Eucalyptus - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: [Circa 1960s?]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-567

Description: Coloured photographs of the house, farm, trees, and garden at `Rozel', the home of Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with white plastic cover, photographs inserted in plastic pockets; 10.5 x 15.0 cm

Date: [Between 1941 and 1942]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-559

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell at her home `Rozel' near Ohaupo. Photographs of family and friends include her husband Frederick McWhannell in military uniform while he was serving in New Zealand, in 1942; her father William Duncan Ross McCurdie, and Audrey Hopkins. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured brown cover, entitled `Photographs'; 19.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1970s to 1980s]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-570

Description: Album of coloured photographs probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell. None of the people shown are identified; some of the scenes were taken at `Rozel' the home of Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell. Rhoda McWhannell's brother Bill and his wife Inga are identified from another album in the McWhannell sequence (at PA1-q-276). A number of holiday snapshots are taken in the Taupo, Wairakei area, with one view of thermal steam vents at Wairakei, and several of the Waikato River and the Huka Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured white plastic cover; photographs inserted in plastic pockets; 20 x 15 cm

Date: 1977 to 1979

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-279

Description: Photographs of family and friends, mostly taken in New Zealand by Rhoda McWhannell. There is one group of scenes relating to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family in the Kloof and Drakensberg Mountains areas of South Africa. The New Zealand scenes include friends at Rozel, the home of Rhoda and Frederick McWhannell at Ohaupo; numbers of different varieties of gum trees, which Frederick McWhannell had specialised in; friends' gardens; photographs of flowers including roses, dahlias, eucalypts, water lilies, acacia and irises; and the rose garden and fountain at Te Awamutu Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with purple vinyl cover; 35 x 30 cm

Date: [Between 1970 and 1976]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-568

Description: Coloured photographs taken at `Rozel', the farm and home of Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell near Ohaupo. They include the farm and farm buildings; trees including eucalypts in full flower; cabbage tree in flower with a close-up of the flower; manuka flowers; lemon tree with lemons and flowers; flax flowers; hebe flowers; akeake seed capsules and carmichaelia flowers (New Zealand broom). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured plastic cover imitating plaited raffia; photographs inserted in plastic pockets; 20 x 15 cm

Date: Between 1959 and 1982

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8855

Description: The first 19 slides are untitled but show mycorrhiza (fungi) on douglas fir roots; the trunk of a "rusty gum", kowhai seeds; bark of several trees including eucalyptus sideroxylon and an oak tree; one jacaranda bloom and jacarnda foliage; hellebore corsicus; hosta leaves; a Judas tree; eucalyptus micocorys; bunya pine tree; twisted maple trunk; Friesian heifers; a eucalyptus maculosa; and wych elm blossom. The last three show the Homestead at Takahe Creek, and a man only identified by Christian name "John" with Rusty the spaniel in the garden. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1958 and 1983

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8850

Description: These slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include views of eucalyptus trees, lemon and grapfruit trees, their dog "Wee Dug", their 1951 Austin A40 car, a clematis ("Travellers' Joy") and the house. One picture taken in Cambridge shows an old red pillar box; smoke over a swamp fire in the distance; the Rukuhia Swamp; clouds over Pirongia; Waikato landscape and clouds; a young boy with a prize-winning calf; Horneman's farm at Ohaupo; a group identified only by Christian name ( Percy, Lindley, Joyce and Mr Spencer at Rozel), Gubbins oaks at Rozel, and oak blossom. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between March 1923 and October 1940

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-275

Description: Album of photographs showing the progress made by Frederick McWhannell and his wife Rhoda McWhannell, from breaking in the land in 1923, including felling scrub, to a fully functional farm with cows, sheep, pigs, and areas of forestry. Various activities are shown in detail, including hay-making and ensilage; planting trees including eucalypts, pinus insignis, lausoniana; building a water tank from scratch; creating a tennis court from scratch; and the development of the house garden. Most of the people shown are wither not identified, or only by Christian name. William Duncan Ross McCurdie (Rhoda McWhannell's father) has been identified from comparison with photographs in an earlier album (PA1-o-552) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover; 39.5 x 26.5 cm

Date: Between 1957 and 1976

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8830

Description: Slides taken by Rhoda McWhannell showing various aspects of life at Rozel, the farm and nursery owned by Rhoda McWhannell and her husband "Mac" (Frederick Brayshaw McWhannell). Views include the house, views from the house, the tree nursery, flowers, laden lemon trees, twenty-year old gum trees, "Stewart" sawing a felled tree, and several views of the red gum tree (corymbia ficifolia, formerly known as eucalyptus ficifolia). Other views show the entrance and driveway, sheep, parts of their garden, eucalyptus ficifolia in flower, a rimu and hydrangeas. One scene shows a group of four women playing croquet on a lawn. The last slide shows a sheep with facial eczema. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1956 and 1964

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8829

Description: Slides taken by Rhoda McWhannell showing various aspects of life at Rozel, the farm and nursery owned by Rhoda McWhannell and her husband "Mac" (Frederick Brayshaw McWhannell). Views include the house, views from the house, three people in the garden (probably Rhoda with her husband and an unidentified young woman). Other views show the entrance and driveway, sheep, parts of their garden, eucalyptus ficifolia in flower, a rimu and hydrangeas. One scene shows a group of four women playing croquet on a lawn. The last slide shows a sheep with facial eczema. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1958 and 1981

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8839

Description: Flowers, buds, seed-cups, leaves, and trees showing aspects of eucalyptus ficifolia trees, most grown at the nursery and home of Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell at Rozel, Ohaupo. Two images show the eucalyptus ficifolia grown by Bill Hewett, one of a flower taken in 1958 and the other of the grown tree taken in 1964. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Circa 1982 to 1984

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8831

Description: Studies of trees, and spring scenes (taken in spring 1984) taken by Rhoda McWhannell, chiefly at the Rozel farm and nursery. The first 11 images are tree studies including fern fronds, the underside of a silver fern, the trunk of a eucalyptus maculosa, a black ponga (mamuku), New Zealand native clematis paniculata, and a twisted maple trunk. The last 10 images were taken in Spring 1984, and include a nandina hedge, kowhai blooms, a red camellia flower, dogwood flowers, a spring landscape, and a rhododendron flower. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1961 and 1981

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8832

Description: Studies of trees, and close-up views of the emperor gum moth in its various stages of growth, taken by Rhoda McWhannell, chiefly at the Rozel farm and nursery. The first 14 images are studies of black ponga trees (mamuku); kahikatea trees, roots and berries; and blooms and seeds of the eucalyptus ficifolia. The last 8 images show an emperor gum moth, cocoon and caterpillar, a comparison of trees in leaf and one depleted of leaves from infestation by the moth, a caterpillar emerging, a caterpillar and eggs, and a tree covered with numerous caterpillars. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1959 and 1974

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8848

Description: Views of the gardens and trees at Rozel, the forest farm owned by Mac (Frederick Brayshaw McWhannell) and Rhoda McWhannell. They include poplars, eucalyptus trees, a 1951 model Austin A40, sunflowers, lemon trees, Japanese maples, Rhoda McWhannell standing outside with a stormy sky, a row of small trees in the nursery, Judas trees, the back lawn, hydrangeas, views from the porch, an oak on the driveway with cattle in the background, an acacia in bloom, and their dog named "Wee Dug". Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1968 and 1982

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8840

Description: Flowers, buds, and trees showing aspects of eucalyptus ficifolia trees, most grown at the nursery and home of Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell at Rozel, Ohaupo.The last five images show the bark of angophora leiocarpa trees, a Norfolk Island pine on the riverbank at Hamilton, a eucalyptus melliodora flower, and the top of a eucalyptus maculosa tree. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1937 to 1941

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-560

Description: Snapshots of family, friends, and life at Rozel, the farm owned by Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell, near Ohaupo. A few of the people are identified, many only with Christian names. A few have been identified from comparison with other albums in the McWhannell collection. Most are taken at Rozel, including farming scenes, tree planting, tennis parties, and one sequence showing celebrations for Frederick McWhannell's birthday in 1941. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 20.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: [Between 1956 and 1980]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-283

Description: Album of photographs relating to family and friends, travel, farming (including horticultural nurseries), and gardens, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. The front page of the album contains 26 postage stamps from RSA (Republic of South Africa). One group shows individual children of different cultures issued for Christmas 1977; one group shows different varieties of South African plants inclduing proteas and leucodendrons; one image is of the university at Stellenbosch; and two are of historical events at Ulundi and Isandlwana. The first part of the album relates to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family. Several are of Bill McCurdie's daughter Kirsten and her children in England, including views of Christ's Hospital School at Lincoln; others are of Bill and Inga McCurdie, with Kirsten and her children Simon and Alex in South Africa. Photographs of `Rozel', the McWhannell farm and tree nursery are the main topic of the rest of the album. These range in time from the 1950s to 1980. One small sequence shows the township of Ohaupo in 1960, with comments on buildings later demolished, and the contrast in 1980. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue vinyl cover; embossed pattern of kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30 x 35 cm

Date: Between 1954 and 1984

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8852

Description: This sheet of slides is entitled "Trees". It includes images of acacia nobilis; Judas trees at Rozel; eucalyptus varieties grandis, microcorys and maculosa at Rozel; eucalyptus seedlings and "Mac's nursery" (i.e. Mac McWhannell's tree nursery at Ohaupo); a melia azedarach tree; kauri wood; kauri seed; a tree at Waipoua Forest Park; sowing kauri at Waipoua; the Waipoua nursery; one kauri, two branching kauris; green kauri cones; trees at Rozel; black walnut trees; and two views of ginkgo seeds in flesh at Rozel. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1960 and 1985

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8851

Description: The first 8 slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include "Teddy's oak in bloom", views of their plantation showing kauri, cedars, kowhai, flax, and golden willow. The next 14 slides are entitled "Projects". They include views of a kowhai in the Rozel garden, the fountain and roses in the Te Awamutu Rose Garden; two views of a climbing plant on the wall of the Mormon Temple at Temple View near Hamilton; branches of a cedar of Lebanon; flowers of eucalyptus leucoxylon and eucalyptus ficifolia, and kowhai flowers. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1957 and 1982

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8849

Description: Views of the gardens and trees at Rozel, the forest farm owned by Mac (Frederick Brayshaw McWhannell) and Rhoda McWhannell. They include the entrance, the Rozel nursery, eucalyptus trees, Judas trees in bloom, a royal oak and oak blossom, and pinus radiata bloom. One image shows Fred, Merta and Robert (Frederick McWhannell, Merta and Robert Alford); and another shows three men identified only by their Christian names (Ross, Jock and Cliff). The last ten slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include views of the house, poplars, "Wee Dug" their dog, a croquet match played on Anzac Day 1961, sweet oranges, lemons and lemon blossom, Japanese maples, George (?) and a Judas tree. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm