McCormick, William James Hall, -1946

By: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: PAColl-8075

Description: One image of W J H McCormick. All other images are of Taihape. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-095060 to 095068 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [ca 1920 - 1930]

From: Leggat, Heather :Myra McCormick's photographs

Reference: PA1-o-889

Description: This family album includes Myra and Eric as teenagers and young adults. There are many photographs of family and relatives, children, older women, Eric's parents, and Moyra during her period of nursing training. There are also some photographs of cities and Towns, countryside, houses and other features of the human landscape of New Zealand in the 1920s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1938] - 1992

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

By: Berry and Company; Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); George Eden & Company; Hardie Shaw Studios; Zenith Studios

Reference: PAColl-5030-8

Description: Family photographs, mainly portraits, includes William James Hall McCormick, Eric and Myra McCormick as infants, Rene Powrie, Cyril Wrightson (circa 1914-1918), wedding party of Edwin Stoupe (a cousin of Eric McCormick) and Eleanor Baldwin in 1906, images of Taihape circa 1900 including one captioned "reputably first bridge over the Hautapu River, Taihape", one titled "Taihape picnic & sport" (1899). Some photographs taken by C Foster. Some people and photographers unidentified. Group portraits of students at Taihape School (1910s), students of Wellington College (1923), Victoria University College Students Executive Committee, students and teachers at Wellesley College (1929-1930s), Department of Internal Affairs staff (1938). Ephemera and correspondence relating to Eric and Myra McCormick. Includes correspondence from Waitakere Hospital regarding Myra McCormick (1992). Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s) and photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Photographic prints, some on mounts, sizes vary up to 38 x 29 cm.

Date: [1930s-1980s]

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

By: Quinn, Kenneth Fleming, 1920-2013

Reference: PAColl-5030-5

Description: Mainly postcards, some with letters and comments on the back, Some from a 1962 trip, addressed to "Miss M. McCormick" from Eric, some from a 1930s trip, some addressed to "Dad" from Eric, and some with numbers and comments on the reverse. Panoramic views of Breaksea Sound, and Preservation Inlet, Dusky Sound. Images of wooden house surrounded by bush. One image of people digging "Our mornings excavation". Photograph of a painting of Omai. Portrait of Eric McCormick by Kenneth Quinn, circa 1980s.

Date: 1931-1932

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5598-41

Description: Letters to parents and sister, Myra, describing voyage to England aboard the `Oronsay', 1931 and subsequent life as a student at Clare College, Cambridge Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5030-028

Date: [192-], 1959-1990

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5292-046

Description: Mainly letters written by McCormick to his sister Myra from England; includes three letters from Myra to McCormick, 1990. Also letter from McCormick to his father, William McCormick 192-? Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs and mss

Date: [ca 1890-1990]

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

By: Friedlander, Marti, 1928-2016; McDermott, John, active 1970s-1980s

Reference: PAColl-5030-1

Description: Family photographs including many portraits of Eric McCormick and Myra McCormick at various dates. Photographers mainly unidentified, one portrait of Eric McCormick by Marti Friedlander, one by John McDermott. Some photographs taken by C Foster. Includes a portrait of a soldier in uniform from World War II signed "Eric, with best wishes Len" and some other images relating to World War II. A collection of photographs of and taken by Myra McCormick, including of nursing career in Dunedin, Taihape and Samoa, in the 1930s and of a vacation. Also a collection of postcards, some with letters or other writing on the back, some numbered postcards of a trip in Europe, some of nature scenes, some of towns, buildings, and villages in England in the 1930s, Postcards of paintings from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England and several of the Library of Congress in Washington, United States.

Date: [ca 1890-1990]

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5030-2

Description: Prints from which illustrations for the 1996 biography of Eric McCormick 'An absurd ambition' were selected. Contains family photographs including one page from an album, portraits and group portraits, and images of houses. Some images have inscriptions. An absurd ambition: autobiographical writings / E. H. McCormick; edited by Dennis McEldowney. Auckland University Press, 1996.

Date: 1949-1964 nd

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5484-04

Description: Includes McCormick's list of NZ writers for a `Life' World Library Series (1964); postcard of Les Baux with notes by McCormick (nd); notes for Myra McCormick re gardening (1957); `NZ Gazette' for Health Dept employees with Myra McCormick's name included (Feb 1949); two items relating to McCormick's father's business in Taihape (1914, 1924) and notes on words by McCormick (nd) found in his 1905 edition of Webster's dictionary; letter from McCormick to his father from Wellington (nd); berthing card (c1939); two 1940 centennial first day covers; notes re Frances Hodgkins' centenary catalogue (c1969); and note re Steve Hunter's letters Quantity: 1 folder(s).