Herdman-Smith, Robert, 1872-1947

Artist and art teacher. Born Liverpool. Qualified as an art teacher in London 1899. From 1902 on staff of Wellington Technical College. From 1905 Director, Canterbury School of Art. In the 1910s and 1920s exhibiting with New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts

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People in the news - New Zealand and overseas

Date: [ca 1927-1951]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-199

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, late 1920s-1950s. New Zealand people in the news - Campbell Island meteorological station personnel; Watkins family of Hastings (champions in three sports), 1939; Hon W E Parry & Hon Walter Nash at celebrations to mark Lower Hutt becoming at city in 1941; Bishop Cherrington, Rev G H Scurr & Rev L K Collins, 1931; Captain S G Stringer, 1927; Colonel A W Orsborn & family; Mrs Ellingham of Dannevirke; Mrs Basilia Schulte-Baeuminghaus & daughter Ira (of Bavaria); Len Hodge (Canterbury junior diving champion) with John McCormack, USA; MPs J A McL Roy, T L MacDonald & A S Sutherland, 1949; John Smith (pilot instructor), 1937. Photographs relating to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Phillip, 1947 Photograph of Mr B Lusk (solicitor), Mrs Bayley, Mr R E Fawcett (solicitor) and Mrs Bayley's father, T Palmer arriving at the Supreme Court Auckland during the trial of William Alfred Bayley, who was charged with the murder of S P Lakey and his wife at Ruawao, May 1934. Jubilee Exhibition of Canterbury College of Art - Former directors examining a portrait by R Wallwork of Robert Herdman Smith (director of the Art School in 1905). Directors are Gordon H Elliott, Frederick Gurnsey, Archibald F Nicoll and R Wallwork. Archibald F Nicholl painting the portrait of George Harper, 1932; Frank Callaway (Director of King Edward Technical College); Colonel A W Orsborn, new Chief Secretary for Salvation Army in New Zealand, & family, 1933; Canterbury pioneers at Bridle Path Memorial Service - John Chapman, Rev F G Brittan, Richard Evans, 1939. Wynne Smith, song-writer; group photograph of Brigade Commander & Commanding Officers and staff of 6th Infantry Brigade NZEF, 1940 (named on verso); nurses at Waiouru Camp Hospital (named on verso), 1951; Officers and staff of Waiouru military camp, 1951 (named on verso); Senior officers of Dental Services at Burnham (Lt-Col W M Ford, Lt G W Stanley & Major E B Reilly), 1950; Grant-Dalton Trophy awarded to Wellington (No 2) Squadron in 1950 - Leading Aircraftman W M Whitehead with Squadron Leader Oldfield & Group Captain F R Dix; Miss Kane, Mrs Burrell, Mrs Ross & Mr Duckworth Barker UNESCO at Pan-Pacific Conference; group photograph of members of the council of the New Zealand Educational Institute at the annual conference held in Dunedin, 1948 (named on verso); family group photo taken at Hope Gibbons Golden Wedding, 1931. Group photo of Mr A G Harper, Mr & Mrs H B Burdekin, Sir Howard & Lady Kippenberger, General Young, Mr & Mrs W S Lett. Two photographs relating to lighthouse on Portland Island, off Mahia Peninsula (article in NZ Free Lance, 12 Apr 1950, p 17); eight photos and undated letter about life of a New Zealander who married the lighthouse keeper at Pine Islet, Queensland, Australia. Overseas people in the news - John Foster Dulles, President Truman's special representative & Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary, 1951; Harold MacMillan, Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, General Lord Ismay, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, and Lord Leathers, Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport etc; Anthony Eden and others, 1951; Price & Princess Paul of Serbia & baby son; General Eisenhower; Earl Haig; Gladys Cooper & Sir Neville Pearson; group at christening of Sally, daughter of Sir Neville & Lady Pearson (Gladys Cooper); Marshall Tito at Centotaph in Whitehall, 1953; Flight-Lieut George Stainforth; Auriol family; aerial view of Singapore showing Raffles Museum & Library, 1950; Dr Otto Schmidt, 1937; Ruling princes of India in London; Dutch swimmers G Galliard & Irma Schumacher, 1951; Major `Wid' Watson (famous jungle fighter), 1944; Korean internees return to Britain, 1953. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Artist's art school autograph book

Date: [1911-1920]

Reference: MSZ-1398

Description: Autograph book kept by an unidentified student at Christchurch and Dunedin art schools from approximately 1915 to 1917 but also has contributions from 1911 to 1920; includes photographs, texts, sketches, paintings. The autographs reflect a wide variety of contributors mostly from various South Island places. Not all contributors entered in the Name field. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Dunbar Sloane Auctions, Wellington, Apr 2005 Includes original drawings and paintings; some identified

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Herdman-Smith, Robert, 1872-1947 :[Rural Maori settlement, ca 1910]

Date: 1915 - 1925

By: Herdman-Smith, Robert, 1872-1947

Reference: A-089-016

Description: Shows Maori whares, sheds, and sheep grazing Dating: Herdman-Smith was in Wellington and Canterbury from 1902 until at least 1926. The location of this view is unknown Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed R HERDMAN-SMITH in brushpoint in block capitals Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 317 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Hunter, [Wellington?], 22 October 1940