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Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
- Date
- 1879, [ca 1900-1920s], 1932, 1940, 2004
- By
- Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985; Christie, Alice Jane, 1905-1989McGlinchy, Brian, active 2011
- Reference
- PA-Group-00757
- Description
Photographs collected and/or taken by John Hellard Christie relating to his career and interests. Images were taken by Christie and unidentified photographer(s) circa 1879, and between 1900 and circa 1940.
One small set of copy negatives relates to the Sim and Crombie families.
One set of b&w photographic prints and glass plate negatives relate to the surveying of New Zealand Public works. Negative images include: many unidentified landscape scenes of bush, rivers, beaches and coastline, tussock, mountains, and small settlements including Hunua, Lyall Bay before housing, Banks Peninsula, Bells Falls and Dawson Falls at Mount Taranaki (described as Mt Egmont). This group of outdoors images includes some scenes featuring people: family groups (?), tramping and mountaineering parties, and camping. The set also includes: scenes on a harbour and on an estuary, a hut under construction, family scenes with cars and house. Some plates have inscriptions: 'Bert Corpe Ruapehu', 'York Bay cottage Moreton (or Menton?) family swimming', 'Matuki with Al & Esther', 'wool wagons at Kurou', 'stone arch Albert & Essey river at Matukituki', and 'Wantaki panorama 3 negs with lake filled', and 'HMS Prometheus in dry dock'.
The negative images in this set which were accompanied with annotated paper slips are described on the slips as: a man and the 'Misses Jacobs and Davis beside a coach on Pahautanui Hill Road'; woman and two children in a view of 'Lyall Bay before settlement'; people sailing model yachts on the pond, Newtown Park, 'well before Boer War'; Bell Falls on the Stony River, near Mt Egmont; and a climbing party at Dawson Falls, Mount Egmont. Includes an image showing a bearded male in foreground looking across a crater at three distant figures which is described on the paper slip as 'Egmont prior to 1880, 1st photos taken at summit by JW Davis who also made 1st accurate survey of crater, wet plate and a race to get there before plate dried'.
A backfile for this collection is held in the Photograph Archive files. It contains: original handwritten paper slips [possibly hand of J H Christie] related to negative images, documentation relating to custody and appraisal of collection items, and photocopies of biographical articles on Christie.
Other materials created or collected by John Hellyard Christie are also in other collections held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, see Library references: 85-097; MS-Papers-1463; MS-Papers-4752, and PAColl-2111.
Christie's World War One military uniform is held at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand (registration number PC001008)
Arrangement: The set of negatives acquired in 2011 have two numbering sequences, the original by Christie (see marginal notes on negatives) and ones on stickers stuck on negative surfaces during scanning. The sticker ID relates to the file name of the matching digital scan.
Film copy negatives at 1/2-022119, 028083 to 028085 (PH-94-383), 038410-F (PH-94-385), 1/2-082074-F, 1/2-082077-F to 1/2-082080-F (PH-LBII-015-5)
Glass (original?) negative at 1/2-065382 (PH-94-386).
Negatives from PH-DBII-124-5 are housed at 1/4-090994 and 1/2-186157-G to 186417-G.
Glass negative plates from accession PH-2011-123 are held at 1/2-237586 to-G 1/2-237669-G , and 1/4-128530-G to 1/4-128691-G.
John Hellard Christie was a noted New Zealand civil engineer and mountaineer. During his life, he was able to combine his love of climbing, tramping, exploration, hut building, and mountain history, with his work on New Zealand public works projects such as the Waitaki hydro dam and Homer Tunnel. He led the first traverse of the mountains between Lake Hauroko and Dusky Sound in 1931. The Christie Falls are named for him.
Quantity: 246 electronic scan(s) of b&w original glass negatives. 245 b&w original negative(s) (glass). 48 b&w original negative(s) (glass). 44 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 b&w copy negative(s). 5 box(es) containing 368 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (a spreadsheet index of the glass negatives).
Physical Description: Film and glass negatives, photographic prints.
Provenance: Mr McGlinchy held the collection after it had been bequeathed to the Club by Christie's widow.
Processing information: Some film and glass negatives do not have print or digital copies.
The collection includes a set of original glass negatives and digital files acquired by the Library in 2011. Each image file is an electronic scan of a matching glass plate. Files have an index to the image content.
- Additional description
Condition of a set of glass negatives upon deposit in 2011 means they cannot be accessed unless further conservation treatment is undertaken.
- Use/Reproduction
- Copyright: Please check copyright
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material - Access to most of the content of the collection is unrestricted. Access to a set of glass negatives requiring conservation is restricted. However, there is unrestricted access to their matching digital scans which are described in this collection. Five scans can only be viewed in the Library reading rooms as image content is of a family or personal nature.
- Format
- 246 electronic scan(s) of b&w original glass negatives, 245 b&w original negative(s) (glass), 48 b&w original negative(s) (glass), 44 b&w original photographic print(s), 11 b&w copy negative(s), 5 box(es) containing 368 b&w original photographic print(s), 1 b&w original negative(s), 1 Electronic document(s) (a spreadsheet index of the glass negatives), Digital images, Electronic documents, Electronic records (Digital records), Negatives, Photographs, Film and glass negatives, photographic prints.
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Gertrude Saddle and Quill Memorial
Date: 2 May 1932
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
By: Dallas, David Bruce, 1908-2006
Reference: PAColl-4048
Description: Photographs relating to the memorial to William Quill at Gertrude Saddle. Taken by David Bruce Dallas on the 2nd of May 1932. A memorial to surveyor William Quill was erected on Gertrude Saddle in 1932. Quill died in a climb in this areas. His death was the impetus for the establishment of the New Zealand Alpine Club in March 1891, of which John Hellard Christie was a member. Arrangement: Negatives arranged at 1/2-028083 to 028085-F Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s).
Photographs relating to Apia, Samoa
Date: [ca 1920s]
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: PAColl-0499
Description: Mounted and loose photographs of houses; traditional dance; ships anchored in a harbour; and two men, one holding a child, next to a lagoon. Photographer was A J Tattersall. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).
Hon Robert Semple, Minister of Public Works, with the first pipe placed at the Surrey H...
Date: 19 Oct 1940
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-D-0005
Description: Shows Hon Robert Semple standing beside his car (Worsley) inside a pipe. The dimensions of the pipe are - Internal diamater 12 feet, length 12 feet, weight 28 tons. Photograph taken on the day the first pipe was place, 19 October 1940. Inscriptions: Mat recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin, 30.5 x 38.5 cm with mount Provenance: Donated by J H Christie, 5 August 1955 The photograph had a some time been framed by H Fisher & Son, Christchurch
Photographic prints and postcards
Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-1798
Description: Collection of 29 photographic prints. Includes photographs relating to Fiordland exploration, the Christie family, explorer Donald Sutherland, and cabinet cards of artist Samuel H Moreton. Includes: - studio portrait of Samuel Horatio Moreton, by Wrigglesworth & Binns (matt opal type, cabinet portrait). Annotated verso: "S. H. Moreton in Ch.Ch. - 48 years old, born 1844". And second copy annotated verso: "late Samuel H Moreton artist-explorer about 45 to 48 years of age in 1895". - postcard-back portrait of Alfred Baxter and Cyril White-Parsons, annotated verso: "Alfred Baxter, Chemist, Cyril White-Parsons, traveller, in the Routeburn, Wakatipu with Moreton & A E Wildey 1908-9 Xmas". - portrait of Robert Brown, bryologist. - photograph of subjects posed outside hut, annotated verso: "Moreton with Roy Twynham at Deep Cove Hut 1st Jan 1904". - photographic copy print of portrait of Quintin McKinnon. - Real-Photo postcard "The Routeburn Hut. FG.R.5321". - landscape photographs of Mount Somnus Routeburn, Lower Routeburn, and Lake Howden. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and cabinet cards.
Sutherland's Accommodation House, Milford Sound - Muir & Moodie
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-238621-G
Description: Glass plate copy negative of postcard issued by Muir & Moodie, no. 5307. Caption on original postcard: "5307. Sutherland's accommodation house, Milford Sound N.Z. The finest scenery in the world is on the 'Milford-Te Anau' overland route". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic half plate glass negative.
Christie, Alice Jane, 1905-1989 :Photographs taken by Mr J H Christie of the surveying ...
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
By: Christie, Alice Jane, 1905-1989
Reference: PAColl-0931
Description: Other - See Christie backfile in Photographic Archive for original negative captions Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-090994 and 1/2-186157 to 186417 Quantity: 368 b&w original photographic print(s) in 5 boxes and. 42 b&w original negative(s). 21 container(s) negatives.
Portrait of Donald Sutherland seated in bush holding machete
Date: [ca 1890s]
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-238619-G
Description: Glass plate negative, most likely copy negative of postcard with caption on image. Caption makes reference to Sutherland Falls in Milford Sound. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic half-plate glass negative.
Watercolour by Samuel H Moreton
Date: [ca 1920-1930s]
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-238625-F
Description: Film copy negative of watercolour, most likely by Moreton. Half plate glass negatives original enclosed in box annotated: "Negatives of S H Moretons early watercolours and Archibald Fullerton of HMS Acheron Survey 1848-51 Otago Setts & SHM with autograph signature. All the originals are in possession of Miss E Dunham Elgin Street, Sydenham (1936)". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic film copy negative.
Group portrait
Date: [ca 1890s]
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-238623-G
Description: Photographic glass plate copy negative of group portrait of two men and two woman in outdoor setting. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic half plate glass negative.
Three men and a dog
Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]
From: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-132151-F
Description: Negative of photographic group portrait of three men wearing hats and a dog, circa 1920s-1930s. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic film negative.