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Date: [Circa 1930s]

From: Taylor, Jill fl 1984 :Photographs relating to Alice Brown, Wellington sports teams, Wellington's Queen Carnival and Red Cross Transport

Reference: PA1-o-490

Description: Snapshots of family and friends relating to Alice Brown. The only images with captions are small postcards Includes envelope inside front cover containing three loose photographs Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled The "Cambrian" Album; 19.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: [ca 1938]

From: Junge, Norman Earl, 1916-1989 :Negatives and photographs of Reefton and Inangahua districts

Reference: 1/4-022988-F

Description: Men in bathing suits, Inangahua River region, circa 1938. From left: George Dollan, unknown, Garth Richards, and Frank Buckingham. Photograph taken by Norman E Junge, circa 1938. Note on back of file print reads "Swimmers from Inangahua River, Reefton..." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1934 - 1935

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to lifesaving, surf life-saving, including programmes of the New Zealand Surf Life Saving Association. 1935-1939]

Reference: Eph-A-LIFESAVING-1935-01-3

Description: Shows back view of four women standing in bathing costumes and white high heeled shoes. Extended Title - From N.Z. Surf Life-saving Association Championship carnival, Fitzroy Beach, New Plymouth .. official programme ... 1935. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) in programme.. Physical Description: Photolithograph 213 x 140 mm.

Date: [ca 1901-1930s]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6865

Description: 18 negatives of various scenes. Five are of the fire on Mein Street, Newtown in 1901 which show the chimneys left standing, police at the scene and people's belongings piled up in the nearby town belt; three are of a procession in Wellington; two are of a war memorial; two are of a car; two are of a coal mining railway through the bush probably on the West Coast; one is of a woman in a bathing suit about to dive off a yacht with others on board; one if of Panckhurst & Co Drapery Emporium next to the main post office in Westport; one is of a bridge; and one of a crane towed by a steam locomotive probably next to the Hutt Road. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-032163 to 032180 Quantity: 18 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [1934-1935?]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-052

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. The only identifying information is a few pencilled notes giving some locations, but there are no captions identifying people. There is a large sequence showing events surrounding the first celebrations marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6th February 1934 attended by Lord Bledisloe. He had purchased the site, and donated money for the Treaty House renovations in 1932. The celebrations brought 10,000 Maori to Waitangi. The images show huge crowds, haka parties, various iwi performing, and parties of dignitaries including Lord and Lady Bledisloe, Joseph Gordon Coates and George William Forbes. Other scenes with Lord Bledisloe show him visiting the Waitaki Hydroelectric power station. Views of New Zealand include Government Tourist Bureau accomodation houses including those at Waitomo and the Hermitage (Mt. Cook); accomodation houses at Helensville and Parakai with interior and exterior views, and showing activities available (spa pools, games such as croquet, golf, and bowls); anglers standing by swordfish they have caught; skiing and ski lessons; and waterfalls. Industrial and agricultural views show dairy cows, citrus groves, the Kiwi Bacon Factory, printing presses, and race courses. A number show people at the beach at Mount Maunganui, and a large group picniking. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B3'; 40 x 58 cm

Date: 1934-1936

From: National Council of Young Men's Associations of New Zealand: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-721

Description: Two YMCA holiday tours of the North and South Islands in the mid 1930s. In particular there are some good interiors of the Waitaki power station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1938-ca 1945

By: Robinson, Marian Grace, 1931-2002

Reference: PA1-o-839

Description: Shows Somes Island during period James Kennedy Weir was caretaker for Department of Agriculture. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The donor of this album, Marian Grace Robinson, and its compiler, Susan Isabella Millwood, were daughters of James Kennedy Weir who was the Department of Agriculture's caretaker on Somes Island, Wellington Harbour, during the 1930s/1940s.

Date: [1930s]

By: MacKay, Horatio Murdoch, 1886-1968; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-305

Description: Album created with aviation pioneer Horatio Murdoch MacKay. Photographs include several in which MacKay was the first man to fly across the Tasman as a passenger, making the flight with Charles Kingsford Smith. One sequence shows Boeing biplane (purchased by New Zealand Airways Ltd in 1934), shipped from Vancouver and assembed in New Zealand, and the first landing at Green Island `Aerodrome'. A number of views of different aeroplanes, both monoplanes and biplanes follows. There are a large number of postcards of Launceston, Jenolan Caves, and Ballarat in Australia, and caves in the Waitomo area of New Zealand. Photographs of a group travelling on a South Island tour by White Star Taxis, a company which MacKay established, including views of the first hotel at Wanaka `The White Star Private Hotel'. One scene shows one of the taxis after an accident. Other scenes show a group skiing, a group at the summit of the Crown Range, and a large group on a motor launch. The last sequence is chiefly family photographs, including several houses, and two different wedding parties; several portraits, possibly of Horatio MacKay's wife Helen Emma (nee Griffiths). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue and brown patterned cover, entitled `Snapshots'; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1930-1939

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-12

Description: Airplanes associated with the Wellington Aero Club including photos taken during a flight over Wellington, also the flying boat "Centaurus". Nightingall family and friends. People on beaches. A grave covered with wreaths. New Zealand and other boxers. The clock tower at Blenheim. The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongotai, Wellington. The flax industry and coastal landscape views Quantity: 104 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1932

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 22. [1932].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932-523

Description: Shows range of women's bathing suits, all-wool bathing costumes, "Maclone Speedo" bathing costumes, ladies' beach scarves and rubber bathing caps. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 22. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 300 x 210 mm.

Date: 1928 - 1932

From: [Ephemera relating to tourism and the Lake Waikaremoana area as a tourist destination. 1900-1999]

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department; Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; Hutcheson Bowman & Johnson Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikaremoana-ca1930-02

Description: Shows a view of lake from old hotel site, showing cliffs of Panekiri Range in left distance. In the foreground, a man is seated at left, and a woman stands leaning against a cabbage-tree trunk. Both are wearing bathing costumes. The illustration is signed L C Mitchell at lower right. The pamphlet is identical to that at Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikaremoana-ca1930-01, except that amongst the list of branch offices for the NZ Government Tourist Department, the Wellington branch is not listed. May be slightly earlier that the pamphlet at Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikaremoana-ca1930-01. Extended Title - Hutcheson, Bowman & Johnson Ltd, Printers, Wellington. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on brochure cover.. Physical Description: Photolithograph 240 x 105 mm, on cover of brochure.

Date: 1935

From: [Ephemera, flyers, booklets and pamphlets, relating to carnivals and fetes. 1900s]

By: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978; Wright & Carman Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-CARNIVAL-1935-01

Description: Sets out the conditions of the contest, in which each contestant was required to wear a "Petone" swimsuit, with the Wellington Woollen Company's name-tab attached. The first prize was a trip to Milford Sound or a cash prize of 10 pounds stirling. Verso displays an advertisement for Nash's Leather Arcade in Cuba street Wellington, sellington "Wellington's smartest handbags"; five handbags are illustrated. Evening Post, 6 January 1936, Page 14 reports that the winner of the contest was Miss Ivy Parrott, with 6453 votes. The runner up was Miss Matheson with 4605 votes. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress, 281 x 217 mm.

Date: between 1939-1940

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 4

Reference: PAColl-5744-08

Description: Maranui Surf Club Team for the Centennial Rescue Cup, 1939-40 season. Shows P R Malthus, D K Evans, E A Raven, F A J Pennington, J T Clark and J E Hatchwell. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: February 1937

From: Maranui Surf Life Saving Club :Photographs

Reference: PA1-f-147-14-3

Description: Members of Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club compete in the final of the beltman's championship during the New Zealand Championships held at Lyall Bay, Wellington. Photograph taken February 1937 by an unidentified photographer, possibly The Evening Post. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 16. Even then they called it "Boadicea, modern style"!. Taylor's Mistake getting away in the beltman's final of the N.Z. Championships at Lyall Bay, Feb 20, 1937. They placed second. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.6 x 20.7 cm, mounted on album page

Date: 1935

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1935-01

Description: Shows a frontal picture of a laughing young woman waterskier. The crowded beach and town of Timaru are in the background. Dated from the same image that appears on the cover of a brochure, dated approximately 1935 (at Eph-A-TOURISM-Canterbury-1935). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 880 x 578 mm.

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-099948-G

Description: Woman and girl, in bathing costume, above the beach at Worser Bay, Wellington, circa 1930s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1930 - 1937

From: New Zealand Government Tourist and Publicity Department :New Zealand. [ca 1935].

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1935-04-cover

Description: Shows scene looking through columns towards the children's swimming pool in the Blue Baths, Rotorua. (identified from similar photograph inside booklet). A woman in a black bathing suit stands in profile at right, while sunlit figure in red bathing suit stands by pool ladder-steps. This image also appeared on a "poster stamp" issued by the New Zealand Government Tourist and Publicity Department (see booklet of stamps at Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1930s). Booklet used by visitor to New Zealand in 1937/38, therefore dated no later than this. Other Titles - Booklet cover Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - L C Mitchell Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph 213 x 134 mm.

Date: [ca1930]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Municipal-Towns, Wellington and Suburbs-Lyall Bay-01

Description: Demonstration in life saving, Lyall Bay Beach, Wellington, New Zealand. Three men stand at attention while a fourth gives first aid to an injured swimmer on the sand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1930. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.6 x 15.4 cm, on cardboard mount 24 x 17.6 cm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustation files at Wellington suburbs-Lyall Bay (Cabinet no 12, drawer 1).

Date: 1939 - 1942

By: Nelson Provincial Progress League

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Nelson-1940-01-cover

Description: The text title is at top and bottom, and the picture shows a young woman in a bathing suit, holding up a towel in the wind so that it flies out behind her. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of pamphlet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 218 x 94 mm.

Date: [ca 1935]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 8

Reference: PAColl-6075-09

Description: Scene at the Blue Baths in Rotorua, circa 1935, showing the pool, and three women in bathing suits. The woman in the centre is Olga Loudon. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).