Pompeii

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-299

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Italy during World War 2, 1943-1944, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. This album changes between the Middle East and Italy, with the bulk of the Middle Eastern images between pages 1 and 71, and the Italian scenes on pages 49-52, and from 72 onwards, with a few Middle Eastern items interspersed. Recreation for soldiers with sporting activities including athletics, cricket, swimming, tennis and softball, some of which are in competition with personnel from other groups including South African Division Artillerymen. New Zealand engineers building a pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal with the help of Belgian Congo troops; NZ reinforcements arriving in the Middle East; troops voluntarily donating blood; parades and inspections by Freyberg and Inglis, and decorations presented by them (p 9-13, 23, 33, 36, 62). Hitchhiking from Maadi into Cairo; street tailors altering uniforms while the soldiers wait (p 15-16); camp cinema. A large number of reunions of personnel from various New Zealand districts held at different restaurants in Cairo, including Rotorua & district; Levin & district; Arrowtown, Queenstown Lakes District; Wairarapa; and Temuka. Occupational therapy for convalescent troops including embroidery and leather-work toys (p 20-22); a leave camp for forces on the Palestinian coast, run by British Army staff assisted by ATS, and Italian Prisoners of War and European women assistants. NZEF in Italy: Members of the PoW Sub-Commission in Taranto; members of the 2nd NZ Division Advance party in Taranto; released prisoners of war; embarkation on troopships from Alexandria for Italy. Funeral at cemetery at El Ballah of 3 nurses and a corporal in a motor accident between Ismailia and Port Said (Private (Miss) P A Morrissey (from Port Ahuriri); Private (Miss) M O McNulty (from Eketahuna); Private (Miss) M Innes (from Masterton); and Corporal S R W Bomford (from Takapuna), all members of the No 2 NZ General Hospital). NZEF Middle East: Award winners of the NZ Division Field Ambulance; personnel with a NZ Air Transport Squadron; members of the NZ Port Detachment; weddings in Egypt; Xmas dinner at the Maori Training Depot, Maadi. George Formby, seen with his wife/manager entertaining troops at El Djem Theatre, Maadi; Mobile Cinema Van donated by NZ Film Exhibitors' Association through the YMCA. Group of 10 men repatriated after time in German prison camps who had been taken in the Grecian Campaign; 4 brothers from the Duncan family from Wellington reunited at Maadi (S/Sgt A T Duncan, Capt R J Duncan, Pte H G Duncan and Cpl G J Duncan); photo of brothers A J and S R Halkett who arrived back in Canterbury after having been together in the firing line, in a shipwreck, in a prison camp and in a successful escape.t NZEF in Italy: men of transports from Alexandria to Bari; troops in Bari; artillery duels on the Sangro River Front; party of Russian military observers visiting the 8th Army (p 82-83); road construction, mud, road deviations constructed after demolition of bridge; water carts being filled at Sangro River, and filling canvas water tanks for filtering and storage; repair of tents and canvas items by NZ soldier A A Patmore on a sewing machine behind the lines; small arms repair; bootmaker; visit of senior officials from the British Army to HQ 2NZ Division in Italy; destruction of the village of Gessopalena by the Germans. Arrival of Patriotic parcels in Italy, Xmas 1943; Xmas dinner; snow on New Year's Eve; NZ Forces Club in Bari (p 109-110), with NZ sisiters and members of VAD at the club, and soldiers in the writing room of the club; inspection and awards by freyberg in the Volturno Valley; soldiers washing vehicles, and Italian women washing clothes in a stream near Alife in the Volturno valley. Two scenes with Peter Fraser one at Pearl Harbour with Admiral Chester W Nimitz, and Robert L Ghormly (p 116); and his arrival at National Airport, Washington in April 1944, with Walter Nash, Mrs Nash and Mrs Fraser (p 116). NZEF in Italy: Bivvies and dugouts to cope with the cold; the No 2 NZ General Hospital (p 121-123); the Monte Cassino area (p 124-136), with bombing, destruction, villagers living in caves after homes demolished by Germans; Airmen serving with the RAF in the Cassino area recording messages to be broadcast in NZ; preparation for transport of supplies over the Inferno Track, only possible at night. New Zealand Infantry Brigade Band in Italy; malaria control (p 138-140); Malaria School established by the NZ Field Hygiene Section; preventative spraying; routine taking of anti-malarial tablets; examination of Italian children for signs of malaria. Airmen in italy; men on leave at "200 Rest Home" giving free amenities to troops on 4 day's leave from the front line; sorting of winter clothing after summer clothing had been issued; Registrar's office and staff at the No 1 General Hospital, Molfetta. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 2556-3002. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1897

By: Morice, Louisa Jane Spotswood, 1873-1957

Reference: PA1-f-069

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Louie J Seddon in 1897 on a trip around the world on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. They include several photographs on the group's return, especially one of Parliament Buildings, and five views of a reception for Mr Crow (R J Seddon's private secretary) by Ministerial Secretaries celebrating his return. Beneath the main inscription inside the first page is further information in Louie Seddon's copper-plate writing which reads "Our party consisted of my Father (the Right Hon. R J Seddon; Mother; Sister (Mary); Myself and Mr W Crow (Father's private secretary). We left Wellington, 15th April 1897, went via San Francisco - New York route to London - and returned by the overland (to Naples) and Suez Canal route, arriving Wellington, 8th Sept. 1897". En route to England a number of photographs show shipboard life, and several of the party in Samoa, one with Bishop and Mrs Wallis, and King Malietoa. In England there is one photograph cut from an English paper showing R J Seddon at Hawarden Castle with the Right Hon. Sir Wilford Laurier, Rt Hon and Lady Carrington, Rt Hon and Mrs W E Gladstone, Rt Hon G H Reid and Sir Louis Davies, July 1897. Also a sequence of views of the "Agent General's River Excursion on the Thames". The group visited various British Seddon family members at Eccleston and Bickerstaffe; and they visited Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle's birthplace and grave. Photographs take up 32 pages with the rest blank apart from two newspaper cuttings attached to page 53. One is about Lady Freyberg at the Linen Guild (Evening Post, August 11, 1948?); the other about the ship Janie Seddon which was about to be sold (September 1946). On page 009 is a newspaper article on "King Dick" (Richard John Seddon), written in 1951 "By one who knew him" 45 years after his death. Inscriptions: Album page - "A memento of our trip around the world on the occasion of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, red leather corners and spine, entitled "Louie J Seddon, 1897" in gold lettering; 27.5 x 39.5 cm

Date: 1940-1945

By: King, Russell David, 1896-1970

Reference: PAColl-3179

Description: Because the photographer was one of the commanding officers of the Field Ambulance many of the photographs are snaps of officers and visiting commanders and officials. Other photographs show the Field Ambulance in operation in various theatres of the war, on leave and playing sport. The largest group of photographs are of a tourist type showing historical sites, architecture, places of scenic interest and the native populations Arrangement: Negatives at F66732-1/4 - F66784-1/4 Quantity: 53 b&w original negative(s). 625 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0247, Russell David King papers.

Date: 1850 - 1870

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887; Haast, Heinrich Ferdinand von, 1864-1953

Reference: Curios-029-011

Description: Identified as Dionysus from the grapes in the hair Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Bronze statuette screwed to circular bronze base 280 x 110 x 110 mm

Date: 1931

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-763

Description: In 1931 Eric McCormick went to England to attend Clare College Cambridge. This is a record of his trip there via Australia, Sri lanka, Suez, The Mediterranean, Italy and Gibraltar. There are photographs, but most of the images are Postcards Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1900

From: Page Collection :Christchurch and general New Zealand towns and scenes; costume. ca. 1880-1910

By: Kilburn, B W, active 1900

Reference: PA4-0742

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Pompeii, Italy, taken by B W Kilburn ca 1900 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Pompeii, Italy; Verso - Photographed and published by B W Kilburn - Littleton, N.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1914-1916

By: Taylor, E (Mr), active 1914-1916; Hyde, M A (Mrs), active 1995

Reference: PA1-q-550

Description: Postcard album containing approximately 402 postcards recording a return voyage from England to Australia and New Zealand made by Mr and Mrs E Taylor in 1914-1915. Includes written information about Mr and Mrs Taylor's family in New Zealand: Albert Taylor of Mount Eden, Auckland; Mrs O'Neill of Grey Lynn, Auckland; and Mrs Bacon of Ponsonby, Auckland; with photographs of those areas and their houses. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - [frontispiece] A Post Card Record of a Trip to Australia & New Zealand, shewing the places of interest enroute & visited by Mr & Mrs E Taylor, Leaving Gloucester on September 24th 1914, by the 2.23PM train on the GWR for London, arrived at Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Snowden, Rita Frances, 1907-1999

Reference: PAColl-10408

Description: Photographs relating to religious author Rita Snowden taken circa 1940s to circa 1950s, by unidentified photographers. Contains informal images showing travel and people. Three images show street scenes with tudor-style houses and a car. The locations are identified as Wendover and Burford [in England]. Handwriting on the reverse of the images reads "Modestine in Wendover. First day out" and ""Modestine" in Burford. Glos". One shows Snowden in an unidentified location. She is carrying a camera bag over her shoulder and a large package in her arms. One shows a group in Auckland, possibly at a party. One shows a group of people standing in front of the forum at Pompeii. Snowden, her friend Irene Watts, and other people are identified on the back of the Pompeii image. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Rita Snowden, accompanied by her friend Irene (Rene) Watts, travelled to London in 1937. This was the first of multiple overseas voyages they took together. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Rita Snowden's estate via the Guardian Trust, 2013 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2259.

Date: [ca 1950s]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-271

Description: Lantern slides showing historical sites and scenic views in Italy, Switzerland, France, England, and unidentified countries. The images were taken ca 1950s by unidentified photographers. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the location and subject. The images include: - Buildings and ruins in Rome and the Vatican City, such as St Peter's Basilica, the Colosseum, and the Roman Forum. Two images of a middle-aged woman, probably a companion of the photographer, standing in the streets (she also appears in image of Lake Garda). - Notable places in other Italian cities, including the basilica in Assisi, the Mausoleum of Theodica in Ravenna, the Ponte de Vecchio in Florence, and Genoa Harbour. Also buildings in Venice, including the Rialto, St Mark's Basilica, and the Palazzo Ducale. Six of the images of Venice are in colour. - Scenes among the ruins of Pompeii, including the forum and the House of the Faun. - Two street scenes in the Swiss town of Gruyeres; grape vines near Geneva; and two images of the river running through the French town of Annecy, one showing the Palais de l'Isle. - The front gate of Hampton Court, near London. Arrangement: Set contains slides from boxes 1, 2, and 5. Quantity: 49 b&w lantern slide(s). 9 colour lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides in colour and black and white

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s, 1980s]

From: Smart, Joan, 1918- :Photographs relating to sisters Linnie, Isabel and Jean Nicholas

By: W H Bartlett (Firm); S P Andrew Ltd; L'Atelier (Firm); Ascot Photographers (Christchurch, N.Z.); Raefern Studios (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10017

Description: Photographs relating to sisters Linnie, Isobel and Jean Nicholas taken by a range of photographers ca 1920s-1940s and 1980s. Images include formal portraits, particularly of Linnie, and photographs of their husbands. Includes photographs of Isabel Halligan, nee Nicholas, taken ca 1980s inside and outside her house on the corner of Adelaide Street and Oriental Street, Petone; and with her 1927 Chevrolet Roadster Tourer that later became part of the Southward Museum's collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Accompanying material - Four newspaper clippings that provide biographical information about Isabel Halligan, nee Nicholas Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, dye coupler prints Provenance: This material had been found while clearing out a house.

Date: Oct 1953-May 1954

From: Miller, S M, fl 1953 : Travel journals and letter

Reference: MSX-9144

Description: Travel journal relating S M Miller's travels in Italy, Austria, and Germany between October 1953 and May 1954. Contains impressions of places visited, including Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento, Capri, Venice, Austria, Zurich, Basel, The Black Forest, Frankfurt and Rhine River. Specific subjects and activities written about include churches, fountains, baths, ruins, viaducts, mosaic flooring, hostels, Italian people and Smith's impressions their customs and attitudes, art, agriculture, treatment of animals, food, hiking and the landscape, train travel, the weather, and the post-war rebuilding and social effects in Germany. Includes loose piece of card with information regarding Eleanor Quantity: 1 volume(s) with one enclosure of loose materials. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1931-1942

From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Photographs relating to Reo and Eileen Fortune

Reference: PAColl-8563-08

Description: Photographs of Eileen Fortune's trip from New Zealand to Europe include Sydney, Sydney harbour Bridge, scenes on board ship, the Suez Canal, and Roman ruins (possibly Pompeii). Two groups of photographs relate to China where Reo Fortune went to work after he and Eileen married in 1937. Four photographs show them newly married and on their way to Lingnam University in Canton. Others are of the house they lived in, their friends the Metcalfs, Chinese servants, and the university buildings and grounds A small group of photographs date from when they were in Canada in 1942 when Reo Fortune was working in the Anthropology Department of Toronto University. This group includes Eileen in a garden with Professor Thomas McIlwraith, head of the Anthropology Department. Another group of photographs relate to North American friends who lived in Vermont. The central person is Mollie Canaday. The Fortunes also spent a holiday with these friends at a beach house at Cape Cod. Quantity: 114 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1946-1951

From: Perry, Thomas James, fl 1930-1960 :Photographs relating to Thomas James Perry

Reference: PA1-q-911

Description: Album begins in Trieste, Italy, in 1946. As well as views of the town there are pictures of allied occupying troops parading, Tito Youth marching, and communists landing illegally from small boats in the harbour. Most of the rest of the album records a trip through Italy and France made by Perry and a group of friends during 1946-1947. A large part of the album contains images of the ruins and antiquities of Rome, Ostia, Veii, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. A page of photographs record the gigantic war memorial and cemetery at Redipuglia. Commissioned by Mussolini, it commemorates a hundred thousand soldiers of the Italian Third Army who died in the First World War. There are three breaks filled with images of England. One is of a house and garden at Wappenbury, just south-east of Coventry, another is of unidentified rural scenes and friends and family. The third is two pages of the 1951 motor racing events at Silverstone which was the venue for the Grand Prix of Britain. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1850 - 1870

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Heinrich Ferdinand von, 1864-1953; Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: Curios-029-012

Description: Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Bronze statuette screwed to globe on marble base 220 x 200 x 100 (figure) 45 mm diameter (globe) 70 x 60 x 60 (base). The figure's right arm and left wing are broken, presumably as in the original of which this is a copy.

Date: 1936-1938

From: MacGowan, Mary, fl 1936-1938 :Photographs of family friends and a world trip

Reference: PAColl-8692-4

Description: Mary MacGowan's journey out to new Zealand is represented by 8 photographs relating to Panama and the Panama Canal. There are some photographs collected during holidays in New Zealand which include views of Wairakei, Mount Ngauruhoe, Christchurch, Lake Kanieri, and Hongi's Track. Most of the photographs are associated with Mary's return trip to England. She left Wellington for Sydney on the "Awatea" visiting Hobart, Tasmania, and spending enough time in Australia to see Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. From Sydney she sailed for home on the "Orontes" via the Suez Canal. Groups of photographs record deck life and other passengers, the warves, people and places visited while in Colombo, Sri lanka (Ceylon), the approaches to Suez and a visit to the pyramids sphinx and temples in Egypt, a stop at Naples and a lot of photographs and some postcards of Pompeii, and finally views of Gibraltar including one of a Spainish guard at the boarder post. Quantity: 102 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1870s-1880s

From: Christie, Hettie Florence (Miss), fl 1973 : Photograph albums

By: Arnoux, Hippolyte, active 1860s-1880s; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); King, Henry, 1855?-1923; Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-q-054

Description: Album of views of Egypt, Pompeii, Gibraltar, Scotland and Sydney, compiled 1870s-1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark red buckram cover, 39 x 28 cm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7068

Description: Photographs of Italy taken in the 1960s by John Ingle. Views include buildings on the waterfront with Monte St Angelo behind; street scenes; Mount Vesuvius; first sight of Pompeii, the forum and the Temple of Diana; the Amalfi Coast and road; "Painters' town"; Naples in late evening; in Rome, the Borghese Gardens, fountains and a monument, including the Trevi Fountain; and the Pantheon. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1946

From: Brocklebank, Laurie William :Photographs of the J Force

By: Brocklebank, Laurie William, active 1995; Fahey, George Gilbert, 1922-2008

Reference: PA1-o-729

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1880-1900

By: Nelson Camera Club; Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918; Brusewitz, Henry Elis Leopold, 1855-1922; Pitt, Albert, 1841-1906; Gully, Harry Vincent, 1850-1926; Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Gibbs, Frederick Giles, 1866-1953

Reference: PA1-o-413

Description: Album of photographs compiled by the Nelson Camera Club for presentation to its secretary, A H Patterson. It contains views of New Plymouth Breakwater, Nelson, Fisherman's Island, Maitai, French Pass (showing the yacht Jessie Logan), Westport bar (showing ship Waverley), Totaranui and Endeavour (showing yacht Isis), Lake Wakatipu, the dolphin Pelorus Jack, Mahinapua Creek, Woodhaugh (Dunedin), Waimea West, Wairoa gorge, Colombo and Kandy (Sri Lanka), and Pompeii (Italy) Photographers represented are C Y Fell, Henry Brusewitz, Mrs Brusewitz, Albert Pitt, Mrs Blackett, F B Glasgow, Miss N Jones, Hamilton & Redworth, Miss Maginnity, H V Gully, C M Igglesden, Mrs Renwick, H A Hobbs, Miss Baigent, Miss Mules, H Wilkens, P Clifford, F Washbourne, C J Deck, F G Gibbs and A J Glasgow. The presentation of the photograph album to A H Patterson was made on 6 September 1903 at the Nelson Camera Club rooms, Nelson. See "Valedictory Social to Mr A.H. Patterson", 'Colonist'. 7 September 1903, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19030907.2.49 Inscriptions: Album page - "Pictures in Maoriland, etc. Presented to A.H. Patterson, Esq. by the members of the Nelson Camera Club, Nelson, New Zealand, in slight recognition of his valuable services as Honorary Secretary of the club for many years" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, darker brown corners and spine, gilded foredge; 24.5 x 31.0 cm Provenance: Donated by the Department of External Affairs, June 1964 Processing information: Record was updated on 17 October 2002 with information on the presentation date.

Date: 1929-1939

From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain

Reference: PA1-o-985

Description: Album documenting the life and career of Edgar James Kain (1918-1940) from childhood in Wellington until the outbreak of war in 1939. The album includes home life in Wellington, a family climbing holiday in the Southern Alps in 1929, scenes in Christ's College, Christchurch; voyage to England on SS Orford in 1936, including views in Colombo, Aden and Suez); flight training at the Brough Aviation Club; social life, sporting activities and friends in England, France and Italy in the period 1936-1939; and Royal Air Force activities in the period 1937-1939. This album is particularly strong on views of aircraft, personnel, bases and activities of the Royal Air Force in the immediate pre-war years. Kain was posted to No 73 Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force, at Digby, Lincolnshire, in November 1937, flying Gloster Gladiator biplanes. In July 1938 the Squadron became one of the first to receive the new Hawker Hurricane fighters. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Provenance: Donors are Edgar Kain's sisters.