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Date: 1927-1934

From: Pedersen, Doris Taur, 1907-2001 :Photographs relating to Doris Pedersen's career in nursing

Reference: PA1-o-1005

Description: Album begins with Wellington Hospital in about 1927/28 and shows the new buildings which opened in 1928, the nurses home and Toxwood's hospital buildings of 1880. There are many photographs of nurses, some staged in operating theatres with doctors and nurses arround the patient, one administering chloroform onto a fabric pad over the patients face. The rest of the photographs in the album relate to Doris Pedersen's work in maternity hospitals and hospitals specialising in the care of very young children. These include Alexandra Children's Hospital, Karitane Hospital, a hospital in a large late victorian house with a big garden, and Dr Doris and William Gordon's Marire Private Hospital in Stratford.. Associated with these hospitals are many images of nurses and the children in their care. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1983-1985

From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs

Reference: PAColl-5811-1

Description: Greek Week in Wellington, reading recovery teachers and pupils, Sir Graham and Lady Latimer, piano teacher Judith Clark, Wellington City buses, Author Fiona Kidman, Kristelle Plimmer bringer of gorilla grams, the Heng family from Cambodia, Children's author Lynley Dodd, teacher and students at Kimi Ora school Wellington, Election night 1984 including Bob Jones, artist Janet Paul, editor Margaret Moony, Buskers on Wellington's streets. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 25 March 1983

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

Reference: EP/1983/1047-F

Description: Michael Wilson (7) oils the chain on his bicycle, while sister Bronwyn (10) makes sure her tyres are fully inflated. Behind are the Aitken brothers, Andrew (10), and Peter (11). The children were neighbours and lived in Maungaraki. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 25th of march 1983. The children were preparing to take part the next day in a "Bike for Fun" in Lower Hutt. This was a 17 kilometre ride beginning at Avalon Park organised by the Western Hutt Rotary Club. Its purpose was to raise money to buy a water bed for Lower Hutt Hospital's burns unit. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate flim negative, 35mm

Date: 19 May 1983

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

Reference: EP/1983/1865-F

Description: Children from Muritai School, San Antonio School and Wellesly College cycling around the Eastbourne coast. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer. These children were taking part in a holiday programme organised by a committee of representatives from the schools together with the Eastbourne Borough Council. They left from Burdans Gate at the end of Muritai Road and were heading for the Pencarrow lighthouse. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1968

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2895

Description: Transparencies showing a family outing to Castle Point, Wairarapa, New Zealand, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1968. Also includes transparencies showing views of Huka Falls, Taupō. Transparencies showing Huka Falls are continued at PA12-2896. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original photographic print(s). Processing information: Reference number changed in March 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-84.

Date: 1900 - 1902

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-020

Description: Plimmerton Beach in the foreground, with children and a dog at the water's edge. Mana Island out to sea and the South Island visible in the background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 31 July 1979

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

Reference: EP/1979/2727-F

Description: Children at Wadestown Infants School about to learn a Maori stick game. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 31st of July 1979. The children were taking part in activities associated with Maori Language Week. The song they were about to sing was `e papa waiari.' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6848

Description: 25 images including two of what is probably earthquake damage to buildings in Hawke's Bay following the 1931 earthquake; four of a gathering at a wool shed flying the union jack (location unknown); one of the war memorial in Cathedral Square, Christchurch; one of a small wooden church without a tower or steeple (location unknown); a general view of the town where the same church is located; two of a derailment; eight of various locomotives, steam, diesel and electric, including one of a railcar sitting at Wellington Railway Station and one of an electric locomotive and carriages at Paekakariki station; one of a line of buses at a rural depot with passengers waiting; two boys and a man next to their car; a boy crouching next to a man; and a landscape (location unknown). Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029898 to 029903, 030017, 030035 to 030036, 030039, 030044 to 030050, 030997, 031000 to 031003, 031006, 031011 and 031015. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 7 May 1983

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

Reference: EP/1983/1675-F

Description: Two six year old girls doing school work, Newtown School, Wellington, New Zealand. They are (from left), Edwina Taylor and Sabrina Tepurei. Photographed by Evening post staff photographer Stuart Ramson on the 7th of May 1983. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-3514

Description: Mother and child; Wellington city and suburb scenes; reception Government House Wellington; Greymouth and Grey River from the air; China; Wallabies; etc Arrangement: Negative numbers allocated: G68289-G68317-1/4 Quantity: 29 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1920-1929

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-3

Description: Photographs of trips taken in the countryside, of bridges, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forest, mountains, coastal scenery and other scenic views. There are pictures of cars and one of a motorcycle with side car. There are prints of two fly fishermen displaying their catch in a net and of a man holding up a large eel. Others show yachts in sail, and men and boys in yachts; adult fun sports at a group outing identified in PAColl-6712-2 as being the "optic championships". Another group are shown playing cricket in the grounds of Days Bay House. There is also a single print of a hunter showing his bag of wild game birds. Animals are represented by cattle and horses, one of the latter associated with two men and a wagon-full of freshly harvested hay, another is harnessed to a coach parked beside a stationary train. A sequence of prints records the dams and lakes of the newly completed Mangahao Hydro in the hills inland from Shannon. Three prints show a ship grounded in coastal shallows. There are portrait and group photographs of people, including children, and one print of a children's party. Several show picnic groups.

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: [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: 16 September 1977

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

Reference: EP/1977/3679-F

Description: Three boys on Hokio Beach with their hands full of Toheroa. They are from left: Fabian Corner 14, Willy Kalolo 14, and Rangi Mauri 15. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 16th of September 1977. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1909-1925

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

Reference: PA1-q-376

Description: Family photographs of the Cameron family at Te Ore Ore and elsewhere (a comprehensive guide to the photographs has been prepared by the family, and is available with the item Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: A photocopy of the information sheets in the front of this album can be found in the PAColl sequance at PAColl-1886. Photocopy of the album showing which images have been copied at same location.

Date: ca1984-ca1995

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5801-1

Description: Mainly records of National Library events which include gifts of books from Poland and Yugoslavia, a delegation of Librarians from China, the official opening of the National Library, the New Vacuum Freeze Dryer for Conservation, the powhiri for Dick Grace the first Maori Manager, celebration for Women's Suffrage Day, Princess Anne visiting, the presentation of the Missoula Peace Quilt, National Library Children's Days, 25th anniversary of setting up the library by act of parliament, and the initiation of the talking book service. Most of the rest of the images record the construction of the National Library building, people and occassions connected with this, the building's interiors, and services provided. Quantity: 101 b&w original photographic print(s). 76 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 10 February 1972

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

Reference: EP/1972/0723-F

Description: Teacher, Mrs Tessa MacPherson, instructing her class in how to use books. Mark Joseph showing that pages are turned from the top. Photographed by an Evening Post Staff Photographer on the 10th of February 1972. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 29 May 1975

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

Reference: EP/1975/2184-F

Description: Interior view of classes in progress in the open-plan setting of Churton Park Primary School. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 29th of May 1975. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm