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Photographs from the Johnston and Blundell family albums
Date: 1905-1935
From: Ball, Jennifer, active 2003:Photographs relating to the Johnston and Bell families
Reference: PAColl-7815
Description: Photographs of Homewood, Karori, Wellington, and of Charles John Johnston, his family and their friends. There are also a number of images relating to Wanganui Collegiate School where C J Johnston's younest son, Octavius, went to school about 1906. Most of these are group photographs of the pupils, the school cadets and sports teams. Two show a rugby match between the Wanganui Collegiate first 15 and the Old Boys played during the Easter break, 1906. The photographs date from 1905 to 1908. The second album records the wedding of Caroline Margaret Featherston Johnston to Percy Warwick Blundell of the Evening Post (Wellington) newspaper family. This took place at "Taumaru", Lowry Bay, the home of Caroline Johnston's grandparents, Sir Francis and Lady Bell. The sequence of images shows the progress of the wedding from the bride and her father, Justice Harold Johnston, leaving the house to the guests at the reception. It provides a detailed view of that vanished institution; the "society wedding". The wedding took place on the 2nd of February 1935. Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 54 photocopy/ies.
Inspection of Gisborne voluteer soldiers by Major General Godley
Date: 3 June 1911
From: Evans, Charles Hellier Davis, 1873-1956 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-221-4
Description: Inspection of volunteer soldiers by General Godley, Gisborne, 3 June 1911. Major General Godley presents the Troop Efficiency Cup to Lieutenant Hamilton (Gisborne troop). Photographed by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Presentation of Troop efficency Cup to Lieut Hamilton (Gisborne Troop) by Major General Godley. 3 June 1911. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.8 x 15.2 cm, on album page
9th Mounted Rifles Tutira Camp - Photograph taken by Charles Sorrell
Date: May 1912
From: Evans, Charles Hellier Davis, 1873-1956 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-221-28-1
Description: Governor General Lord Islington (as honorary Colonel), General Godley, and Colonel Sandtmann with their staffs, watching manoevers at the 9th Mounted Rifles Tutira Camp, May 1912. Photographed by Charles Sorrell. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - His Excellency Honorary Colonel Lord Islington, General Godley, and Colonel Sandtmann with their staffs watching monoevers at Tutira Camp May 1912. Sorrell Photo Napier. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.6 x 14 cm, on album page