Armstrong, Mike, 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: 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: 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.

Date: [ca 1950-1954] - date unknown

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

Reference: PAColl-10567-20

Description: Largely consists of photographic prints of mountaineering and tramping excursions, including to Copland Pass, Cameron Valley, and Cook River, as well as skiing on Fox Glacier, circa 1950 to 1954. Taken by Les Cleveland. Meatshooter Mike Armstrong is photographed on the Cook River trip panning for gold and riding in the cafe of a flying fox over the Balfour River. Photographs from the Copland Pass trip including Bill [Crawshaw?] at Douglas Hut, Jungle Creek, and numerous photographs of a weka. Also contains three photographic prints either used by Cleveland to make copy negatives or printed from copy negative made by Cleveland, of bullock driving, mustering sheep on horseback, and a gum digger's hut. Original photographers are unidentified. Finally, a photographic postcard, made by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, features a reproduction of a portrait of an unidentified Māori man, taken in circa 1870 to 1890 by an unidentified photographer. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photographic prints Transfers: See 35mm-109088 for copy negatives of three prints. The envelope that originally held these prints and copy negatives is now held at PAColl-10567-21.. Processing information: Copy negatives originally stored with these prints have been separated to facilitate appropriate storage. Very few prints have related negatives.

Date: 1947-[ca1960s]

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

By: New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-10567-15

Description: Photographs of mountaineering and tramping taken by Les Cleveland in 1947 to circa 1960s. A small number of prints have captions which include the title Cleveland gave the photograph (including the location it was taken) and the date it was taken and printed. Some prints are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph" or with Cleveland's home address. Some prints are vintage prints. This set of photographs also contains National Publicity Studios prints and one photograph taken by John Pascoe. The majority of the photographs are taken in New Zealand. Photographs feature mountaineers, mountain landscapes (peaks, glaciers, valleys), and bush scenes (including bush camps). Identified people include Len Brown, John Lange, A. C. Clough, John Pascoe, Ray Chapman, Stan Conway, Les Cleveland, Mike Armstrong, and Mack Heinz. There are a number of images of Cleveland, Brown, and Armstrong. Mary Cleveland also appears in one image with an unidentified man who is holding a gun. Identified locations include the Balfour Gorge, Mussel Point Airstrip, Scott Peak, Mackenzie Basin (including Lake Pukaki), Copeland Pass, Copeland Gorge, Upper Karangarua, Mount Dilemma, Mount Cook, Mount Tasman, and a Welcome Flat hot pool. A series of image shows a group of backcountry skiers, the construction of a snow cave, and men roped together on a mountain face. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in one file box labelled "Mountaineering". Quantity: 91 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photographs Transfers: Box one of two. See PAColl-10567-16 for box two.. Processing information: Prints were in no discernible order. Library staff arranged prints by subject where possible and were able to discern some series by paper manufacturers and subject matter. Prints are now housed in two separate boxes. Name in scope updated following information from family member, May 2024.