McKeen, Robert, 1884-1974

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: New Zealand. National Film Unit; Marriott, (Lieutenant), active 1943

Reference: PA1-q-292

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album contains photographs on pages 1-54 (Pages 55-149 are empty). Activities include training in building of fascines and revetments for protecting trench walls; barbed wire "concertina"; excavation of command posts (part of a defensive trench system); the use of a 2" mortar; anti-tank rifle instruction; instruction in identifying enemy weapons including grenades and land mines and use of an electric mine detector. The cookery wing in action in the open air; artillery school of instruction; signallers establishing communication & erecting a telegraph pole; use of a 25-pounder; bayonet practice; medical training including rescue of wounded, use of an improvised stretcher, improvised raft for a river crossing carrying the stretcher, transfer to an ambulance, and finally a view of an actual open-air operation. The arrival of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, shown with New Zealand dignitaries (p 18). Men and women who have returned on furlough parading through Wellington on their way to a luncheon given in their honour by the RSA (p 19-21, 38-40); the arrival of repatriated Prisoners of War being greeted by friends and family in Wellington (p 33-36) A huge crowd celebrating the victory over the Italians at Liberty Corner, on the intersection of Hunter Street, Featherston Street and Lambton Quay (Friday 3rd September 1943) Ceremonies at an undentified marae including Maori dance, haka, poi dances and speeches by military officers. Pages 28-30 show the visit of a British Military Mission to the Forest & Jungle Warfare Wing of the Army School of Instruction, with demonstrations of jungle training. Women are shown with views of the Women's Land Service (Land Army), and also as Post & Telegraph drivers collecting huge bags of mail from a ship. Infantry students at the Army School, Trentham are shown in a river crossing exercise near Foxton, building rafts big enough to carry people, vehicles and weaponry. Launching a fuel barge built at the Wellington Patent Company's shipyards at Evans Bay, where the ceremony was performed by Managing Director Mr Jamieson. Pages 49-53 show photographs of Polish refugee children arriving and settling into the refugee camp at Pahiatua. Pages 53 and 54 show the official opening of a new Model Kindergarten in Hospital Road, Newtown (Saturday 18th November, 1943), opened by the Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Also present were the Labour MP for Wellington South, Robert Mckeen and his wife Jessie Mckeen, Mrs J A Doctor (President of the Free Kindergarten Association), and Dr Clarence Beeby (Director of Education). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 438-598 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: MS-Papers-6164-060

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1887-1888, 1928, 1942 [19--]

From: MacDonald family : Papers

Reference: 84-145-52

Description: Letters to his parents and brothers, to his aunt and uncle (1880s); his wife Charlotte, 1928 (Mokau); Hon Robert McKeen, 1942; John A Lee (undated) relating to `Scrim'; undated letter to his father (signed `Jack') Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1938

Reference: PA1-o-1190

Description: Album of 56 autographed photographs of government members of the House of Representatives in the 25th Parliament, the first Labour Government, taken in 1938 by unknown photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Leather covered album, 12.9 x 16.5 cm, containing 56 black and white, silver gelatin photographs, 11.9 x 8 cm

Date: [192-]

By: Smith, H M (Mrs), active 1978; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA9-044

Description: Photograph of Labour Party Members of Parliament, taken between 1922 and 1925 by S P Andrew. Signatures of each member appear on the mount. Front row: Fred Bartram, H E Holland, L McIlvride Second row: J McCombs, W Nash, E J Howard, M J Savage, H T Armstrong Third row: W J Jordan, John A Lee, P Fraser, W E Parry, J W Munro Back row: Frank Langstone, Rob McKeen, A L Monteith, D G Sullivan, Jas O'Brien Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom right - S. P. Andrew 10 Willis Street Wellington; Backing board recto - centre - Labour Party Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25.5 x 41.7 cm, mounted, in wooden frame 66.9 x 77.5 cm

Date: 1919-1955

By: Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s; Nevilles Portraits Ltd

Reference: PAColl-3012

Description: New Zealand Labour Party and first Labour government; World War I certificate of service; letter from Michael Savage Nancy Jansen is the daughter of Mr E R Langford Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 Great War certificate of service. 1 Photocopy of letter from Michael Savage. Physical Description: Three photoprints mounted on card; 1 photoprint corner mounted, with facing sheet in folder; 2 6x8 photprints; 1 89x140mm photoprint; certificate mounted on card; A4 photocopy of letter

Date: 1935

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-018613-F

Description: Shows members of the House of Representatives in the twenty fifth Parliament. From top, left to right: - C M Williams, J W Munro, Colonel J Hargest, W J Lyon, E J Howard, W M C Denham, W P Endean, H M Christie, G H O Wilson, A F Moncur, C A Barrell, W J Jordan, B Roberts, W E Barnard (Speaker), D McDougall, H E Herring, A H Nordmeyer, E P Meachen, R McKeen, J O'Brien, D W Coleman, D G Sullivan, M J Savage, P C Webb, T D Burnett, A G Osborne, J Thorn, A S Richards, A G Hultquist, C H Chapman, S G Smith, W J Polson, K J Holyoake, Dr D G McMillan, D Barnes, J G Barclay, F Jones, W Nash, W L Martin, H G R Mason, Captain Rushworth, H G Dickie, A C A Sexton, G W Forbes, W J Broadfoot, Sir A Ransom, P Fraser, W E Parry, Robert Semple, R Coulter, W A Bodkin, Sir Apirana Ngata, T Henare, E T Tirikatene, H T Ratana, C L Carr, J L McIlroy, J G Coates, C A Wilkinson, W T Anderton, P Neilson, H T Armstrong, J A Lee, F Langstone, E L Cullen, C H Burnett, A Campbell, G Lowry, A Hamilton, J G Cobbe, S G Holland, H Atmore, J Hodgens, A J Manson (Sergeant-at-arms), T H McCombs, J B F Cotterell, R A Wright, J Robertson, C L Hunter, F W Schramm, C R Petrie, H S S Kyle and T D H Hall (Clerk of the House). Photograph taken by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew in 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1954

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: C-164-052

Description: The cartoon shows a cricket team 'The first eleven' who are lined up in front of a scoreboard which gives their names and the number of years they have served. The scoreboard is entitled 'M.P. Old Boys - innings declared closed'. The cricketers are, in fact, M.P.s who are retiring at the 1954 election. From left they are - Thomas Webb, National 11 years; Alfred Murdoch, National 21 years; Walter Broadfoot, National 26 years; Paddy Kearins, Labour 'retired hurt' after 8 years; Robert McKeen, Labour 32 years; Charles Chapman, National 26 years; Robert Semple, Labour 27 years; Charles Bowden, National 11 years; and, Andrew Sutherland, National 12 years; Edward Gordon 16 years, William Bodkin, National 26 years. To the right is the Cricket Pavilion with 'MPOB' painted on it. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, Chinese white and blue pencil on card, 445 x 625 mm

Date: 1922

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: Glover, John, 1866?-1947; Maoriland Worker Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-ROTH-NZLabour-1922-01

Description: Shows a central group portrait of the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party: E J Howard (Christchurch South), W E Parry (Auckland Central), J H Munro (Dunedin North), D G Sullivan (Avon), M J Savage (Auckland West), J McCombs (Lyttelton), H E Holland (Buller), P Fraser (Wellington Central), F Bartram (Grey Lynn). Around this are arranged head and shoulder portraits of other Labour Party candidates: H G Mason (Eden), John A Lee (Auckland East), J Purtell (Roskill), A T Richards (Hamilton), C H Chapman (Hawkes Bay), T Brindle (Gisborne), J Ross (Wanganui), Lewis McIlvride (Napier), J Hodgens (Palmerston North), D K Pritchard (Hutt), A L Monteith (Wellington East), H E Combs (Wellington North), Robert McKeen (Wellington South), A W Croskery (Wellington Suburbs), H T Armstrong (Christchurch East), J E McManus (Dunedin South), J K Archer (Christchurch North), P Vinnell (Timaru), J A McCullough (Riccarton), J O'Brien (Westland), J Gilchrist (Dunedin Central), Farrant (Invercargill), C H Moss (Dunedin West), J Stephens (Port Chalmers). There is also a larger portrait of H E Holland, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Other candidates, not photographed, are listed: Way (Waitemata), O McBrine (Parnell), F Whibley (Manawatu), F Brady (Rangitikei), F Langstone (Waimarino), F Cooke (Ashburton). Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster, 580 x 450 mm.

Date: 1925

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: Glover, John, 1866?-1947; New Zealand Worker Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-ROTH-NZLABOUR-1925-01

Description: Shows a central group of three politicians: H E Holland, P Fraser and M J Savage. Around these three are arranged portraits of 49 other candidates: A E Bissett (Bay of Islands); A S Richards (Marsden); W E Barnard (Kaipara); A G Osborne (Waitemata); H G R Mason (Eden); John A Lee (Auckland East); W E Parry (Auckland Central); F N Bartram (Grey Lynn); R F Way (Parnell); W J Jordan (Manukau), D McClymont (Franklin); J Piggot (Raglan); W Lee Martin (Hamilton); J W Summer (Rotorua); D W Coleman (Gisborne); L McIlvride (Napier); W A Sheat (New Plymouth); W J Rogers (Wanganui); F Langstone (Waimarino); J H Taylor (Oroua); A L Ogilvy (Hawke's Bay); C J Duggan (Rangitikei); W Bromley (Palmerston); B Roberts (Manawatu); R Semple (Otaki); W Nash (Hutt); H E Combs (Wellington North); A L Monteith (Wellington East); R McKeen (Wellington South); C H Chapman (Wellington Suburbs); T Brindle (Nelson); M Fagan (Motueka); J O'Brien (Westland); M Williams (Kaiapoi); F R Cooke (Christchurch North); E J Howard (Christchurch South); H T Armstrong (Christchurch East); Winter Cole (Riccarton); D J Sullivan (Avon); J McCombs (Lyttelton); P C Vinnell (Timaru); J W Munro (Dunedin North); R Harrison (Dunedin West); J W Gilchrist (Dunedin Central); J E McManus (Dunedin South); J W Fenton (Clutha); M Connelly (Chalmers); P H Hickey (Invercargill); A Ashworth (Wakatipu). The verso gives biographical notes about each of the candidates. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster, 575 x 445 mm.

From: Gaze, Henry Edward :Negatives

By: Gaze, Henry Edward, 1874-1953

Reference: 1/2-174843-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).