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Peat family: Photographs
- Date
- [ca 1907]-1986
- Reference
- PA-Group-00823
- Description
Photographs relating to the Peat family, particularly relating to Don and Beatrice Peat, photographers of Wellington.
Subjects in the negative groups include - Plimmer House, Boulcott Street, Wellington. Norman Kirk lying in state, September 1974. Portraits of Arnold Nordmeyer. Mother Teresa visiting New Zealand, February 1973. Second World War soldiers at Trentham camp, 1940. The barque `Pamir' 1940s. The ship `Doric Star' ca 1940. The ship `Wanganella' in 1947. Red Cross personnel ca late 1940s. The Peats' daughter as a toddler. Red Cross Florence Nightingale medal. Boy Scout Association conferences, 1960-1961. Displays of women's clothing in the windows of a shop called `Peggy Love,' 1950s. Family photographs including the Peats on holiday in the late 1940s/early 1950s.
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Quantity: 655 b&w original negative(s) frames. 250 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 album(s) Album(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. 42 colour original transparency/ies frames. 3 colour original negative(s).
Provenance: Donated by Jennie Jones, Wellington, 2012. Donor is the daughter of Don and Beatrice Peat.
Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - Two scrapbook albums and a typed annual report. - To Ephemera Collection - One small box of items. - To Other - To Published Collections - Five publications..
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- 655 b&w original negative(s) frames, 250 b&w original photographic print(s), 3 album(s) Album(s), 11 colour original photographic print(s), 3 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand, 42 colour original transparency/ies frames, 3 colour original negative(s), Photographs
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Two views of Wellington
Date: [1970s]
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA12-9225
Description: Two views of Wellington Streets. One is of Victoria Street looking south from about Dixon Street. The other is Willis Street looking north from below the Hotel St George. Quantity: 2 colour original transparency/ies.
A road trip through the North Island
Date: [ca 1950-1951]
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1795
Description: Includes - Views of Christchurch including historical displays on shop verandas, probably taken at the time of the centenary of settlement in 1950. The Peat family and friends. A visit to Nelson which includes two views of the airport and the cathedral. Road trip through the North Island. This includes the car parked outside the Rimutaka summit tearooms. The new Masterton Bar and Lounge. The memorial war canoe at Patea. The tearooms at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. The Makatote railway viaduct. Repairs being carried out on the car. The rock of refuge of Hatupatu. Views of the Volcanic Plateau and other scenic landscape views. Multiple AA road signs. Geothermal Research Station at Wairakei. The Tolaga Inn. A day at the races. Hole in the Wall Rock Arch, Bay of Plenty. Mangonui and Kerikeri. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Don Peat's photograph album
Date: 1936-1941
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1794
Description: Don Peat's own album aquired when he was 15 years old. Contents include - Group of schoolboys and a De Haviland aircraft at Wigram in 1936. The Merivale boy scouts, Christchurch, 1937. Portrait of St Mary's Church, St Albans, Christchurch, 1937. Governor General, Lord Galway at presentation of a new guiden (flag) to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Hagley Park, 1937. Wellington Railway Station. World War One field gun. Flying boat on Wellington harbour. Nazi flag on the last German ship to come to Wellington before the Second World War, ca 1939. Ocean liner `Strathmore,' at Wellington wharves. Portrait of Bob Semple. Don Peat with friends and in military uniform, 1939-1940. Soldiers, Second World War, in Wellington. Views of the Nurses Home, Wellington Hospital. Don Peat and his parents, Whanganui 1940. Soldiers in training, Trentham, 1940. Views of the ship `Doric Star' sunk in 1940. Soldiers in training at Waiouru, 1941. This includes a group of photographs recording a comic mock battle enacted by soldiers. Soldiers on leave in Christchurch, May 1941. Hand coloured images of Maori men posing as `old time' warriors, 1939. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Family photograph album
Date: [ca 1925]-1941
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1793
Description: Large number of family photographs taken in New Zealand and England. These include young people swimming in the sea, a wedding, and Minnie Gray who was Beatrice Peat's aunt. Group of photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition at Rongatai, Wellington, 1939-1940. Crowds lining Lambton Quay watching floats in the Queen Carnival parade, 1941. Soldiers crowding at the windows of a troop train. A visit to Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs of Samoa and Samoans. Photographs taken somewhere in the Pacific during the Second World War. A trip to Christchurch,ca 1925. Tramping on the Volcanic Plateau. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by Jennie Jones, Wellington, 2012. Donor is the daughter of Don and Beatrice Peat.
Building demolition, view of Wellington, and view from a garden
Date: [ca 1975]
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA12-9220
Description: Two views of Wellington. Two images of buildings being demolished. Three views of Lambton Quay. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies comprising 8 images.
Views of Wellington buildings
Date: [ca 1969]
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10049-5
Description: Includes - Two views of Wellington, one from Molesworth Street, and one from the grounds of Parliament, showing recently built high rise buildings, and others under construction. Most of the new buildings in the views are on The Terrace. This collection also contains newspaper cuttings of articles on Don and Beatrice Peat dating from the 1970s and 1980s. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
View of Wellington, and views of the Beehive
Date: [1970s]
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA12-9223
Description: Aerial view of northern Wellington and the railway yards. Four photographs of the almost completed Beehive building, Wellington. Ship, the Pacific Princess in Wellington Harbour. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies comprising 6 images.
Views of Wellington, a cat, and portrait of a man
Date: [1970s]
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA12-9224
Description: Aerial view of Wellington and and views of inner city streets. Photograph of a cat, and portrait of an unidentified man. Quantity: 5 colour original transparency/ies comprising 17 images.
Views of Wellington
Date: [1970s]
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PA12-9222
Description: Views of wellington include - Civic Square, Waterloo Quay, Katherine Mansfield Memorial Park, Jervois Quay. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies comprising 9 images.
Family, ships, soldiers, and first aid training
Date: [ca 1907]-1986
From: Peat family: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10049-1
Description: Includes - Peat relations in England, ca 1907. Don Peat as a small boy with girl companion. Scout troup, Merivale, Christchurch, 1937. World War one field gun on Observatory reserve, Botanic Garden, Wellington. Portrait of Walter Nash. Barque `Parmir,' 1940s. Ship `Wanganella' when wrecked on Barrett Reef, Wellington harbour, 1947. Liner `Strathmore' at Wellington wharves. HMS `Wizard' (R72) in Wellington Harbour ca 1945. View of a bush fire and a collapsed viaduct. View of Wellington railway yards and harbour, ca 1938. Hotel Waterloo, Wellington, ca 1940. Last tram to Newtown tram barnes outside Wellington Railway Station. Views of Manners and Victoria streets, Wellington, 1986. Prime Minister David Lange at a social event, 1980s. Views of Cairo and Egypt, World War Two. Group of unidentified native soldiers, World War Two. Padre at trentham Military Camp, 1940. Soldiers of the First Echelon protesting at Parliament, Wellington, World War Two. Men waiting to greet returning soldiers, world War Two. Field Marshall Montgomery visiting Wellington. Men training in first aid and rescue work at Paekakariki (probably organised by the Red Cross). The same men recieving a flag from a padre among sand dunes and lupins. Men boxing. Damaged austin motorcar, 1930s. New Zealand National Airways Corporation aircraft. Nurses having a celebration meal. Groups of women wearing Red Cross uniforms, and other groups holding trophies and competing in first aid practice, ca late 1940s/1950s. Portraits of Arnold Nordmeyer. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour original photographic print(s).