Daken, Jim, active 1959

Date: 1959-2007

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

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1960-2010

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

Reference: PAColl-10567-07

Description: Photographs taken by Les Cleveland of people and alpine scenes, largely in the West Coast Region, between 1939 and circa 1980s. Printed between 1960 and 2010. Many prints include captions detailing the location of the photograph and the date it was taken and printed. Multiple prints are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph". Identified people include Ben Sutherland (operating nozzle on claim at Goldsborough), Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken (eating fish and chips), Mike Sheldon (proprietor of the European Hotel, Charleston), Mick O'Neill (barman at Red Lion Hotel, Hokitika), Tex Smith (Southern Scenic Airways pilot), Kevin Blythell (meat hunter), and Lynne Rogers (seated in a Herbert Street coffee bar, Wellington). Also includes several nudes of Mary Cleveland taken on Mount Ruapehu and in Te Naihi Valley and a photograph of Les Cleveland boiling a billy. Unidentified people include a World War Two soldier, a whitebaiter and his children, two small boys on tricycles in Te Urewera, an injured woman being treated by the ski patrol on Mount Ruapehu, fishermen, and women working in the Carters' Sawmill Store at Hannah's Clearing in Haast. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, includes some composite images Transfers: Box three of five. See PAColl-10567-05 to 06 and PAColl-10567-08 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.