Places

Date: 1916-1917

By: Grant, Elsa Gladys, 1891-1981; Kinsella, Alison, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1211

Description: Album of photographs taken by Percy James William Simmons of the 15th Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1916-1917. Includes scenes on the troop ship 'Ulimaroa' en route to Plymouth, Sling Camp and surrounding villages, Messines, and London and Edinburgh on leave. Percy Simmons, son of Edgar and Harriet Simmons of Taumarunui, was engaged to Elsa Bass, a teacher. He sent the photographs to her until his death in action in France, on 8 October 1918, aged 29 years. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth covered album 14.6 x 18.5 containing 67 photographs Provenance: Elsa Bass was the mother of the donor.

Date: [Circa 1850s-1900s?]

From: Parker, Robert, 1847-1937 :Cachemaille albums. Scenic views of India, England, New Zealand and Europe

By: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898

Reference: PA1-f-016

Description: Scenic views of various countries, including India, England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and New Zealand. The New Zealand images are chiefly in the Christchurch region. Many of the English and European images were photographed by English photographer Francis Frith as part of Frith's Series. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album, black cover embossed with gold initials "R.P.", 32 x 38 cm

Date: Jan 1917-Feb 1919

From: Olsson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7899-2

Description: Letters from Olsson while on active service during World War One to his family in New Zealand, first from Featherston and Trentham, then en route to England, Sling, London, France and Belgium, and England while he was in hospital. While not being specific about where he was he describes the daily life of a soldier, where and how they were living, such as billets, some war events and also mentioned items such as letters and postcards he was sending to his family to keep for him when he returned. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1914

From: [Programmes for ballet and dance performances in New Zealand. 1910-1919]

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-1914-03

Description: Programme booklet for a dance recital contains photographs of King Albert in military uniform, and a group of (probably Belgian) children standing in fur coats. The programme lists tableaux and dances. Tableaux include "Belgium" (Mona Mackay), "The Allies" (with women representing England (Miss M Miller), France (Miss Woodham), Russia (Miss Lewis), Servia (Miss E Miller), Japan (Miss Hipkins), and Belgium (Miss Mona Mackay). The dance pupils are all listed with the items they performed. Other variety perfomers were Mr J W Ryan, Mr Alan McElwain, Mr F G Bourke. The programme contains advertisements for many Auckland businesses. There is also a cartoon "Bravo! Belgium" by F H Townsend showing brave Belgium protecting a field from a fierce German soldier carrying sausages and a big stick. Quantity: 1 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 248 x 189 mm.

Date: 1909-1937

By: Karauti, Horopapera, 1878-1932

Reference: MS-Group-1447

Description: Includes letters to his wife from the war, in both English and Maori, ephemera collected overseas, training diary, other papers relating to the war, photographs from the war and earlier (some relating to Te Aute College), other material. Karauti left New Zealand as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 4th Maori Contingent in May 1916 and served with the New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion in France Quantity: 45 folder(s). 7 volume(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs M Lomas, Wellington, November 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Photographic Archive - 1 box of photographs (PAColl-8921) - To Book Collections - 1 box of various publications (PR-06-0099, PR-06-0100) - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Sketches of soldiers and `Jeannette' (A222-014/021) - To Cartographic Collection - World War One trench maps.

Date: [ca 1917-1923]

By: Norman, P C, active 20th century

Reference: PAColl-4580

Description: Comprises: two photographs of the east side of Hutt Valley looking north; a view overlooking Johnsonville, Wellington showing the railway station in the centre; one of Petone, Hutt Valley, Wellington, from Korokoro; one of Titahi Bay beach; Eight Australian Official photographs taken during World War I in France, Belgium, and (Lamebeke?). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1915

From: [Programmes and other ephemera for athletics meetings and sports clubs. 1900-1969]

By: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Canterbury Centre; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Henderson, Andrew Kennaway, 1879-1960; Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974; Cumberworth, Frederick Herbert, 1881-

Reference: Eph-B-ATHLETICS-1915-01

Description: Programme for an athletics meeting held to raise funds for Belgian civilans suffering during the first World War. As well as the programme, there are cartoons and caricatures by Kennaway, F H Cumberworth, Booth and Baverstock. There are satirical pieces and verse by Cyrano, A.E.M., and anonymous contributors. The programme contains advertisements for W Strange & Company (furnishers) and the Evening News. Other Titles - We ask your help Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) and offset text in booklet.. Physical Description: Booklet of 39 pages, each 278 x 217 mm.

Date: 1916

From: [Ephemera relating to patriotism, fundraising for the war effort, during World War I. 1914-1918. Folder 1]

By: Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1916-01

Description: Booklet listing all 237 lots for sale at a patriotic auction of bottles, and describing the process of collecting the bottles, which will be ground down for the war effort. Bottles for the following products were included: whisky, wine and claret, Hayward's pickle, coffee essences, sauces, Koefoed sauce, honey bottles, jelly jars, flasks, vingar bottles, ink bottles, Bennett's Carbonated waters, Lane's Carbonated waters, Thomson's carbonated waters, meat paste and tongue containers, Lane's, West's and Sharpe's 1-gallon screw-top jars, Nileson Vickers 1-gallon jars, Campbell and List's, Briggs's, K&P, Cinese earthernware bottles, stone curacao and stone gins pots, blue poisons, beef and iron wine, malt extracts, Mellin's Food, Humanised Milk, Essences, Round-shouldered limes, Direct Squares, Lane's Emulsion, United Friendly Societies' Dispensary, F Wilkinson, J Waters, R Scofield, J Neill Ltd, U L Gallien, C V Inglis, H Bagley and Son, H W R Outram, N Dodds, A M Hendy, R Conn, J R Hayne, W Elder, W U Donnelly, champagne, stone ginger beer, infant feeding bottles ("Shirkers"), 10-gallon acid glass carboys. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages each 182 x 123 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.

Date: [Between 1916 and 1919]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-o-425

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Leslie Bowden Quartermain during his time in the New Zealand Medical Corps, World War I. Most of the men photographed are named only with Christian names, surnames or nicknames. The first sequence shows various military camps, including the training depot set up at the Awapuni Racecourse for the Medical Corps. There they were trained in specialist medical work, and also in basic infantry training and discipline. The following sequences were taken en route to Europe, with stops at Fremantle, Durban, Cape Town, and Dakar. The arrival in England gives views in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire where the men were quartered before travelling to France. Two show the village of Lewknor, the ancestral home of the Quartermain family; and several show the royal review of Australian and New Zealand troops on Salisbury Plain. Other views were taken on leave from France; and with the army of occupation in Cologne, before the voyage home on the ship Kia Ora, through the Panama Canal. The final photograph is a group portrait with Leslie Bowden Quartermain in military uniform seated in the middle of a large group, probably Quartermain family, taken in 1919. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled "Photographs"; 21.5 x 17.5 cm

Date: [ca 1910-1940]

From: Morriss, Bernadette, fl 2014: Items relating to members of her family

Reference: PAColl-10218-2

Description: Items, chiefly photographs relating to Tod Hennessy and his service in World War I, taken circa 1890 to circa 1940s by a range of photographers. Also includes portraits of Hennessy in uniform, family photographs, and hand-embroidered silk postcards from Belgium written to his mother, Mary Eleanor Hennessy (nee Boyle) in Gisborne during World War I from 1917-1919, and later postcards from the 1930s and 1940s. Handcoloured print of two children and a dog shows Tod Hennessy's brother, Desmond, and sister Patracia. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s) including 1 hand-coloured print. 4 non-photographic postcards including 3 with embroidered fabric decoration. 1 Christmas card. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, Silk-embroidered postcards