the North Island Lakes Rotorua and Tikitapu, and two of the Uruwera. On page 64 there is a photograph of a barred window. In front there is an ice-axe, a pair of skis, a fishing rod, 2 rifles, and a lidded straw picnic basket. It seems to have been used as the basis for a New Zealand Railways poster advertising outdoor life in New Zealand (see p 65). There are a number of pages of portraits of children, several of which have been formed into montages of images. None of these are identified. Some portraits of dignitaries involved with New Zealand Railways are identified with surname, but many are not identified at all. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C2'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: [Circa 1915-1925]

From: Avann, Leonard :Photographs of the Benbow, Prince and Birch families

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-o-027

Description: Snapshots of Wellington, including a view of Wellington College, and one of Worser Bay. Most of the images relate to Solway College, showing teachers, pupils, and some of the buildings. The students and teachers are named, and include pictures of the headmistress Marion B Thompson and her husband the Reverend Laurence Thompson. Among the photographs of students are pictures of Rona Benbow (later Rona Avann, wife of Leonard Avann, creator of the collection). Later photographs show Wellington Teachers' College, the Friends' Hostel, and include a group photograph of teachers at the college, taken by S P Andrew. Another image shows the Training College hockey team, circa 1920s. There are full lists of pupils at Solway College between its opening in February 1916, and 1966, in "Remembrance of things past; Solway College Golden Jubilee 1966" by Anne Tregurtha. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cloth-bound album with brown paper cover, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1902

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PAColl-D-0744

Description: Members of the Board of the New Zealand Press Association taken outdoors during the annual conference in Auckland in 1902. In the back row are (L-R): J C Wilkin, W H Atack (Manager), E W Knowles and L P Blundell. In the front row are (L-R): Sir Henry Brett, J L Wilson (Chairman) and Sir George Fenwick. Taken by S P Andrew Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - S P Andrew Copy NZ; Mount recto - beneath image - Names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 272 x 407 mm mounted on card 440 x 600 mm