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Date: 1860s-1980s

From: Wills Johnson, Kate Miria, 1929-1995: Papers and photographs relating to the Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-964

Description: People of the Chatham Islands, and people with Chatham Island associations. There are photographs of people attending a Chatham Island picnic at Days Bay, Wellington, in 1989. Other photographs are of groups of people attending the centennial of Te One school in 1985. There are family photographs, many of them copies from originals and more modern colour prints of family get togethers. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Previous access statement 'Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was removed in May 2022.

Date: 1924-ca1980

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PAColl-0639

Description: Most of the black and white photographs date from the late 1920s to ca 1950. Of these there are quite a large number of early prints from the late 1920s to the mid 1930s. Most of these have not been "pictorialised" in the soft focus style Searle used for his later finished work. They are small snapshot sized and sharp and clear in detail. The general range of their subject matter sums up Searle's range of interests, photographically speaking, throughout his life. This general subject range is as follows - Railways, family friends and weddings (women and children predominate), Wellington city, Ships, Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington Zoo (mainly animal studies), ANZAC Days, Some sports, aircraft, some other New Zealand towns, military training Second World War, some overseas trips of which those to New Caledonia during the Second World War and later were the most significant, and landscape studies. This last category makes up the largest group of photographs in the collection, especially in the later "pictorial" prints. Though the majority are unlabeled, most have at least one with identification written on the back - though to find these would require looking through some thousands of prints. Most of the pictorialised photographs have been printed on a pale creamy - brown paper which gives them an antique and arty appearence. Most have been manipulated to soften the focus, at times creating a painterly effect or the effect of some lithographs of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. A few have been treated to look like pencil drawings. Though most are landscapes there are also a fair number of architectural shots and flower studies, and some Māori subjects and portraits. Landscapes are predominantly attempts to emulate the sublime and classical/romantic traditions. Mountains and glaciers, humanised landscapes, with or without sheep, reminiscent of the creations of the 18th century English landscape designers, are most common. A fair number of the latter have been taken in some of our larger public parks and gardens. Humans very seldom feature in them. There are several essays of the Pinnacles at Palliser Bay. Many of the same images have been used over and over again. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-096421 to 096718 and 098069 to 099110; 1/2-178222 to 178231 Quantity: 7320 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 album(s). 214 b&w original negative(s) of which 204 are 35mm strips comprising 632 images. 162 colour original photographic print(s). 3100 colour original transparency/ies. 33 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 6 April 1981

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Avery, Peter, active 1982

Reference: EP/1981/1406-F

Description: Stiking Gear Meat workers, Petone. They are (from left) - Thomas Meihana with Selina (7 months). Glen Rainford and Hemi (12 months). Malcolm McAllister with Kimiora (5 months). Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Peter Avery 6 April 1981. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope At the time of the photograph being taken the men had been on strike for six weeks. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1912-1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1223

Description: There are three general groups of images in this album. The first records a holiday to the Volcanic Plateau, taken by a group of men over Christmas 1912, where they climbed Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. The story starts with the group outside the 14 miles stables where they hired a wagon to transport them into the mountains. The route they took was from the north eastern side of Ruapehu to the Waihohonu Hut situated between Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. They climbed Te Heu Heu Peak and then trekked across the snow to the Crater Lake returning to Waihohonu Hut and a dip in the Waihohonu Stream. The next day they set out for Mounts Ngarauhoe and Tongariro. They paused at the source of the northern branch of the Waihohonu Stream on their way to climb to the crater of Ngarauhoe. By the end of the day they reached the Ketetahi Hut on the northern slopes of Tongariro near the Ketetahi Springs. The next day they tramped out via Lake Rotoaira to Tokaanu where they set up camp on the shores of Lake Taupo. The Party then moved north to Wairakei and Rotorua taking in stops at the Huka falls and the Aratiatia Rapids. From Rotorua they returned to Wellington by train. The next group records a hunting trip into what is today the Haurangi State Forest Park in the south eastern Wairarapa in February 1913. There are views of the camp with Girdlestone's mother and another woman visiting. The area depicted is in the valley of the Turanganui River and the surrounding hills. Images include native forest views, a forest fire, hunting pigs with dogs, riding horses, the corpses of wild pigs, groves of Karaka trees, and partly cleared land. The third group of images are of social and sporting events associated with two houses. In both cases the sport depicted is men and women playing tennis. Other images include a child driving a peddle car, views of the "Devon" wrecked on the rocks at Pencarrow Head 25th of August 1913, and women and children with horses. The last image in the album is that of a young woman writing as she holds a telephone reciever to her ear. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [ca1920-1955]

From: McLeod, Rosemary Margaret, 1949- :Chiefly family photographs

Reference: PAColl-10026-2

Description: Includes:- Wedding of Douglas Nevin McLeod and Joyce Margaret Allan, 1947. Snapshots of Joyce McLeod (nee Allan) in the late 1940s. Snapshots of Nevin McLeod in the late 1940s. Snapshots of the young Rosemary McLeod with her mother and father ca 1949-1951. Groups of unidentified women which include Jean McLeod and probably her mother. Two young men on a BSA motorcycle. Nevin McLeod and another man driving a tractor. Douglas Robert (Bob) Tankersley driving a tractor. Arthur Hunt aiming a gun. Unidentified man in bathing togs in and beside a river. Snaps of Nevin McLeod as a small boy, 1920s. Dogs, horses, and other farm animals. View of old wooden cottage. Surviving native trees on the McLeod's farm `Dunvegan,' Mount Bruce, Wairarapa. Unidentified ships and locomotives. Soldiers, World War Two. Nevin McLeod in a Masterton Little Theatre production, ca 1960s. Ship `Port Bowen' aground at Castlecliff, Whanganui, 1939. Landscape and other views taken at `Dunvegan,' Mount Bruce, Wairarapa, late 1940s. These photographs are associated with documents held in Manuscripts and Archives at MS-Papers-11255-2. Quantity: 131 b&w original photographic print(s). 39 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1948]-1971

From: Coburn, Iris Alma, 1909-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1839

Description: The album begins with the wedding of Iris Payne to Harry Coburn at an unidentified Wellington church in about 1948. There are a few photographs of the reception which include the bride, the groom, the cake, guests, and the bride's mother and father. One group of three photographs are of the bride with her mother, Florence Edith Payne. The next group of photographs relate to holidays taken by Iris and Harry Coburn from the late 1940s to about the mid 1950s. In the earlier part of the sequence they owned a late 1930s Austin car. Later this was replaced by a Standard 8 or Standard 10 dating from about 1954. The holidays covered many of the standard new Zealand tourist destinations in the north and south islands and Stewart Island. Many of the photographs show Iris and Harry with friends and family, sometimes picnicing on holiday, or visiting en route. Babies and other children often feature in these groups. A group of colour prints date from 1962, 1964, and 1966. There are some scenic views, but most show groups of people. One shows Iris with a hugh red gladiolus bloom. Three photographs at the end of the album show Iris, Harry, and Florence in a group of people looking over the damaged ship `Wanganella' in the floating dock in Wellington, probably in 1947. Loose prints have the same range of subjects as most of the rest of the album. Among them is one colour print dated 1971 showing Iris standing at a gate decorated with a variety of wheels. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 30 July 1993

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1993/2675-F

Description: Porirua police talk to a suspected truant, Porirua New Zealand. Photograph taken by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin 30 July 1993. As part of a campaign at cutting crime, Porirua police had aprehended 60 truant students in the first three weeks. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1913]-[ca 1915]

By: Sparrow family; Timperly, Marilyn, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-8680

Description: Negatives showing scenes in Wellington, Christchurch, and the Nelson Region. Ships at the Wellington Wharves and boats at Oriental Bay, an early balloon flight, and motoring tours in the South Island. Many of the images are of individuals and groups of the Sparrow family taken in their garden. There are several negatives of a soldier. Taken ca 1913-1915 by an unknown photographer. The negatives are from the family of Mrs Timperley's father. Gordon Sparrow (G J Sparrow Lt camera repairs) is the donor's father's first cousin. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-230576 to 1/2-230636, and 1/4-110572 to 1/4-110615. Quantity: 105 b&w original negative(s). 23 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1875

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-377-54

Description: Members of the Lowes family spread out in the garden of their house at Te Ore Ore, Masterton. Back from left:- Isabella Lowes, unidentified man, man standing is a member of William lowes first family. Middle from left:- William Lowes (in smoking cap) with either Arabella or Phyllis Lowes (daughters of Isabella and himself), Annie Lowes (from William Lowes first Marriage), another son of William Lowes by his first marriage. Front from left:- Charlotte Lowes (youngest of William Lowes first family), nurse maid with one of the younger girls (Info from the album compiled by H C Cook) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1929-1948

By: Kendall, Leslie Frank, active 1920-1950

Reference: PA1-o-717

Description: Album compiled by Lesley Frank Kendall. The first section relates to tramping and the Mount Egmont Alpine Club. This includes - A large group of people on a mountain tramp ca 1929. Climbers on Mount Egmont. Building the first Syme Hut on Fantham's Peak, Mount Egmont, 1930. Military training camp at Long Bay. Emerson Street, Napier, in ruins, 1931. Two men on a motorcycle holiday. Group of photographs of the Wairarapa and Tararua Ranges. This includes - Men hunting in the Palliser Bay area. Views of the Rimutaka Range and road. Climbers on Mount Hector, Tararua Range, and at Kime and Field's huts. View of the Balclutha road bridge (built between 1933 and 1935). Kendall family members and a motor holiday in Central Otago ca 1936. This group also includes Queentown, the Buller Gorge, the DH 86 aircraft `Karoro,' and Canterbury. Views of Napier rebuilt. Sports matches include - New Zealand versus India, hockey, 1938. Otago versus Canterbury, rugby (probably Ranfurly Shield) 1938. Photograph group relating to a holiday in Auckland. Photograph group relating to a holiday at The Portage, Kenepuru Sound, Marlborough. Family gathering. Lesley Kendall in military uniform and Norma Clout on their wedding day, ca 1940. Group of photographs of unidentified children, people and places. Pig hunting trip, locality unidentified. Group of photographs of Lesley and Norma Kendall's first baby. Holiday on the South Island's West Coast. Wanganella on Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour, 1948. Views of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs relating to the Royal New Zealand Air Force training school at Levin, Second World War. Family photographs, views of Wellington, the Putangirua Pinnacles Palliser Bay, and Picton. Groups of people on holiday at Paraparaumu, 1930s. Groups of people on a day out at Ohariu Valley, Wellington, 1930s. Wellington College Mod. VB class, 1929. Lesley Kendall with athletic trophies for the 1929-1930 season. Family photographs, 1920s-1940s. House on Maungakiekie Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. Group photograph of a dance party, Mount Eden, Auckland, 1930s. Two photographs of New Zealand Air Force groups, Second World war. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1900s

By: Clayton, Adrian Bernard, 1866?-1946; Clayton, Nancy, active 1990s

Reference: PAColl-5790

Description: Photographs of Stratford, New Plymouth, Mt Egmont and railways in Taranaki, and two photographs by Nancy Clayton, showing Napier Girls high School under flood, and St Helens Maternity hospital, Newtown. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints at PAColl-5790. Negative at 10x12-0067. Transparency at 10x12-0068 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). 1 b&w copy transparency/ies. 10 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1998. Reference number changed from PAColl-5790 to PA-Group-00578 in 2010.

Date: 31 May 1935

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/2-043450-F

Description: A nurse, 2 men and a child, standing outside the Karitane Hospital in Melrose, Wellington, 31 May, 1935. Photograph taken by the studio of S P Andrew. Inscriptions: [Note on back of file print reads "On neg: 33030 Karitane Factory 31.5.33"] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).