Photographs, including two relating to Bob Davidson's service during World War I

Date
[ca 1914-1915], [ca 1930]
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.

Access restrictions
No access restrictions
Part of
Treadwell family: Photographs
Format
3 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin prints
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