Places

Date: [ca 1870]-1951

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-q-945

Description: There are several subject groups in this album. 1. Family childhood and youth. The earliest family photograph dates from the 1870s and is a portrait of John Pascoe's paternal grandmother as a young woman. The photographs become prolific from about 1918 to 1930. During the 1920s many photographs are of Pascoe and his friends as boys, often with family members, taken during outdoor activities such as staying at baches at Rakaia huts, at picnics, swimming, boating, tramping, hunting and horse riding. Several show John Pascoe with a banjo, and there is a group photograph of Bloys Banjo Band taken about 1930. 2. The next group relate to Christs College, Christchurch. These consist of views of some of the buildings including the interior of the chapel. Many are groups of college sports teams and sudents dressed in striped blazers, the school orchestra, the school cadets, school friends and some teachers. Some of the photographs show study interiors and boys at work in them. 3. Photographs of John and Paul Pascoe as young men in their first suits; Paul Pascoe at architectural school; John and Dorothy Pascoe's wedding in 1940 and of their first house. Related to this group, though scattered throughout the album are photographs of John's father's law offices when John worked there, of Paul Pascoe in England in the mid 1930s, and later of his wife and children at the time that his second son was a baby. 4. John Pascoe as a harrier with the christchurch Harrier Club in the late 1920s. There are photographs of individual runners, group photographs of harrier teams, and many more of races about to start or underway. 5. John Pascoe as a civil servant during the late 1930s and during the war. Some of these are official photographs such as the group at the beginning of the album which relate to the publishing of "Making New Zealand" and the team producing it. As well there are a number of small images of Pascoe's collegues at the Department of Internal Affaires, some photographs of him in operation as a war time official photographer, and a group photograph of Joseph Heenan and his staff standing on the steps of Parliament house. Other photographs include Dorothy, the children, and activities with children in the early 1950s. There is also a photograph of the window of Whitcombe and Tombs bookshop in Wellington displaying Pascoe's book "Unclimbed New Zealand." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1890s-1970s]

From: Rogers, Charles Marsden, 1892-1964 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9542

Description: Photographs of tramping trips, houses in Karori, factories, Crown Lynn pottery, taken by Charles Marsden Rogers. Includes postcards of NAC airplanes and old postcards and photographs of sports spectators, wedding party, picnics and boating. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: ca 1905-ca 1943

By: Ball, Jennifer, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-8038

Description: Photographs of Sir Francis and Lady Bell's houses at Lowry Bay; the family of Harold Featherston Johnston; girl students of the Convent of the Sacred Heart (later Erskine College) Island Bay Wellington; a cricket team and student group taken at St Georges School Wanganui; wedding groups. The weddings are of Kathleen and Willie Levin (of the Levin & Co family), Naney and Douglas Young, Jocelyn Riddiford and Jim Vogel, Betty and Ralf Lowry, and Barbara and Stephen Glover. They date from 1931 to about 1943. Caroline Johnston's father, Harold, was a son of Charles John Johnston of Homewood, Karori, Wellington. The Johnston family and descendents lived at Homewood from 1852 to 1925 (info from "Homewood and its Families". Smedley, Beryl. Mallinson Rendel, Wellington, 1980). Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-201535-F to 1/2-201582-F. Quantity: 26 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: The album was compiled by Caroline Johnston, the mother of Jennifer Ball.

Date: 6 May 1999 - 06 May 1999

By: Martin, Maureen Ellen Patricia, 1923-1999

Reference: OHColl-0458/1

Description: Maureen Martin was born in Hawera in 1923. Gives details of her Irish background. Describes how her father worked for the Public Works Department on dams and tunnels throughout the North Island. Talks about the Mangahao Dam Public Works Camp where Maureen lived in early childhood. Notes that her father was working as a tunneller on the Tawa Deviation. Discusses his interest in politics and the effect on him of World War I. Focuses on her childhood in the Khandallah Public Works Camp from 1928 to 1940. Includes detailed information about their home, family, school, games, camp and social life. Comments on attitudes towards the camp. Discusses employment after leaving school, particularly her work at the Prestige Hosiery Factory in Wellington. Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Accompanying material - Transcript of an interview with Maureen Martin by her grandson Liam Martin about the 1951 watersiders strike Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007157 - OHC-007159 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1763. Photos of Maureen Martin from 1926 to 1943; photos of the Mangahao Dam public Works Camp and the Khandallah Public Works Camp in the 1920s

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: [ca 1910-1925]

By: Smart, Heather, active 2006

Reference: PAColl-8905

Description: Photgraphs taken by a member of the Clapham family of Feilding, comprising photographs of Manawatu Gorge, Victoria Avenue Bridge (Wanganui), Clapham houses and family in Feilding, Heather Ann Clapham, logging, hunting, Port Chalmers, and veteran cars. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-230845-F to 1/2-230858-F Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1968-[ca 1978]

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8681

Description: Includes - Details of General assembly Library building, Parliament, Wellington, 1975. Christ Church, Taita, 1975. Mrs Beard and children on veranda of Beard House, 22 Hauraki Street, Karori, Wellington, 1968. Model of the Wellington motorway through the Shell Gully area, and surroundings, 1971. Detail of the second building for the Public Service Investment Society, corner of Ballance and Featherston Streets, Wellington, ca 1978. Quantity: 14 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1905-1935

From: Ball, Jennifer, active 2003:Photographs relating to the Johnston and Bell families

Reference: PAColl-7815

Description: Photographs of Homewood, Karori, Wellington, and of Charles John Johnston, his family and their friends. There are also a number of images relating to Wanganui Collegiate School where C J Johnston's younest son, Octavius, went to school about 1906. Most of these are group photographs of the pupils, the school cadets and sports teams. Two show a rugby match between the Wanganui Collegiate first 15 and the Old Boys played during the Easter break, 1906. The photographs date from 1905 to 1908. The second album records the wedding of Caroline Margaret Featherston Johnston to Percy Warwick Blundell of the Evening Post (Wellington) newspaper family. This took place at "Taumaru", Lowry Bay, the home of Caroline Johnston's grandparents, Sir Francis and Lady Bell. The sequence of images shows the progress of the wedding from the bride and her father, Justice Harold Johnston, leaving the house to the guests at the reception. It provides a detailed view of that vanished institution; the "society wedding". The wedding took place on the 2nd of February 1935. Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 54 photocopy/ies.

Date: Aug 1940

From: Edwin family :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-0120

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington taken from 179 The Terrace (Edwin house on corner of Boulcott Street and The Terrace), Wellington. Shows houses in Boulcott Street (in foreground) and The Terrace (opposite Herbert Gardens). The T & G Building is on the far left and Antrim House on the far right. Taken by an unidentified photographer in Aug 1940. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Title; names of former owners of houses and names of some buildings; Verso - centre - Additional information written at time of deposit Similiar view at 1/2-058525 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 145 x 570 mm with mount (3 silver gelatin prints forming a panorama)

Date: 1998

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-07

Description: Family photographs taken at the time of Olive Campbell Kember's funeral, houses in Khandallah and Paekakariki, and a rugby game played on a sports field at Onslow College between the Krazy Knights and Treasury on Sunday October 4, 1998. Photographed by Ian Kember in 1998 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37034 to 35mm, 37043 Quantity: 25 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1952]

From: Hogben family :Family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1740

Description: Julius Hogben and his wife Kathleen on holiday in a Morris Minor, ca 1952. Includes - The Morris Minor parked overlooking a coastal view near Mokau. Dairy cows and pastoral Taranaki. Lunch at the roadside. Pukekohe countryside. Sheep blocking a road. View from a hotel window, Hamilton. Mount Te Aroha. Waikato River near Tuakau. The lake at Hamilton. In the Waitakere Ranges. Julius and Kathleen Hogben's house at 4 Ohinerau Street, Remuera, Auckland. Includes - View of a corner of the living room. The back garden with Julius looking at the delphiniums. Front garden with a woman weeding a flower bed. Julius Hogben with a grandson at Eastern Beach, Auckland. Houses on Makara Road Karori. Number 51 is marked, and is proably the home of Bert Roth, Margot Roth (nee Hogben), and their sons Bert and Stephen. The houses are newly built on a stark grass covered hillside. The children play in sections under development. Julius Hogben and grandsons in the garden of the house in Ohinerau Street, Remuera, Auckland. In other photographs they are with their mother and grandmother. Two photographs at the end of the album are of the Roth family. One shows Bert Roth and his two sons, the boys in a sand pit. The other shows Bert and Margot Roth with their sons at T?oyford Flats. As one of the boys is a baby this was taken before the family moved to the house in Makara Road. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [193-]

By: Thompson, Francis, 1895-1977; Digby, Spencer Harry Gilbee, 1901-1995; Sutherland, Benjamin, 1873-1949

Reference: PA1-q-938

Description: Photograph album comprising images of Homewood, Karori, Wellington, taken ca late 1930s by Frank Thompson of Crown Studios. Includes interior views of the house and views of the garden and grounds. Album also includes photographs of the wedding of Jean Sutherland and Dr Reay Mackay within the grounds of Homewood, taken 19 January 1938 by Spencer Digby. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album 41 x 30.6 cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2005

Date: ca 1895

From: Vella, Paul Philip, 1926- :Photographs of Mariano Vella and his family

Reference: 1/2-201331-F

Description: Photograph of Mariano Vella (1855-1929), fisherman and farmer of Paremata, with his second wife Elizabeth, her cousin, and Mariano's children William, Ida, Andrew and Mattea, taken ca 1895 in front of their cottage in Paremata by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 10 x 12.5 cm

Date: between 1904-1905

From: Burdan, Claude Oswald, 1896-1972 :Photographs chiefly of Wainuiomata

Reference: 1/2-060611-F

Description: The house `Northbrook'in Wainuiomata, and Wood family, photographed between 1904 and 1905. From left to right: Florence Wood; Clara on Mary Wood's hip; and twins Connie & Mabel on either side of father, James Wood. Note on back of file print reads "built 1867 by Mowlem" Note on back of file print reads "Built in 1867 by Molem" - Probably John Molem, fl 1870, settler of Wainuiomata. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) Film negative. Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 3 January 1961

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

Reference: NZ Obits-Cobham, Lord-02

Description: Lord and Lady Cobham and three of their children in the living room of their Raumati Beech holiday house. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 3rd of January 1961. Lord Cobham built this house privately in 1958. He left New Zealand on the 13th of September 1962 and the house was put up for auction realising a selling price of £11,150 ($22,300). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24.3 x 19.1 cm

Date: October 1909

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-029-11-3

Description: The Dickerson family on the front steps of their home "Brentwood," Karori, Wellington. Charles H Dickerson is the man in the group, and Dorice is the girl leaning on his shoulder. Photographed by Harold Stevens Hislop in October 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1890s]

By: Chorlton, Arthur Frederick Thomas, 1880-1963

Reference: PAColl-1770

Description: The Wallace family on the verandah of their house. A Maori pattern has been carved into a panel which runs along the front of the verandah. Also includes one of the granddaughter's of the whaler James Reed and Kahumahinga of Ngati Toa, the daughter of Sarah Reed and Spencer Von Strumer. Kahumahinga was the daughter of Paretona, a sister Werawera, who was the grandfather of Te Rauparaha. To the Maori mind they were very closely related. Date based on what can be seen of the women's clothing and hair style. On assment of this it is unlikely that his photograph is earlier that 1891, or later than 1897. This was Tamihana Te Rauparaha's former house. It was situated in what is now Matene Street in Otaki township but burnt down during the 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1890s

From: Taiaroa, Hori Kerei, d 1905 :Photographs relating to the Robinson, Brown and Peck families, and portraits of politicians and governors

Reference: PAColl-4558-1-07

Description: Mrs Samuel Peck and three young children outside a wooden house in the Hutt Valley, Wellington. In front of the house is a well and a small garden. Photographed circa 1890s by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Mount verso - top centre - Mrs Samuel Peck early settler Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.2 x 14.1, on mount 10.8 x 16.8 cm

Date: 1856

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-017

Description: A view from Tinakori Hill, looking down over the houses of Wadestown and across Wellington Harbour towards the snow-clad Tararua Range. A Maori couple with a baby on the woman's back are in the foreground, and there are sailing ships and a canoe on the harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title, dates, initials in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 179 x 270 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)