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Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1870]-1951

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-q-945

Description: There are several subject groups in this album. 1. Family childhood and youth. The earliest family photograph dates from the 1870s and is a portrait of John Pascoe's paternal grandmother as a young woman. The photographs become prolific from about 1918 to 1930. During the 1920s many photographs are of Pascoe and his friends as boys, often with family members, taken during outdoor activities such as staying at baches at Rakaia huts, at picnics, swimming, boating, tramping, hunting and horse riding. Several show John Pascoe with a banjo, and there is a group photograph of Bloys Banjo Band taken about 1930. 2. The next group relate to Christs College, Christchurch. These consist of views of some of the buildings including the interior of the chapel. Many are groups of college sports teams and sudents dressed in striped blazers, the school orchestra, the school cadets, school friends and some teachers. Some of the photographs show study interiors and boys at work in them. 3. Photographs of John and Paul Pascoe as young men in their first suits; Paul Pascoe at architectural school; John and Dorothy Pascoe's wedding in 1940 and of their first house. Related to this group, though scattered throughout the album are photographs of John's father's law offices when John worked there, of Paul Pascoe in England in the mid 1930s, and later of his wife and children at the time that his second son was a baby. 4. John Pascoe as a harrier with the christchurch Harrier Club in the late 1920s. There are photographs of individual runners, group photographs of harrier teams, and many more of races about to start or underway. 5. John Pascoe as a civil servant during the late 1930s and during the war. Some of these are official photographs such as the group at the beginning of the album which relate to the publishing of "Making New Zealand" and the team producing it. As well there are a number of small images of Pascoe's collegues at the Department of Internal Affaires, some photographs of him in operation as a war time official photographer, and a group photograph of Joseph Heenan and his staff standing on the steps of Parliament house. Other photographs include Dorothy, the children, and activities with children in the early 1950s. There is also a photograph of the window of Whitcombe and Tombs bookshop in Wellington displaying Pascoe's book "Unclimbed New Zealand." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1920 - 1930]

From: Leggat, Heather :Myra McCormick's photographs

Reference: PA1-o-889

Description: This family album includes Myra and Eric as teenagers and young adults. There are many photographs of family and relatives, children, older women, Eric's parents, and Moyra during her period of nursing training. There are also some photographs of cities and Towns, countryside, houses and other features of the human landscape of New Zealand in the 1920s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1986 - 1989

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-060/084

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. New Zealand switches from milk in bottles to milk in cartons. Hayley's Comet turns out to be disappointing for most star gazers. High number of requests for aid from sports and charity groups. Children deny tobacco advertising influences their smoking habits. Core samples are taken from the hull of the New Zealand entrant to the America's Cup. 1986 - the International Year of Peace - $1,746,000,000,000 spent on weapons. Mother's Day again. Burglar makes himself at home. General election candidates begin their hand-shaking tour of the rural areas. There's a big turnout for the rugby on election day. People are getting overloaded with the morning radio bad 'news'. Christmas shopping bedlum is upon us. ANZAC Day shows the difference between the self-sacrificing of the returned service men and women and the selfishness of youth. The French do another nuclear bomb test. Cups are shown off at the yacht club, some for winning races but mostly for winning court battles over yacht race rules. Parents supporting their children from the rugby sidelines are becoming increasingly violent. Over-crowding of New Zealand prisons. New Zealand's economic slump sees long ques of people waiting to get Government assistance through the Dept. of Social Welfare. Rogernomics puts the whole country into crisis. Post Offices are closed around the country. Children embrace cigarette smoking. Hospital emergency outpatients restrict their services in an effort to cut costs. Pakeha consider how they can benefit from the Maori land claim process. The law struggles to deal with complications of using force in your own self defence. Ozone layer threatened by fumes, smoke and smog. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). 24 photocopies. Physical Description: A4 size original and photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: ca 1905-ca 1943

By: Ball, Jennifer, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-8038

Description: Photographs of Sir Francis and Lady Bell's houses at Lowry Bay; the family of Harold Featherston Johnston; girl students of the Convent of the Sacred Heart (later Erskine College) Island Bay Wellington; a cricket team and student group taken at St Georges School Wanganui; wedding groups. The weddings are of Kathleen and Willie Levin (of the Levin & Co family), Naney and Douglas Young, Jocelyn Riddiford and Jim Vogel, Betty and Ralf Lowry, and Barbara and Stephen Glover. They date from 1931 to about 1943. Caroline Johnston's father, Harold, was a son of Charles John Johnston of Homewood, Karori, Wellington. The Johnston family and descendents lived at Homewood from 1852 to 1925 (info from "Homewood and its Families". Smedley, Beryl. Mallinson Rendel, Wellington, 1980). Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-201535-F to 1/2-201582-F. Quantity: 26 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: The album was compiled by Caroline Johnston, the mother of Jennifer Ball.

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1205

Description: The two Nelson farms in this album are "Nga Mahanga" (Hugh Nelson's place), and "Taumata" (Jack Nelson's place). Views show the farm houses, and farm buildings, the farm land and landscape of the Pori area partially cleared of bush. One group of images shows the countryside under snow. There are a series of five images recording the building of a stables and buggy house, also a view of the woolshed and sheep at "Taumata". Scenic views of the area include the Makuri River ford, native forest interiors with pongas, and native forest. Four images show the interior of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are two photographs of local Maori standing beside tents in a bush clearing, one of army volunteers in uniform standing in front of tents, two of soldiers at an unidentified event, many of horses, some of hens, dogs, cats, and cattle. Two prints show one of the Nelson brothers cutting long grass with a scythe and 4 others are views of an unidentified house and its garden at Tiraumea (a distant view of this house surrounded by pinus radiata shelter belts and its surrounding countryside can be seen in album PA1-o-1206, page 7 captioned "Tiraumea"). There are also some images of "Newstead" the Monckton family home at Featherston. There is only one photograph of a Nelson family group. The rest are individual images of adults and children which include: Frederick Monckton, Lucy Miller (who married Frank Nelson), Winifred, [Lornie?], Dorothea, [Frances?], the brothers and the children. Further information and names provided by researcher. Updated 10 November 2016. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1900-1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1207

Description: Views of the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and three farms in that area, "Ruatea", "Taumata", and "Nga Mahanga". Images of snow covered countryside, the ford across the Makuri River at Makuri, native forest with pongas, partly cleared land with the standing trunks of burnt trees, the houses of the three farms, horses, cattle, hens, cats, Jack Nelson with Nan, Dorothea, and Miss Wyatt having a picnic, Maori, cabbage trees, and Hugh Nelson's whare and woolshed. Arrangement: This collection is made up of loose prints from album PA1-o-1206 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PAColl-7868-1

Description: Photographs of Children, Family groups which include Frank, Archie, Hugh, and Jack Nelson, Jack and Frank's houses at Pori and two views of the drive to Jack's house, native forest and an early morning view of the Forty Mile Bush. One group photographs taken in England in about 1885. There are also two letters from Catherine M Nelson written from Pori in 1902, and an envelope containing pressed plant matter. Catherine M Nelson came from England to visit her New Zealand relatives in 1902. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-010246-G

Description: The Gate family outside their house in Tahora, Taranaki. From left to right, Daniel Irving Gate, one of the twins (Alan or Ernest), Aaron Hope Gate (in Anne's arms), Elizabeth Anne Gate , the other twin, Harriet Gate, Jeseph William Gate (on horse), Aaron Gate. Photograph taken by James McAllister circa 1900. Another photograph of this family, taken at the same time, is at 1/1-005984 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1900

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-005984-G

Description: The Gate family outside their house in Tahora, Taranaki, circa 1900. From left to right, Joseph William Gate, Elizabeth Anne Gate (nee Mather) holding her son Aaron Hope Gate, Ernest Gate, Aaron Gate, Daniel Irving Gate, Allan Gate (seated), Harriet Gate. Photograph taken by James McAllister. Another photograph of this family, taken at the same photography session, is at 1/1-010246 Completing the family was Arthur Jackson, born in 1901. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca1915]-1935

By: Lewer, Noeline Amy, 1897-1980

Reference: PA1-o-1326

Description: Photographs of Noelene Amy Keeling, her family and home in College Street, Palmerston North, ca 1915-1935. There are photographs of the house at 140 College Street, Palmerston North, including interior views of the sitting room and Noelene's bedroom. Family members include Noelene Keeling, her mother Alice Mary Keeling, her sister Patricia May Keeling, and her brother Tup. There is a photograph of Noelene and her mother parked in an A.C. (Autocarrier) Roadster which the caption claims as the first car in Palmerston North, and another of Noelene in a different model by the same company. The photographs of the house include a number of views of the garden. Other - George William Keeling lived at 140 College Street, Palmerston North. He was proprietor of Keeling & Mundy, printers, 49 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North. Source: New Zealand Post Office Directory, 1927 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).