Universities and colleges - England

Date: 1908-1910

From: Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd: Photographs

By: Cory-Wright, Silston, 1888-1976

Reference: PA1-o-1018

Description: A survey camp held in 1909 at Hewel Park for engineering students from the University of Birmingham. Shows the camp, the park, and the students in groups and carrying out activities relating to the practice of surveying. There are photographs of Sir Aston Webb's buildings for the University of Birmingham, some still under construction. These include a tall campanile which can be seen under construction and completed. Three images record the visit of King Edward the 7th in 1909 to open the great hall of the university. Finally the album closes with images of large machines in the university's school of engineering. The University of Birmingham was founded in 1900. The original buildings (shown in this album) were designed by Sir Aston Webb who was also responsable for the street front of Buckingham Palace, the Cromwell Road wing of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Admiralty Arch in London. Silston Cory-Wright spent two years at the Univerity of Birmingham after serving an apprenticeship in Zurich with the engineering firm Escher Wyss and Company. He came to New Zealand in 1912 to take up a position as lecturer in engineering at Auckland University. He became an expert in the design of hydro electric power stations. (info from The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Vol 4, 1921-1940) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1888

By: Barraud, Edward Noel, 1857-1920; Blundell, John Barraud, 1904-1975

Reference: A-106-007

Description: King's College and the Chapel seen from the opposite bank of the Cam River Inscriptions: Recto - The artist's Christmas greeting to his mother. Also the initials L. C. B. in pencil lower left, possibly the initials of the Barraud family member to whom this watercolour was bequeathed. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 134 x 241 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr Barry Blundell, Wellington, 1 November 1956

Date: 1920 - 1940

By: Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952

Reference: E-197

Description: Illustrations of British and European buildings, pasted on loose leaves, including an advertisement for Academy Architecture and Architectural Review for 1926. Quantity: 119 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 119 photolithographs, sizes vary

Date: 1840

By: J & F Harwood (Firm)

Reference: A-010-013

Description: Men in academic robes strolling in front of the buildings of St John's College, Cambridge P. (or plate) 130 from an unknown publication. No. A-101-012 is from the same publication Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 150 x 268 mm on sheet 192 x 302 mm

Date: 1924-1946

From: Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9721-17

Description: Two athletes, George Kingston and Andy Mercer, with unidentified man, ca 1924. New Zealand Olympic team, 1936. Oxford University group photographs include - Magdalen College ball, June 1924. Rhodes scholars, 1925. Students of Magdalen College, 1925 and 1926. Vincento Club, 1925 and 1926. Formal dinner events include - Oxford and Cambridge versus Princeton and Cornell universities dinner, 10 July 1926. Wanganui Collegiate Old Boys Association dinner, July 1931. British Games dinner, 1935. One unidentified formal dinner. Hospital groups include - Resident medical officers at St Mary's Hospital, London, 1928 and 1932. Surgical staff at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 25 October 1946. The photographs in this collection were loose prints in album PA1-o-1647. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by the Hon Mrs Joanna Meredith-Hardy, London, England, in 2009

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-1251

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Canterbury Gate, taken by [George] Crombie ca 1900. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Crombie - photo; Recto - beneath image - Canterbury Gate Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1885 - 1890

Reference: A-010-008

Description: Shows the bell tower of a church, with part of the church visible beyond. Published in The builder. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 150 x 268 mm on sheet 192 x 302 mm

Date: 1923

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-2-001

Description: Shows exterior view of Queen's College, Oxford University. A L Haylock has written his name and an address across the lower lefthand corner in ink. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on front endpage 181 x 120 mm

Date: 1932-1933

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1615

Description: Includes photographs of Kensington gardens; Hampton Court; Trinity College, Oxford; Kew gardens; Wilson's at Berkhamsted; Dog cemetery at Hyde Park; Box Hill in Surrey; Davis Cup matches between Australia and England in 1933; Virginia Water; buildings and castles in Warwick and Kenilworth; William Shakespeare's birth place, Stratford-on-Avon; Fire brigade display in Chelsea; Zillah and Mavis on ship (possibly their return voyage in 1934) In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 19.5 x 28 cm

Date: 1885 - 1890

Reference: A-010-009

Description: Shows a tower with crenelated turrets Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 150 x 268 mm on sheet 192 x 302 mm Provenance: Purchase: Ken Webster, London, 1970

Date: 1927-1928

By: Sheat, William Alfred, 1899-1982

Reference: MS-Papers-9226

Description: Letters from Richard Mitchelson Campbell to Sheat, relating his experiences on travelling on the vessels Makura and Berengaria to London to enroll at the London School of Economics. Describes his experiences in the United States and gives his views on the political and economic situation there. Also describes his impressions of the London School of Economics, and lectures which he has attended. Also copies, with typed transcripts, of letters to a correspondent named 'Ivan', discussing Sheat's wedding plans Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Bill Sheat, Lower Hutt, 2009

Date: 1923

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-2-002

Description: A view of the exterior of the Master's House, Worcester College, Oxford University. Shows a three storey house with a double stairway leading to the front entrance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 120 x 181 mm

Date: 1830

From: Taylor, Richard 1805-1873 :Drawings and sketchs[sic]. 1830.

By: Fisk, William, 1796-1872

Reference: E-273-q-001

Description: Shows two gowned students talking on wide path through trees (beside river?), with chapel in distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wm [F or H]isk / May 1st 1830. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 185 x 260 mm.

Date: 1970

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8604

Description: Views of Britain include - Kings College Cambridge including porters lodge and chapel. Stained glass window probably in Kings College Chapel. Views of London. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1934

From: Hurley family : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1774

Description: Includes:- Visiting people in Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England. Views of the village include the church, thatched and tiled houses, and Monkton Cottage. Three young men holding dogs. Views of Bradenham village, Buckinghamshire, England, and of Bradenham House and gardens. Tourists in Jamaica, March 1934. The Shaw Savill & Albion Co's ship `Ionic' on which the creator of this album set sail from Wellington on 7 March 1934. Passengers on the `Ionic' and views of the Panama Canal. Postcards of pencil drawings and photographs of notable buildings and views in London, Oxford and Windsor Great Park. Postcards of Dr Barnado's model village, Barkingside, Essex, England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1923

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-2-003

Description: Shows dome with supporting columns and clock which is on top of Queen's College, Oxford University. At the bottom of the page are the roughly drawn figures of two [women?] Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 181 x 120 mm

Date: 1947-[ca 1953]

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

Reference: PAColl-8563-09

Description: Photographs that relate to the Fortune's move to Cambridge, England where Reo had a lecturship at Wolfson College. They bought a cottage at 8 Duck End, Girton, which was their first house. Photographs show the cottage viewed from the street, its interiors just after the Fortune's moved in, and the progress of renovation and addition that followed. There are also photographs of Reo, Eileen, and friends in the garden of 8 Duck End, boating on the river Cam, and at the seaside. A group of small postcards show views of Cambridge University, and there are photographs of Eileen with groups of unidentified people. Four images are of Mrs Thomas and her house in Wales where Eileen stayed in 1931. Six images dating from the early 1930s show gliders in flight and on the ground. There are a number of other images of Reo, Eileen, and their friends. Seven photographic Christmas cards are from Margaret Mead, and date from 1955 to 1970. Finally there is another group of photographs of the Fortune's North American friends from Vermont (who may be Eileen's cousin Molly and her husband Frank Canaday). Quantity: 164 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1919 - 1923

By: Brandon, T C (Mr), active 1996

Reference: PAColl-5246

Description: Relate to donor's father Philip Brandon. One Wanganui Collegiate class photo, two relating to Philip Brandon at Trinity College, Cambridge, and one unidentified New Zealand house Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1814

By: Westall, William, 1781-1850; Stadler, Joseph Constantine, active 1780-1812; Ackermann & Company (London, England)

Reference: A-449-016

Description: A view of the Second Court of St John's College, Cambridge. Several people, including academics and non-academics feature; this gives the buildings a sense of scale Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 190 x 265 mm on sheet 256 x 310 mm

Date: 1810

By: Harraden, Richard Bankes, 1778-1862; Byrne, Elizabeth, active 1810-1849

Reference: A-449-015

Description: A view of St John's College Cambridge, featuring the Old Bridge. Two men donned in adademic dress walk with a dog in the foreground Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 128 x 207 mm, on sheet 153 x 228 mm (sight)