Airships

Date: May 1918 - January 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1394

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 2 May 1918, called at Wellington (3-9 May 1918), Balboa (28 May 1918), Panama Canal and Colon (29-30 May 1918), Norfolk VA (4-10 June 1918), New York (11-12 June 1918), arrived Liverpool 24 July 1918. Three Transatlantic crossings between Liverpool, Glasgow, and New York, August-November 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with returned New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 2 December 1918, called at Colon (18-19 December 1918), Panama Canal and Balboa (19 December 1918), Auckland (9 January 1919), Wellington (11-15 January 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 16 January 1919. Includes views of Panama Canal locks and gates, ferries at Norfolk VA, United States and British warships, soldiers playing two-up on the ship returning home, and ferries in Auckland Harbour. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm

Date: [Circa 1914-1919]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-115

Description: Album includes a large section of British naval ships, some travelling in convoy, some camouflaged, with closeup views of armaments and naval personnel, taken by unidentified photographers during World War I. It appears that the creator of the album was serving on the SS Parattah. A section in the album covers a port-of-call by the Parattah to Nauru and the Loyalty Islands, showing scenes and aspects of life on the islands, including several related to the phosphate industry on Nauru. There are a number of images of a group on camels near the Spinx and pyramids in Egypt, dated 1919, followed by a section on the Yosemite area, California, with scenic views of mountains and valleys, and several showing the "largest tree in the world". The last section in the album covers the royal tour of HRH The Prince of Wales in 1920, in Sydney. Views of decorations in the city, crowd scenes, and night scenes of decorative lighting and fireworks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon album, 23 x 34 cm

Date: June - October 1917

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1393

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui (HMNZT 86) on following voyages: Wellington to Plymouth, England, with 26th Reinforcements. Left Wellington 13 June 1917, called at Albany WA (22-23 June), Cape Town (11-18 July), Free Town (31 July - 3 August), arrived Plymouth 15 August 1917. Plymouth, England to Port Chalmers. Left Plymouth 30 August 1917, called at Cape Town (19-22 September), arrived Port Chalmers 12 October 1917. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album with green morrocco spine and corners, 24 x 19 cm

Date: 1985-1993

By: Bremford Studios; New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; Medialink; Smith, Rosemarie, active 1985-1993; Smith, Margot-Jane, active 1993

Reference: PAColl-3099

Description: Wide variety of places events and people in Southland Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-053

Description: Photographs relating to the navy, arranged alphabetically from A to V, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Includes photographs of frigates 'Meko' and 'Te Kaha'; nuclear protest ships 'Boy Roel', 'Fri', 'Magic Isle', 'Otago', 'Canterbury', 'Spirit of Peace'; research survey ships 'Monowai' and 'Resolution'; and warships 'HMNZS Canterbury', 'Endeavour', 'Taranaki', 'Southland', 'USS Haddo', 'Long Beach' and 'Truxtun' Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1998

Description: Photograph album of Wellington and World War One scenes, 1900-1918. Photographer(s) unidentified. The portion of the album with captions is likely compiled by Mary Vida Pearce. Contains photograph of ponies and a garden at Lowry Bay as well as Wellington Harbour and wharf scenes, including a dredge. Shipboard scenes on the SS 'Athenic' show the bridge and deck with Miss Reece (photographed skipping), Mr Jones (First Officer), and Mr Morrow (Third Officer) identified. Album also includes photographs of street scenes and buildings in Vannes and Auray (France) and harbour and town scenes in Padstow (England). World War One photographs, which do not have captions, show military personnel [medics?] ouside a tent with the number "5" written on its side. Soldiers are also photographed in a trench with machine guns and rifles as well as resting in the shade. Also includes a photograph of a military convoy with horses and carts and a beach scene. Photographs of aerial and naval operations include aircraft crashed in the sea and a zepplin in flight. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "First part of album could have been done by Mary Vida Pearce (later Hodson). Second part - no idea!" Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 41 b&w prints. Physical Description: Green card photograph album, 23.6 x 29.8 cm

Date: 1917

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-051

Description: A French soldier shown as a huntsman, holding up a buch of five sausage-sized Zeppelins and exclaiming 'long live hunting' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1992

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949- :Editorial cartoons. 1 - 31 December 1992

Reference: H-112-008

Description: Shows a huge dirigible, which has landed on top of the Beehive. A man asks whether somebody has booked an economy-class flight for Mrs Shipley. Refers to criticisms of Department of Social Welfare spending and to the landing of a dirigible Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1916

Reference: Curios-004-026

Description: Flattened narrow copper pipe, and a slightly charred piece of a canvas water ballast bag. The Zeppelin L-31 was piloted by Captain Heinrich Mathy. He had dropped several tons of bombs on London and was attacked by anti-aircraft fire as he left. Second Lieutenant W.J. Tempest dove his plane under the airship, firing a drum of Brock-Pomeroy ammunition into the ship's keel. The Zeppelin went straight down, landing at Potter's Bar. Mathy jumped clear, and survived the jump unburnt but died only a few minutes later (See "The war times journal" at www.richthofen.com/dark_autumn). Quantity: 2 curio(s). Physical Description: Copper pipe 150 x 10 mm, and charred canvas fragment 18 x 115 mm. Provenance: Material collected by Mr Maximilian Juriss during the First World War.

Date: 1932-1962

Reference: PAColl-0566

Description: Photographs showing troops at the surrender ceremony in Singapore, 1945; shipping in New Zealand, Europe and the South Atlantic ca 1932, the airship Graf Zeppelin in the South Atlantic, 1932; North Atlantic Convoys, 1940. 1/4-057384 Arrangement: Prints at PAColl-0566-1. Negative at 1/4-057348. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1916

From: Lynch, Frank Guy Ennis, 1895-1967 :[Caricatures and cartoons relating to the European War. 1916]

Reference: A-224-007

Description: Shows five allied (Anzac) soldiers walking in enemy territory on a moonlit night, with bayonets and rifles, and taking the enemy soldiers by surprise. There is a pitchfork through the stomach of one fat enemy soldier; another is being hit over the head with a rifle butt, another is surpised in his burrow by a soldier with a bayonet, and one is fished out of a chimney on the point of a bayonet. There is an explosion in one of the rough huts. Two blimps are in the sky overhead. The title of the cartoon is sarcastic, meaning the opposite of what is shown. Extended Title - Published in: Shell Shocks... London: Jarrold [1916 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink sketch, 241 x 313 mm

Date: 1979 - 01011979

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Wyatt, Jim, active 1914-1979

Reference: OHInt-0105-06

Description: Jim Wyatt talks about gum digging days North of the Wairoa River, diving for gum at the Kaiiwi Lakes, gum digging around Aranga and Katui before 1914, gum bleeding in Waipoua Forest, Zeppelin raid on London in 1917, gum climbing days. Venue - Dargaville Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Venue - Dargaville Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000375 - OHC-000377A; OHC-000378B Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1910 - 1979

Date: 1915 - 1920

From: Hodgkins family :Scrapbook [1860s-1920s]

By: Field, George Alexander Hughes, 1905-1992

Reference: E-316-q-049/057

Description: Small drawings of means of transport. Quantity: 9 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on one or both sides of 5 sheets of cream wove paper, sizes vary, loose between album pages

Date: 1917

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-050

Description: A drawing of a medal awarded to D Maclean apparently for bravery under fire in London Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1981

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-741

Description: A zeppelin, labelled 'inflation', is racing away into the sky. On the ground a man, labelled 'N.Z. wage earner', is trying desperately and unsuccessfully to stop the zeppelin from getting away. Muldoon is holding a paper entitled 'tax cuts not wage increases' and talking to two other men, who represent the Federation of Labour and the employers. Muldoon is telling the wage earner to "hang on a bit longer - I'm trying to develop a way to lower it" but the wage earner can only reply "well how about using the fast track!". Extended Title - Inflation Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and white gouache, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: ca 1900-1920

From: Lloyd Papers :Photographs of the Watchmakers and Jewellers Conference in Auckland, Lloyd jewellers shop and New Zealand officers in the South African War

By: Brown, John Henry, active 1899-1906

Reference: PAColl-4463

Description: Photograph of a group of ten men which may be of the New Zealand Retail Watchmakers and Jewellers Annual Conference; a large group of army officers in dress uniform including bandoliers seated and standing round dining tables prior to leaving for the South African War (photographer was J H Brown); a blimp with the marking S.S. E.2 (probably Royal Air Force) in 1917; and a postcard of what may be cadets of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1915-1927]

From: Thorp, Nigel, fl 1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5400-16

Description: Part III of a general group of business records with particular emphasis on dairy companies' correspondence and invoices, some agricultural machinery advertising, other receipts and invoices, a specification for alterations at the manager's house, Belvedere Dairy Co by Ernest A King, Carterton, correspondence to J Moncrieff, secretary of the Belvedere Dairy Co, and business and correspondence with the Dalefield Co-op Dairy Co, shares transfers, a letter from R Ellison of the National Dairy Association of NZ re Zeppelins (1915), promotion letters, a form of St Mark's Lodge, No 53 with notes verso, and a petition re butter sales to the UK [ca 1918] signed by shareholders of the Co-operative Dairy Company Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 12 Feb 1917-31 Mar 1917

From: Rogers, Stanley Dick, 1886-1975 : Letters written to his brother Harold / transcribed and edited by Captain S D Rogers, MC VD (MID)

Reference: MS-Papers-5553-4

Description: Describes his experiences as an ANZAC road and traffic supervisor in France. Includes a photograph of a soldier jumping from a "sausage balloon" Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (carbon copies) and photgraphs

Date: 1927-1931

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-17

Description: Exaustive collection of aircraft images taken from news papers and magazines. The collection was compiled at a time when the aviator was hero, so there are many images of pilots and in particular those who made long, adventurous air voyages. Other images illustrate experimental aircraft such as early versions of the idea of a "flying wing", and the great airships are also featured in the collection Quantity: 2 album(s).

Date: 1927-1931

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-16

Description: Exaustive collection of aircraft images taken from news papers and magazines. The collection was compiled at a time when the aviator was hero, so there are many images of pilots and in particular those who made long, adventurous air voyages. Other images illustrate experimental aircraft such as early versions of the idea of a "flying wing", and the great airships are also featured in the collection Quantity: 2 album(s).