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Date: 1942-1943

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PA1-f-259

Description: Most of the photographs relate to the remedial treatment camp set up in Rotorua. On the first page, the photographs are flanked by newspaper cuttings about another camp set up for the same purpose at Papakura, Auckland. The photographs on this page may relate to the Papakura camp. Most of the photographs are of groups of men doing various forms of excersise, and playing sport. There are group photographs of men in military uniform and others of groups posing with tennis raquets and medicine balls. Other photographs record the launch of "Bonds for Bombers" campaign in Rotorua, March 1942, and the ANZAC parade 1942 (also Rotorua). There are seven original cartoon drawings of military personnel by Stenberg. These were used in the Rotorua camp's newspaper. The photographs are supported by many newspaper cuttings about the camps and their purpose. There is a photograph relating to the camp newspaper "The Arawa Guerilla" and two copies of the paper are pasted onto the same page. Other newspaper cuttings and two programmes relate to a very successful entertainment developed by the men in the Rotorua camp. This was "Splitzkreig Army Review" which from September 1942 to March 1943 toured the upper North Island and raised 2,000 pounds for the Patriotic Fund. Remedial treatment camps were set up for men who had been judged by the military medical authorities as unfit for military service, but whoes ailments were considered curable. Examples of the sorts of conditions treated are knee problems, flat feet, \"underdevelopment,\" nervous conditions, and chronic backache. The Rotorua camp occupied Arawa Park, and the racecourse. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1924-ca1980

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PAColl-0639

Description: Most of the black and white photographs date from the late 1920s to ca 1950. Of these there are quite a large number of early prints from the late 1920s to the mid 1930s. Most of these have not been "pictorialised" in the soft focus style Searle used for his later finished work. They are small snapshot sized and sharp and clear in detail. The general range of their subject matter sums up Searle's range of interests, photographically speaking, throughout his life. This general subject range is as follows - Railways, family friends and weddings (women and children predominate), Wellington city, Ships, Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington Zoo (mainly animal studies), ANZAC Days, Some sports, aircraft, some other New Zealand towns, military training Second World War, some overseas trips of which those to New Caledonia during the Second World War and later were the most significant, and landscape studies. This last category makes up the largest group of photographs in the collection, especially in the later "pictorial" prints. Though the majority are unlabeled, most have at least one with identification written on the back - though to find these would require looking through some thousands of prints. Most of the pictorialised photographs have been printed on a pale creamy - brown paper which gives them an antique and arty appearence. Most have been manipulated to soften the focus, at times creating a painterly effect or the effect of some lithographs of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. A few have been treated to look like pencil drawings. Though most are landscapes there are also a fair number of architectural shots and flower studies, and some Māori subjects and portraits. Landscapes are predominantly attempts to emulate the sublime and classical/romantic traditions. Mountains and glaciers, humanised landscapes, with or without sheep, reminiscent of the creations of the 18th century English landscape designers, are most common. A fair number of the latter have been taken in some of our larger public parks and gardens. Humans very seldom feature in them. There are several essays of the Pinnacles at Palliser Bay. Many of the same images have been used over and over again. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-096421 to 096718 and 098069 to 099110; 1/2-178222 to 178231 Quantity: 7320 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 album(s). 214 b&w original negative(s) of which 204 are 35mm strips comprising 632 images. 162 colour original photographic print(s). 3100 colour original transparency/ies. 33 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1936-1941

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1794

Description: Don Peat's own album aquired when he was 15 years old. Contents include - Group of schoolboys and a De Haviland aircraft at Wigram in 1936. The Merivale boy scouts, Christchurch, 1937. Portrait of St Mary's Church, St Albans, Christchurch, 1937. Governor General, Lord Galway at presentation of a new guiden (flag) to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Hagley Park, 1937. Wellington Railway Station. World War One field gun. Flying boat on Wellington harbour. Nazi flag on the last German ship to come to Wellington before the Second World War, ca 1939. Ocean liner `Strathmore,' at Wellington wharves. Portrait of Bob Semple. Don Peat with friends and in military uniform, 1939-1940. Soldiers, Second World War, in Wellington. Views of the Nurses Home, Wellington Hospital. Don Peat and his parents, Whanganui 1940. Soldiers in training, Trentham, 1940. Views of the ship `Doric Star' sunk in 1940. Soldiers in training at Waiouru, 1941. This includes a group of photographs recording a comic mock battle enacted by soldiers. Soldiers on leave in Christchurch, May 1941. Hand coloured images of Maori men posing as `old time' warriors, 1939. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1938-ca 1945

By: Robinson, Marian Grace, 1931-2002

Reference: PA1-o-839

Description: Shows Somes Island during period James Kennedy Weir was caretaker for Department of Agriculture. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The donor of this album, Marian Grace Robinson, and its compiler, Susan Isabella Millwood, were daughters of James Kennedy Weir who was the Department of Agriculture's caretaker on Somes Island, Wellington Harbour, during the 1930s/1940s.

Date: 1939-1945

From: Scott, Thomas Henry, 1918-1960 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5849-1

Description: The men detained as defaulters, views of the camp, occupations which include gardening, woodwork and metalwork. There are views of interiors such as dining halls and workshops, and entertainment events devised by the detainees. Quantity: 156 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-5848

Description: Photograph of Maori and Pakeha man picking cabbages on a State Services vegetable garden, ca1939-1940. ca 1939-1945. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1887-1950s]

By: Seaward, Neville Stephen, 1913-2005; Tan, Sunny, active 2011

Reference: PAColl-9900

Description: One group portrait, an albumen print, of men with guns, possibly hunters, titled 'At the Butts Reefton Queen's Jubilee'. Notes on back read 'Luch. NZ Alpine Photo'. Photographer unidentified. Taken in 1887 or 1897 (The Golden Jubilee of 1887 celebrated 50 years of Queen Victoria's reign. Her Diamond Jubilee was held in 1897.) One of men and a woman in a canoe on the Avon River, Christchurch, taken circa 1900 by an unidentified photographer. One of Dawson Falls Mountain House, Mount Taranaki, showing children outside, taken circa 1900 by an unidentified photographer. Four taken during World War II comprising: A scene with troops on board a ship to Crete, Greece, showing Maori troops, possibly members of the Maori Battalion, performing an action song. They appear to be being accompanied by a piano accordian; Undated photograph of New Zealand troops playing rugby in Egypt before a very large crowd; a photograph of the camp at the 1st New Zealand General Hospital, Helwan, Egypt, 14 Jan 1941, with 'KSRA' noted on the back; soldier at an unidentified location photographing a tree with external roots and multiple trunks. Four scenic views of New Zealand taken circa 1950s. Three are taken by N S Seaward and show Wellington Harbour and surrounds, Milford Sound, and Queenstown. The fourth shows Oriental Bay, Wellington, and is taken by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and an albumen print Provenance: Donated by Sunny Tan, Wellington, 2011 Transfers: To Other - From Cartoon Archive: B-184-066 to B-184-070, and C-164-048: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- : [6 cartoons by Trace Hodgson] - To Ephemera Collection - Tanner Bros Ltd : The water front, Auckland. For auld lang syne. Maoriland postcard. FT Series X.2/704. [ca 1910] (Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Auckland-1910-01).

Date: [ca 1946]

From: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994 :Photographs

By: New Zealand. National Publicity Studios

Reference: PAColl-9548-27

Description: Photographs of New Zealand. These include:- Health care - Hospitals. School milk. Child care. Dentistry. District nurses in schools. Rehabilitation of returned soldiers - Trade training. Loans for farms and houses. Businesses. University education. Views of New Zealand - Ngahauranga Gorge Road. Wanganui. New Plymouth. Athol, Southland. Turinga Kuma Saddle. Geyser, Whakarewarewa. Swordfish. Dunedin. Waitomo. White Island. Mount Egmont. Bream Head, Whangarei. Mount Cook. Tasman and Franz Joseph glaciers. Milford Sound. Buller River. Punakaiki. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2 December 1942

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

Reference: EP-Defence-US Marine Division (New Zealand 1942)-02

Description: A soldier of the United States Marine Corps drinking milk from a bottle, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in December 1942. Caption - Some of the US Marines now visiting New Zealand make milk a part of their diet, and all unite in declaring that New Zealand milk is good. Photo released for publication 2 December 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.8 x 16.2 cm

Date: 1939-1945

From: Klee, A A (Mr), fl 1998 :Photographs of New Zealand soldiers and scenes of military training from the South African War to World War II

Reference: PAColl-5657-12

Description: Group of men on a boat off Seatoun Beach towing targets for shell practice, World War Two. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time between 1939 and 1945. The guns firing the shells were at Fort Dorset. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 14.6 x 14.2 cm

Date: [1939-1945]

From: Macpherson, Beverley :Photographs relating to the McCracken family

Reference: PAColl-8577-2-016

Description: View of the Te Mata Home Guard Mounted Rifles in formation on their horses at Ruapuke. Their leader is R J Nicholson. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time between 1939 and 1945. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Home Guard; Verso - top centre - Te Mata Home Guard Mounted Rifles taken at Ruapuke. Leader R J Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.5 x 15.3 cm

Date: ca 1942

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000135-F

Description: Carpenter constructing a food store for the United States servicemen's camps at Paekakariki. Photograph taken by John Pascoe circa 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1944

By: MacDonnell, J, active 1944

Reference: B-132-005

Description: Shows Captain Quartermaster J F Cody (lighting a cigarette) with twelve of his colleagues at Trentham Military Training Camp; some of them have signed beside their likenesses. These include: N P K Holbeck, J Black, A J Glue, A E Paine (holding a pack of packets of "Camel" cigarettes), H Bennett, E F Robertson, G Matthews, W Evans, E T Law, D G Thompson (smoking a pipe) and F Cluff[?]. Holbeck, Evans and Robertson may have been cooks. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on card, 431 x 528 mm. Provenance: Donated by Patricia Fry in 2000.

Date: 2 December 1942

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

Reference: EP-Defence-US Marine Division (New Zealand 1942)-01

Description: Two soldiers of the United States Marine Corps drinking milk from bottles, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in December 1942. Caption - United states Marines now visiting this Dominion are very partial to milk and make it one of the principal parts of their diet declaring that New Zealand milk is good. Image was released for publication 2 December 1942, and was published in the Evening Post 19 December 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.8 x 16.2 cm

Date: [ca 1852-1975]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-13

Description: Includes:- Chasing whales. Celebrating the end of world War II in Wellington and Auckland, 1945. Troops departing or returning, World War II. Japanese prisoner of war camp, Featherston, 1943. Poet James K Baxter and mother Millicent Baxter. Protest group, 1960s. A woman with a dolphin. Whakarewarewa. Children performing to tourists for money. Interior of meeting house at Mangamaunu near Kaikoura. Portrait of a Maori woman by photographer John McGarrigle. Portrait of a tattooed man. Portrait of Caroline and Sarah Barrett, ca 1852. Portrait of Maggie Papakura. Women at a tangi near Whanganui. Portrait of Wharekauri Tahuna, a favourite subject of artist Frederick Goldie. Group of alternative lifestylists ? in delapidated interior, ca 1960s-1970s. [From attached note] 43 photos for 35mm transparencies. Michael King : History (ready for June 4). Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints