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Date: [ca 1890-1930]

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: PAColl-9773

Description: Contains Powles family photographs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Includes: a group portrait of the Levin Football Club, `Cup winners, 1898'; a view of Wellington Harbour with masted ships; views of a harbour town, probably on the south coast of England; views of two churches probably in the south-east of England; a photograph of an aqueduct, possibly part of the Wey and Arun canal; landscape and village scenes from the south-east of england and New Zealand; portraits of military officers; photographs of Colonel Charles Guy Powles on a horse and meeting soldiers while serving in Egypt; unidentified photographs of people and locations, probably taken in the Wellington Region. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Wright & Jaques Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-1918-01

Description: Flyer advertises a showing of a film authorised by Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence, involving 5000 New Zealand soldiers, and based on Barrie Marschel's poem "The Kid from Timaru", about a soldier with the surname Kidd. Barrie Marschel recited his poem "as the films unfold". The flyer states that the film had already had seasons in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. The front of the flyer shows a reproduction of a advertisement for the movie with an oval portrait of Barrie Marschel in a straw hat. The border of the flyer shows a design based on laurels. The verso reproduces the poem "The kid from Timaru". A rubber stamp shows the name of the name, place, and theatre where the screening was to take place (Waihi Academy Theatre, 25 April 1918 - ie Anzac Day) "The flame of the Yukon" was a 1917 silent film starring Dorothy Dalton and directed by Charles Miller. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print of flyer 220 x 141 mm.

Date: 1916-1919

By: Fulton, Robert Henry, 1888-1980

Reference: PA-Group-00894

Description: Four photograph albums compiled by Robert Henry (Harry) Fulton relating to his World War I service between 1916-1919 with New Zealand 12th Reinforcements, and with the New Zealand Army Service Corps (NZASC) based at New Zealand Base Kit Stores unit at Sling Camp, Bulford, England. Many photographs taken by Fulton. Some prints are taken by other unknown photographers as indicated by caption 'loaned negatives', and as they show campaigns, such as Gallipoli, in which Fulton did not serve. Images show his time with the 12th Reinforcements; from the journey from New Zealand on HMNZT 'Ulimaroa' and 'Ivernia' troop ships to Egypt in 1916, camp life in England as part of the NZASC, and activities whilst on leave during wartime and post war. Particularly shows family and home in Ireland and sight-seeing photographs from around Egypt and Great Britian, including New Zealand soldiers at Stonehenge. Prints have captions on the album pages; some images are inscribed on the print. Fulton has often arranged images of unrelated locations and activities on individual album pages. Accompanying information - Biographical information for Robert Henry Fulton supplied by donor. See backfile. Publication note - Photograph taken at Stonehenge was published in 'New Zealand and the First World War : 1914-1919' by Damien Fenton, with Caroline Lord, Gavin McLean and Tim Shoebridge (Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Group (NZ), 2013). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photographic albums, photographic prints Provenance: Albums were found at a rubbish dump by Anne Smith. She sold them to Fenton who was writing 'New Zealand and the First World War:1914-1919'. Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - on appraisal - a section from an original Gallipoli army map, which has different provenance from the Harry Fulton albums - To Other - Items taken as a whole in to Photographic Archive and transfers made from there.