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Date: 1865-1915

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Gungall, Arthur Frederick, 1863?-1927

Reference: PA1-q-1134

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1865-1915, with emphasis on 1893-1898 and 1911-1914. Series include: scenes from Cheviot (including Gore Bay boarding house, Port Robinson landing stage, farm displenishing sale (sheep), Baxton Creek, and Cathedral Bluffs); construction, testing, and opening of Ashley ferro-concrete bridge (with W McIntosh and Governor Islington); Wilson, Oram and Leithead family photographs in New Zealand (Lindean, Beauthorne, and Marston) and South Africa, featuring Christmas holidays, three generations portrait, grandchildren (Josie, Lionel, Bobby, and Alan) and pets (cat Billy Buster, various dogs); Ketches Amelia, Joseph and Emma Sims in Wellington and Kaiapoi, including naming ceremony; collected images of castles and estates in England; scenes from South Africa (Port Elizabeth, Bird Island, indigenous women, bullock train, and British cruiser off Capetown); and Winchester School. Events include Christchurch Agricultural and Pastoral shows of 1912 and 1914 (with J L Wilson and Dr Levenge present), King George V inspecting troops during royal tour, coronation parade at Woodford (including participants in fancy dress), Governor Ranfurly's 1898 visit to Kaiapoi, Silver Wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs R Wylie (Kaiapoi), rifle volunteer camp at Pareora (Timaru), and Victoria Jubilee. Named figures include A G Ashby in his motorcar, Lieutenant-Colonel Cossgrave, R J Alexander and son William, C Treleaven, J Leech and daughter at Brooklands (Rangiora), John O'Halloran, Henry Lauder, R S Bean and family (Ashburton), Thomas [McLeon?], and Jack Hardwick-Smith and teddy bear. Group photographs include: Dr C Nedwill, Captain Tom Bowling, J L Wilson, and shipmates at 'Chariot of Fame' jubilee; Mr Charles Leech (president) with Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Society Committee; Miss Barlow's class at Kaiapoi School (with Leonard Wilson); Mrs J Pattinson of Cumberland, and her eight grandchildren; North Canterbury Ploughing Match Committee at Mr [Peaches'] farm (Ashley); volunteer rifle officers, J H Hayman (superintendent) with Kaiapoi Fire Brigade; and Colonel Lean and officers and Springbank camp. Wedding portraits of Anderson and Scott (Lindean), Henry and Wright, Dr Hardwick-Smith and Friggs, Oram and Wilson (Beauthorne), and Leithead and Wilson (Marston) weddings. Buildings include Junction Hotel (Rangiora), interior of Press Newspaper building (lithographic department and main entrance), Bass residence at Bristol Street (Christchurch), Hansen's building (Australian Mercantile Union Insurance Company, F Gabites, W R Pengelly Tailor and Outfitter, Richards Watchmaker and Jeweller), St John's Church (Rangiora), Mansion House (Cheviot), and W Robinson's residence (Cheviot). Kaiapoi buildings and scenes include Bank of New Zealand, Golf Club pavilion, Emma Matthew's cottage, [Leonard?] Wilson's villa, Anderson's store, Press agency, Borough Council Chambers, Borough School, J Harold Evans' House, Parish Church, suspension bridge, Beswick and Birch's wharf, Kaiapoihia monument, gardens at Beauthorne and Marston, and various streets. Miscellaneous images include picnicking at Birch Hill, wood carvings by Thomas Leech, Waimakariri water supply scheme (Brown's Rock intake and luncheon), George V swimming baths (Rangiora), chickens, Skiddaw, P C Threkeld's prize dairy cows and Leicester ram, Waitangi Falls (Bay of Islands), cooking bullock [hangi?] at Rangiora New Year sports day, Timaru breakwater construction, Otira Gorge, and a Maori woman identified as 'Kaiapoi Maori Queen'. Postcards depict bath house at Hamner Springs, 'Land of the golden fleece', and an illustration of Port Elizabeth. Collected images by named photographers include Mt Egmont (A Gungall). Some hand coloured photographs in album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: [Between 1899 and 1902]

From: Morice, Charles George Frederick, 1868-1966 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-162

Description: Views of South African war, showing activities of New Zealand and Canadian troops; many photographs of Afrikaners (including a portrait of Paul Kruger) and Zulu people; photographs of Richard and Louisa Seddon in South Africa, and on board ship en route to coronation of Edward VII in 1901. The album also includes views of Maori officers who travelled to the coronation as part of the New Zealand Army contingent. There are signed photographs of J R Taylor, and H Rees (p 69) Inscriptions: Album page - Charles G. Morice (Ex libris, signature inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, black leather corners and spine; 28.5 x 37.5

Date: 1872-1971

By: Brittenden family

Reference: MS-Papers-2055

Description: Letters and transcripts, press cuttings and other papers of three brothers who emigrated to New Zealand and Australia, 1877-1889, with their families, from Deal, Kent, England. They were members of a large party of watermen brought out to New Zealand as a group, generally referred to as the Deal Boatmen. Letters from Edward, who arrived on the "Star of India", 1874, comment on social conditions, and life on South Island railways, 1877-1912 (with diary of voyage from Lyttelton to UK on the SS `Turakina', Jul-Aug 1906); also his wife's and family's letters 1914-1958. Letters from James, comment on Dunedin, 1889-1892, giving first impressions, prices, trade union matters and working conditions. Letters from Frederick describing voyage to Lyttelton on the `Olive' in 1878, first impressions of Canterbury (later of Melbourne). Also letters of family members in South African War, World Wars I and II, and later papers; with notes, photographs and genealogical information. Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Canterbury Museum, Archives Department, holds the original shipboard diary kept by Fred Brittenden and transcript of letter written by Fred, September 1878 Quantity: 2 folder(s) (50 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs (photocopies) Provenance: See collection file

Date: 1863-1901

By: Newall, Stuart, 1843-1919

Reference: qMS-1577-1584

Description: Very full account of West Coast and Urewera campaigns, 1869; official correspondence while Inspector, Armed Constabulary, Waikato, 1872-1878; journals 1879-1881 re Taranaki affairs including detailed description of the arrest of Te Whiti at Parihaka; journals and correspondence as Commanding Officer, 5th Contingent during the South African War; reminiscences 1863-1871. All fully detailed. Source of title - Supplied title Army officer Quantity: 8 volume(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (vols 1-6 in blue box) Many sketches, maps, especially battles, camps, etc

Date: 1890-1904

By: Shaw, Frederick Thomas, 1871-1904

Reference: MS-Papers-5125

Description: Contains copies of four letters from Frederick Thomas Shaw to his sister Minnie Shaw, dated 1890-1902, describing his experiences in the South African War; a clipping of a newspaper poem about the NZ contingent; copies of certificates of discharge for Shaw, dated 1902; copies of newspaper articles dated 19 Oct 1904 and 7th Nov 1904 describing the accident in the Karangahake railway tunnel in which Shaw was involved and then reporting his death from his injuries and a copy of a card marking his death. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typecript and printed matter (photocopies) Provenance: F T Shaw is donors grand uncle Donor/Lender/Vendor - Leone Shaw, Hamilton, 1994 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - One photograph of the Paeroa Volunteers Ist Contingent to the South African War - includes F T Shaw.

Date: 1863-1921

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1138

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1863-1921, with the majority dated 1908-1919. Also includes coverage of South Africa's Eastern Cape and England. Series include: Wilson family portraits, with Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, mother-in-law Emma Matthews, and brother Thomas. Estelle's children also feature, with some images taken in their adopted home in South Africa. Also Wilson family dogs Bruce and Nigger appear in a number of images. Street scenes and buildings in Kaiapoi are emphasised, with many taken following the July 1918 and 2 September snow storms. A number also depict World War One peace celebrations (including Kaiapoi 'tank' and parade). Interior and exterior images of Kaiapoi Woollen Mills and buildings in Hamner Springs (including Jollie's Hotel, Hamner Hall, Post Office, churches, and Public School) also feature. Events include funeral procession of trooper Nicholson (Kaiapoi) who was killed in the South African War, parade with decorated traction engine (Rangiora), celebration of coronation of Edward VII (Oxford), an unidentified shipwreck, street scene of 1908 Christchurch fire, the relocation of St Paul's Presbyterian Church (Kaiapoi), crowd at collie dog trials (Waikari), delivery of Anderson's boiler to Woollen Mills factory, railway accident at Chaimey's corner and funeral of R J Alexander, Armistice Day celebrations (Rangiora), Lord Ranfurly's visit to Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, Ashley water supply project luncheon, and the relocation of assembly rooms building. Named figures include J Lang, J Perrin, and J M McGarvy; Mrs W A Parham with her flock of turkeys; J R Leithead; Chief Dinizulu (postcard from Estelle Wilson, annotated); portraits of soldiers Ralph and Leslie Feldwick (both killed in action in Dardanelles) and soldier C J Brighing; Reverend Wynter Blathwayt, Maaka Hape, and T Hape of St Stephen's Maori Church, J Murray and his three boys in Highland dress; cyanotype of Edward Devine, Miss Alice Bennett and her nieces; Mr Jeffrey; and S Johnston (Kaiapoi Postmaster). Group photographs depict [1st Wellington Battalion?] in France, the officers of the 1st Battalion of the Canterbury Rifles on Queen Victoria's 1887 jubilee, group (mainly Maori) at the Kaiapoi Bridge (1869 visit of the Duke of Edinburgh), Woodend Volunteer Rifles, unidentified Maori group outside Runanga Hall (Tuahiwi), and territorial soldiers in 1913 (Rangiora). Premiere Richard Seddon [last photograph before death?] with group at Newport Railway Workshops (Melbourne), soldiers at Trentham Military Camp (1918), Sir Apirana Ngata and the Mahaanui Maori Council, wedding party photographs from the Leech and Parsons wedding, old scholars of Kaiapoi Church School, North Canterbury Ploughing Match organisers (figures named), Kaiapoi Woollen Mills directors (1879), Captain Chaffey and Lieutenants Douglas and Grey of the Amuri Mounted Rifles, Parham family, and the Matthews family outside school house at Kaiapoi Church Day School. Buildings include Bruce Hotel (Akaroa), Hydro Grand Hotel (Timaru), Kaiapoi Parish Church, Wellington Post Office, Bank of New Zealand (Kaiapoi), Beauthorne, W J Robinson's stables and manager's house (Cheviot), Christ's College (Christchurch), South British Insurance (also Press Office, Kaiapoi), S Baldwin's home (Canada), Buckeye Hotel (with Cob and Co coach outside), Marston (Kaiapoi), J Sim's sawmill and store, Kaiapoi Parish Church, Glenmark Station homestead, Church of the Holy Innocents (Amberley), Woollen Mills Cashel Street, Maori pa formerly at site of Woollen Mills (painting), Malcolm Ross Cottage, and Glen Hoon (Hamner). Miscellaneous images include a volunteer camp in Oamaru (Easter, 1886), Akaroa monument to Captain Stanley, Dunedin (from Roslyn Hill), the construction of the Kaiapoi dredge, Rangiora War Memorial, Tikitere (Rotorua), Ashburton Domain, Wellington (from Te Aro Hill), Challenge Shield trophy (of the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Rifle Volunteers), Volunteer Rifle target practice on Kaiapoi beach, Cam bridge (with unidentified family group), the ferry 'Windermere' with Coniston Lake coach on board, Gore Bay and other images from Cheviot area, Reece Valley, Shetland pony Wee Davie, Kingston-Invercargill coach (cyanotype of photo taken by American Astronomical Mission), Purau farm panorama (site for 1893 volunteer military camp), fancy dress, the ketch 'Jannet', Lyttelton Harbour, the steamer 'Kairaki', farmland at Highfield (Waiau), Amuri, Dogs Creek intake, Otira Gorge, various Blue Mountain scenes (New South Wales), Conical Hill (Hamner), Rogerson Valley, D Rutherford Bridge and upper bridge cutting (Waiau River), an original pen drawn caricature, a copy of a painting of a coach by E M Lovell-Smith, and a number of river, garden, and street scenes. Various images (some postcards) from South Africa include three men in front of a cave, St Andrew's College and St Aiden's College (Grahamstown), Prince Alfred's Guards Memorial and Port Elizabeth, Hellgate, and the road to Walmer. Also images (many postcards) of England, including Penrith, Keswick, Braithwaite, Torquay, Boscobel House and Royal Oak (Shropshire), Cumberland Church, and Christchurch Gate (Canterbury). Collected photographs include many Burton Brothers' images of various New Zealand scenes (mainly scenic, including Wanganui River, Waitakere area, Manawatu Gorge, and Lake Manapouri) and work by other unidentified photographers. Album includes cyanotypes, copies of daguerreotypes, postcards, hand coloured images as well as original and reproduced artworks. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Purchase, 2011. The album was purchased from Mr Robin Rapley of Christchurch.

Date: 1859-1907

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1136

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1859-1907, predominantly dated 1900-1902. Series include: Akaroa (1876); 1901 Royal Tour of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, with events including review of volunteer rifles (Christchurch) and parade in Auckland; South African War departures, transport ships (including 'Tongariro'), and return celebrations (Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Christchurch), as well as training and volunteer camps (Woodend, Redcastle, and Newtown), peace announcement, and various related events and images; Birch Hill bush, logging, sawmill and bullock teams; flood damage to Ashley rail bridge; and potatoes being sent to South Africa. Events include opening of Lyttelton dock, jubilee celebration for deaf and dumb community, Amuri cattle sale at Culverden (with Captain R A Chaffey and Lieutenant Wynaham-Grey), wedding breakfast at Ashley, funeral in Rangiora [Mr A Foreman?], Lyttelton Regatta, Kaiapoi boat race, Grand National Steeplechase and races at Riccarton Racecourse, public school displays at Lancaster Park, wreck of the SS 'Taupo' at Greymouth (also 'Hesketh' run aground), crowd in Cathedral Square for Bishop Wilson's wedding, bazaar in Nelson, religious gathering in tent (Christchurch Showgrounds), Premiere Richard Seddon's visit to Kaiapoi, Rangiora sheep sale, J G Ward visit to Kaiapoi [Kaiapoihia monument?], Imperial Troops marching through Christchurch, Waikari sheepdog trials (judge W Rutherford), Rangiora Agricultural and Pastoral Show, washout at Cam flour mill (Leech Brothers), Governor Ranfurly at A & P Show, opening of Canterbury Hall by Ranfurly and Seddon, dispersal sale of R W Chapman's sheep, Mayor J Daly turning over first sod of Coronation Baths (Kaiapoi), unveiling of Queen Victoria Jubilee memorial, and Victoria Jubilee celebrations (Auckland). Identified figures include Reverend Garbett and Dr J E Weld, H Marton and Mark Scott, A S Clarkson (in South Africa), Rev Canon James Wilson, W Stapleforth (with dog), Colonel Stuart Newall, Miss Ethel Bell, Richard Seddon, E G Wakefield (bust), Pohipi and his wife, and Mr G Leech. Group photographs include: R J Alexander and [M J] Lynskey and Kaiapoi Borough School Cadets; Christchurch Hockey Club men's team; staff of A Moore coach builders, including H Land, J Jeffrey, A Moore, and W Baker; Kaiapoi Hinemoa Hockey Club (and instructor Mr Kinvig); Mrs W R May and troupe of entertainers from Richmond, Nelson; Amberley Caledonian Society; wedding of A Pearce and Miss Zuppicich; Colonel H Gordon and North Canterbury Volunteer Rifle group (including nurses), also Lieutenant A Horne with volunteers, and Lieutenant E B Millton, Captain H Lance, and Lieutenant Johnson of Cust Mounted Rifles; telegraph staff at Bloemfontein; Rev Wynter Blathwayt and St Stephen's Maori Church Choir; Rev H H Mathias and Kaiapoi Church Sunday School teachers and church choir members (including Estelle Wilson); Mrs J G Blackwell (chaperone) and campers on Sumner trip; Archdeacon B Dudley, Fanny Dudley, and Mrs Dudley at Earnley (Rangiora); Kaiapoi football [rugby] team; Dr H C Parsons and family; staff at Kaiapoi Woollen Mills; crew of the ship 'Discovery' (Tuahiwi visit); Rangiora Oddfellows; Mahaanui Maori Council; Rev Nicholls wedding (Ravenstone); and Wesleyan Church Conference. Also soldiers Rule, Moody, and Sanson (departing for South Africa). Buildings include Canterbury Provincial Chambers, Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, Kaiapoi Methodist Church, East Oxford Church, Johnsons Building (Rangiora), Press agency (Kaiapoi), Red Lion Hotel (Oxford), Masonic Lodge (Rangiora), Lyttelton Times and Warner's Commercial Hotel (Christchurch), Building and Land Society (Christchurch), Moore's Beehive store, round house with turf roof and punga trunk walls (Water of Leith, Dunedin), Rangiora Post Office, ruins of early Rangiora house, Kaiapoi Borough School, H Martin's house (site of murder) and St Thomas's Church (East Eyreton), Boys High School (Christchurch), Mrs Lamhert's house (Jack's Pass), Canterbury Museum, Bank of New South Wales and church (Amberley), Waiau ferry [terminal?], creamery (Woodend), A S Clarkson's office and Presbyterian church (Rangiora), Wilson residence Marston (Kaiapoi), Kaiapoi Railway Station, and Colonial Bank of New Zealand (Rangiora). Interior of Kaiapoi church (featuring decorated font) and Wellington Public Library. Also garden at Beauthorne. Miscellaneous images include Maori scenes [ca 1860s], motorised quadricycle, Purau Bay, unidentified sports team [rugby?], J Pearson's wool being carted and shearing at Burnt Hill, High Street (Rangiora), ambulance tent for mounted rifles (Tuahiwi), boats moored at Lyttelton, hot springs at Hamner, Boyd and Kier contractors, trappe bridge (Kaiapoi), brass band outside Mrs Moorhouse's dining rooms, Manchester Street and Hagley Park (Christchurch), Napier, Thames, Ashley Bridge protective works, race at sports day, and unidentified men on railway jigger. Illustrations include various scenes of early Kaiapoi, Queen Victoria portrait, and soldier [South African War?] by R Caton of Woodville. Named photographers of collected images are Burton Brothers and [Deale?]. A small number of photographs in album are hand coloured. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: [ca 1870s-1900s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-270

Description: Views of New Zealand, South Africa and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes photographs of Griffin and Rutherford families, and home of Dr Hogg of Timaru. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1939

By: Ostler, Henry Hubert (Sir), 1876-1944

Reference: MS-Papers-2273

Description: Autobiography, written in 1939, outlines main events in his life and comments on his legal career Source of title - Transcribed Ostler grew up in the McKenzie Country, qualified as a lawyer in 1905, and practised law in Auckland and Wellington. He was appointed a judge in 1924. He made several hunting expeditions to South Africa. Quantity: 4 folder(s) (370 leaves). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1860-1925

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Bettger, Hubert D, active 1910s?; Jones, Douglas, active 1907

Reference: PA1-q-1132

Description: News and personal photographs, and original artworks by E Oram, taken and collected by J L Wilson and featuring North Canterbury and South Africa 1860-1925, predominantly dated 1922 to 1924. Series include: Wilson family portraits, featuring Estelle and family, various holiday scenes, Christmas 1910 and 1922, Mrs [Bing's] residence Port Alfred, and Walmer (South Africa); the opening of the Whare Runanga at Tuahiwi, including program 'Dedication of the whare runanga at St Stephen's Pah' and a manuscript recording speech by [J C Coates, Archbishop Julius?]; crowds watching rowing and boating on the Kaiapoi River [regatta?]; fire at R Evans' flour mill; illustrations of Otira Coach; paintings of South Africa by E Oram (and one by J Oram); 1923 floods and snowstorm in Kaiapoi (various streets and Woollen Mills interior); and visit of Governor General Lord Jellicoe and Lady Jellicoe, including Mayor H MacIntosh's welcome. Images of news and events include Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association show and luncheon (visit of Lord Islington and Mr Clarkson), Mayor A Blackett proclaiming king [coronation?] to crowd at Rangiora Borough Council Chambers, [Langley?] and Blackwell wedding [Kaiapoi Methodist church interior?], Kaiapoi War Memorial unveiling and Anzac Day services (1922 and 1924), Kaiapoi Woollen Mills picnic at Glentunnel, and baby show at Kaiapoi Domain. Named figures include Estelle Wilson, kaumatua Manahi, W N Taylor, [young J L Wilson and brother?], chief Taurau Kukupa, Lady Stewart and A W Rutherford (Hamner), guide Sophia, Nell Scott, Mrs Leithead, J L Tetlow, and Mrs A J Baldwin and son Bruce. Group photographs include reunion of pupils of Charles Merton's school (Rangiora), Apirana Ngata, Tatuha (chairman), and unidentified members of the Maahanui Maori Council, Kaiapoi Bowling Club members, Rangiora High School teaching staff and building, reunion of scholars of Kaiapoi Church School, fancy dress at Kaiapoi Barbarian Society banquet, Kaiapoi Fire Brigade, Clarkville school jubilee, schoolmaster Matthews and family outside residence, and Kaiapoi School cadets. Buildings include Parakai House (Helensville), unidentified Kaiapoi church, Mr McFarlane's house Coldstream (Rangiora), H J Horrell's house (Horrelville), C W Wearing's Terminus Hotel (Christchurch), Oram's Pier Hotel (Kaiapoi), church at Glenmark, Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, T R Leithead's house Lindean (Kaiapoi), various unidentified factories, Kaiapoi Brewery (Sidey Quay), Kaiapoi Methodist church, house in Asquith (Saskatchewan), and Kaiapoi Borough School. Miscellaneous images include panorama of Oxford, Corriedale stud sheep of W McIntosh (Whiterock Station), ship 'Emma Sims' on Kaiapoi bar, Christchurch Press picnic, Waiau cemetery, Ship 'Galilee' at Lyttelton, trespass notice on bridge, various unidentified bridges, carting wool fadges, flax treated at C Leach mill, McKenzie memorial (Cheviot), SS 'Niagara', school children disembarking train (Christchurch), display of early refrigerator at [New Zealand exhibition?], coach at Kellup Creek, coach at Palmerston, SS 'Wootton' being loaded at Kaiapoi wharf, house fire, chickens, cyanotypes of Derrett's coach fording river and another coach crossing Hamner River, and Rangiora Soldier's Monument. Also cartoon depicting politician James Dupre Lance. Collected postcards include images of South Africa (Port Alfred, Port Elzabeth, Walmer), England (Forth Railway Bridge, Honnister, Penrith, Ravenstone), and Italy (Bordighera). Postcards from New Zealand depict 1860 Christchurch Volunteer Fire Brigade, Northland (Treaty House at Waitangi, Church at Russell, Kerikeri, ruins of Paihia house where Colenso had first printing press), Press Building (Christchurch), mountaineers on Onslow Glacier, Kaiapoi man with large cabbage, and reception for Edward, Prince of Wales, at Christchurch City Hall (including magistrate Mr Eadie and his wife). Panoramic postcards show Zambesi River below Victoria Falls and the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition. Some prints are hand coloured. Named photographers of collected images include H D Bettger and Douglas Jones. Images not listed include unidentified people and places. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: [1890s-1980s]

By: McWhannell, Rhoda Leslie, 1897-1996

Reference: ATL-Group-00730

Description: Comprises 91 notebooks, newspaper clippings, and correspondence compiled by Rhoda McWhannell. Includes 23 diaries recording Rhoda McWhannell's daily appointments and her observations on the weather, dated 1964-1986. Also includes 62 journals containing more detailed comments on McWhannell's activities and current news from 1938-1986, interspersed with cartoons, clippings, quotations, stamps, photographs, and other items. Also includes four journals recording trips to Italy, the United Kingdom, and South Africa; two books of quotations and extracts; a folder of newspaper clippings, cartoons, a greeting card and a photograph; and a parcel of thirteen letters to Mr and Mrs Butler from McWhannell and others. Also includes 31 photograph albums, loose photographs, transparencies and negatives taken by Rhoda and Frederick McWhannell and others from circa 1890s to 1980s. Includes photographs relating to the McWhannell's homestead 'Rozel' and their eucalyptus nursery; forestry and farming at Ōhaupō; the McWhannell and McCurdie families; the World Wars; and more. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 3 box(es) of transparencies. 31 album(s). 72 colour original negative(s). 91 volume(s) comprising 68 journals and 23 diaries. 1309 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The requirement for the Chief Librarian to give permission to access to this collection was removed on 1 June 2022. The original reference number assigned to the collection, 87-052, was changed to ATL-Group-00730 in June 2022. The photographic component, formerly PA-Group-00780, was incorporated into ATL-Group-00730 in August 2022 during further re-processing of the collection.