Children - New Zealand - West Coast Region

Date: 1951-1960, circa 1970s

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10567-13

Description: Photographs of people, buildings, industry, and landscapes taken by Les Cleveland between 1951 and 1959. Largely printed between 1951 and 1960, with some prints made later, possibly in the 1970s. All prints have captions which include the title Cleveland gave the photograph (often including the location of the photograph) and the date it was taken and printed. Almost all images are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph" and some are also stamped with Cleveland's home address. The majority are signed by Cleveland and all are stamped or identified by Cleveland as being a "Vintage Print". Some prints include reference numbers to Cleveland's index cards. Identified people are Jack Ritchie (former licensee of the Junction Hotel, Dillmanstown), Ron Biggs (boiling a billy), Dorothy Debenham at Greymouth, Mary and Heather Cornwell at Milford Sounds, June McMillan at Makara Beach, Senior Sargent George Christopher Donnelly (making a bet at the Kumara Races), and Mike Armstrong (washing dishes in a hut at Welcome Flat). Timber workers are photographed at work at the Kopara Sawmill including Ted McGhie, Ron "Tiki" Brimmicombe, Doug Macalister, and Neil McLean. Unidentified people include timber workers, the crew of the fishing boat Hauiti (photographed in Milford Sound), men in fancy dress participating in the Mayor of Thorndon campaign, children lining up to go to the pictures in Greymouth, children on a bulldozer in Karamea, a boy fishing at Reefton, a man smoking an crib logging at the Arawhata River, and a climber resting on a rock by the Cook River. A Taupo Ski Club group is photographed outside Blyth Hut at Ohakune Ski Field [Turoa] and includes Les Cleveland as well as a box of Lux soap. Buildings photographed include in Greymouth (band rotunda, police station), in Westport (Seatons Boarding House on Bright Street, Kawatiri boarding house (also known as Flemings Boarding House), and St Canice's Catholic Church), and in Nelson Creek (Saddlers Store, Jimmy Diamond's hut, township). Further prints of buildings show the Stafford Literary Institute, flooded bushmen's huts at Mussel Point, a cottage at Blackball, a derelict house at Bell Hill, ornamental faces on the Aubrey Gualter building (corner of Brandon and Featherston Streets, Wellington), the Four Square store at Crofton, Club Hotel in Palmerston North, a two-storied house with external staircase in Turakina, Enterprise Printing in Nelson, a cottage on the road to Goldsborough, J McFarlane's Hotel in Kumara, the Whanganui town clock, and the Weights and Measures Office in New Plymouth. Photographs of industry include a Pelton wheel at Dillmanstown; remains of a gold dredge at Callaghans near Kumara; Jack's Mill near Nelson Creek including a Type CBA No 119 A&G Price Ltd bush locomotive, derelict mill buildings, and a slab elevator; Kopara Sawmill buildings; an open cast coal mine at Charleston; and dredge buckets abandoned at the side of the Greenstone River. Scenic prints show the Tatere River and Tatere Gorge, Moeraki River, the sea at Punakaiki, surf at Hokitika Beach, a log jam and driftwood at Karamea Beach, Okarito River, bush scenes (including at Waterworks Reserve), the head of the Karangarua River looking towards Copeland Pass, the Karangarua Gorge, and Lake Haupiri. Other photographs include gravestones at the cemetery in Charleston, a hedge cutter mounted on a surplus World War Two Bren Gun Carrier, and vehicle scenes outside the George Hotel, Otira Gorge (a Hupmobile tourer and a front-end loader lowering a V8 engine into a truck), Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order and were placed in a box labelled "Vintage Prints" by curatorial staff during appraisal. Quantity: 92 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Box one of two from set of prints classified as "Vintage Prints" during Library appraisal. See PAColl-10567-14 for box two.. Processing information: During processing, Library staff arranged prints by date. The volume of prints required that they be housed in two separate boxes.

Date: 1966-1969

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA12-11564

Description: Transparencies relating to Westland, mainly Haast, circa 1966-1969. Taken by Les Cleveland. Photographs include Gates of Haast and other Haast River images as well as coastal scenes. A series of aerial photographs show the Carters Mill and Haast Beach. Unidentified men are photographed in a "waltzing contest" at Waiatoto Bridge and unidentified children are photographed on horseback. Further images of Westland include Rimu Forest in South Westland, an unsealed road through tropical forest in North Westland [near the Turimawiwi River?], Arawhata Valley, photographs relating to glaciers, and an aerial photograph of Mount Aspiring. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Arrived in enclosure labelled "Haast" by Cleveland. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card slide frames Transfers: Part two of two. See remainder of set at PA12-11564.. Processing information: Slides that were originally stored together were split into two parts to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1967-1971

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA12-11563

Description: Transparencies of South Westland, including river and beach areas, and images relating to "meatshooters", 1967-1971. Taken by Les Cleveland. Photographs include the airstrip at Mussel Point, Haast Beach, musterers on horseback with dogs driving cattle on the banks of the Haast River. A number of images are taken from the air. A series of images relate to "Meat Planes" and "Meatshooters" [deer hunters?] with planes and helicopters photographed on the Waiatoto River flats. In a mountainous area a man [holds?] the bottom [skid?] of a helicopter in flight. A series of images show Mike T Bennett. He is seen smoking, carrying a pig on his back, with the severed head of a deer, with a large pile of antlers, and at a "meatshooters" camp by a fire. Lorraine Bennett is photographed cooking and Rosina [Sands?] is seen with her children at a Mussel Point location. A series of images show the Bennett family and "Haastians" having a picnic at Mussel Point. Mussel Point airstrip photographs also include other unidentified children of meat shooters. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Arrived in enclosure labelled "Haast" by Cleveland. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card slide frames Transfers: Part one of two. See remainder of set at PA12-11564.. Processing information: Slides that were originally stored together were split into two parts to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: [ca 1913 to 1914], [ca 1960s]-2011

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10645-23

Description: Contains prints of scenes relating to Les Cleveland, his family life and photographic interests, circa 1913 to 1914, 1960s to 2000s. Photographs taken by Les Cleveland. Includes photographs of the Cleveland and Porter families in Martinborough, a portrait of Les Cleveland, and Peter, Donna, Mary, and Edward Cleveland with a dog [husky?]. Unidentified people include a young woman, cafe patrons seated indoors and outdoors at Pātaka Museum and Art Gallery in Porirua, and an unidentified group with a snow plough. A group portrait shows the Coal Miners' Ball Committee, circa 1913 to 1914. Wellington buildings are also photographed, including the Chinese church on Frederick Street, a sign saying "Jesus Loves the All Blacks" outside St John's Church on Willis Street (also contains an accompanying news article), and the ruins of the Miramar Gasworks. Three contact sheet strips show scenes from Mussel Point, West Coast, including children at Carter's settlement (including playing on swings at a playground) and two women working in the Carters' Sawmill Store at Hannah's Clearing in Haast. West Coast images show milled logs, horseback riders, a slip being cleared by a bulldozer, and men from Nolan's Mill drinking and smoking and playing with a dog. Also, six frames show Native American jewellers selling jewellery at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, United States of America. Original enclosures (mainly print wallets) have been retained with prints. The imagelab photo wallet includes a commercial photographer's receipts and notes from Cleveland to the lab technician. Title supplied by Library. Negative of the photograph of the Coal Miners' Ball Committee print is at Alexander Turnbull Library 1/2-012633-F. Arrangement: Prints arrived at the library in a file box in no discernible order. Prints were stored with negatives in photo wallets or kept together by folds of paper or paper clips. Quantity: 26 colour original photographic print(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographs Transfers: See 35mm-109250 to 35mm-109262, 35mm-109307 to 35mm-109311, 35mm-109806 to 35mm-109814, 35mm-109820 to 35mm-109822, 1/4-133735-F, and 1/4-133736-F for negatives originally stored with these prints.. Processing information: Negatives have been separated from prints and original enclosures to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: March 1995

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PAColl-10788-03

Description: Photographic prints of press photography by Damer Farrell from March 1995. Includes portrait of Miss West Coast Rugby League, 1994. Includes portraits of Rowena Downes, and Pam Bartrum. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Photographic prints originally enclosed in brown paper bag annotated "March 1995" were rehoused in archival enclosures.

Date: Dec 1904-Jan 1905

By: Batty, Melba Aroha, 1892-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-6769

Description: Photocopy of diary kept by Batty in which she writes of her and her family's daily activities such as picnics, horseriding etc, family affairs, the weather, unusual happenings such as finding gold in the gizzard of a duck and drunken behaviour by a farm worker. The diary is signed by her teacher, L [?] I de Berry. Accompanying material - Photocopy of obituary for diarist's father, Henry Batty (1903) and of notes on family from Mrs Batty; Photocopy of newspaper article from West Coast Messenger Oct 30 2013 on Melba Batty's diary Source of title - Supplied Melba Batty was asked to keep a diary over the Christmas holidays Dec 1904 to Jan 1905 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph with mss annotation (photocopy)

Date: [190-?]

From: Sinclair, B (Miss), d 1976? :Postcards of Hokitika and the Sanatorium at Rotorua

Reference: PAColl-9743-1

Description: Postcard showing the Roman Catholic Convent in Hokitika with children standing outside, taken ca 1900s by Muir & Moodie Inscriptions: Recto - top left - 4778 P. R. C. Convent. Hokitika N.Z.; Recto - bottom left - New West Coast Series; Verso - bottom left - Issued by Muir & Moodie Dunedin N. Z. from their Copyright Series of Views Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (postcard). Physical Description: Photomechanical print postcard

Date: [3 or 5 February 1988]

From: Nauta, Jan, fl 1980s :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1297-01

Description: Residents of Blackball outside the Blackball Post Office, taken 3 or 5 February 1988 by Jan Nauta. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - JAN NAUTA PHOTOGRAPHER; Verso - top right - 61a Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Date: [Ca 1925 (copied 198-?)]

From: Pearson, William Harrison (Dr), 1922-2002: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7160-18-1

Description: Pearson children at 51 High Street, Greymouth. From left: Elizabeth Marion (Betty ) Pearson, aged 7; Robert Stevenson (Robbie) Pearson, aged 8-9; James McLean (Mac) Pearson, aged 5; William Harrison (Billy) Pearson, aged 3. Photograph taken ca 1925 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin coated paper print 8.5 x 12.6 cm

Date: 1890s

From: Post and telegraph collection :Mainly mail coach photographs ca. 1880's.

Reference: 1/4-019636-F

Description: Group of unidentified men, women, and children, in front of the Post Office at Aickens, Westland, in the 1890s. Shows a one storied, wooden building, with a verandah, surrounded by a picket fence. Most of the group stand alongside the fence, grouped around a tree stump and a clump of arum lilies. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1999, 2002-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000338

Description: Photographs relating to children. Includes children in playgrounds, with face paint, surrounded by bubbles, and eating ice blocks. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "kids" Quantity: 6 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2001-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000506

Description: Photographs of Reefton, West Coast. Includes aerial photographs of the township, frost and icicles, men cooking over an open fireplace and boiling water in a kettle over coal. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (reefton)" Quantity: 48 digital photograph(s).

Date: [ca 1938]

From: Stephenson, Joan, fl 1983 :Photographs relating to Denniston coal miners

Reference: 1/2-146952-F

Description: Children in Denniston dressed up for Guy Fawkes. Shows them wearing oversize clothes, hats, and masks. From left to right: Irene Hearne, Caroline (Minnie) Hill, Joan Hill, Caroline Hearne. Photograph taken circa 1938 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1910]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-040945-G

Description: Group (mother and children?), outside a tent like dwelling with a sod chimney, in Otira Gorge, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [Ca 1925 (copied 198-?)]

From: Pearson, William Harrison (Dr), 1922-2002: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7160-19-1

Description: Pearson children at 51 High Street, Greymouth. From left: Robert Stevenson (Robbie) Pearson, aged 8-9; Elizabeth Marion (Betty ) Pearson, aged 7; James McLean (Mac) Pearson, aged 5; William Harrison (Billy) Pearson, aged 3. Photograph taken ca 1925 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin coated paper print 8.7 x 12.6 cm

Date: 12 Dec 1942

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8869

Description: Photograph taken during the Tasman Tercentennial celebrations. Shows Dr van der Plas (leader of the Netherlands delegation to New Zealand for the Tasman Tercentennial celebrations), W H Parry (Minister of Internal Affairs), and children, at Tasman's memorial in Okarito, Westland, on 12 December 1942. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Inscriptions: Verso - JPascoe [?] Friday with Coasters Argue Dr Charles Van der Plas and Parry Netherlands Delegation to Tasman Tercetennial Celebration Okarito Memorial 12/12/42 6 Oct 1961 (Leader Page) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.7 x 21.1 cm

Date: [1935 or 1936 (copied 198-?)]

From: Pearson, William Harrison (Dr), 1922-2002: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7160-20

Description: Pearson family at 135 High Street, Greymouth. Back row, from left: William Harrison Pearson (with pet bantam hen, and sore on leg that took a long time to heal); James McLean Pearson; Elizabeth Marion Pearson. Front row, from left: Donald John Pearson, aged about 8; Agnes Ellen Pearson. Photograph taken ca 1935-1936 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin coated paper print 8.7 x 12.6 cm

Date: [Ca 1917-1918 (copied 198-?)]

From: Pearson, William Harrison (Dr), 1922-2002: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7160-21-1

Description: Robert Stevenson (Bob) Pearson in high chair. Photograph taken ca 1917-1918 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin coated paper print 14 x 9 cm

Date: [Ca 1925 (copied 198-?)]

From: Pearson, William Harrison (Dr), 1922-2002: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7160-18-2

Description: Pearson children at 51 High Street, Greymouth. From left: James McLean (Mac) Pearson, aged 5; William Harrison (Billy) Pearson, aged 3. Photograph taken ca 1925 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin coated paper print 8.7 x 12.6 cm