Ensor, Charles Hugh, active 1910s-1920s

Date: 1915

By: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942

Reference: PA1-o-402

Description: Volume 1 of a two volume record of New Zealand exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held at San Francisco in 1915. Most of the photographs were taken by Leslie Hinge. Photographs include exterior and interior views of the New Zealand pavilion, views from the pavilion by day and by night, and exterior views of pavilions from Australia, Cuba, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, France, Norway and Canada. Interior views in the New Zealand pavilions include a fernery; the reading room; exhibits of wool samples and woollen fabrics; a display of leather boots and saddlery; views of three different collections of kauri gum samples (belonging to J H McCarroll, Colonel G W S Patterson, and Arthur H Cranwell); a cabinet of stuffed kiwis; stuffed heads of a boar, a fallow deer and a red deer; and outdoor closeup views of Corriedale sheep, exhibited by C H Ensor. One photograph shows the United States Ex-President, William Howard Taft and his entourage visiting the New Zealand pavilion, and another shows a group of seven press delegates. Other Titles - New Zealand exhibits at Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black leather cover, entitled `New Zealand exhibits at Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Album No. 1' (in gold lettering); 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by the Tourist and Publicity Department in 1967

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Ensor, Charles Hugh, active 1910s-1920s

Reference: Pan-1829-F

Description: Panoramic view of 'Rakahuri' homestead, a large two-storeyed concrete house with a slate roof. Curved bays left and right with an open sleeping verandah in the centre upstairs, pillars along a curved verandah downstairs on the right. Rose-beds in front and to the left of the house. Angled view shows the side of the house on the right. Curved drive through a stand of tall conifers. Bed of trees and shrubs in a bend of the drive. Large flat lawn in foreground. Poles for tennis nets on the lawn. Water tank at the back of the house on the right. Dovecote at the back of the lawn on the left. Clump of pampas grass in right foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Rakahuri" 1925; Marginal notes on negative - Hugh Ensor. Rakahuri. 1925. Rangiora. 3 oils. Slate roof. Concrete building. Red geraniums on top windows. Put roses in on rosebed on left. Autumn tints. White tank. Various flowers etc; Marginal notes on negative - 8 8 8 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.0 cm

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Ensor, Charles Hugh, active 1910s-1920s

Reference: Pan-1826-F

Description: Panoramic view of 'Rakahuri' farm & homestead near Okuku, near Fernside. Wide flat ploughed field across image in foreground. Large two-storeyed homestead partially hidden amongst a shelter belt of trees centre left in the middle distance. Trees ae seen all across the iamge. Farm buildings in the middle distance far right. Hills behind on the right, snow-capped mountains in the background on the left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of "Rakahuri" 1925; Marginal notes on negative - Hugh Ensor. "Rakahuri". 1925. Rangiora. 3 oils. Small red outbuildings near homestead. Homestead slate roof. Concrete house. Woolshed iron roof. Red sides. Snow on mountains on left. Pring from left. [Four lines of incorrect description crossed out]; Marginal notes on negative - 7 7 7 7 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 106.1 cm