Slums - New Zealand - Auckland Region

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Manuscript

Miscellaneous New Zealand publications

Date: [ca 1910-1966]

From: Douglas, Roger Owen (Hon Sir), 1937- : Papers relating to Norman Douglas, MP

Reference: MS-Papers-7139-10

Description: Includes publications written by John A Lee, and others. Quantity: 1 box(es) (file box).

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Photographs of substandard housing and state housing developments in Auckland

Date: 1937, 1938, 1942

From: Orchiston, Bruce Elwyn, 1914-2005 :Photographs of New Zealand slums

Reference: PAColl-6013-1

Description: Photographs of state housing projects at Orakei and the Casey Estate, Auckland, taken 1937-1938 by the Department of Housing Construction, and photographs of substandard housing in inner city Auckland, taken by Bruce Orchiston. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photographs used in "The case against slums"

Date: 1937-1941

From: Orchiston, Bruce Elwyn, 1914-2005 :Photographs of New Zealand slums

Reference: PAColl-6013-6

Description: Photographs of state housing projects and substandard housing taken 1937-1938 by the Department of Housing Construction, and photographs of substandard housing in inner city Auckland and Wellington taken by Bruce Orchiston. These photographs were used in two articles by Bruce Orchiston entitled "The case against slums", published in "Home & Building" December 1943 and March 1944. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies of "the case against slums", and the envelopes in which the negatives were originally housed, are housed with this collection..

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McNaughton, Henry Leslie, d 1969 :Album showing housing conditions in Freeman's Bay, Ne...

Date: [late 1930s]

By: McNaughton, Henry Leslie, -1969; Woodward, Joan, active 1960s-1990s

Reference: PA1-o-914

Description: Album showing housing conditions in Newton Gully, Ponsonby and Freeman's Bay, compiled by H L McNaughton, headmaster of Grey Lynn School in Surrey Crescent, as part of an investigation undertaken in the late 1930s into the living conditions of children attending his school. The album also contains H L Mc Naughton's report to the Department of Health. The area in which these photographs were taken is bounded by Nelson Street, Union Street, Fanshaw Street and Victoria Park Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Joan Woodward's father was headmaster of Grey Lynn School in the 1940s, after H L McNaughton.