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Date: 1942-1946

By: King, Gilbert Arthur Newman, 1923-2006

Reference: PA1-o-1453

Description: Album of photographs taken and collected by Gilbert Arthur Newman King (1922-2007) while serving with 2NZEF 1942-1945, and with J Force in 1946. Comprises: 87th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Lyttelton and Mt Pleasant, 10 June 1942 to 18 August 1943. Scenes in Florence, Siena, Pisa, Bari and Naples, 18 October 1945 to 21 February 1946. Voyage from Naples to Japan aboard "Strathmore" via Port Said, Suez Canal, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong, 21 February 1946 to 19 March 1946 Scenes in Japan, showing views of Kure, Yamaguchi and Kiwa Voyage home from Kure to Wellington aboard "Chitral", via Guam, 24 August 1946 to 8 September 1946. At home with family, 8 September 1946. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black card bound album 24.7 x 30.5 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr W R Schofield, Christchurch, in 2009

Date: 23 Oct 1931-26 Apr 1932

By: Hunter, David, active 1900-1932

Reference: MS-Group-1191

Description: Journal kept by Hunter while travelling from England to New Zealand on the `Rangitata' and his return to England on the `Makura' to Australia and the Orsova' from Sydney from 23 Oct 1931 to 26 Apr 1932. He travelled with Ena Hunter. He describes their preparations, embarkation at Southampton, the other passengers, food (including menus), sea sickness, entertainments, the comforts and otherwise of the ship, his cabin, their passage through the Panama Canal and Armstice Day. They disembarked at Wellington 24 Nov 1931, and left for Australia on the `Makura' 7 Mar 1932, and for England on the `Orsova' from Sydney, 13 Mar 1932. In New Zealand Hunter spent time in Wellington, visiting the Alexander Turnbull Library, describing the work of the League of Nations Union in Wellington, visits Christchurch, the West Coast and Nelson where he spent some time, Wanganui, the Waitomo Caves, Rotorua and Auckland and back through Taranaki where he climbed Mt Egmont; he visited farms and factories, observed the opening of Parliament (24 Feb 1932) and visited the Gear Freezing and Meat Preservation Company. He attended many church services in various churches including the Congregational, Church of Christ and Presbyterian churches. Folowing his and Ena's departure for Sydney he describes the new Sydney harbour bridge, their visit to Tasmania and the House of Commons in Hobart, visiting to Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Colombo, the Suez Canal, Naples and Gibraltar, and an ANZAC commemoration service he declined to attend. The journal is illustrated and includes a water colour of the `Rangitata', newspaper clippings of portraits of various New Zealanders; and a copy of a letter from the Turnbull to the donor (1986). Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm

Date: 1914-1915

By: Maunsell, Henry Beresford, 1890?-1958

Reference: PA1-o-336

Description: Photograph album relating to Henry Beresford Maunsell's service during World War I, with the NZ Army 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles Regiment in Egypt. Many of the military personnel are identified, a few with later dates added noting when some of the men photographed in the album were killed in action. The first part of the album shows soldiers leaving on board HMNZ troopship 'Orari' 14 October 1914, the trip through Hobart, Colombo, Aden, Port Said until disembarkation in Alexandria December 1914. Many scenes show the shipboard stabling for horses used by Mounted Rifle troops; others show various ships they passed on the way. The latter part shows various military scenes in Egypt, including The New Zealand Corps camp near Cairo; swimming horses crossing the Nile; Red Cross Vauxhall ambulance; groups of soldiers riding camels; horse lines; and a line of horses at drinking troughs. There are a few images of soldiers at tourist sites, and some of Egyptians. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Maunsell album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover; 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1890s-1900s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Skeen & Co.; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: Pa1-o-517

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers many of whom are unidentified. Photographs are seen on pages 1-31, with pages 32-50 unused. Colombo is shown in the first part of the album, and includes street scenes, the "Old Colombo Lighthouse", the Galle Face Hotel(?), views of outrigger fishing canoes, carts drawn by humped cattle, "padda" boats on a canal, and a group of young Sri Lankan women. The second part of the album contains views of New Zealand, chiefly in the thermal regions with views of Ohinemutu, Hamurana Springs, the Poutuhu Geyser, Waimangu Geyser, the "Fairy bath" at Okoroire and the "Okoroire Natural Bridge Rapids". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, darker red corners and spine; 24.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1914-1916

By: Taylor, E (Mr), active 1914-1916; Hyde, M A (Mrs), active 1995

Reference: PA1-q-550

Description: Postcard album containing approximately 402 postcards recording a return voyage from England to Australia and New Zealand made by Mr and Mrs E Taylor in 1914-1915. Includes written information about Mr and Mrs Taylor's family in New Zealand: Albert Taylor of Mount Eden, Auckland; Mrs O'Neill of Grey Lynn, Auckland; and Mrs Bacon of Ponsonby, Auckland; with photographs of those areas and their houses. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - [frontispiece] A Post Card Record of a Trip to Australia & New Zealand, shewing the places of interest enroute & visited by Mr & Mrs E Taylor, Leaving Gloucester on September 24th 1914, by the 2.23PM train on the GWR for London, arrived at Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1940

By: McLean, Stuart, active 1941-1945

Reference: PA1-o-313

Description: Photographs associated with World War II, chiefly taken by Corporal Stuart McLean (No. 28390, 20 Fd Coy and 8 Fd Coy, NZ Engineers). The first photographs show McLean and members of his Company at Papakura in September 1940. These are followed by their travel to Europe via Fiji and Colombo. The Fijian scenes include local scenes of Suva, and Korotonga village on Viti Levu. Several show damage around Suva caused by a hurricane in December 1940. Photographs associated with the war include groups of New Zealand soldiers, army transport vehicles and the Samabula Camp. The final group show one of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth seen on the first day out from New Zealand at 5:00am, followed by scenes in Colombo Harbour and Colombo city. The album contains 70 pages, of which pages 12 to 70 are blank. Inscriptions: Album page - Medals: 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star & 8th Army clasp; Italy Star, 1939-1945 Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-1945; NZ War Service Medal 1939-1945. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green textured mock-crocodile cover, entitled `Photographs'; 22 x 32 cm

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.

Date: 9 Feb - 3 Jul 1894

By: Brown, H J (Mr), active 1894

Reference: MSX-9260

Description: Travel journal of Mr H J Brown. Details a five month, 9 Feb - 3 Jul 1894, journey to New Zealand and Australia. 9 Feb - 24 Mar : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Oroya' from London to Sydney. Includes details about activities aboard the ship, day excursions at port cities - Gibralter [sic] with a Portguese guide called Joseph Buzaglo; Naples and Pompeii ruins with Mr Cook & Son (Tour guides); Port Said; Colombo at the Oriental Hotel and vehicle tour with Mr Cohen; Albany, West Australia; Melbourne; and final port Sydney. 25 Mar - 3 Apr: Describes time in Sydney staying at the 'Australia Hotel', and travels at to the Blue Mountains and Kaloomba [sic]. 4 - 8 Apr : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Mararoa' from Sydney to Australia, and the unpleasant conditions on board. 9 - 19 Apr : Describes travel through the North Island from Auckland to Wellington on buggy and rail. Includes detailed description of visit to Whakarewarewa and hot pools area of Rotorua with tour guides Mr Cook & Son, staying at the 'Geyser Hotel', observations of Maori, cruise on Lake Rotorua to Mokoia Island, the story of Hinemoa and Tutauakie [sic], temple to the 'God of the Sweet Potato', Hamurana Stream, use of Maori language, Okere and Tutea Falls, Tikitere, Waiatapu Valley, Mount Tarawera eruption, Wairakie [sic], Huka Falls, Lake Taupo, Tarawera, the strains of buggy travel, Napier, train to Wellington, stay at the 'Occidential Hotel', pre European Maori times, and land ownership. 19 - 21 Apr : Describes voyage on the ship 'Penguin', from Wellington to Port Chalmers, via Lyttelton. Includes observation of Lyttelton. 21 - 26 Apr : Describes time in Dunedin, a visit to Rosslyn Woollen Mills, business trip to Woodlands and associates P Briscoe and Tom Price. 26 Apr - 1 May : Describes voyage on the ship 'Talune' from Port Chalmers to Hobart, Tasmania, via the Bluff. Includes retrospective general observations of New Zealand and Maori. 1 - 5 May : Describes Hobart, trip to Brown's River and train to Launceston. 7 - 8 May : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Patenna' from Launceston to Melbourne. 9 - 12 May : Describes time in Melbourne and the economy. 12 May - 3 July : Describes the return home voyage on the ship 'Ormuz' from Melbourne. Includes day excursions at port cities Adelaide, Colombo, Port Said, Naples, and Gibraltor; mentions 'Bluejackets' naval officers onboard, the frustration of the ship being quarantined in Colombo due to scarlet fever, the recreation onboard, and final entry mentions passing the ship 'Orient' outward bound. End pages of journal include a tally distances (miles) travelled, list of people they met, books read, and 'Son Macauley's Riddle' in Arabic. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - Frontpiece stamp 'Hatchett & Kingsnorth, Stationers, 428 Strand' Quantity: 1 volume(s) 136 pages. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Newspaper clippings p 62 sketch of a buggy; p 77 map of North Island and rail and coach routes taken; p 124 map of canal from Port Said to Suez.

Date: 1903

Reference: PA1-f-319

Description: Record of a trip by sea from England to New Zealand, and includes travels in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) on the return journey. Begins with photographs of the ship SS Austral, passengers on deck, and a view of a lighthouse at the end of a breakwater taken probably as the ship left Plymouth Harbour. There are views from the ship of Cape St Vincent, Gibraltar, and approaching Marseilles. A section of photographs (which may include places in Marseilles) are of Italy. There are views of Rome and Pompei. A section of photographs taken while the ship passed through the Suez Canal includes women passengers on deck as well as the canal and adjacent countryside. Views of ships and sail boats in the Red Sea and passengers playing deck games. On reaching Australia the ship stopped at Freemantle, and there is an Adelaide street scene. But most of the Australian photographs are of Melbourne and Hobart. The ship's first port of call in New Zealand was Port Chalmers, and a group of photographs include Dunedin, its rural surroundings seen from the sea, Invercargill Post Office, and Bluff. The ship then sailed north to Lyttelton, and there are four pages of photographs of Christchurch and Banks Peninsular. In particular there is a visit to Port Levy which as well as landscape views includes groups of Maori visited by three men on horseback. One page of five photographs shows men handling sacks of freshly harvested cocksfoot grass seed in a recently cleared pastoral landscape covered with the remains of burnt trees. The next group of six photographs show two teenaged boys on a camping trip. There are images of their tent, of cooking with billies, eating a meal laid out on a tree stump, and the boys playing at the edge of a stream. Three photographs show an impressive house and garden belonging to a Mr Joslin. The following eleven pages of photographs record a journey through parts of the North Island. This begins with a trip up the Whanganui River to Pipiriki, and then continuing by coach from Pipiriki to Taupo. Photographs include views of the coach on the road, of the road passing through native forest, and the journey across the Volcanic Plateau where the passengers stopped for a tea break. There are a few photographs of Taupo and the lake. These include one of the meeting house Tikiotetamamutu at the Spa Hotel. There are 16 photographs taken at one or more unidentified thermal areas, and others of the Hooker Falls and Aratiatia Rapids. There are two photographs of a house with a large gothic styled "fortified" tower at one end. The New Zealand photographs are followed by a return to Australia on the way to Ceylon (Sri Lanka). There is one view of a Melbourne street, and eight of Sydney Harbour. The final eight pages are of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) beginning with views of the street life of Colombo. This is followed by a trip to Kandy, a visit to a bungalow in the country, a game of golf, and views of a tea plantation and tea pickers. The Sri Lankan section, and the album, ends with 13 photographs of the South African prisoner of war camp at Diyatalawa in the southern part of the central Highlands of the country. This housed 5,000 of the 26,000 Boer prisoners of war that the British shipped offshore during the South African War (1899-1902). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased from Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 2010.

Date: 1936-1938

From: MacGowan, Mary, fl 1936-1938 :Photographs of family friends and a world trip

Reference: PAColl-8692-4

Description: Mary MacGowan's journey out to new Zealand is represented by 8 photographs relating to Panama and the Panama Canal. There are some photographs collected during holidays in New Zealand which include views of Wairakei, Mount Ngauruhoe, Christchurch, Lake Kanieri, and Hongi's Track. Most of the photographs are associated with Mary's return trip to England. She left Wellington for Sydney on the "Awatea" visiting Hobart, Tasmania, and spending enough time in Australia to see Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. From Sydney she sailed for home on the "Orontes" via the Suez Canal. Groups of photographs record deck life and other passengers, the warves, people and places visited while in Colombo, Sri lanka (Ceylon), the approaches to Suez and a visit to the pyramids sphinx and temples in Egypt, a stop at Naples and a lot of photographs and some postcards of Pompeii, and finally views of Gibraltar including one of a Spainish guard at the boarder post. Quantity: 102 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 28 September - 26 November 1958

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8775

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') voyage to New Zealand in 1958. He travelled on board the SS Strathmore, via the Suez Canal as far as Australia, after which he sailed to New Zealand leaving from Sydney on the Wanganella. This sheet of slides covers the trip from Colombo with views of Colombo streets, a stall selling cottons and silks, a Buddhist shrine, and priests at a Buddhist Temple. There are two views of the Cocos Keeling Islands before his arrival in Australia. Only one purchased slide of koala bears relates to Australia on this sheet, the rest having been transferred to another file by Mr Williams, for later use in lectures on Australia. Slides on this sheet are numbered 27-68 with gaps for those removed for lectures on Australia, and on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 27-45) showing arrival in and departure from Australia as part of a representative collection on Australia for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. Slides nos. 47, 59-50, 52, 54-56, 60, 64-67, and 69-70 were transferred for his lectures on New Zealand. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 16 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: February - June 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1395

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 5 February 1919, called at Colombo (24 February 1919), Bombay (27 February - 9 March 1919), Karachi (11 March 1919), Suez and Suez Canal (20 March 1919), Port Said (21 March - 10 April 1919), Alexandria (11-15 April 1919), Gibraltar (21 April919), Southampton (25-26 April 1919), arrived Liverpool 28 April 1919. She carried 98 passengers from Bombay to Port Said; 1800 officers and men from Karachi to Port Said; 750 British soldiers and 60 passengers from Alexandria to Southampton; and 11 passengers and 7 ambulance cases from Gibraltar to Southampton. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with 1124 New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 17 May 1919, called at Colon (31 May - 1 June 1919), Panama Canal and Balboa (1 June 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 23 June 1919. Includes views of Suez Canal, wharves at Colombo. Bombay, Karachi, Port Said and Alexandria, Panama Canal locks and gates, French and British warships, soldiers embarking to return home, and Peace Day celebrations in Port Chalmers and Christchurch. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album with brown morrocco spine and corners, 21 x 19 cm

Date: 1902, 1950?

By: Pettifer, Walter, active 1902

Reference: MS-Group-1135

Description: Diary kept by Pettifer who sailed round the world on the `Ophir' as a servant of its captain, Captain Tryon; and scrapbook compiled by Pettifer of itinerary, postcards, ephemera, clippings, maps, stamps and photographs etc The diary has daily entries, some very brief, describing the voyage, ports, weather etc rather than Pettifer's work on board the vessel Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Judith Grant, London, Sep 2002 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to the Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - 32 loose photographs (PAColl-7744).

Date: 1940-1944

By: Crump, Douglas Ronald, 1919-1944; Crump, William, active 1950s; Crump, Douglas, active 2000

Reference: PA1-q-764

Description: Photographs taken and collected by 2nd Lieutenant Douglas Ronald Crump prior to his death at La Luna, Italy, 7 August 1944. Album comprises: Photographs of the grave of Douglas Ronald Crump at La Luna, Italy, with Brigadier S H Crump Scenes in Papakura Camp, 1940 Scenes of farewell parade for 5th reinforcements at Auckland Domain, 1941 Scenes on convoy to Middle East, showing ships Nieuw Amsterdan and Mauretania, and views of Sydney and Colombo. Scenes in camp at Maadi and Helwan, Egypt, June 1941; pyramids and sphinx; Divisional swimming sports; manoeuvres; Cairo; Alexandria; No 1 NZ Convalescent Depo, Alexandria; Sinai Desert; Syria; Palestine; Lebanon, Beirut; Damascus; Palmyra; Jerusalem, Bethlehem; Haifa; Tel Aviv Visits to ancient Egyptian sites, including Luxor, the temples at Karnak, the tomb of Tutankhamun, the temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu, and Thebes Scenes on the Nile, including the Assuan Dam, and a BOAC flying boat landing Sporting events, including a rugby match between 4th NZ Armoured Brigade and Welsh representatives at Maadi, 3 Feb 1943; Brigade athletics meet, Littoria Stadium, Cairo, 5 April 1943 Scenes at Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) Views of Bari, Rome and Florence Portraits of Douglas Ronald Crump Album consists of photographs taken and collected by Douglas Ronald Crump (1919-1944) prior to his death, and compiled into an album by his brother, William Crump. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth bound album with red morrocco spine and corners, 28.5 x 33.5 cm

Date: 1880-1900

By: Nelson Camera Club; Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918; Brusewitz, Henry Elis Leopold, 1855-1922; Pitt, Albert, 1841-1906; Gully, Harry Vincent, 1850-1926; Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Gibbs, Frederick Giles, 1866-1953

Reference: PA1-o-413

Description: Album of photographs compiled by the Nelson Camera Club for presentation to its secretary, A H Patterson. It contains views of New Plymouth Breakwater, Nelson, Fisherman's Island, Maitai, French Pass (showing the yacht Jessie Logan), Westport bar (showing ship Waverley), Totaranui and Endeavour (showing yacht Isis), Lake Wakatipu, the dolphin Pelorus Jack, Mahinapua Creek, Woodhaugh (Dunedin), Waimea West, Wairoa gorge, Colombo and Kandy (Sri Lanka), and Pompeii (Italy) Photographers represented are C Y Fell, Henry Brusewitz, Mrs Brusewitz, Albert Pitt, Mrs Blackett, F B Glasgow, Miss N Jones, Hamilton & Redworth, Miss Maginnity, H V Gully, C M Igglesden, Mrs Renwick, H A Hobbs, Miss Baigent, Miss Mules, H Wilkens, P Clifford, F Washbourne, C J Deck, F G Gibbs and A J Glasgow. The presentation of the photograph album to A H Patterson was made on 6 September 1903 at the Nelson Camera Club rooms, Nelson. See "Valedictory Social to Mr A.H. Patterson", 'Colonist'. 7 September 1903, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19030907.2.49 Inscriptions: Album page - "Pictures in Maoriland, etc. Presented to A.H. Patterson, Esq. by the members of the Nelson Camera Club, Nelson, New Zealand, in slight recognition of his valuable services as Honorary Secretary of the club for many years" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, darker brown corners and spine, gilded foredge; 24.5 x 31.0 cm Provenance: Donated by the Department of External Affairs, June 1964 Processing information: Record was updated on 17 October 2002 with information on the presentation date.

Date: 1929-1939

From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain

Reference: PA1-o-985

Description: Album documenting the life and career of Edgar James Kain (1918-1940) from childhood in Wellington until the outbreak of war in 1939. The album includes home life in Wellington, a family climbing holiday in the Southern Alps in 1929, scenes in Christ's College, Christchurch; voyage to England on SS Orford in 1936, including views in Colombo, Aden and Suez); flight training at the Brough Aviation Club; social life, sporting activities and friends in England, France and Italy in the period 1936-1939; and Royal Air Force activities in the period 1937-1939. This album is particularly strong on views of aircraft, personnel, bases and activities of the Royal Air Force in the immediate pre-war years. Kain was posted to No 73 Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force, at Digby, Lincolnshire, in November 1937, flying Gloster Gladiator biplanes. In July 1938 the Squadron became one of the first to receive the new Hawker Hurricane fighters. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Provenance: Donors are Edgar Kain's sisters.

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905

Reference: PA1-q-193

Description: Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s. Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington. There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104). Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]." There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves

Date: 23 Jul 1914-8 May 1915

By: Bayne, James, 1887-1915

Reference: MS-Papers-1418

Description: Diary kept by Bayne while serving as a private in the Ruahine Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion, in Egypt and Gallipoli. The first pages comprise a listing of the officers in Malone's Wellington Infantry Battalion and a timeline of significant dates relating to the start of the First World War. Diary begins on 10 Aug 1914 as Bayne enlists at Dannevirke, is sent to Masterton for equipment and then onto the Awapuni Camp for military training. Further training at Trentham Camp then embarks aboard the `Arawa' to Egypt on 16 Oct 1914. Details shipboard life and gives accounts of the stopovers en-route, included a detailed account of the layover in Colombo. Arrives Alexandria 3 Dec 1914 and gives detailed account of the surrounding buildings, foods and local customs. Continues training at Zeitoun Camp until deployment to the Suez Canal on 25 Jan 1915. Returns to camp and describes living conditions, military life and operations. Diary entry for the "Battle of the Wozzer", 2 Apr 1915. Leaves Alexandria on 10 Apr 1914 aboard the transport `Itonus' for Gallipoli. 25 Apr 1915 is transhipped at 10.30pm to `HMS Bulldog' and taken half a mile from the beach before loading into rowing boats for the remainder of the ANZAC landing. Gives detailed narrative of the fighting and lists soldiers injured in the conflict. Comments on the failed attack on Monash Gully 2 May 1915, leaves Anzac Cove to fight at Cape Helles 6 May 1915. Diary ends 8 May 1915 with Bayne's involvement in preparing for the attack on Krithia. Also includes newspaper report of a memorial service held at Manakau for Bayne, and a newspaper cutting photograph of Private Bayne and New Zealanders on their way to Gaba Tepe. The newspaper cutting that accompanies this diary indicates that this diary was found on Bayne's body five months after his death. Source of title - Supplied Private Bayne fought with the Ruahine Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion, in Gallipoli in 1915. Reported missing in action at Cape Helles, 8 May 1915. Later reported killed in action, 4 Sep 1915. Serial No: 10/44. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (55 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (18 x 11cm, grey card binding), printed matter Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 70 digitised images

Date: 1947-1952

From: Woods Family : Letters and journals of Samuel Edward Woods and other family papers

Reference: MSDL-1821

Description: Digitised journal which records typescript copies of correspondence from Edward Sydney Woods to his family during Woods' visit to New Zealand as the Bishop of Lichfield in 1947 and 1948. Also includes letter for 1952. The letters are addressed to Woods' family and children in England. Many of the letters begin "Beloved Kinders". Included at the beginning of the volume is an itinerary for Woods' visit which details locations visited in Australia and New Zealand as well as ports visited en route from England. The appendix includes copies of published letters sent to the Lichfield Diocesan magazine by Bishop Edward Lichfield. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Digitisation details - Original journal has been digitised by the Library.

Date: 1947-1948

From: Woods Family : Letters and journals of Samuel Edward Woods and other family papers

Reference: MSDL-1822

Description: Digitised journal which records pictorial images of Edward Sydney Woods' visit to New Zealand and Australia as the Bishop of Lichfield in 1947 and 1948. The journal comprises photographs, postcards, ephemera, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, first day covers and printed material. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Digitisation details - Original journal has been digitised by the Library. Pamphlets inside the journal have been opened out and digitised on subsequent pages.