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AFCM album 2
Date: Between 1910s and 1930s
From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PA1-f-002
Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.
Aked, M S :Twenty-six F G Barker photographs of the construction of the Kelburn Viaduct...
Date: 1930-1931
By: Aked, M S, active 1990s; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PAColl-3228
Description: The photographs show the construction of and the completed Kelburn Viaduct, and one photograph of W E Aked the chief engineer for the site. Several of the photographs are long views that show large portions of the suburb of Kelburn Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Twenty-six 160 x 210mm photoprints and one 145 x 95mm photoprit mounted in a folder
Hawke's Bay Region
Date: 1931 - 1950
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Whites Aviation Ltd; Orr, R W, active 1950; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947; Wilson, James Lloyd, 1915-1980
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-033
Description: Photographs of the Hawke's Bay Region, 1931 to 1950, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of the Hawke's Bay flood of 1938, Lake Waikaremoana, Napier city and Cape Kidnappers. Photographers include R W Orr, Lloyd Wilson and White's Aviation. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Photographs, including two relating to Bob Davidson's service during World War I
Date: [ca 1914-1915], [ca 1930]
From: Treadwell family: Photographs
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PAColl-10230
Description: Photographic prints collected by Lancely Treadwell comprising: -two group portraits of men in army uniform, relating to Bob Davidson's service during World War I, taken circa 1914 and 1915 by unidentified photographers. One shows a group in Egypt with a pyramid and a sphynx in the background behind the men. -Parade on Courtenay Place/Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, circa 1930, taken by Frank Giles Barker from the site of what is the Embassy Theatre in 2014. One of the floats is a locomotive. The donor said Davidson was from Feilding. The Davidson recorded in the name authority by the archivist is the only Robert Davidson on the Centotaph database that is listed as being from Feilding. He is not identified in the photographs. The name M A Bassett features as an inscription on one of the prints but this name is not known to the donor. Relationship complexity - The image at PAColl-10230-1 is also at the beginning of album PA1-o-1821. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Bob Davidson is the brother of the donor's grandmother.
Bulleyment-Fortune :Photographs of the Levy Building in Wellington, by F G Barker
Date: 1930
By: Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm); Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PAColl-2108
Description: Taken shortly after completion. The building is on the corner of Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photoprints 310 x 370mm Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - photographs relate to Plans 91-1389 and 91-1398 in Drawings & Prints Collection.
Photographs of Hannah's shops, Leeds Street Factory, and company staff
Date: 1879-1889, [ca 1910s], 1928, 1930-1942, [ca 1950s-1970s]
From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Batchelor's Candid Studio; Don & Beatrice Peat Studio; Redfern Studios Ltd; Russell Orr Ltd; Filmograph Company (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-10468-2
Description: Contains photographs of Hannah's shops throughout New Zealand, the R. Hannah & Co. Ltd factory in Leeds Street, and company staff. Photographs were taken between 1879 and the 1970s by the Filmograph Company Wellington, F. G. Barker, Russell Orr, Batchelor’s Candid Studio, Redfern Studios, K. E. Niven Studio, Don & Beatrice Peat Studio, Jerome Studios, and other unidentified photographers. Photographs relating to Hannah's shops show building exteriors and window displays throughout New Zealand between 1928 and circa 1980s: Ashburton, Napier (showing earthquake damage in 1931), Masterton, Wellington (Cuba Street and Lambton Quay), Greymouth, and Auckland (Queen Street, Otahuhu). Other prints depict staff, customers, and shoe displays inside shops in Blenheim, Tauranga, and at 230 Heretaunga Street, Hastings. Further photographs also relate specifically to Hannah’s shops in the Hawke’s Bay, likely during the 1940s and 1950s. Eight prints depict the exterior and interior of a shop identified as “Hastings Branch”. Twelve prints relating to the opening of Hannah's 48th branch on Emerson Street, Napier, show signs announcing an opening sale, customers waiting outside, and the shop filled with staff, customers, shoes, and price signs. Other prints depict similar sales in Greymouth and Whakatane. Nine prints depict the Leeds Street factory interior and successive stages of the mechanised shoe manufacturing process, circa 1908. Prints show the factory layout, women sewing, men using different machines to assemble shoes and attach soles or heels, people packing shoes for dispatch, supervisors in white lab coats, and stacked raw materials or half-finished shoes. One print depicts the view towards Wellington Harbour over houses and commercial buildings on Cuba, Marion and Leeds streets. Several buildings are labelled: R. Hannah & Co., Aspro, People’s Palace, and C & A Odlin Timber & Hardware Co. Ltd. A 1952 copy print is an oblique projection line drawing of the Leeds Street factory. Photographs of staff include portraits of Robert Hannah (circa 1880s), William Hannah (circa 1930), S. L. Blank (1964), R. J. McAsley (1971), and Finance Director N. East (circa 1960s). Group portraits include two prints depicting workers outside the entrance to the R. Hannah Co. Ltd Cuba Street factory and first Cuba Street shop in 1879. Six other group portraits depict possibly managers in the Wellington warehouse "Conference Room" (1966), and supervisors "on occassion of retirement party" (1975). Named staff include: D. C. Brown, D. R. Watt, W. Davis, A. Dowdle, W. Muller, R. McIntyre, F. Owers, A. D. Anton, H. C. Campion, R. Parkes, H. T. Hutton, A. W. Pike, D. G. Finlayson, D. L. Travers, A. Cornish, R. J. Laffan, F. Wigney, J. F. Crump, G. T. Hedges, H. J. Lichtwark, Ray Jones, Denny Dawe, Doug Askew, Hal Crooks, Doug Luke, Ian Walker, and Rex Gardiner. Remaining prints show a Hannah’s shoes display at the 1952 Wellington Winter Show, Robert Hannah and another man with a car (1928), and a horse-drawn float displaying Hannah’s Christmas advertising in a parade at the Basin Reserve (1928). Arrangement: Chronological. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 83 photographic prints
By the Kelburn cable car incline, Wellington
Date: ca 1928
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: 1/2-154530-F
Description: Scene by the Kelburn cable car incline, Wellington, circa 1928. Shows houses on Rawhiti Terrace in the centre. An unidentified man in the foreground holds a camera. Looks towards the harbour. Photograph taken by Frank Giles Barker. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Photo F G Barker 948; On original postcard, bottom left: Wellington Harbour from Kelburn, NZ Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Photograph of Ford V8 motor cars on an assembly line
Date: 1939
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: MNZ-1566-1/2-F
Description: Photograph of Ford V8 motor cars on an assembly line. Photographed by Frank G Barker in 1939 Caption from "Making New Zealand" reads: "An example of electric lighting in New Zealand Industry" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print