IMAGE
Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
- Date
- [ca 1960s-1970s]
- By
- Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011
- Reference
- PA-Group-00817
- Description
Chiefly colour slides (one black and white) taken by Leslie Eric Oborn, engineering geologist for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, taken on field trips and holidays circa 1960s-1970s.
Images show scenes taken around New Zealand. Includes a set of about 40 slides taken on a family trip on Milford Track.
Source of title - Title supplied by Library
Arrangement: The slides have been kept in sets that Oborn arranged them in.
Quantity: 137 colour original transparency/ies.
Provenance: Donor is widow of Leslie Oborn.
Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive and transfers made from there. - To Ephemera Collection - Small leaflets that accompanied the sets of slides now housed at Eph-A-PHOTO-1970s-02 and receipt for Kodak processing..
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 137 colour original transparency/ies, Colour transparencies, Film transparencies, Landscape photographs
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Dams, work sites, and scenes around New Zealand
Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]
From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
Reference: PA12-8940
Description: Colour slides chiefly of dams and work sites taken by Leslie Eric Oborn ca 1964-1976. Features Aviemore Dam, Takaka/Cobb Hydro Dam, Maunganamu and Tokaanu tailrace, and an unidentified quarry (including people at work). Also includes images of gardens [Avon River?]. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides
Milford Track family trip, Part 2 of 2, and alpine hut scenes
Date: [ca 1970s]
From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
Reference: PA12-8936
Description: Colour slides of Oborn family tramping trip on the Milford Track. Images taken by Leslie Eric Oborn circa January 1972. Features scenery along the track, including cascades, maintenance tractor, and Milford Sound. Also contains two separate slides of an alpine hut at [Tasman Glacier?] taken by Oborn circa 1970s Quantity: 16 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides
Milford Sound
Date: [ca 1972]
From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
Reference: PA12-8934
Description: Colour slides of Milford Sound and Lake Moeraki taken by Leslie Eric Oborn ca January 1972. Features boats moored at Milford Sound wharf and scenic boat tour. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides
Milford Track family trip, Part 1 of 2
Date: [ca 1972]
From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
Reference: PA12-8935
Description: Colour slides of Oborn family tramping trip/holiday on the Milford Track. Images taken by Leslie Eric Oborn ca January 1972. Features scenery along the track, including Sutherland Falls, rivers, lakes, and mountains. Also some unidentified people [Oborn family members?]. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides
Scenes around New Zealand
Date: [ca 1964-1972]
From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
Reference: PA12-8937
Description: Colour slides taken by Leslie Eric Oborn ca 1964-1972. Features series of Picton, ferry `Aramoana', and Cook Straight crossing. Also contains an unidentified church, the ship `Wanganella' moored in Doubtful Sound, Mitre Peak, a ski area [Whakapapa, Mt Ruapehu?], a bus labelled `Cape Reinga via Ninety Mile Beach', and an unidentified [power station?]. Also contains a single black and white image of [tunnel?] construction. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides
Scenes around New Zealand
Date: [ca 1960s]-Feb 1976
From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
Reference: PA12-8938
Description: Contains slides taken by Leslie Eric Oborn in ca Feb 1976, including a group on a geology field trip, a view of Kaikoura, and some beach scenes featuring a pohutukawa tree. Slides from ca 1960s, also taken by Oborn, include: a river valley (where the river is in flood); Aerial Applications Ltd helicopter, and workmen in the bush; and Wellington Harbour with unidentified people on the waterfront, views of Oriental Bay, Weir House, and unidentified ships. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides
Scenes in New Zealand, chiefly mountains
Date: 3 Jul 1964- [ca 1970s]
From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
Reference: PA12-8939
Description: Colour slides taken by Leslie Eric Oborn ca 1960s-1970s. Contains three small series featuring: farmland and rock formations; South Island mountain ranges and rivers, and coming in to land at Wellington Airport; and various views of Mounts Taranaki, Ruapehu, Tongariro, and Ngauruhoe. Also one loose slide of a street scene. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides