Elmar Studios

Date: [1860s-1940s]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; New Zealand Academy of Photographic Art; Elmar Studios; Goldsmith, Lynley, active 1990s

Reference: PAColl-2971

Description: Portraits and snapshots of the Dixon family and genealogical notes about their English background. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - [Various, relating to Dixon family] Quantity: 10 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 photocopy/ies Genealogical charts. Provenance: Donated by Lynley Goldsmith, Christchurch, 1993

Date: 1939-1945

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

By: Elmar Studios; Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-222

Description: Miscellaneous uncaptioned photographs. Include: Panorama of Cassino (mounted); linesmen up a power pole; tukutuku panels and carved panels in a Maori meeting house (photographer J T Salmon); anti-tank practise; V8 engine; grave of regimental mascot No 1 dog Major Major (d 1944); WAACS on board transport ship; Maori soldier; NZer in Long Range Desert Group; Burnham Military Camp, 1939 (photographer Elmar Studios) Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1930-1970

By: Wanganui Newspapers; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Elmar Studios; Stapleton, V A, active 1932-1938; Richards' Studios

Reference: PAColl-0725

Description: Photographs of Elsie Betts-Vincent spanning her lifetime. Studio portraits of her as a young woman ca 1930s; class photograph with her pupils at Wanganui Girls College 1925; two photographs of the girls in costume for productions produced by Betts-Vincent ca 1938; with a group of unidentified men at an event in Sydney ca 1926-1932; four photographs of her as the nurse in a production of Romeo and Juliet ca 1940s; at a music teachers' conference with J J Murphy ca 1960s; playing the piano ca 1970s; and at a lunch ca 1970s. Also include an unknown shipwreck and a table laid out in a hall with a wedding cake and other food. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1940s-1990s]

By: Gray, John Alexander, 1918-2004; McKelvie Studio; Elmar Studios; Spencer Digby Studios

Reference: PAColl-9430

Description: Photographs of John Alexander Gray QSM, musical administrator NZBC, taken ca 1940s-1990s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 37 colour original photographic print(s). 26 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: From the estate of John Gray, 2007 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Gray, John, 1918-2004 : Papers (MS-Papers-1757).

Date: 1890 - 1958

From: Pearson, William Harrison (Dr), 1922-2002: Photographs

By: Elmar Studios; Morgan's Photo Service; Phillips Candid Camera Service; Rose, John E, active 1939-1949

Reference: PAColl-1749-1

Description: Photographs documenting the life of William Harrison Pearson, from his childhood, until 1944. Also of his parents, aunts, brothers and sisters. Includes an early photo of his mother, Agnes McLean, and her sisters; the wedding of his parents; brothers and sister, and Bill as a young boy. (Many of these photographs are copies or original prints of images in PAColl-7160); the wedding of his brother Don and Eileen Pearson, 1954; his brother James McLean Pearson in uniform, with his son John in 1949, and other family in 1958. Pearson with the top ten in Standard 3 from Greymouth, 1930; Pearson at Beverly House, Christchurch, 1939, with fellow boarders, in the bath and having a first shave; Presbyterian Bible Class conference, Greymouth, 1939; his friend Margaret Still (formerly Bennett); family of D A J Rutherford and fellow boarders Arthur Knight and Noel Espie at 1 Queen Street, Dunedin, and Dunedin Training College students with Pearson during outings and at dances 1940 and 1941. Photographs taken at the dances show Pearson variously with Nita Crotty, Sheila Diehl, Cath Rawcliffe and Nancy MacKenzie. Burnham Camp with Ray Carr, 1942, and in 1945; with the dental section, RNZAF Omaka 1943 and Laucala Bay, Fiji, 1943 or 1944 Includes a set of prints from Madeleine Folme, Noumea, with captions in French, one dated 1938, of her and her husband Louis, soldiers on parade, view of Port Moselle, and on a picnic, a photograph from Paul Combier to William Pearson, and one of an unidentified house, possibly in France Quantity: 88 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1936-1937, 1942, [ca.1936-1944, 1950]

From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Photographs

By: Elmar Studios; Firth Photography; Green & Hahn (Firm); Leicagraph Studio (Christchurch, N.Z.); Orago, E, active 1936; Taylor, R B, active 1940s; Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977

Reference: PAColl-10290-2

Description: Contains photographs relating to Christine Cole Catley's student years at New Plymouth Girls' High School (1946-1940) and Canterbury University College (1941-1944). Photographs taken by unknown and various commercial photographers (see names list) between 1936 and 1944, with one image possibly taken ca.1950. Images relating to New Plymouth Girls' High School consist of group portraits of students, including three basketball teams with Catley Canterbury University College images include portraits of Catley with friends and by herself. Also: informal socialising; a float of the `HMS Neverbudge - New Zealand's Last Hope', probably from a capping parade; movie billboard for `I married a witch' (1942) which has been altered to read `I married a bitch'; and formal portrait of the student executive of which Catley was a member. Another set of photographs relate to the University's Drama Society, including images of cast onstage and backstage dressed in Victorian costume. One photograph shows the cast and crew of `Othello' (ca.1944), including Catley, producer Ngaio Marsh and composer Douglas Lilburn, with beer bottles and mugs. Another shows Marsh and the Canterbury Student Players, possibly about to depart on an Australian tour. One image shows group of men including writer Anton Vogt, and possibly also James K Baxter and Paddy Costello taken ca.1950 Relationship complexity - A different version of `Othello' cast and crew image is located at PAColl-0285-1-072 Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [ca 1979]

From: New Zealand Department of Education: Photographs of schools

By: Elmar Studios

Reference: PA6-866

Description: Panoramic photograph of Massey College, taken by Elmar Studios, circa 1979. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) panorama. Physical Description: Black and white panoramic photographic print, 20.5 x 139 cm.

Date: 1954

By: Elmar Studios

Reference: 1/2-197526-F

Description: Portrait of Frederick Henry McDowall (1900-1975), dairy scientist and administrator, taken in 1954 by Elmar Studios of Palmerston North. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 12.5 x 10 cm

From: New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs (Inc) :Photographs

By: Elmar Studios

Reference: PAColl-4952-16-018

Date: 1941

From: Daysh, Bertie, 1906-1971: Photographs relating to Bertie Daysh, prisoner of war in Austria during World War II

By: Elmar Studios

Reference: PAColl-10132-1

Description: Soldiers, including Bertie Daysh (circled), marching out from Burnham Camp, Christchurch, in 1941, taken by Elmar Studios. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).