Places

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: [Circa 1929-1939]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)

Reference: PA1-o-112

Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm

Date: [ca 1938]

Reference: PAColl-9182

Description: Photographs of the passenger liner 'Empress of Britain' in Auckland Harbour, taken ca 1938 by an unknown photographer Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 193? - 1937

By: Withiel-Thomas, Arthur, active 1935-1937?; Shand, Jocelyn, active 1990s?

Reference: PAColl-3265

Description: Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1937, 1940-1942

By: Becker, Thelma, active 1942

Reference: PAColl-10214

Description: Photographs taken around New Zealand between 1937 and 1942 by Thelma Becker. They include images of buildings, scenery and landmarks. Usually dates and places are annotated on the reverse of the photograph. Sometimes people are shown but not identified. Contains images of Rotorua and surrounding area, including: inside and outside of Maori Church at Ohinemutu, Maori carving, a memorial to Queen Victoria, Te Wairoa Falls, Huka Falls, Mount Tarawera, Blue Baths, Government sanatorium and baths, sites of thermal activity, Post Office and Town Hall, Hongi's Track and a Desoutter ZK-ACJ sightseeing plane on the ground. Also contains buildings and monuments in Wellington, including: Government Buildings, Parliament, Wellington Railway Station, Wellington Public Library, Centennial Memorial (Petone), Massey Memorial (Miramar) and National War Memorial (Buckle St), Carillion and New Zealand Dominion Museum. As well as a view of Mount Victoria. Four images show buildings damaged by the Wellington earthquake of 12.34am, 2 August 1942. The buildings are houses on: Ellice Ave in Mt Victoria, the corner of Ghuznee and Willis Streets, Barker Street (off Cambridge Terrace) as well as the Levin and Company building on Jervois Quay. Images of Hawkes Bay Region include: the Parade and a church in Napier, Te Mata Peak (Havelock North) and National Tobacco Company Ltd building (Port Ahuriri) Also contains images from Christchurch including: central Christchurch street views, beach views at Sumner and New Brighton, Sign of the Takahe building, Victoria Square, and Christchurch Cathedral and Square and War Memorial. Also War Memorial and Britomart Monument at Akaroa and two images pasted together to make a panorama of Akaroa Harbour. Also images from Auckland including: of amphibian landing at Stanley Park, air raid shelter at Albert Park, the Railway Station and of Queen street. There is a single image of the 'Empress of Britain' ship leaving Auckland in 1937 Images of Timaru including: the Parade, Caroline Bay, the band shell and some modern flats overlooking the Parade. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 71 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donor is the cousin of Ms Thelma Becker. The prints were originally in an album belonging to Ms Becker, personal secretary of Prime Minister Peter Fraser during the second world war. They were removed from the album by the donor.

Date: 1937-1940

From: Kelly, Raymond Alwyn, 1917-1998 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1634

Description: Album relating to radio stations (2YA and ZLW), radio engineers, embarkation of troops, ships, Byrd's Antarctic Expedition, Bonds and Prestiege employee tournment, textile workers, textile machinery, construction of Bonds factory additions, motion picture theatres, Hutt railway workshops, funeral of Prime Minister Michal Savage. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album 19.5 x 28 cm

Date: 1938

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-10061-G

Description: Photograph taken by Leo White Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [late 1930s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-100711-G

Description: Oriental Bay and Oriental Parade, Wellington, late 1930s, photographed by William Hall Raine. The ship is probably the Empress of Britain. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative