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Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-076

Description: An account of the life and times of the Hopkins family, in particular George and Adelaide who emigrated with five children in 1874 on the Golden Sea. Seven more children were born in Masterton. The writer follows the life of the seventh child Charles, on the land and during World War I, and married life Publication - Essay published in `Our lesser stars' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Family photographs including one of pupils at Kohinui School 1932

Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1914 and 1918]

From: Sullivan, Romola Frances, 1923- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9077

Description: Photograph of group of men in front of a tent, probably at Featherston Army Camp, taken ca 1914-1918 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.8 x 14 cm

Date: 1917-1919

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1060

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of 33rd Reinforcements training in Wairarapa, 1917 and at sea troopship life 1918 (Jan-Feb) on 'S.S. Athenic' via the Panama Canal. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 275 x 230 mm

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: PAColl-6718

Description: Photographs of the internment camp on Somes Island: internees and guards on their way to the island on the Janie Seddon; two of groups of internees; two of a German band giving a concert on the parade ground; a working party; the arrival of some internees; a bull; view of the camp area where the two-storey blocks were for internees and the low blocks were for guards; the lighthouse and other buildings on the island; and three guards in army uniforms on board the Janie Seddon. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1900-1902, [ca1916]-1918

From: Golder family : Diaries

Reference: Micro-MS-0895-2

Description: Comprises John Golder's diary, Aug 1900-Nov 1902 (volume six) and Alexander Golder's diary, ca 1916-1918 (volume seven). John Golder was the son of William and Mary Golder, Hutt Valley resident and in charge of road construction for Hutt County Council. Alexander Golder (son of John Golder) fought in France during the First World War. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (182 frames). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter

Date: 1914-1917

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1553

Description: Photographs relating to R V Kay and his training in the 33rd Reinforcements at Trentham and Featherston military training camps during World War I. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - top centre - W.W.I. 33rd Reinforcements, 1917, Camps Trentham, Featherston, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 140 x 165 mm

Date: [ca 1916-1920]

From: Wellington Savage Club : Records

Reference: 85-027-4/06

Description: Christmas card from Camel Corps, NZEF (with photo inside of 4 named men on camels), 1917; postcard of group of `early settlers' on Aurora taking part in the Petone Pageant, 7 May 1920'; NZ Engineers, NZEF Christmas card, 1918; and other cards and postcards Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2015 - 1915

Reference: Eph-G-DRAMA-2015-01

Description: Sign advertises a play about New Zealanders' involvement in the Gallipoli campaign in World War I shows the silhouette of a soldier in a lemon-squeezer hat, and a craggy headland. The sky behind is gradated orange-yellow. Sign was previously bolted to a support down both sides (there are four holes on each side) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print on corflute, 1200 x 900 mm.

Date: [ca 1913, 1915-1922]

From: Lockett family: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1861

Description: Photograph album relating to Edith Constance Lockett of Lower Hutt, Wellington, illustrating her family life and her brother Kenneth Ewart Lockett's military service. Images taken by E C Lockett and unidentified photographer(s) ca 1915-1920s. Album inscribed 'Edith C Lockett, Lower Hutt, Feb 10th 1917' on inside front cover, and likely compiled by Edith Lockett. The album contains images of the Lockett family, particularly Edith Lockett and her siblings, Kenneth Ewart, Winifred Maud, and Edward William Lockett. The album also contains group portraits with Edith Lockett's parents, Ada Florence (nee Harrowby) and Henry George Lockett, and members of their extended family and friends, chiefly taken at the family home at 14 Stevens Grove, Lower Hutt. The album also has photographs from Kenneth Ewart Lockett's military service in World War One from November 1916 onward, and shows Kenneth and other soldiers at their camp, and includes images of army tents at an unknown location. The album also includes images of recreation activities primarily by women, such as women swimming and both men and women at the beach. Some photographs show women playing croquet and tennis, and with horses. There are also photographs in the album of bicycles and automobiles. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Edith C Lockett Lower Hutt Febry 10th 1917 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Small maroon leather album, measuring 18 x 15.5 cm

Date: 1916

From: Sullivan, Romola Frances, 1923- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6777

Description: Postcard photograph showing the Post and Telegraph staff at Featherston Military Camp in 1916. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-0894-1/2-G

Date: ca1915-1934

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6972-1

Description: Agnes Bennett at her house "Honda II" at Lowry Bay, Lower Hutt City, in 1933 and 1934. Several photographs show her at "Honda II" with a group of visiting English school girls. Various unidentified family photographs. Views of the battlefields at Ypres, Belgium, and Dr F D Bennett among war graves at Ypes Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca1914]-1954

From: Featherstone, Paul, fl 2006 :Photographs of World War I soldiers and the Royal Tour 1953-1954

Reference: PAColl-8952-1

Description: New Zealand soldiers, World War One. Unloading oysters, Bluff. Royal tour decorations and the Queen on the wharf, Bluff. Woburn, Lower Hutt, from the air. Mrs Elinor Roosevelt at the Ford Motor Co, Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Souvenier photographs of Auckland and Invercargill. Postcard view of the Centennial Exhibition, Rongatai, Wellington, 1939-1940. Unidentified stone church, Queenstown. Unidentified wrecked ship. Unidentified suburban houses. World War Two army encampment. Japanese Commander signing surrender after the fall of Singapore to the Allies. Lord Louis Mountbatten speaking in Singapore. Building belonging to S.Ward (NZ) Ltd. Clock tower, Sumner, Christchurch. Views of Picton. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s) 21 prints on 5 album pages.

Date: 1917

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1917

Description: Includes programmes for the following performances: Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. Country tour. "Cavalleria rusticana", "I pagliacci", "Il trovatore", "Faust", "Carmen". [1917]. Brief programme pamphlet Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. "La boheme" (1 January 1917), "Un ballo in maschera" (2 January), "Lucia de [di] Lammermoor" (3 January), "Faust" (4 & 6 January), "Rigoletto" (5 January), "Il trovatore" (6 January). His Majesty's Theatre Auckland 1917. Programme Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. "Lucia de [di] Lammermoor" (5 February), "Faust" (6 February), "Carmen" (7 & 10 February), "Mignon" (8 February), "Rigoletto" (9 February), "Madam Butterfly" (10 February). Theatre Royal Christchurch, 1917. Programme J & N Tait's New Musical Comedy Company presents "Very good Eddie". Grand Opera House, 8 August 1917. Programme J & N Tait's New Musical Comedy Company presents "The white chrysanthemum"; a musical extravaganza in three acts. Grand Opera House Wellington, commencing 15 August 1917. Programme J C Williamson's New Musical Comedy Company in "So long Letty", "Tonight's the night", "The girl in the train", [and] "High jinks". Grand Opera House Wellington, commencing 4 January 1917. Programme (2 copies) J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The cinema star", [and] "The pink lady". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 5 November 1917. Programme J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The pink lady" [and] "The cinema star". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 5 November 1917. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes and flyers, sizes ranging under 250 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: From 1911 to 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: ca 1885-ca 1925

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0279-1

Description: Photographs of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, World War, 1914-1918; New Zealand scenery and Truby King with Plunket Society Presidents. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-204

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Wellington - Bryant & May (employees playing tennis); Cenotaph with Government House and Parliament Building in background; Rangatira at Lyttelton Wharf; aerial view of railway station and wharves; aerial view of Kelburn, 1939; Pigeon Park showing Manners Street & Dixon Street intersection looking towards Courtenay Place; Weir House with Mount Victoria etc in background; elevated views of the city from Tinakori Hills; Sydney Street under construction, 1939; garages in Sydney Street; Herd Street Post Office, 1950; Wellington Zoo showing children having an elephant ride; Worser Bay; sunbathers at Oriental Bay; view of Oriental Bay from grassy area above the bay; inner city tennis club (with Carillon in background); Carlton Gore Road and Oriental Parade looking west; Jervois Quay showing intersection of Cable Street and Wakefield Street; houses above Evans Bay; houses at Days Bay; tree planting in Highbury Street, 1948; cars on Hutt motorway, 1947; traffic signs; pohutukawa tree on The Terrace, 1946; Queens Wharf, 1860; policeboat, 1948; tree planting at Kelburn/Highbury on Arbor Day 1948 (including photo of young Christopher Rollings); Percy Reserve, Lower Hutt. Auckland - Winter Gardens at Auckland Domain; Auckland War Memorial Museum; car boarding the vehicular ferry, 1935; Auckland Harbour Board crane being towed by the launch Te Hauraki at Auckland Western Viaduct, 1949. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9529

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of the Wellington 5th Regiment (1915), Wellington 33rd Reinforcements (B Coy), 14th Annual NZ University Tournament (Auckland, 1915), Public Trust Annual Picnic (1920), Nelson College 2nd XV, and Victoria University College 'B' Hockey Team (1919). Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s).