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Date: [ca 1855-1930]

By: Wishart, Betty Sylvia, 1909-1990; Barnett, Sally, active 1995

Reference: PAColl-4855

Description: Photographs relate to the Fougere, Beamish and Wishart families of the Chatham Islands. A family tree is included in the collection. As well as people there are photographs of Waitangi, the hotel, the race track on race days, race horses and other locations in the Chatham Islands. There are also post cards with letters from Jack and Sydney Wishart while on military service in Europe during the First World War Source of title - Title supplied by Library These photographs belonged to Miss Betty Wishart (died 1990). Betty was a daughter of Violet Beamish and Elvyn Wishart of the Chatham Islands. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: She was an artist and an aunt of the donor, Sally Barnett

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: 1916-1917

By: Grant, Elsa Gladys, 1891-1981; Kinsella, Alison, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1211

Description: Album of photographs taken by Percy James William Simmons of the 15th Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1916-1917. Includes scenes on the troop ship 'Ulimaroa' en route to Plymouth, Sling Camp and surrounding villages, Messines, and London and Edinburgh on leave. Percy Simmons, son of Edgar and Harriet Simmons of Taumarunui, was engaged to Elsa Bass, a teacher. He sent the photographs to her until his death in action in France, on 8 October 1918, aged 29 years. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth covered album 14.6 x 18.5 containing 67 photographs Provenance: Elsa Bass was the mother of the donor.

Date: May 1918 - January 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1394

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 2 May 1918, called at Wellington (3-9 May 1918), Balboa (28 May 1918), Panama Canal and Colon (29-30 May 1918), Norfolk VA (4-10 June 1918), New York (11-12 June 1918), arrived Liverpool 24 July 1918. Three Transatlantic crossings between Liverpool, Glasgow, and New York, August-November 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with returned New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 2 December 1918, called at Colon (18-19 December 1918), Panama Canal and Balboa (19 December 1918), Auckland (9 January 1919), Wellington (11-15 January 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 16 January 1919. Includes views of Panama Canal locks and gates, ferries at Norfolk VA, United States and British warships, soldiers playing two-up on the ship returning home, and ferries in Auckland Harbour. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm

Date: [1914-1918]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1602

Description: Photographic postcard album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of family, soldiers, rugby, fencing and prisoners of war during the Great War. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 25.5 x 22 cm

Date: [ca 1890s-1919]

From: Clark, Morton, fl 1900s :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9525-2

Description: Postcards collected by Morton Clark and family. Includes a number of postcards addressed to Miss Kathleen Clark (from Fred ?, Harry ?, Uncle Will and Jack Perston) to Mrs Morton Clark (from Fred, possibly a son, and Jack Perston); and Miss Campbell, Nurse at Wellington Hospital (from Sissie Battersby); and stereoscopes of the 1901 royal visit to Rotorua. Quantity: 48 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) stereoscopes.

Date: 1914-1939

By: Qualis Photo Company; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0608

Description: Photographs of life at the New Zealand General Hospital No 1 at Brockenhurst including patients being transferred by stretcher on to the hospital train and a soldier feeding chickens in the grounds. Also in the collection are a number of photographs of men in uniform (few captioned); a postcard of a woman with the message "To Ernie with fond love from Iris"; a man in a buggy harnessed to a horse for trotting races; a family group mostly of girls and young woman; and two faded prints of a soldier getting into a car on street with bunting on the house. Some of the names given are: Cpl W Dennis(?), T Herbert, M O'Connor, Gunner Lay, J Page, Dickenson, Clayton, Young(?), A Ross, J Alen. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1914

By: Walton, William Henry, 1880-1952

Reference: PAColl-8043

Description: Photograph of Takapau Divisional Camp, Hawke's Bay, taken in 1914 by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Takapau Divisional Camp 1914 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15 x 20.3 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr B H Walton, Auckland, in July 2004 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8065 : Walton, William Henry (Rev), 1880-1952 : Papers.

Date: 1915

By: Horan, Bernadette, active 1980

Reference: PAColl-1611

Description: Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-168729 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1914

By: Boyack, Nicholas John, 1961-

Reference: PAColl-1255

Description: Photograph of a group of soldiers - some identified Photograph of William Walter White Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies in one envelope.

Date: 1914, 1925

Reference: PAColl-0171

Description: Unidentified family snapshots, tourist views, schools and World War, 1914-1918 troops Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca1895-1920]

Reference: PAColl-6759

Description: Scenes of returned soldiers being given instruction in agricultural techniques. They include a photograph of the syllabus offered, men in the field tending crops and cows and views of the men in a group eating from billies. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028842 to 028851 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1902 - 1918

From: Caldwell, Richard Pringle, active 1980 :Negatives and prints of Caldwell and Pringle families, Wellington and Makara

Reference: PAColl-3123-2

Description: Groups and individuals, World War one soldiers, Kelburn under construction, motorcycles Arrangement: Previously NegColl-31/1. Ten 35mm copy negatives in registers at 16298-16299. Seven 1/2 plate negatives in registers at (nos still to be allocated, register mislaid 30-nov-1994)

Date: 1914-1918, ca 1970s-1980s

By: New Zealand. Army

Reference: PAColl-3390

Description: Covers a variety of subjects including war gaming, training exercises in New Zealand and overseas, tanks and armoured personel carriers, Great White Fleet in Auckland, coast watching, Malaya, Americans in New Zealand, sentry duty, Artillery, Field hospitals and ambulance, Papua New Guinea Defence Force, Singapore Army, WWI, investitures, parachutes, Maori culture groups, road accidents, bayonet practice Quantity: 82 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I

Reference: PAColl-0400-2

Description: Postcards of nurses and New Zealand army officers convalescing. They include: the hospital ship Marama in Alexandria harbour; one of a soldier in tropical uniform with the caption "Yours severely scorpioned L C Kenney 22/10/15"; two army patients signed "8/3475 L Ballantine 2/10/17" and addressed to Sister Commons at Brockenhurst Hospital; and one captioned Epsom Nursing Division St John's Ambulance from which the workers of the Epsom Convalescent Home are drawn with the following names: back row - Nurses Craig, Snelling, Reid, Morton, Beale, McLaughlan, Walsh, Cumming, Young; middle row - Nurses Baird, Sinclair, Oliphant, Neill, Commons, Dawason, Chamtalour, Goodfellow, Summer, Clark, Daubney, Mackay, M Hesketh; front row - Nurses Buller, Butler, Turner, Firth (superintendant), Dr Dudley, Towle, Abbott, Macfarlane. Quantity: 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1916 - 1917

Reference: PA1-o-796

Description: Shows life in Trentham & Featherston camps, voyage from Wellington on SS Devon, South Africa, England, France and Belgium. Foote worked in the Divisional Signals Company of the NZEF Engineers and was asked to join the Tui Pierrots in 1918. Includes a group photograph of the Pierrots and their manager Lieutenant Shayle Gardner. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1916

By: Richards, John, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5619

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - Trentham Military Camp, 1914 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) Both prints have been hand coloured.. Processing information: Dated 1916 after additional information about buildings from researcher and comparison with similar images in Upper Hutt City Library and Archives New Zealand databases

Date: 1915-1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PAColl-9855-1

Description: Loose prints associated with Jessie Mary Mackersey's album. These include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey, London ca 1917. Portrait of Wastel Briscoe born 1888-died Gallipoli 19 May 1915. Group of Soldiers of 24th Rifles, Featherston Military Camp. Group on the deck of `Prinzessan' en route for New Zealand, 1919. Colon and Church of Christ by the sea, 1919. Views of the Panama Canal and its technologies seen from the ship, 1919. Albert Memorial, London. Holiday at Lake Waikaremoana includes - View of the lake, Papakorito Falls, and friends of Lindsay Mackersey. Photographs of soldiers include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey with unidentified soldier. Studio portrait of Leslie Mackersey, Blake Mason and two unidentified soldiers, 1916. Group of unidentified soldiers probably in New Zealand. Voyage to New Zealand on `Prinzessan' via Panama Canal 1919, and holiday at Lake Waikaremoana. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand.

Date: 1914-1917

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

Reference: PA1-o-1552

Description: Photograph album compiled by R V Kay for his future wife Sybil. Includes photographs of automobile travel, gardens, picnics, parties, golf, suspension bridges, motorcycles, New Zealand soldiers on troopship, military training in England, soldiers at Stonehenge and family and friends. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Sybil, with love from Reg Aug '17 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 140 x 165 mm

Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm