Vacations - England

Date: 1904-1916

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1557

Description: Photographs relating to Sybil Satchell and her family. Includes photographs of family members, friends, a holiday in England and Tasmania, picnics, women cricket and hockey teams, Nelson Girls and Boys College students, Waitaki Boys' High School hockey team, and views around Nelson. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Sybil M. Satchell, Nelson, Dec 1911, from G.M.H. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 190 x 270 mm

Date: [ca1898-ca1925]

By: Sawyer, Arthur John Hardacre, 1885-1932; Newlands, George, active 2001

Reference: PAColl-8910

Description: Photographs taken and collected by Arthur John Sawyer. Some of the photographs were taken during the Mawson Expedition 1911-1913 on Macquarie Island. These include radio telegraph aparatus, seals, and a view of the landscape. Other images include a group of soldiers on Nauru, unidentified men, women, and children, and some of the crowd at the Auckland-Wellington rep match 1913. The negatives record places in England and Ireland, ca 1898. They include Henley, Chester, countryside, Waterford, Tranmore, Dublin, and Roscrea. Two are views of a procession associated with Charles Stewart Parnell. Biographical information about Mr Sawyer in in clippings from Poverty Bay Herald, 19 Jan 1932 (obituary); also Dominion 26 Feb 1930, and Dubbo Liberal 9 Dec 1927. He was born in Gisborne, and was a cousin of Shackleton's. Letters in scrapbook show Sawyer donated his journal and resume of his radio experiences on Macquarie Island to the Mitchell Library, 1924 (Email from Mitchell Library 11 May 2005 notes `Mitchell Library holds Sawyer's diary, 1911-1916 together with several pages of notes re his time on Macquarie Island written in 1924. The diaries and notes are located at MLMSS 383. Accompanying the diary are about 35 phtographs located at pic Acc 5491 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives are at 1/2-230920-F to 1/2-230949-F Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 30 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Mr Newlands was given this collection by Mrs Green when helping to clear deceased estate of Mr John Green some time ago. Mrs Green has no knowledge of why Mr Green had them, but he was a member of the Wellington Radio Club. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Sawyer, Arthur. MS-Group-122. - Transfer information - From Manuscripts and Archives : MS-Group-1402 : Sawyer, Arthur John, b 1885 : Papers.