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Date: 1890-1956

From: Davis, Bruce Valentine, 1913-2003 :Photographs and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3480

Description: Photographs relating to the Davis family of Barton St. David, Somerset, England. All seven sons emigrated to New Zealand ca 1904. The photographs include views in England and on active service in South Africa, China (1908) and postcards of Belgium and France acquired by the brothers on active service in World War One. Also views of Royal naval vessels associated with Frederick Edward Davis and a British police group associated with Harry Davis Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). 34 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1896-1959]

From: Pharazyn family: Photographs from the papers of Noel Pharazyn and his sister Eleanor

Reference: PAColl-10031-3

Description: Includes:- Portraits of Noel Pharazyn as an 18 month old child, ca 1896. Unidentified woman in oriental fancy dress, ca 1920. Group photograph of unidentified schoolboys and teachers, ca 1908. Three photographs of (probably) soldiers of the Royal Field Artillery excercising with field guns, ca 1914. Group photograph of (probably) soldiers of the Royal Field Artillery, World War One. Noel Pharazyn, a boy on a tricycle, ca 1898. Group, including Noel Pharazyn standing and seated in the countryside, ca 1928. Group of three unidentified women outside a house, ca 1938. Noel Pharazyn, Walter Nash, Mrs Nash, and a group of unidentified men, Hawaii, ca 1945. Photographs of (probably) Eleanor Pharazyn on holiday among classical ruins and in London, 1950s. Groups of unidentified women and children waving tricolor Flags (possisbly France), 1950s. Portrait of Colonel Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji at the time that he was a military attache in Washington, 1945-1946. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1970-1980]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 85-080-10/11

Description: Also includes brochures relating to ACC and self-employment Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1870s to 1880s?]

From: Creator unknown :Grand tour photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-130

Description: Travel photographs, prints mostly commercial albumen prints, including black and white copies of paintings. Most views from England (including the fortified manor house Hutton John) and Europe (particularly Switzerland); some images from the Suez Canal in 1870; Akola in India. A number show scenes in New Zealand, at Taumata, and the Whanganui and Mangawhero Rivers. Photographers are not identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather binding, 42 x 36 cm

Date: Oct 2007

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSY-6677

Description: Family history of the Spencer and Saunders families. Part 1 - Henry Gordon Spence, his military service during WW1 and letters he wrote home from Featherston Military Camp, England and France, marriage to Gladys Emily Collins, their family and descendants. Family names added to name field. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [ca 1885]-1899

From: Creator unknown :Photograph album, and further photographs, of images chiefly taken in New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-9912

Description: Group of nine loose album pages include - Views of European cities, one a triumphal arch at Marsailles, France. Families in New Zealand photographed outside houses. Views of Auckland. Native forest with displays of tree ferns, a nikau palm and freycinetia. Auckland Harbour, yachts, ships and an explosion. Scenes from the North Shore Native Regatta and Aquatic Carnival held from 28 December 1898 to 3 January 1899 in conjunction with the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition of 1898/99. Included are - Maori dances including haka. Group diving and swimming. General view of the audience. The manuka and raupo houses built by the Maori visitors. A war canoe that took part in the canoe races. Some groups of Maori visitors. Carved house at Te Kuiti photographed by Josiah Martin some time in the 1880s. Tourists and Maori at Whakrewarewa in the 1890s. Studio portrait of a Maori woman in traditional costume, ca 1890s. The North Shore Native Regatta and Aquatic Carnival was an event held in conjuction with the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition of 1898/99. Included large contingents of Māori from the East Coast and Rotorua. As well as canoe races and other sports, there were dance and singing performances by Māori, and the construction of six living whare from manuka and raupo. Also included was the Inter-Colonial Yatching Championship that included yachts brought over from Sydney. The event opened on 28 December 1898 and closed 3 January 1899. The conclusion of the aquatic events was the blowing up of the steamer 'Enterprise' off Cheltenham Beach. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1821-1847

From: Matson family : Papers

Reference: MSX-7158

Description: Diary kept by Matson from 1822 to 1847, with some earlier notes of rates of pay and foreign service covering 1821-1822. He writes of his impressions of France, America, Ireland, Jamaica, Tasmania and Kororareka, beginning in 1822 and ending in 1847. Arrangement: Loose papers from the diary at MS-Papers-8175-02 Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1871-1930

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2009

Description: Letters of Eunice, Tichborne and Robert Upton, together with other papers concerning the family, and a diary of Arthur Begbie. Includes letter by WWC Karslake to Rev Upton, 14 Jan 1870, in which he gives a brief description of the voyage to Lyttelton on the `Zealandia' in Aug-Nov 1869. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1870-1979]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-9

Description: Photographs relating to books by Michael King. These books include - 'New Zealanders at War', published by Heinman, Auckland, 1981. 'The Collector: a biography of Andreas Reischek'. 'Whina: a biography of Whina Cooper'. 'Moriori" a history of the Moriori of the Chatham Islands'. Also views of Menton, France taken in 1971 for "Country Life." Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 2 photocopy/ies.