McComb transparencies one

Transparency slides showing South Island scenes taken by Kevin James McComb, circa 1955, while on a road trip around New Zealand.

Scenes in cities and towns show cable car advertising “DCT Mornington” on a Dunedin street outside a National Party office; view of Port Chalmers and Otago Harbour; a Donald Duck statue on the awning of T & J Thomson Ltd and a view of Caroline Bay, Timaru; lake and parked cars, Wanaka; Lyttelton with port in foreground; swimmers and sunbathers on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown; an unidentified woman pushing a child in a pram across a bridge over the Avon River, Christchurch as well as another image of seagulls on the riverbank; Picton, Marlborough Sounds, seen from wharf.

Scenes relating to roads show Arthur's Pass, with views of river and road; cars outside Homer Tunnel; driver warning signs at start of Skippers Saddle Road; the road leading to Sumner; and tunnels marked “In” and “Out” at Ohau Bluff on Christchurch to Blenheim Road.

Other images show a billboard advertising a Manapouri-Doubtful Sound tour boat [tourist?] on Lake Manapouri; the floodgates Lake Pukaki; girls from Hukarere Girls’ College in school uniform at Franz-Josef motor camp; a government hostel building at Milford Sound; and Jim Docking and Phil Webster on tarmac with New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) plane being loaded behind them.

Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Physical Description: Colour film phototransparencies in card mounts