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Date: [ca 1920s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-223

Description: Photographs collected for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1920s-1950s. Some are unidentified. Includes: Wreckage of a small aircraft in the Tararua Range (5 photos taken by D F Jones, Tararua Tramping Club), undated; Invercargill wedding group - Sadie Reid Pollock married Lawrence Graham Smillie (with handwritten description), undated; Miller-Luke wedding (bride with her bridesmaid Nancy Luke and flower girl, Sophie van Asch), taken by Lovell-Smith, Hastings, undated; W G Perry (negative of sailor, presumed dead), undated; Miss Cross of Masterton, and young friend Nigel Hawke of New Plymouth, Jun 1949; Spragg (studio portrait of 58 year old soldier wearing military decorations), undated. Model of Australian cruiser H M A S Sydney, part of a naval display for War Saving Day in Martin Place, Sydney, 1940s; floral ship at Tauranga (and handwritten description); Mr & Mrs T L H Gibson, 50th wedding anniversary, Sep 1949 (C E Clarke, photographer, Waimate). Typed list of unidentified photographs; typed list of Winston Churchill related photographs A Jackson of Wellington College and his Guide V Williams on top of Mount Cook, 31 Jan 1929; W Errington Keville (General manager of Shaw Savill & Albion) with wife and daughter, 1949; dismasted yacht Astral being rescued during Wellington to Lyttelton Yacht Race, 1951; officers of Boys Brigade companies at training course held at Trentham, 1950s?; NZ Model Aero Club Dominion Championship at Christchurch, 1952; aerial view of Addington Racetrack; three grandstands at unidentified racetrack showing racegoers. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s) (also mss and ts material). 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 2006

By: Christchurch Art Gallery; Parkinson, Norman, 1913-1990

Reference: Eph-E-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-2006-01

Description: A poster with reproductions of portrait photographs by Cecil Beaton, and text biographical notes. The verso is a full-page photograph of Marilyn Monroe. The recto shows reproductions of portraits of British prime minister Winston Churchill, actress Audrey Hepburn, actress Elizabeth Taylor, and smaller reproductions of Baba Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Pablo Picasso, Eileen Dunn (child hospital patient), Princess Elizabeth, Greta Garbo, Maria Callas, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol & the Factory, Ralph Richardson. There is also a photograph of Cecil Beaton by Norman Parkinson. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of sheet, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Two copies, both donated by Ms Kathy Palmer, Christchurch, in 2006 and 2012.

Date: 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-034/048

Description: New Zealand topics include Auckland Festival of the Arts, undercover traffic officers, the perceived threat of Japanese imports to local manfacturing, dental costs, Auckland's drainage scheme, national economic performance, youth behaviour, the construction of Auckland International Airport, the 1954 Budget, P.A.Y.E., Social credit and the appeal of quackery, the effect of British dockers strikes on goods imported for the Christmas market. International topics include Japanese exports to New Zealand, British influence in Gibraltar, Malta and Suez, Communist China and striking dockers in the United Kingdom. Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes approximately 110 x 172 mm.

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-220

Description: Assortment of photographs, most with captions, of military and political leaders, and others. Names entered in Name Field. Group photo of 1st Echelon drinking beer in the `Beer Garden' at Burnham Camp, Nov 1939 Quantity: 178 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1935-1953

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-147

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1935 and 1951. Includes: The Hermitage (Mount Cook); huts and scenery in Tararua Ranges; life-saving competitions held at Taylor's Mistake; military recruits and personnel, ca 1950; Rimutaka tunnel under construction,1951; Mechanic's Institute, Wellington (1860); Rakaia traffic bridge (1939); Maori Canoe Hurdle Race held on Wanganui River; Dobson Memorial (Arthur's Pass); aerial view of Hokianga [?], 1951; Dart Hut. Overseas photos: G K Chesterton (portraits); Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret attending Royal Film Performance, 1951; Captain Vyvyan Holt arriving in England from Korea, 1953; Sir Winston Churchill & General Eisenhower, 1951; Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin, Mar 1945; Tibetan Trade Delegation, 1948; Australian parliament and John Curtin; Australian naval divers; Australian ballroom dancer, Joan Allen; funeral of King George VI; Henry Ford's first car; etc. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1939-1949

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-221

Description: Assortment of official and unofficial photographs, most without captions Includes: NZ YMCA with J-Force (lounge); series of photographs pasted onto card - Signing of the surrender at Toyko Bay; Peter Fraser leaving a Naval Transport Service plane near Pearl Harbour in company with Admiral Chester W Nimitz (USN, Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas) and Vice Admiral Robert L Ghormley (USN Commandant Fourteenth Naval District and Hawaiian Sea Frontier); unidentified underground miners; training in the Kaimai Ranges; Home Guard training; Brigadier General Patrick Hurley (American Minister to NZ) with Hon Peter Fraser, Lord Halifax, Hon Walter Nash, and Cordell Hull, 1942; Winston Churchill and others; village of Ag Demetrios, Greece, 1941; the Admiral Graf Spee sinking after she had been scuttled in the River Plate, Dec 1939; coffins of German sailors killed in the River Plate Battle photographed at Montivideo, Dec 1939; unidentified chaplain. Woman pilot; General Montgomery; Helen Keller and her companion Polly Thompson arriving at Imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Milford Track; Second Mounted Rifles moving past the saluting base at Foxton when they were reviewed by the Inspector-General of Forces, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell; Auckland Gas Company's gasometers in Freeman's Bay; Bill Boyce; unidentified NZ buildings (possibly office of Scientific and Industrial Research); view of Wellington from hills above Tinakori Road looking south. Other unofficial photos from the collections of W E King of Tauranga; E B Hamilton; Sandy Crichton; H Sharples. Some taken in Italy Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.

Date: 1952

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-049

Description: Through the window of number 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Sid Holland can be seen shaking hands with British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Outside the front door stands a hopeful pound note. Context - This meeting probably took place during the Commonwealth Ministers Conference in December 1952. Sid Holland is probably trying to ensure good trade and economic relations. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1949

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-046

Description: Prime Minister Sid Holland sits weeping at his desk over a note from Sir Winston Churchill that reads 'Can't make it - Winnie'. Portraits of Winston Churchill adorn the walls and the PM's desk. Keith Holyoake has just ushered a man through the door and says 'Go on in, Anthony - the dodge worked in "Charley's aunt"!' Context - Obviously refers to a hoped for visit from Sir Winston Churchill that didn't eventuate. The substitute is Anthony Eden who was Foreign Secretary and deputy leader of the Conservative Party from 1951 to 1955 and PM from 1955 to 1957 and who visited New Zealand and Australia in February 1949. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is the title 'The substitute' and text reading '3 col Leader P. Wed'. Anthony Eden toured Australia and New Zealand in February 1949. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 380 x 560 mm

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-618-001/074

Description: 74 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include National Party style ('radical conservatism'), political aspects of the ban on native forest logging on the West Coast, bribery and corruption in international cricket, softening of the macho image of Super 12 Players, the fatal shooting Steven Wallace by police in Waitara, email viruses, underage drinking, tax on cigarettes, greenhouse gas emission control, the entrenched position of Christine Rankin, Head of WINZ, television presenter Paul Holmes, the sale of the cell phone spectrum to Maori, Americas' Cup yachtsmen, the rebel coup in Fiji, prisoners' rights, All Black rugby, Maori activisim and cultural sensitivites, the falling New Zealand dollar, falling business confidence, the Employments Contracts Act, the legal staus of cannabis, the Coalition between the Labour Party and Alliance, the flight of underpaid and overworked young doctors from New Zealand, unseasonable weather, the meeting between the Presidents of North and South Korea, the Budget, the Government's 'Closing the Gaps' policy, underfunding of the army, muck-raking by ACT politician Richard Prebble, drugs in sport, the takeover by Qantas of Ansett New Zealand, political scandal and the sacking of Dover Samuels as Minister of Maori Affairs, child abuse, dangerous driving by truck drivers, the conflict over Israel, the dangers of excusing away mental illness, Helen Clark's leadership style, alcohol and sportsmen, railway accidents, republicism and Tandor Nancos of the Green Party, the Bledisloe Cup, cannabis use, forest fires in the United States, extended sittings in Parliament, the Employment Relations Bill, speed limits, the loss of Kursk, the Russian submarine, defence expenditure, controversy over Maori domestic violence, rising petrol prices. Quantity: 74 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides