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McWhannell album 16
Date: [Between 1940 and 1942]
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-o-564
Description: Scenic views of Cambridge, the lake at Hamilton, Puketeraki, Piha, and the farm `Rozel' near Ohaupo, interspersed with portraits of family and friends, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. One photograph shows Rhoda McWhannell's parents (William Duncan Ross McCurdie and Olga Mariquita McCurdie) reading congratulatory messages on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. This album gives the date as 1942, but a previous album gives it as 1941. Rex Hamilton, Bill Hewett and Frederick McWhannell are photographed in military uniform. Photographs of people identified only by surname are Mrs Bowler, Dr Gower and Dr Gribben. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with pale green and cream marbled cover, pale green spine and cord; 20.5 x 24.5 cm
David Thomson, Minister of Defence, reviews troops, Waiouru air field, New Zealand
Date: 27 January 1969
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1969/0441-F
Description: David Thomson, Minister of Defence, reviews troops at Waiouru air field. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 27 January 1969. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
McWhannell album 15
Date: [Between 1941 and 1946]
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-o-563
Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell, many taken at `Rozel', the farm she and her husband Frederick McWhannell owned near Ohaupo. A large number of images show Audrey Hopkins (later Geddes) at Rozel, with animals including ducks, hens and dogs, swimming in the water tank, and with Brian Geddes (later her husband). Four images show a military tank "T27626", with "Galatos" on the turret, at an unidentified location. A group portrait of officers at Waiouru in 1941, and several photographs of Frederick McWhannell, Frank Bethwaite and Neva Morrison wearing military uniform in the early 1940s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with navy blue cover, entitled `Photographs'; 20 x 23 cm
Photograph album compiled by Miss Middleton comprising mainly portraits
Date: [ca 1910s]
From: Thorp, Nigel fl 1995 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1055
Description: Photograph album compiled by Miss Middleton, ca 1918, comprising mainly portraits Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Glover, Tom, 1891?-1938 :The truth about Takapau. [19]14.
Date: 1914
From: Various artists :[Thirty original cartoons drawn for the "New Zealand truth" by Will Hope, Tom Glover, Mac, Pac (or Pas), G (Tom Glover?). ca 1910-1920].
By: Glover, Thomas Ellis, 1891?-1938
Reference: B-128-041
Description: Shows a confrontation on a country road, between a minister wielding a quill pen at left, and a plump military gentleman on horseback wielding a sword at right. The minister has his left foot placed on a large broadsheet entitled: "The truth about Takapau". The person featured are probably the Reverend Fred W Boys and Captain Powles (see "Other notes" below). Reminiscent of the saying: "The pen is mightier than the sword". (Concerning the power of Boys' report to the "Manawatu evening standard"). This cartoon was published in the "New Zealand truth" 23 May 1914, above the title "The harsh and boisterous tongue of war". This published cartoon accompanied letters from a member of the New Zealand military forces, and the Reverend Fred W Boys, concerning Boys' report (published in the Manawatu evening standard") on an incident at Takapau military camp, in late April or early May 1914. In this incident, the mounted police (under Captain Powles - possibly Charles Guy Powles) charged rioting soldiers who were protesting against uncomfortable and wet conditions at the camp (See Warren Bayliss' "Takapau - the sovereign years 1876-1976" (1975), pages 95-96). The "New Zealand truth" also ran a Tom Glover cartoon on 9 May 1914, page 4, entitled "Discipline up-to-date", showing armed police quelling a riot at the camp. Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - [Title] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 322 x 475 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Transferred from MSS&A 74-052. (New Zealand Truth papers relating to S Jackson Binning, donated 1974)..
Smytheman, V :Scenic views of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1890-1950]
From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes
By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970
Reference: PAColl-0531-1
Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).
Jackson, E R C album 1
Date: 1939 - 1945
From: Jackson, E R C (Lieutenant), 1907- :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War II
By: Jackson, Edward Robert Campbell, 1907-1973
Reference: PA1-o-572
Description: Album compiled by Lieutenant E R C Jackson (New Plymouth), which includes views of Waiouru, departure of the 2NZEF and voyage; Athens, Egypt and Italy. No names are given for any portraits or group portraits. Towards the end of the album there is a series of propaganda posters and leaflets; a copy of a Safe Conduct leaflet; and the British military identity document in the name of Edward Robert Campbell Jackson. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound volume with coloured decorative Egyptian motifs; 20.5 x 29.0 cm
Fred Turnovsky; Big Tex storefront; People taking photographs at Raumati Beach; Regimen...
Date: [1960s, 1970s]
From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints
Reference: PA12-3031
Description: Photographs of the work and life of Regimental Sergeant Major Cocker, Waiouru, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s Also includes images of a store front with a sign that reads "BIG TEX", date unknown. Also includes images of people taking photographs at Raumati Beach taken circa 1970s. Also includes images of Fred Turnovsky taken March 1973, standing before a large landscape photograph or painting. Also includes people at Paremata, Porirua, including people kayaking and standing on the beach, taken circa 1960s. Images of Regimental Sergeant Major Cocker are also at Library reference PA12-3107 to 3108. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "PH. BIG TEX | Fred Turnovsky | March 1973", "Fesliers Raumati good", R S M Cocker, Waiuru [Waiouru]" and "Paramata [Paremata] people". Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in September 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-22.
New Zealand's Army Combat Brigade review, Waiouru
Date: 28 February 1970
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1970/0877-F
Description: New Zealand's Army Combat Brigade on review at Waiouru. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 28 February 1970. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Don Peat's photograph album
Date: 1936-1941
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1794
Description: Don Peat's own album aquired when he was 15 years old. Contents include - Group of schoolboys and a De Haviland aircraft at Wigram in 1936. The Merivale boy scouts, Christchurch, 1937. Portrait of St Mary's Church, St Albans, Christchurch, 1937. Governor General, Lord Galway at presentation of a new guiden (flag) to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Hagley Park, 1937. Wellington Railway Station. World War One field gun. Flying boat on Wellington harbour. Nazi flag on the last German ship to come to Wellington before the Second World War, ca 1939. Ocean liner `Strathmore,' at Wellington wharves. Portrait of Bob Semple. Don Peat with friends and in military uniform, 1939-1940. Soldiers, Second World War, in Wellington. Views of the Nurses Home, Wellington Hospital. Don Peat and his parents, Whanganui 1940. Soldiers in training, Trentham, 1940. Views of the ship `Doric Star' sunk in 1940. Soldiers in training at Waiouru, 1941. This includes a group of photographs recording a comic mock battle enacted by soldiers. Soldiers on leave in Christchurch, May 1941. Hand coloured images of Maori men posing as `old time' warriors, 1939. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Photographs of the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa
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).
Creater unknown :Photographs of New Zealand, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands, WWII
Date: [ca 1940-1945]
Reference: PA1-o-1521
Description: Photographs of artillery training at Waiouru, 1940; practice amphibious landings in Vanuatu; and NZ troops at Guadalcanal, Vella Lavella and Nissan Island, taken & collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 190 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009 Transfers: Transfers - Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive other material transferred to Ephemera from here. - To Ephemera Collection - Souvenir Programme - The Kiwi Concert Party (Pacific) presents 'Pacific Roundabout' 1944 (Eph-A-VARIETY-1944-02).
Album relating to a Christmas vacation, 1938
Date: 1938
From: Kelly, Raymond Alwyn, 1917-1998 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-1635
Description: Photograph album relating to holiday photographs of Christmas vacation in 1938 at Chaso's Joint in Tariki, Taranaki Inscriptions: [Inside front cover] Holiday shots during Xmas vacation 1938 at Chaso's Joint in Tariki, Taranaki Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album 20 x 28.5 cm
New Zealand soldiers bound for Vietnam at Waiouru
Date: 18 June 1965
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1965/2099-F
Description: Soldiers of the 161st Battery lined up at Waiouru being addressed by the Governor General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, prior to leaving for Vietnam. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 18th of June 1965. The 161st Battery served in Vietnam from June 1965 to May 1975. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Troops training and parading in New Zealand
Date: 1939-1941
From: Marriott, Forrest Aitken, 1904-1960 :Photographs relating to World War Two
Reference: PAColl-8288
Description: Photographs taken and collected by journalist and photographer Forrest Aitken Marriott. Included are troops parading in Wellington in 1940; the 1st and 3rd echelons leaving Wellington on troopships; troops training at locations around the Wellington coast; troops training and parading at Trentham Militaty Camp and Waiouru Military Camp; photographs of the Dominion Monarch, the Rangitira, and the Strathaird. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s).
Doing the dishes at Linton
Date: 1950-1950
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 114/164/32-F
Description: Two men do the dishes at Linton military camp. Photograph taken 29 June 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 6 centimetres
Soldiers training with field guns, Waiouru Military Camp
Date: ca 1940
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-047771-G
Description: View towards Mount Ruapehu. In the foreground soldiers train at firing field guns. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in about 1940 Waiouru Military Camp opened 1938/1939 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negtative
Army at Foxton
Date: [8 Aug 1950]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 114/191/04-F
Description: Aerial photo of an army tent camp in a sandy area beside a small lake near Foxton. Photograph taken 8 Aug 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3/25 x 4.25 inches
Army at Foxton
Date: [8 Aug 1950]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 114/191/05-F
Description: Aerial photo of an army tent camp in a sandy area beside a small lake near Foxton. Photograph taken 8 Aug 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3/25 x 4.25 inches
Linton military camp
Date: 1950-1950
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 114/164/38-F
Description: View of Linton military camp showing barracks and quarters. Photograph taken 29 June 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 6 centimetres