Pearce, Annie Vida Kate, 1864-1957

Pearce, Vida, 1864-1957, Warren, Annie Vida Kate, 1864-1957, Warren, Vida, 1864-1957

Born in Melbourne, Australia. One of the sketching party accompanying Katherine Holmes and Isabel Hodgkins in the Manapouri area in 1886. Nicknamed "The B.J." on the trip. Wife of Arthur Edward Pearce (1862-1921). Mother of Agnes Isobel Stout (1891-1971), Nathaniel Arthur Pearce (1896-1917) and Mary Vida Hodson (1889-1985). Commissioned bookplate from F C Tilney. Died in 1957 aged 92 years [Source: Online historical BDM]

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Pearce family

Date: [1880s-1950s]

From: Stout family: Photographs

By: Pearce family

Reference: PAColl-10493-1

Description: Photographs of the Pearce family, circa 1880 to 1957. Taken by a range of photographers, some of whom are identified. Family members include Annie Vida Kate Pearce (nee Warren), her husband Arthur Edward Pearce and the children Mary Vida Pearce (later Hodson), Agnes Isobel Pearce (later Stout), and Nathaniel Arthur Pearce. Less formal group and individual portraits are taken in gardens (including two in Heretaunga, Upper Hutt featuring a pond) and at a dining table. Formal studio photographs are by Richard Herrmann, Exchange Studio, Morris, and Lambert Weston & Son. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Pearce family album

Date: 1893-1894

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1984

Description: Album of and relating to the family of Arthur Edward and Annie Vida Kate Pearce, 1893-1894. Identified photographers are Mr Travers, C Pearce, Miss Holroyd, and Lady Dorothy Boyle. The Pearce's Lowry Bay family house 'Te Namu' is photographed a number of times. Also pictured in Lowry Bay is 'The Lodge', the wharf, and a coastal scene. House 'Makaki' and Government House are both photographed in 1894. Photographs of house interior scenes are likely at 'Te Namu'. Children Kitty and Bertha Clifford with Topsy, Pickle [Agnes Isobel Pearce], and Mary [Vida Pearce] are identified in captions. Lord Kelburne and Miss Thurston are photographed sitting at the foot of a tree. Family scenes show Annie Vida Kate and Arthur Edward Pearce with their two girls on a balcony. The two Pearce girls are also photographed clutching their toys. A Christmas group photograph from 1893 features the Pearce family. Album also contains recreation scenes. Groups are pictured picnicking at Karaka Bay (October 1894) and Lowry Bay (January 1894). Photographs also include river and swimming scenes. Donor's note that accompanied album read "A Pearce album" Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 47 b&w prints. Physical Description: Brown card photograph album, 23 x 27.6 cm

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Pearce family holiday scrapbook

Date: 1897-1898

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1985

Description: Scrapbook of Pearce family holiday to Canada, United States of America, Great Britain, and Egypt in 1897-1898. Photographs show cities, tourist sites, and boats and train scenes. Includes pamphlets related to travel and tourist prints. Also pressed leaves and hand-drawn illustrations. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "Overseas trip from NZ." Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 50 b&w photographs, 14 items of ephemera, five photomechanical prints, one watercolour, and pressed leaves. Physical Description: Two tone brown scrapbook, 36 x 28 cm Transfers: Loose photographic prints to PAColl-10493-4 - Loose mss and ephemera to MS-Papers-12245.

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Pearce family album

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1986

Description: Photograph album of Arthur Edward and Annie Vida Katie Pearce family photographs and Wellington recreation scenes, circa early 1900s. Contains group portrait of women and boy golfers as well as numerous portraits of the Pearce family [and relatives?] on the balcony and steps of their house 'Te Namu' in Lowry Bay as well as in a garden. Also horse riding and bicycle riding scenes, including a trip to the coast. A portrait of Nathaniel and Agnes seated on a pony and a house interior, possibly 'Te Namu', are also included. Donor's note that accompanied album read "A Pearce album" Album dated based on age of Pearce children in photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 16 b&w prints. Physical Description: Pale brown cloth covered photograph album with "Nature Prints" embossed on front cover, 27.5 x 31.1 cm

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Pearce family Swiss ski trip and Japan holiday album

Date: 1909

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1987

Description: Photograph album of Pearce family ski trip to Switzerland and holiday to Japan, 1909. Photographer(s) unidentified. Photographs show skiing, ski gear, and snowy landscapes, with captions identifying some people and locations. Photographs from Japan feature temples and gardens. Unidentified local people appear in some photographs as well as Annie Vida Kate and Mary Vida Pearce. Photographs from a sea voyage show passengers, including Mary Vida Pearce, and crew members in uniform. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "Album probably belonged to Annie Vida Kate Pearce". Historical note provided by donor. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 65 b&w prints. Physical Description: Leather bound photograph album, 12.5 x 16 cm

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Pearce family holidays and New Zeland scenes

Date: 1914-1915

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1988

Description: Photograph album of Pearce family overseas holiday, Heretaunga buildings, and soldiers at Trentham Racecourse, 1913-1915. Captions identify some people and places though people are often identified by initials. Holiday locations visited are England, Scotland, Isle of Wight, Alberquerque, Papeete, Tahiti, and Rarotonga. Photographs show buildings, people, events, and activities. Included in England photographs are military recruitment tents [London?] and Hyde Park Gate with spotlight mounted on it in 1914. Heretaunga photographs show Golf House, eeling hole, and Pearce family house and garden. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "A Pearce album" Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 96 b&w prints. Physical Description: Dark brown card photograph album, 22 x 17.2 cm

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Agnes Isobel Pearce album

Date: 1907-1908

From: Stout family: Photographs

By: Stout, Agnes Isobel, 1891-1971

Reference: PA1-o-1990

Description: Agnes Isobel Pearce's photograph album of family, holiday, and boarding school scenes, 1907 to 1908. Most photographs are captioned with dates, places, and people's initials. Photographers unidentified. Contains holiday photographs from England and Scotland. Locations photographed include Burnham Beeches, Abbotsford, Roslyn Chapel, Melrose, Tintagel, Plymouth, Inverness Castle, and a number of sites in the Lake District (such as Wordsworth lodging house, Ruskin's Grave, Market House at Keswick, and Derwentwater). Boating pictures include scenes from 'Riverside' and views from on board a boat travelling on the Caledonian Canal. The sailboat 'Onari' is photographed on the English Channel. A Pearce family portrait is taken on the deck of the SS 'Athenic'. DC and WS Aden are photographed in the crow's nest of a boat. Wycombe Abbey School building and Barry House building are also photographed. School sports events, including a canoe race between houses, and house expeditions are also included. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "Album belonged to Agnes Isobel Pearce (later Sir Duncan Stout's wife)." Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 56 b&w prints. Physical Description: Red card photograph album, 11 x 16.8 cm

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Agnes Isobel Pearce album

Date: [ca 1903-1911]

From: Stout family: Photographs

By: Stout, Agnes Isobel, 1891-1971

Reference: PA1-o-1993

Description: Agnes Isobel Pearce's album of family, travel, and boarding school photographs, circa 1903 to 1911. Most photographs are captioned with people often identified only by their initials and some dates given. Some photographs likely taken by Pearce but other photographers unidentified. Commercial prints taken by Edward Sweetland (High Wycombe). Shipboard scenes from a voyage on SS 'Bülow' are included as well as views of the Suez Canal and locations along the route such as Port Said. Also photographs of Genoa, Naples, and Colombo. Holiday photographs show Scotland scenes and buildings as well as ice skating at Adelboden, Switzerland. The Bell family are photographed at the house 'Milcote', Ascot. The Pearce family, and others [possibly Warren family?], are photographed at Padstow with boating and tennis scene as well as a family portrait. Pearce family photographs include portraits taken at the garden at the Hobson Street house (Wellington) as well as house interiors and exterior photographs. Pearce's mother, father, sister, and brother all appear in the album. Other people, identified by more than initials include Mr Hodson, D Collins, and a baby called Arthur Album contains scenes from 'Pihautea' in the Wairarapa, Trentham, Heretaunga, and Lowry Bay. These include Christmas, picnicking, and riding scenes as well as the Pearce family children at play (see-saws, carts). Various animals are photographed with an emphasis on pony "Sweetheart" and horse "Littlejohn". Other horses, such as "Vocation", and "Imagination", and a puppy called "Nipper" are photographed. Trips within New Zealand show a picnic scene in the [Marlborough?] Sounds, a veiw of the Pahiatua Track (cleared land), motoring in Paekakariki, a shipboard scene on the S S 'Eastern', and golfing scenes in Christchurch and Napier. Album also contains a newspaper clipping relating to a golf tournament in the Manawatu. Wycombe Abbey School (England) photographs show informal snapshots of students and gym class, a gardening scene, and formal portraits of the lacrosse and cricket teams as well as other, larger, unidentified groups. Agnes Isobel Pearce appears in a group portrait of students where she is sitting beside a well-groomed dog. Also included are photographs of the Wycombe Abbey School boarding facility Barry House. Photographs show an example of a boarder's room and a study room [dining room?]. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "This album belonged to Agnes Isobel Pearce." Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 152 b&w prints. Physical Description: Grey photograph album, 20 x 28.6 cm Transfers: Prints separated during processing. See PAColl-10493-6..

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Agnes Isobel Pearce album

Date: 1914

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1991

Description: Agnes Isobel Pearce's photograph album of a family holiday to England via Canada and Honolulu in 1914. Photographs taken by Pearce and other, unidentified, photographers. Captions identify places and people. People are mainly identified by their initials. Photographs of Honolulu show Moana Hotel, unidentified people in the wind at "The Pari" [Nuuanu Pali lookout?], Diamond Head, and "The Golf House". Identified are Arthur Edward Pearce ("AEP"), Viola Pearce (VP), [Mr Kimpster?], and Mr Simpson. Photographs of shipboard scenes during a trip on the SS 'Marama' to Vancouver include group photographs, many with people holding their cameras, the "winnings of a sweep", and onboard cricket. Identified are Mr and Mrs Hale, Miss Leman, Miss Moreson, Vida Pearce ("VP"), and Mr I A S Cooke. Photographs from Canada include show the Rockies and scenes from Quebec. The Quebec photographs show Arthur Edward Pearce, Vida Pearce, Colonel Hood, the S.S. 'Storstad' follwing a colision with the 'Empress of Ireland', and Montmorency Falls. Photographs of Atlantic voyage on the SS 'Megantic' include shipboard group portraits and photographs of icebergs. Identified people are Captain David, Mr Cauty, Mr Smithers, and Pearce family members. A group portrait shows the Pearce family at Lagarie, the home of Edward Pearce in Cheltenham, England; Edward Pearce, as well and his sisters Emily, Christina, and Irene Pearce, and in the photograph with the visiting Pearce family members. Agnes Isobel Pearce is photographed with the Smithson family and others in and around a car. Others who appear in photographs in England are Mrs Levin, Moana, Lizzie, Aggie, Bella and Harry L Milsom, who is photographed in his military uniform as well as in several other group photographs. Other photographs include a street scene in Shere, Surrey, picnic on the way to Cambridge, and a croquet scene. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "This belongs to Agnes Isobel Pearce". Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 48 b&w prints. Physical Description: Green card photograph album, 26.5 x 20.4 cm

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Vida Mary Stout album

Date: 1944-1948

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1999

Description: Photograph album of Woodford House school and Stout family scenes, 1944 to 1948. Compiled, captioned, and mainly taken by Vida Mary Stout. Woodford house photographs show school buildings (including Nelson House, Chapel, Woodford, maid's hostel, Holland House), garden, and swimming pool. Photographs of building interiors include the dining hall, a science laboratory, senior study room, Stout's bedroom, and school chapel with crib and alter. Includes informal and formal photographs of Stout’s classmates. Group portraits show Form VM, Form VI, seniors, prefects, and sub-prefects. Photographs of a sports day in 1946 include a group photograph of the Sports Committee, teachers sitting around a table by the track, and prize-giving scenes. Photographs of the "Prefects' Holiday" at Waimarama Beach in 1947 include beach, sunbathing, and swimming scenes and the girls’ accommodation at the Whyte family cottage. Identified prefects are Anne Mail, Diedre Twigg, June Grant, Beverley Brewis, Barbara Dalziell, Cherry Ellingham, Natalie Maclaurin, Margot Spiers, Allette Weston, Miss Box, Diedre Withers, Miss Williams, Miss Bell, Miss Hewitt, Miss Birch, A Bÿgum, Anne Mail, Jo Glazebrook, P Whyte, P Kelly, N Lamb, Sheila Norman, Ali Averill, and E Hassail. Stout is also identified in a number of photographs. Family photographs include the Stout family’s Wellington home at 1 Katherine Avenue, their South Wairarapa house and garden 'Tahora', "The Cottage", and the Spier family's house in Lowry Bay. Identified Stout family members including John David Stout, Duncan Macgregor Stout, Agnes Isobel Stout, Annie Vida Kate Pearce, Bob [Robert Edward Stout], and Hilary [Hilary Margaret Stout (née Cameron)]. Album also contains photographs of boys Jeremy and Christopher. Photographs from ‘Tahora’ feature swimming pool scenes and pets including cats ("Socks"), a budgie, dogs (with many of black [Labrador?] puppy "Smoky" as well as a collie called "Scot"), horses ("Big Boy", "Ginger", "Signet", and "Nobby"), and lambs ("Daisy" and "Dandelion"). Album also contains photographs of a Vauxhall 14 and "John's Lanchester 10". Donor's note that accompanied album read: "This belongs to Vida Mary Stout - she didn't marry". Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 112 b&w prints. Physical Description: Orange textured card photograph album, 22 x 34 cm

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Pearce family album

Date: [ca 1900s]

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1272

Description: Photograph album relating to Arthur Edward and Annie Vida Kate Pearce and their house and family, circa 1900s. Photographer(s) unidentified. Includes Lowry Bay house and gardens and spectators and participants in a croquet game [tournament?]. Arthur Edward Pearce is photographed smoking a pipe with a croquet mallet over his shoulder. Annie Vida Kate Pearce appears in a number of images as do their children Nathaniel Arthur, Mary Vida, and Agnes Isobel Pearce. Includes a Christmas group portrait from 1902. Album also contains photographs of a man with a camera on a tripod at the Lowry Bay house, a man with three collie dogs on a Wellington wharf, unidentified people at the races, and two men in bowler hats looking at a horse. Donor's note accompanying album read "A Pearce album" Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 33 b&w prints. Physical Description: Red card photograph album, 29 x 20.4 cm

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Pearce family house at Heretaunga, Upper Hutt

Date: February 1912-1914

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1273

Description: Photograph album of Pearce's family house and garden at Heretaunga, Upper Hutt, February 1912 to 1914. Photographer unidentified. Includes photographs of tennis courts, house exterior, a car, rose garden, pathways, Japanese arch, and pond. Arthur Edward Pearce, Annie Vida Kate Pearce [and their children?] are pictured in a series of group portraits at the pond. February 1912 images dated by staff from captions on images in the same series held at PAColl-10493-1-11. See PA1-o-1987 for holiday photographs from Japan, including archway that inspired Annie Vida Kate Pearce's design for her own garden. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 14 b&w prints. Physical Description: Green and red photograph album, 35.2 x 23.5 cm Transfers: Loose prints from album described at PAColl-10493-5..

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Prints of Pearce family garden at Heretaunga, Upper Hutt

Date: February 1912- 1920

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10493-5

Description: Loose prints from photograph album of Pearce family house and garden at Heretaunga, Upper Hutt, taken between February 1912 to 1920. Photographer unidentified. Pathways, roses, rock garden, arches, and sundial feature. Prints also include a group photograph taken at the pond, including Annie Vida Kate Pearce and Arthur Edward Pearce [and their children?], and one photograph of the exterior of the house. February 1912 images dated by staff from captions on images in the same series held at PAColl-10493-1-11 Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Album from which loose prints were removed at PA1-q-1273.

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Vida Warren scrapbook

Date: 1884

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1274

Description: Scrapbook compiled by Vida Warren containing photographs and other materials from travel within New Zealand and on to the United Kingdom and Europe via various ports in 1884. In addition to photographs, the album contains drawings and paintings, pressed flora (flowers, ferns, and seaweed), printed matter, and newspaper clippings collected on the trip. Photographs are largely taken by commercial photographers. Photographer(s) unidentified. New Zealand images show views and buildings in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, and sights in the Rotorua District. Also includes photographs of an unidentified Māori man and woman and a painting of a whare. Photographs collected on the voyage to London are largely cityscapes and street scenes. They show Sydney, Melbourne, Aden, Port Said, Malta, and Gibraltar. Other materials relating to the voyage include the menu from on board the SS 'Te Anau' (New Zealand to Australia) and material such as a programme for a concert from the RMS 'Mirzapore' (Australia to London). There is also a description of a fancy dress ball (including design for invitation, paintings of characters in costume) that took place on the 'Mirzapore'. Material from the United Kingdom includes photographs, postcards, and clippings of buildings, cityscapes, and scenic images. Locations visited include Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, the Scottish Lakes, Perth, Glasgow. Warren also went on a driving tour through Wales and there is material relating to this trip. Also included are clippings and invitations relating to the marriage of "Ms Platt", photographs of Vida Warren posing with other unidentified young women, and a hand-illustrated story titled 'A lover's quarrel'. Photographs from Europe includes cityscapes. Locations visited include Belgium, Germany, and France. Materials from the voyage of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company ship SS 'Valetta' include menus, programmes for concerts, a printed list of saloon passengers, newspaper clipping of passenger arrivals, telegrams relating to the arrival of the ship, and a hand-written note reading: "Miss Warren. Yours is the most boisterous table in the Valetta - [JO?]". Album contains one tintype, a studio portrait of two unidentified men. F Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Cintra Quantity: 1 album(s) containing around 65 photographic prints. Physical Description: Maroon and red album, 31 x 26 cm, containing photographs, paintings, pressed flowers, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and mss.

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Stout and Pearce family prints

Date: [ca 1890s to 1950]

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10493-11

Description: Photographs relating to the Pearce and Stout families, 1890s-1940s. Photographer(s) unidentified. Prints feature photographs of family scenes. Identified are Sir Robert Stout and Lady Anna Paterson Stout; William Anderson Stout; Annie Vida Kate and Arthur Edward Pearce and their children Agnes Isobel, Nathaniel Arthur, and Mary Vida Pearce; Agnes Isobel Stout and Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout, their service in World War One, and their family including Vida Mary Stout, John David Stout, Arthur Duncan Stout, and Robert Edward Stout; and Dr Robert Stout. Also contains photographs of the extended Warren and Pearce families including Isabella Georgiana David Collins and Vida Collins. Many of the images are group photographs in settings such as gardens and verandas and porches. A children's tea party, female golfers, horses, and a cart laden with baggage leaving a house ['Te Namu'?] are included. Identified locations include Waikawa, Waimahaka, and Lowry Bay, with the Pearce's Lowry Bay family house 'Te Namu' featured. Prints also show the swimming pool and changing shed at 'Tahora' as well as of the interior of the main hall of the house. One photograph is identified as taken in Heretaunga [Pearce’s house?]. Some photographs are likely taken in England. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin and collodion photoprints Processing information: Photographs arrived in envelopes and plastic bags with notes from donor.

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Stout, Warren, and Pearce family unidentified prints

Date: 1865-[ca 1918]

From: Stout family: Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); London Portrait Rooms (Dunedin, N.Z.); Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-10493-9

Description: Loose photographs relating to the Stout, Pearce, and Warren families, 1865 to circa 1918. Photographer(s) mainly unidentified. Photographs include informal group portraits of adults and children in a variety of locations (in front of houses, in gardens, on beaches, on board a ship, and in country settings) as well as formal studio portraits. People are unidentified. Three hand-coloured cartes-de-visite portraits show Annie Vida Kate Warren or Isabella Georgiana David Warren as a young girl, infant, and with two other children [siblings?], with the boy likely being Holmes Warren. Two studio portraits show unidentified men in World War One military uniforms. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Pearce is also photographed in military uniform as well as possibly in a group portrait that might have been taken in Cheltenham, England. Mary Vida Pearce appears in a shipboard image as do two young men in fancy dress, one of whom is likely Duncan Macgregor Stout. Houses also feature in photographs, including Wellington residences. Possible photographs of people at Trentham Races. Two photographs were enclosed in an envelope addressed to W Q Syme of Ambleside, Westmoreland. Identified photographers include Burton Brothers (Dunedin), London Portrait Rooms (Dunedin), and Wrigglesworth and Binns (Wellington). Donor's note that accompanied prints read: "Don't know this lot". Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s) with two hand-coloured. Physical Description: Photographic prints, some mounted on card and hand-coloured

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Vida Mary Stout album

Date: 1948-1951

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-2001

Description: Photograph album of Stout family scenes, 1948 to 1951. Compiled, captioned, and taken by Vida Mary Stout. Identified people in the album are John Stout, Agnes Isobel Stout, Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout, Dr Robert Stout, Mrs Cameron, Bob [Robert Edward Stout], Hil [Hilary Margaret Stout (née Cameron)] and numerous photographs of infant Philippa [Philippa Vida Biss (née Stout)] as well as some of Johnny [John Cameron Duncan Stout]. Also photographed are "Ar", Cecile Clinkard, Yvonne Myers, Annette Borrie, Holmes, Aunt Mame, Harry Milsom, David Collins, Bill Bidwill, Cecile Bidwill, Jenny Bidwill, Susan Bidwill, and Anna Bidwell. Family scenes feature the Wairarapa, including swimming in the Ruamahanga River and pets "Herbert" the hedgehog and "Smoky" the dog. Wairarapa photographs also show the family’s house and farm 'Tahora' (including tennis course, trees, sundial, and rose garden) as well as A B Martin's cottage, ‘Waitawa’ farmland, and "Crook's cottage". Wellington photographs show views of the city and harbour as well as buildings and houses (including 1 Katherine Avenue) and events (a university capping procession). There are also scenes from the Spier's house ‘Hunahuna’ in Lowry Bay. Album also contains photographs of cars including a Vauxhall 14, Robert Stout's Rover, and “John’s Lanchester 10" as well as the Heretaunga Golf Club House and course. Also covered are a number of trips taken by Vida Stout with her "Uncle Bert" [Dr Robert Stout] and father. Destinations include Auckland (August 1949), Pipiriki (March 1950), and the South Island (February 1951). A trip to the Tongariro Chateau (May 1950) was taken only with her father. Photographs on these holidays includes sights seen while travelling to their destinations and landmarks and tourist scenes. The Auckland trip shows the Rangitikei Valley, Desert Road scenes (with Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mt Tongariro), Tongariro River (including fishing spots Duchess Pool, Dreadnought Pool), Lake Taupo, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Wairakei Geyser, and Karapiro hydroelectric power station. Photographs of Auckland include Auckland University buildings, spectators at the "Point-to-Point" race, and Patty and Jock Ewen's house at 43 Maungakeikei Avenue. Photographs of the journey home show the Waitomo Caves and Waitomo Hotel, Wairere Falls, Mangaotaki Gorge, Awakino River, Pukekura Park and coastal scenes of New Plymouth, St Mary's Church, Taranaki farmlands, Turuturumōkai Redoubt, and the Sarjeant Art Gallery and Castlecliff in Whanganui. The Pipiriki trip largely focusses on the Whanganui River with views from the road as well as popular tourist sights "The Drop Scene", "The Dress Circle", and the Paparoa Rapids seen from the riverboat. Also includes photographs of the landing stage at Pipiriki and a riverboat. Chateau trip photographs show Tongariro Chateau, Taranaki Falls, Matariki Falls, Mahuia Rapids, Te Tawhai Falls, Lake Rotoaira, Makatote Viaduct, Mangawhero River, view of the Paraparas, and Raukawa Falls. The South Island trip photographs mainly show Nelson (including Queen's Garden, coast, residential areas, and cathedral) but also include Kaiteriteri Beach, Captain Wakefield memorial at Riwaka, Havelock, Pelorus River, Pelorus Sound, and boat on which the party toured Queen Charlotte Sound. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 196 b&w prints. Physical Description: Orange card photograph album, 19 x 28.7 cm

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Annie Vida Kate Pearce - Inward letters

Date: Apr 1885-Oct 1935

From: Stout family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11518-018

Description: Letters from various friends, letters of congratulation, postcards Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Annie Vida Kate Pearce - Letters

Date: 1915-1946

From: Stout family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11518-022

Description: Letters to her daughters, Agnes and Mary Vida, and to her grandchildren Vida and John David Stout. Includes one letter from her husband to Agnes Isobel. Mainly social and local news. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Digitisation details - To be digitised

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Chiefly Pearce family, including Agnes Isobel Pearce (later Stout)

Date: [ca 1870s-ca 1970]

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10309-04

Description: Chiefly images of the Pearce family particularly images of Arthur Edward Pearce, his wife Annie Vida Kate Pearce (nee Warren), and their children: Mary Vida Pearce (later Hodson), Agnes Isobel Pearce (later Stout, and known as 'Pickle'), and Nathaniel Arthur Pearce. Also Edward Pearce (Arthur's father?) and two Warren family relatives. Images taken circa 1870s to circa 1970 by a range of photographers.- Also includes a set of prints (and some corresponding negatives) taken by, or for, Nathaniel Pearce during World War I. These were sent back to the family when he was killed in 1917. - Includes a set of prints (and some corresponding negatives) taken by, or for, Nathaniel Pearce during World War I. These were sent back to the family when he was killed in 1917. - Includes many images of Agnes Isobel Pearce (later Stout) taken throughout her life, including some relating to her service during World War I and two of her outside Buckingham Palace after recieving her MBE in 1918. Some show her golfing and the women she played golf with. - Includes a set of holiday/trip photographs with groups on board ship and others taken during a 1909 skiing holiday in Frutigen, Switzerland. Many include Agnes Isobel Pearce (later Stout). Quantity: 107 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s).