Log-chopping (Sports) - Canada

Date: [ca 1925]-1998

From: Warner, Eric, 1933-2010 :Photographs, particularly of woodchopping

Reference: PAColl-10051-10

Description: Includes - Adults running a two-legged race in the countryside. Location and event not identified, ca 1920s. Large group of men with a shield trophy lined up on a football ground. Location unidentified, ca 1930s. Unidentified woman athlete holding the Walter Warner Memorial Perpetual Challenge Cup for amateur athletics and cycling, 1962. New Zealand woman athlete with Clair Stewart, Mayor of New Plymouth, 11 May 1998. Group photographs of mainly junior members of the Kaikohe Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, 1970s. Photographs and letters sent to Eric Warner from Canada by Allan Klenman. Young women lined up at benches in a domestic science classroom, 1920s. Photographs and documents relating to Orautoha and Pukekaha schools. Group of photographs taken at the Ruatiti, Orautoha, and Pukekaha schools reunion, 1983. Orautoha School Reunion, 1958 Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). 9 b&w copy photographic print(s). 40 colour original photographic print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1901-1997

From: Warner, Eric, 1933-2010 :Photographs, particularly of woodchopping

Reference: PAColl-10051-4

Description: Includes - Studio group photograph of Australian axemen and sawyers entertained by officials of the Sawmill Workers' Union, 1901. Union officials include Albert Paape (President) and Thomas O'Byrne (Secretary). The Australians include Gus (Gustave) Blanc, world champion axeman. Group photograph of the New Zealand Axemen's Association Executive Committee, 1902. All members identified (image from the Auckland Weekly News, 27 November 1902, p43. Group photograph of the New Zealand Axemen's Association, 1904. All members identified. Group photograph of delegates attending the 27th conference of the NZ Athletic, Cycling, and Axemen's Union, Waipukurau, 2 January 1937. All delegates identified. Group of unidentified axemen and other people, Cook's Gardens, Wanganui, ca 1920. Three unidentified axemen, ca 1920. Unidentified event and people. Consists of woman handing trophy cup to man, while another woman looks on. Unidentified axeman posing beside a block, 1920s. Unidentified champion sawyers, 1920s. Unidentified champion axeman with trophy cups, 1920s. Unidentified woodcopping events, ca 1920s. World champion axeman, Sam Johnson in action, Eltham, Taranaki, ca 1912. Group of early Murchison axemen. Unidentified group of men on stadium seats, ca late 1940s. Proof sheet of events at the Otorohanga Sports, 1956. Group of contestants in the North Island woodchopping championships, ca 1970. Group of winning axemen on podium, event unidentified, 1990s. Officials at possibly either the Auckland Easter or Sydney shows, 1990s. Unidentified New Zealand axeman wearing logo of the Rotorua A&P Axemen's Club, ca 1974. New Zealand veteran axemen's team, Otorohanga, 1997. Merv and Merle Jensen, husband and wife sawing team, ca 1990s. USA team holding trophy at the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ca 1991. Three Australians one of whom is the Tasmanian David Foster, 1990s. Three colour photocopies and a colour photograph of groups at an event in Whanganui. All of these images include Eric Warner, 1990s. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy photographic print(s). 7 photocopy/ies. 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 8 colour original photographic print(s).