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Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976: Photographs, chiefly Auckland scenes and s...
Date: [1910-circa 1940s]
By: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976; Lackland, Edward Clark, 1898-1970
Reference: PAColl-9936
Description: Photographs taken and collected by Les Rykers in the course of his career as a commercial artist with the Brett Printing and Publishing Company. Photographers unidentified unless listed. Collection comprises: Auckland views: Town Hall circa 1920; Auckland Star offices decorated for coronation of George VI in 1937; aerial view of Auckland circa 1930s-1940s with Jervois Road/Ponsonby area and harbour; inner city view circa 1930s-1940s showing houses in foreground and spire of St Matthews behind; Mechanics Bay, Auckland, circa 1940s with flying boats of TEAL and Pan American World Airways. Shipping photographs: sailing ship in choppy seas taken 1938 by Edward Clark Lackland; passenger ferry and smaller craft at Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island, Auckland, circa 1930; M-class sailing dinghies/yachts at sea, possibly in Auckland, circa 1930s-1940s; montage of windjammer sailing ships at Whanganui dated 16 August 1911; montage dated 23 February 1910 of ship and deck scenes, and Queens Wharf, Auckland, relating to the steam ship 'Malwa'. Two copies of a portrait of Les Rykers. One copy is marked up for publication as a half-tone illustration. Miscellaneous photographs; bird with black cap on head, possibly a Caspian tern, flying and feeding its young, circa 1930s-1940s; horse-drawn wagons on a beach taken circa 1910s-1920s by E C Lackland; a stationary engine circa 1930s-1940s, Maori women in semi-traditional costume by waters edge circa 1930s-1940s; unidentified stream with native bush alongside, circa 1930s-1940s Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) attached to form a wide view. 1 card mount with 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 card mount with 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donor is son of Leslie Rykers. Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 [1. Ca 50 original art works for advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals; 2. Neil Lonsdale "So long it's been good to know you" 1956; 3. J P Sydney "Native bush" etching; 4. Neville L and Trevor Rykers. Illustration sketches. ca 1940]. See also Ephemera collection: [Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald?], 1897-1976: Ephemera; including Teaspoon, the new fragrant tea; Choysa, the tea supreme; O.C. choice rabbit, Zealandia canned fish labels. 1930s?] See also Published collections: two books and two serials. See also Manuscripts collection: MS-Papers-10837: Rykers family: Papers..
Crowds at Mechanics Bay, Auckland, for the arrival of Pan American Airways [survey?] Cl...
Date: Mar 1937
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-03446-G
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Pan American Airways crew member with Maori women
Date: November 1940
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-AVH-17-5-G
Description: Pan American Airways employee handing a box labelled "gas sample" to two Maori women, one of whom is wearing a kakahu (cloak). They are standing alongside a Boeing flying boat of Pan American Airways, moored at Mechanics Bay, Auckland. Photograph taken November 1940 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Flying boats, Mechanics Bay, Auckland
Date: between 25 Dec 1937 - 1 Jan 1938
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/4-048844-G
Description: American Airways Sikorsky flying boat 'Samoan Clipper', and Imperial Airways flying boat 'Centaurus', moored off the Pan-American Airways wharf, at Mechanics Bay, Auckland, between 24 December, 1937 and 1 January, 1938. Photographer unidentified. Caption in Evening Post 13/1/1938 "The Samoan Clipper destroyed by fire - Last visit to NZ. - the lost Samoan Clipper (in the foreground)...with the Imperial Airways flying boat Centaurus behind it..." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative