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Date: 9 December 1934, January 1937

From: Salmon, Albert Armitage, 1899-1982: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-10262-3

Description: Mounted images with annotations from Albert Armitage Salmon's 1936-1937 trip to New Zealand. The images follow the route of Salmon and his companions' travels tramping and travelling from Franz Josepf Glacier to various locations in the North Island. Photographs taken by Salmon. - The photographs show aerial images of the South Island including Franz Josef Glacier and snowfields, Fox Glacier and nearby mountains and bush, and a series of images of Bert Salmon and Mary Hansen on the ice at Fox Glacier. Also includes views of Fox River, the Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki, Buller Gorge, a suspension bridge over the Buller River, and farmland near Nelson. - Photographs of the North Island show Chateau Tongariro and Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park, views of Mount Ngauruhoe, including a copy of a photograph of the eruption of Ngauruhoe on 9 December 1934, and group portraits of Irene Booth, Mary Hansen, Eric Keehn, and Reg Booth playing in the snow on Mount Ruapehu. - Other images show views of the Waikato River at Huka Falls, the Aratiatia Rapids, and geothermal activity around Taupo and Rotorua. Images show geysers and mud pools at Wairakei, the Lady Knox Geyser erupting at Waiotapu, the exterior of the Rotorua bathhouse, and views of Whakarewarewa, including hot pools, thermal springs, boiling mud, and steam. One image shows a pataka (store house) at Whakarewarewa and local Maori women washing clothing outdoors in a hot pool. Another photograph shows Maori children bathing. Also includes photographs of the Arapuni Dam and an image of glow worms hanging from the roof of Waitomo Caves. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s) on mounts. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1920s]

From: Searell, Pamela :Photographs owned by Miss Ruby Victoria Jackson

By: Jackson, Ruby Victoria, 1888-1980; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-459

Description: Snapshots of family and friends associated with Ruby Victoria Jackson, taken by unidentified photographers. Many of the people shown are unidentified, or only identified with Christian names. Many of the images relate to sheep stations won by three Jackson brothers in the soldiers' ballot after the first World War, 1914-1918. They owned Netherwood (originally by a Johnson who married a Jackson), Te Arowhenua and Berridale in the Waihopai Valley; also Leatham and The Branch Station on the Branch River. Other sections of the album relate to holidays, including trips to the West Coast, and to the North Island. Several views of Wellington are night scenes. The funeral ceremonies for Miss Jackson's father, Walter James Jackson, are shown in a number of photographs; and the last sequence shows Chinese friends probably associated with Miss Jackson's links with the Chinese Anglican Mission; and the visit of Dr Toyohiko Kagawa to New Zealand in 1935. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cloth cover, entitled "The Lambton album" (with R.V. Jackson in ink over the title); 22.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: March 1934

From: Wellington Historical and Early Settlers Association :Photographs

Reference: PA9-073

Description: Photograph of Lord and Lady Bledisloe with a group outside a meeting house at Whakarewarewa, taken March 1934 by an unidentified photographer. Mita Taupopoki is standing in between Lord and Lady Bledisloe. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Bledisloe March 1934; Backing board recto - top centre - 15. The Early Settlers & Historical Association of Wellington (Inc); Backing board recto - centre - Lord & Lady Bledisloe March 1934? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.6 x 21.8 cm, on mount, in frame 29.5 x 34.6 cm

Date: [1930-1934]

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958

Reference: PA1-f-015

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific taken 1930-1934 by Lord Bledisloe, comprising views of Government House (Wellington), Queen Charlotte Sound, Treaty House (Waitangi), Kawau Island, Whanganui River, Pipiriki,Jerusalem, Galatea, Ranana, Ruatahuna, Whakarewarewa, North Cape, Deep Creek (Nelson), Lake Waikaremoana, Mt Ngauruhoe, Lake Rotoroa (Nelson), Franz Joseph Glacier and environs, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, and Tongatapu. Also included are portraits of Mita Taupopoki, Honi Te Heu Heu, Guide Rangi, and Lord & Lady Bledisloe; a Cutty Sark seaplane of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the interior of a Ringatu meeting house at Ruatahuna, Maori groups, swordfish and trout fishing, and a scheelite mine at Deep Creek. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The album was presented by Lord Bledisloe to the Duke of Gloucester in Christmas 1934, during his visit to New Zealand.

Date: 1934

Reference: PA1-o-832

Description: An eclectic collection of images from more than one holiday including views of Port Said and the Suez Canal from the deck of the "Jervis Bay". Many are stock post card views of New Zealand towns and cities including earthquake damage to Napier and Hastings. Most interesting are three photos of damage to Pahiatua from the earthquake of March 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).