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Date: [ca 1970-1971]

By: Wickham, David, active 1968-1995

Reference: PAColl-4944

Description: Probably press photographs from either the Auckland Herald or Star. Other Titles - Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints 20.3 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1940 - 1943

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Auckland Racing Club

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1940/1943

Description: Includes: 1940: Auckland Racing Club. Programmes for season 1940-1941 (Programmes combined in one booklet) 1940: Woodville District Jockey Club. Summer meeting 1940, 7 and 9 December. Complimentary ticket (Yellow ticket) 1941: Auckland Racing Club. programmes for spring & mid-spring meetings 1941 (Programmes combined in one booklet) 1941: Foxton Racing Club. Winter meeting, Levin Racecourse, 24 May 1941. Lady's ticket (Yellow ticket) 1941: New Zealand sporting diary, October 1941 to July 1942. [Booklet] (2 copies one with spine tube that holds a pencil) 1941: Wellington Racing Club. Summer meeting, 16, 18 and 23 January 1941. [Combined] programme 1942: Auckland Racing Club. Winter meeting (Great Northern Steeplechase), 30 May & 6 June 1942. Programme 1942: Heliopolis Racing Club. [Heliopolis, Egypt]. Race card 15 February 1942. Part 2 Quantity: 9 items. Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm.

Date: 1920, 1944-1997

By: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006

Reference: MS-Group-2284

Description: The collection comprises four folders on Robert Martin's career as a post office employee and telegraphist, while the rest consists of papers, scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings relating to his military service during World War II in North Africa, Italy, and the Solomon Islands with the Field Ambulance service of the New Zealand Medical Corps. Correspondence with his brother, Martin, and his sister, Valerie, are included, as is correspondence with two of his comrades in the Field Ambulance. Also included is a typed translation of a Japanese diary which he acquired during the Solomon Islands campaign, probably on Mono in the Treasury Islands, and a typed copy of the diary and other papers of his friend, Colin John Arroll, who also served with the Field Ambulance. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: Reflecting the circumstances of their accessioning, the collection is divided into three series. Quantity: 19 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs Finding Aids: A descriptive list compiled by the donor of the contents of the second accession (A2014-183) may be found in the backfiles held in the Reference Section of the Alexander Turnbull Library.. Provenance: Donated in two lots by Mrs Janet Hannan, Wanaka, during 2014. The first donation consisted of Robert Martin's civilian career as a telegraphist for the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department, and the second his photographs, correspondence and diaries from his military service in World War II. His friend, John Colin Arroll, who also served with the Field Ambulance, sent Robert Martin a copy of his diary, reminiscences and other papers. Donor is Robert Martin's daughter. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00859 - To Photographic Archive - Albums and other photographs - Photograph albums transferred to Photographic Archive..

Date: [ca1914]-1954

From: Featherstone, Paul, fl 2006 :Photographs of World War I soldiers and the Royal Tour 1953-1954

Reference: PAColl-8952-1

Description: New Zealand soldiers, World War One. Unloading oysters, Bluff. Royal tour decorations and the Queen on the wharf, Bluff. Woburn, Lower Hutt, from the air. Mrs Elinor Roosevelt at the Ford Motor Co, Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Souvenier photographs of Auckland and Invercargill. Postcard view of the Centennial Exhibition, Rongatai, Wellington, 1939-1940. Unidentified stone church, Queenstown. Unidentified wrecked ship. Unidentified suburban houses. World War Two army encampment. Japanese Commander signing surrender after the fall of Singapore to the Allies. Lord Louis Mountbatten speaking in Singapore. Building belonging to S.Ward (NZ) Ltd. Clock tower, Sumner, Christchurch. Views of Picton. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s) 21 prints on 5 album pages.

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000184-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials entering Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered to watch. R & W Hellaby's butchery shop can be seen on the left and the Chief Post Office is on the right of the entrance way. Above the shops on the lefthand side a building is under construction. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1251A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000183-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials marching down Queen Street toward the Queen Street Railway Station entrance on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered outside the General Post Office to watch. Two tram cars can be seen amongst the crowd. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1252A Relationship complexity - An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000182 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000182-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials marching down Queen Street toward the Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered outside the General Post Office to watch. A J J Craig Ltd cart and two tram cars can be seen amongst the crowd. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1253A Relationship complexity - An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000183 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to ANZAC events in New Zealand and overseas, as anniversaries of the landing at Anzac Cove]

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ANZAC-1918-01

Description: Programme front cover includes the crest of the Returned Soldiers' Association, quotations from poems by Robert Burns and Laurence Housman, and an illustration of a soldier lying on his front in a field. The back cover remembers "New Zealand's heroic troops who took part in the Landing on Turkish soil at Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915" and gives a quotation from a speech by the Dean of Westminster on the Anzacs. The inside spread has the words "Maoriland's welcome to her soldier boys, and the programme of the smoke concert with performers including Maughan Barnett (city organist), J H Gunson (Auckland mayor), Ernest Drake (songs), Mr Adams (xylophone solos), an address by Rt Rev Bishop Cleary, J Wallace Atkinson (songs), toasts by W B Leyland and W A Beddoe. The whole programme is covered inside and out with autographs in pencil. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and holographs on folded programme, 242 x 100 mm.

Date: [ca 1890s-1960s]

From: McGregor family : Photographs

By: Auckland star (Newspaper); Filmograph Company (Christchurch, N.Z.); Pattillo, Cecil Wright, 1875-1968

Reference: PAColl-10145-2

Description: Photographic prints, possibly relating to the McGregor family, of a range of subjects, mainly taken ca 1940s. Portraits include three photographs of twins at different stages of childhood, ca 1890s, two World War I era portraits (one of a woman, the other of a man in uniform), and portraits from the 1940s. Also contains an image of a family group, possible with W H Brown at the centre, and an image of an elderly man, possibly of W H Brown, holding his military discharge papers. World War II photographs include soldiers in uniform, Royal New Zealand Air Force base in the New Hebrides (later Vanuatu) and scenic island images, and an unidentified RNZAF sports team from the base. Individuals are identified on the rear of two group images. Two further photographs, one of a crowd during a ceremony and the other of men in a dining hall, have the name J McGregor on the rear of the print. Various images from the 1940s include a carpentry class group portrait, the Air Force massed band, a pipe band in Dunedin, the T S S Ernslaw on Lake Wakatipu, an Auckland Wharf scene, a thermal are behind the Regent Theatre [model of pink and white terraces?], and the Tongariro Chateau. Named photographers include the Auckland Star, The Filmograph Company (Christchurch), Cecil Pattillo, and [Midde Studio?] (Wellington) Quantity: 36 b&w original photographic print(s) with 38 images. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 19 Aug 1940]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970

Reference: PAColl-8983-35

Description: World War II troops marching past the saluting base outside the Auckland Town Hall, circa 19 August 1940, photographed by A W Powell. Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.7 x 21.7 cm