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Date: 26 September 1984

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

Reference: EP/1984/4508-F

Description: Farewell party for Mrs McDowell (known as Auntie Frances) of Korokoro, photographed 26 September 1984 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-00828-F

Description: World War 2 Maori reinforcements about to depart from a railway station in Rotorua, January, 1944. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: December 1950

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: PA1-q-311-0123

Description: Crowd at Aotea Quay, Wellington, as K-Force troops leave for Korea on the Ormonde, Photograph taken December 1950 by an army photographer. Original negative at K-0123 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - "Ormonde". Embarkation scenes.; Album page - right of image - Dec 50, Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 80 x 120 mm mounted on album page

Date: December 1950

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: K-0124-F

Description: Crowd at Aotea Quay, Wellington, as K-Force troops leave for Korea on the Ormonde, Photograph taken December 1950 by an army photographer. Identified from original print from this negative at PA1-q-311-0124 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1955

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-012

Description: Shows a husband farewelling his wife at Christchurch Railway Station. She is on a train leaving for Timaru. The husband has accidentally stepped backwards off the platform and is about to fall backwards or 'drop down' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Tom Mayne [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - From Tom Mayne, 901 Ferry Rd. 17th Jan 1955 [in blue coloured pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash and white corrector on paper, 290 x 230 mm

Date: 1948-1978

From: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1159

Description: Album containing photographs relating to Martin's career as a telegraph worker in Auckland. Taken by unidentified photographers, possibly including Martin, between 1948 and 1978. Contains portraits of identified telegraph workers, colleagues of Mr Martin, at office desks or working telegraph equipment, taken circa 1961. These include Colin Smyth, John Salthouse, Harry Fox, Les Davidson, Maurice Rees, Russell Rockley, Bert Fox, Gilbert Rees, Tom Atkins, Bob Collins, Fred Studman, Ron Carter, Reg Langford, Jack Potter, Gerry Lawson, John Phillips, Clarrie Russel, Len Sedman, Graham Parsons, Paul Hair, Murray Downes, Reg Dempster, Gordon Potter, Norman Jones, Jack Parker, Bob Putt, Keith Faulkner, Colin Cotter, Bert Walls, Neil McNeil, Bob Martin, Colin Neilson, Norman Jones, Jack Parker, Ken Clark, Jeanette Elkington, Ken Rea, Ron Wills, Earle Douglas, Laurie Waite, Sid Hamilton, Mac Wilson, Mac MacNeil, Percy Clayton, Tony Vink, Maurie Challinor, Alan Roberts, Brian Casey, John Condon, Jack Erickson, Jock Campbell, Jim Sleeman, Dan Carew (Warren L Carew), Murray Downes, Des Delaney, Alan Howe, Bill Game, Keith Milne, Neville Roebuck Hori Brown, Kel Somerville, Bert Brunton, Jim Foster, Big John Gower, Allan Pendleton, Eppie O'Loan, Tolu Nogotautama, Terry McGlone, Dave Eaton, Paul Natulovic, Charlie Veo, Pat Julian, Bob Taylor, Bo Parsons, Chris McLean, Frank Blakeley, John Langmead, Barry Hughes, Jack Turner, Doug Wheeler, Allan Roberts, Bill Denton, Keith Faulkner, Ron Willcox, Bob McVickar, Peter Colquhoun, and Frank Alexander. A series of images shows Bob Martin at work. Group portraits show the Auckland Telegraph Office in October 1948, a telegraph office team from the 1950s, Cable Station Veterans Reunion in December 1924 (Queen's Arcade, Auckland), and Ponsonby Post Office staff (1946). The farewells of Superintendent Colin Smyth (1961) and Manager Jock Baird (1952) are also shown. Other events include cable station staff reunions in 1975 and 1978 at KSE clubrooms 228 Ponsonby Road and the annual Cable Station Children's Christmas Party with Martin's young children Janet and Stephen. Also contains images of equipment used for Cable Telegraphy, including a capacity magnifier, for relay, communication cabinet, shipwatch set, synchronome clock, phonic motor, uncontrolled fork, reed relay, dummy synchroniser, bias corrector relay, synterpolator IQ transmitter, cable code transmitter, and other parts. Annotations in gold pen and Post-it notes added by Janet Martin. Many Post-it notes have been removed for conservation purposes (in instances when they were assessed as adding no further information). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ring bound album with green cardboard cover, gold embossed text and ornamentation, and black card pages

Date: 1979-1989

From: Ronnie, Mary Allan 1926- : Chiefly photographs taken during Ronnie's travels overseas and in New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-1164

Description: Photograph album compiled by Ronnie containing photographs of images related to her work in libraries, 1979-1985. Photographs mainly taken by unidentified event photographers. Album covers library related events Ronnie attended, including: the 1975 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Regional Conference in Canberra; final graduation at the New Zealand Library School, with Education Minister Mervyn Wellington and Laurie Cameron (1979); dinner during Library of Congress Center for the Book Tour in Hawaii with Dorothy Chandler and unidentified Hawaiian woman (1979); farewell from the National Library (Dec 1981) with various staff members (also Alexander Turnbull Library staff); with Prime Minister Robert Muldoon at the launch of the final volume of Graham Bagnall's National Bibliography; Bob Duthie's farewell with Wynne Colgan; the launch of the Kurzweil reading machine for the blind with Mervyn Wellington; and with Catherine Tizard, Bill Clark, and an unidentified donor at the unveiling of a photo of the Ponsonby Boys Drum & Fife Band at the Leys Institute. Auckland Public Library events include: the opening of a bible exhibition with David Lange and C Reed; Saving the Whirinaki Forest Park exhibition with David Bellamy and Tizard (Sep 1984); the blessing of a Maori carving and the opening of a Maori Manuscripts exhibition with Canon Kaa, Tizard, and Rewa Fletcher-Cole (Nov 1984); and a book sale at the Library (March 1985). Photographs also contain unidentified persons. Also contains an image of Ronnie on a Dart River Jet Safari en route to a conference in Queenstown. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ringbound photograph album with plastic floral covering on carboard cover

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1925 - 1935

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-048

Description: Page layout for an advertisement for Auckland Savings Bank, shows a young man in a suit hugging his mother as he is about to board a boat. The family terrier jumps up to farewell him, beside his suitcase on the wharf. The cover of an Auckland Savings Bank deposit book is shown at lower right. At top right there are lines standing in for rows of small print. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Collaged photolithographs, ink and pencil, on card 412 x 283 mm.

Date: ca 1915

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008203-G

Description: Crowd farewelling World War 1 troops at a Wellington wharf. Shows hats in the crowd and soldiers on board a troopship. Taken by an unidentified photographer for The Press newspaper. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1998-1999

From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects

Reference: PAColl-9842-56

Description: Farwell dinner for Dennis Haswell, retiring chairman of directors of architectural firm Stephenson & Turner, at the Wellington Club, 29 March 1999. Trip on a boat in Auckland Harbour during the 1998 annual general meeting of Stephenson and Turner. The ATS Raiders under 11 soccer team, East Coast Bays Soccer league. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 29 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011

Date: 14 November 1916

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: PAColl-2838-1-05

Description: Train at Waipawa railway station, Hawke's Bay, carrying men (including Edward Stuart Bibby, and A Glenny) departing for service in World War I. Photograph taken 14 November 1916 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Photographer's inscription and other images at PAColl-2838-1. Location from Milburn's Timber Yard sign. Other Titles - Au revoir to E Bibby + A Glenny 14/11/16 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Au Revoir to E Bibby and A Glenny 14/11/16 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.6 x 13.6 cm (Postcard)

Date: 11 January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000831-F

Description: In the foreground, a soldier and a woman embrace. Behind them, two men shake hands. A train waits at the station. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in Rotorua on January 1944. Original caption reads: "All the sorrow in the world finds expression in the mother's last embrace." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 11 January 1916

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/2-025764-G

Description: Nelson crowd gathered to farewell members of the 12th Reinforcement leaving for World War I, photographed by Frederick Nelson Jones on the 11th of January 1916. The Custom House Hotel is visible in the background. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Send off to the 12ths Nelson NZ 11.1.16 F N Jones Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000832-F

Description: Maori reinforcements leave Rotorua by train, photographed in January 1944, by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "The train moves out."

Date: 11 January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000829-F

Description: World War II Maori reinforcements leaving Rotorua in January 1944. From left: Turei Karaka (with cigarette), Tei Tihi, Mrs Kumeroa Te Kapoterangi, Mai Te Kapoterangi (holding child). Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "Harder still for the farewell between husband and family." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1914 and 1918]

From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-016769-G

Description: View of the troopship HMNZT 21 (SS Willochra) sailing from Wellington during World War I (1914-1918), and being farwelled by people standing on the edge of a wharf. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - HMNZT No 21. c[copyright]A21 SS Willochra Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000184-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials entering Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered to watch. R & W Hellaby's butchery shop can be seen on the left and the Chief Post Office is on the right of the entrance way. Above the shops on the lefthand side a building is under construction. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1251A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000183-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials marching down Queen Street toward the Queen Street Railway Station entrance on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered outside the General Post Office to watch. Two tram cars can be seen amongst the crowd. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1252A Relationship complexity - An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000182 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 17 Apr 1918

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008275-G

Description: A crowd in Lyttelton farewelling troops who are departing by ship to serve in World War I. Taken on 17 April 1918. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.