Prints of North Island and Nelson buildings and scenes

Photographic prints mainly taken by Les Cleveland of North Island buildings and Nelson buildings, people, and scenes. Taken circa 1880s, 1955-1963, and 2000s. Printed circa 1970s to 2000s. A few images are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph" and some are also signed.

Photographs of Wairarapa buildings include Whiteman Matthews & Solicitors (Featherston), Trotman Brothers Builders and Funeral Directors (Greytown), the Greytown Volunteer Fire Brigade, Mickey Phelps’s cottage (Carterton), and Bobby Ming’s market garden near the Waiohine River. Other North Island photographs show the Public Relations Office (Palmerston North), Savage Club Hall (Whanganui), Mission House (North Waimate), and Catholic Church (Tokaanu).

Neslon images show Enterprise Printing and a number of prints of a corrugated iron building, one of which is titled "Judicial Outhouse, near Supreme Court, Nelson". Also contains a photograph of the protest by Sonja Davies, Ruth Page, and other women on the tracks at the railway station at Kiwi. A portrait of Nelson photographer Rosaline Margaret Frank as a young woman, circa 1880s, is taken by an unidentified photographer.

Also includes one print of a building at Nelson Creek, South Westland.

Title supplied by Library.

PAColl-10645-04

Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order.

Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin photographic prints

Transfers: Box two of five. See PAColl-10567-05, and PAColl-10567-07 to 09 for prints originally stored with these ones..

Processing information: Library staff arranged prints geographically and by subject where possible. The volume of prints required that they be housed in five separate boxes