IMAGE
Le Quesne, Fred, fl 1914-1960 :Photographs of soldiers, women, English towns, and New Zealand coastal ships
- Date
- 1914-1960
- By
- Le Quesne, Fred, active 1914-1960; Hubbard, Alastar, active 2006
- Reference
- PAColl-8828
- Description
Photograph album which includes photographs of World War 1 soldiers, women, English towns and countryside, and New Zealand coastal ships..
Soldiers include a group taken in a paddock during a break on the way to Greytown, another in the grounds of a hospital or park in England, and individual soldier portraits.
Women's portraits appear throughout the album. One appears more often than the others. Her name is Hepsey Egerton, an English woman whoes married name was Dalkin. Two packets of photographs sent by her to Fred Le Quesne in about the 1980s, came loose in the album.
Postcards of English towns include Gnosall, Stafford, Ross, Monmouth, and Great Malvern.
The New Zealand shipping is mainly pictures of ketches, scows, some other sailing ships, and views of ships at unidentified ports. Other ships are passenger liners of the 1930s period, and iron hulled sailing ships, all photomechanical prints mostly from photographs by J H Kinnear.
Source of title - Title supplied by Library
Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-112459-F to 1/2-112466-F, and 35mm-82822 to 35mm-82823.
Quantity: 1 album(s).
Transfers: Transfer information - From Published Collections.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 1 album(s), Photographs
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Photographs of soldiers, women, English towns, and New Zealand coastal ships
Date: 1914-1960
From: Le Quesne, Fred, fl 1914-1960 :Photographs of soldiers, women, English towns, and New Zealand coastal ships
Reference: PA1-q-956
Description: Photograph album which includes photographs of World War I soldiers, women, English towns and countryside, and New Zealand coastal ships. Soldiers include a group taken in a paddock during a break on the way to Greytown, another in the grounds of a hospital or park in England, and individual soldier portraits. Women's portraits appear throughout the album. One appears more often than the others. Her name is Hepsey Egerton, an English woman who's married name was Dalkin. The postcards of English towns include Gnosall, Stafford, Ross, Monmouth, and Great Malvern. The New Zealand shipping is mainly pictures of ketches, scows, some other sailing ships, and views of ships at unidentified ports. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Photographs of ships and others relating to Hepsey Dalkin
Date: [ca1914-ca1965]
From: Le Quesne, Fred, fl 1914-1960 :Photographs of soldiers, women, English towns, and New Zealand coastal ships
Reference: PAColl-8828-1
Description: Photomechanical images of ships, and photographs relating to Hepsey Dalkin. The steam ships include SS "Rotorua" of the New Zealand Shipping Co, SS "Port Hunter" of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, SS "Athenic" of the Shaw, Savill & Albion Co, RMS "Aorangi" of the Union Steamship Co, SS "Canadian Cruiser" of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, SS "Westmoreland" of the Federal SN Co, HMS "Renown," and RMS "Niagara." Images of sailing ships include "ER Sterling," "White Pine," "Rona," "Rothesay Bay," "Senorita," "Ilma," "Tonowanda," "Golden Gate," "Louisa Craig," and "Ysabel." Most of the sailing ship appear to be iron hulled. Photographs relating to Hepsey Dalkin date from 1917 to the 1960s. Most are small snapshots from the 1920s of Hepsey with her friends, with her family, and of herself. A formal photograph of 1917 shows the whole Egerton family. Later photographs show her with her grandchildren. A formal photograph of New Zealand soldiers taken during the First World war, and another of a sail boat. Relationship complexity - All of the photographs in this collection are loose prints from album PA1-q-956. Quantity: 19 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 31 b&w original photographic print(s).