Places

Date: ca 1940

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047771-G

Description: View towards Mount Ruapehu. In the foreground soldiers train at firing field guns. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in about 1940 Waiouru Military Camp opened 1938/1939 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negtative

Date: ca 1940

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047770-G

Description: Teams of soldiers with field guns, Waiouru Military Camp. In the background are Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in about 1940 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1940

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047772-G

Description: Groups of soldiers lined up beside gun carriages and covered trucks. Mount Ruapehu can be seen in the distance across the plateau. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in about 1940 Waiouru Military Camp opened 1938/1939 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Parton, L I, active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; William Beattie & Company; Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-4601

Description: Postcards of: the old gun on Mount Victoria; the General Post Office, Wellington lit up with lights for coronation night 1902; parade at Newtown Park on Dominion Day 1907 with the gun from HMS Challenger; Lord Plunket inspecting troops during the Dominion Day parade 1907; spectators at the Dominion Day celebrations in Newtown Park, taken by Zak 1908; battalions marching past on Dominion Day 1907, taken by Zak; the junction of Wills Street and Lambton Quay with the Bank of New Zealand on the left; looking along Lambton Quay towards Willis Street with the Wellington Investment Trustee & Agency Co Ltd on the left; Lambton Quay at the Government Buildings with Quinton's Corner on the right; the Makohine Viaduct on the Main Trunk Railway (taken by Aldersley); the Hapuawhenua Viaduct on the main trunk line taken by Frederick Radcliffe; Raurimu at the foot of the spiral with the railway track in the foreground; the fire on the High Street, Christchurch February 6th 1908; the Salvation Army Rescue and Children's Home, Newtown (in colour); Maori carved house called Takitimu at Martinborough with pakeha visitors outside it; two of the view from Tinakori Hill over to Wellington harbour with Tinakori Road in the foreground and Bolton Street cemetery to the right; a view looking west along Oriental Bay towards St Gerard's Monastery with a billboard for Crescent Tea on a shop to the left; a locomotive going through Ohakune railway station; a fire in Courtenay Place in which six shops were demolished; the interior of the conservatory at Wainoni Park, Christchurch with chrysanthemums; River entrance to Wainoni Park, Christchurch; The lion at Wellington Zoo called 'King Dick', possibly photographed by Zak Studios; Main Street, Ohakune, photographed circa 1 June 1908 by William Beattie and Company; Opening of the Victoria Bowling Club, Wellington, 1908, photographed by Joseph Zachariah. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1936-1941

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1794

Description: Don Peat's own album aquired when he was 15 years old. Contents include - Group of schoolboys and a De Haviland aircraft at Wigram in 1936. The Merivale boy scouts, Christchurch, 1937. Portrait of St Mary's Church, St Albans, Christchurch, 1937. Governor General, Lord Galway at presentation of a new guiden (flag) to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Hagley Park, 1937. Wellington Railway Station. World War One field gun. Flying boat on Wellington harbour. Nazi flag on the last German ship to come to Wellington before the Second World War, ca 1939. Ocean liner `Strathmore,' at Wellington wharves. Portrait of Bob Semple. Don Peat with friends and in military uniform, 1939-1940. Soldiers, Second World War, in Wellington. Views of the Nurses Home, Wellington Hospital. Don Peat and his parents, Whanganui 1940. Soldiers in training, Trentham, 1940. Views of the ship `Doric Star' sunk in 1940. Soldiers in training at Waiouru, 1941. This includes a group of photographs recording a comic mock battle enacted by soldiers. Soldiers on leave in Christchurch, May 1941. Hand coloured images of Maori men posing as `old time' warriors, 1939. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).