Streets - Egypt

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

By: Goodenough, Douglas Evan, active 1940s

Reference: PA1-o-1520

Description: Photographs of Egypt, taken and collected ca 1941-1943 by D E Goodenough, 6th Field Regt. 2nd NZEF. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1984-1996

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6354

Description: Exterior architectural details of buildings. Qarafa Cemetery. Domes and minarets. Engravings of a metal or glass vessel and dish. Stained glass window. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1984-1997

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6349

Description: Exterior architectural details of buildings. Domes and minarets. Windows. Coloured engravings of Cairo and its buildings, a house and garden. City gates and walls. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: [ca 1941-1942]

From: Buckley, John David, 1901-1983 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1806

Description: Photograph album relating to Agnes Mary Buckley's service as nurse during World War II, 1941-1942. Photographer is unidentified, but some images are likely taken by Agnes. Album contains images of the Japanese Gardens in Helwan, Egypt [stock tourist images?]. Egyptian street scenes show local people, donkeys, a knife sharpener, and various carts. Agricultural images show sheep, water buffalo, and ploughing. The Great Sphinx of Giza and pyramids are also featured (one view is from the top of a pyramid). Military personal are depicted during recreation breaks, receiving bravery awards (Ron J Moore and T M Hutchinson), and convalescing in hospital. Agnes Buckley appears in a number of images. One image shows a nurse wearing a gas mask and another a group holding up captured Nazi swastika flags. A number of the images have been hand coloured. check PAColl-10087 for missing prints Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with embossed leather cover featuring coloured illustrations relating to Egypt

Date: [ca 1941-1942]

From: Buckley, John David, 1901-1983 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1807

Description: Photograph album featuring tourist images of Egypt taken [collected?] during Agnes Mary Buckley's service as a nurse during World War II, ca 1941-1942. Photographer is unidentified, but some images may have been taken by Buckley herself. Photographs show the Great Sphinx of Giza, both before and after its excavation, and the pyramids, which are seen from a number of angles (including an aerial view and from across the Nile River). Featured Cairo buildings include Saladin Citadel, King Farouk Palace, the Blue Mosque, the interior of Mohammed Ali Mosque, Sultan Hassan Mosque, El-Mahmoudieh Mosque, Al-Rifa'i Mosque, and Cairo Central Railway Station. Other landmarks include Boulac Bridge, English Bridge, Soliman Pacha Square, Ibrahim Pacha Square, Midan Ismailia, and Station Square. Also contains street scenes featuring transportation (trams, donkeys) and Egyptians at work (including fruit sellers, laundryman). One coloured pencil drawing of a village on the Nile River with the Giza pyramids in the background by H Hawkins is also included. check PAColl-10087 for missing prints Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with red card cover

Date: [ca 1912-1945]

By: Cowan, Erica, active 1978-2001; Ginders, C A, active 1940s; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Mitchell, Trevor Vernon, -1942

Reference: PAColl-0324

Description: The collection includes two different sets of photographs. The first is the photographs from the collection of Thomas Vernon Mitchell taken while he was serving in the army in the Middle East in the Second World War. They include tourist scenes of the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane; the city of the dead in Cairo; street scenes in Jerusalem, Tiberias and Aleppo; tombs of the caliphs in Cairo; the Dead Sea; the tower of King David, Jerusalem; the Hotel Yarkon, Tel Aviv; the citadel entrance, Aleppo; and Tiberias Hot Springs. Other images are a 24th Battalion chuch parade in February 1941, two views of Mitchell's grave, the effects of a sandstorm on a military camp in the desert, Mitchell and his friends on rickshaws, Papakura infantry at Trentham in October 1940, and the 24th Battalion party at Cairo 1941. Most of the photographs are captioned and names given are: Warren, Abbott, Coleman, Braser, Wright, Scott, Hargreaves, Walton, Jamieson, Morpeth, Christianson, Battesby, Bullen, Ready, Procter, Pryde, Brash, Naismith, Steel, Shaw, Bush, Banks, Seavill, Allen, McCowan, Buckingham, Boyce, Hawke, Logie, Trubshaw, Olsen, Conder, Horrocks, Rawson, Gilfilan, Bradley, Pratt, Dow, Bremner, Ker, Stark, James and Cutler. The second set of photographs is of a trip by George Philips to the Rotorua area in May 1912. They include Philips and others at Tutea Falls, Okere; in front of Maori carvings and Ohinemutu; in a punt at Hamurana Spring; and on Hinemoa Step, Okere Falls. The photographer of this is Marsh of Rotorua. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s) loose. 18 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted.

Date: 1990-1999

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6352

Description: Exterior architectural details of buildings. Domes and minarets. Courtyard of a mosque. City gates. Coloured engravings of Cairo. Architectural plan. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1978-2000

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6226

Description: Views of Cairo, its buildings, and people. Included are mosques, tombs, and other buildings. There are interior views and ornamental details of buildings. Cairo street scenes include a crowd in the City of the Dead (Qarafa Cemetery), people on the back of a horse drawn cart, children in a playground, a small ferris wheel, and three people picnicing among the graves in the City of the dead. Two views of the Nile. A group of blue or green pottery in desart sand. Three photographs of people in a circus performance. Photographed by John Feeney between 1978 and 2000. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1917

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-291-q-003

Description: Shows a view along a narrow street or alley, with doors at street level and projecting lattice or plain casement windows at the upper level. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 184 x 120 mm, mounted on album page, 336 x 238 mm.

Date: 1989

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6348

Description: Exterior architectural details of buildings. View of a Cairo street. Domes and minarets at sunset. Metal vessals. Coloured engravings of Cairo and its buildings, a turbaned horseman, and a house and garden. City gates and walls. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1979-1994

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6350

Description: Exterior architectural details of buildings. Qarafa Cemetery. Domes and minarets at sunset. Mosque interior. Views inside domes. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 28 Jun 1941-1942

From: Buckley, John David, 1901-1983 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1805

Description: Photograph album compiled by Elizabeth Buckley of Taihape of photographs sent by her daughter Agnes Mary Buckley during her service as nurse during World War II, 1941-1942. Photographer is unidentified, but some images are likely taken by Agnes Mary Buckley and soldier Ron J Moore. Album contains images of Agnes's departure from Wellington, including portraits of Agnes in her nurses uniform, and a family group. Images of the ocean voyage feature deck scenes with other nurses and views from the side of the boat. Egyptian images are mainly tourist snaps around cities including Cairo, Alexandria, and Helwan. Street scenes show gharry carts, nurses, local people, and donkeys. Mosques, churches, Saladin Citadel, King Farouk Palace, various gardens, and the Great Sphinx of Giza, also feature. Contains images of the military camp, including Agnes's tent, the mess where the nurses ate, and other details of daily life such as practicing fitting gas masks and a garden party held for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). Further images of Libya [possibly taken by Ron J Moore?] show military life, images of towns (mosques, locals, and animals), and geographical features (salt lake, oases, and rocky outcrops), and the aftermath of conflict. Transportation is featured with vehicles moving through the desert and convoys that have been attacked; the burnt out truck in which Captain Beech was killed and his grave are photographed. Also shows the Ford of Murzuk, Italian prisoners of war, soldiers' camps in the desert. Also contains a copy of a poem 'If' and a newspaper clipping of a photograph showing Moore and T M Hutchinson (both in wheelchairs) with Buckley at the New Zealand hospital following the men receiving bravery awards from General Bernard Freyberg (not pictured). Inscriptions: Front cover reads 'Photos from Cairo' check PAColl-10087 for missing prints Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Scrapbook album with blue card covers and pastoral illustration printed on the front cover

Date: 1915

From: Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen

Reference: PAColl-0914-1-53-1

Description: Haret el Wasser, a street in red-light district of Cairo, Egypt, photographed in 1915. Probably the site of riots known as the "Battles of the Wazza" which occurred between World War 1 troops and police in April and July of 1915. Looks down upon pedestrians and businesses premises. Shows broken tables and other debris on the road alongside the footpath. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - This is part of damage done by Australians, English, and NZ troops the time I spoke of in my letter. This street alone caused over 300 of our chaps to go to hospital HTB Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 9 x 12 cm

Date: Jan 1942

From: McDougall, Robert Alexander, 1904- : Photographs from World War II

Reference: 1/2-071772-F

Description: Street scene in Cairo, Egypt, during World War II, taken from the New Zealand Club near opening time. Shows New Zealand soldiers on the footpath below. Photograph taken in January 1942 by an unidentified photographer. Other - Caption from original print read: "Cairo. Scene outside NZ Club near opening time Jan 1942 Other Titles - Cairo. Scene outside NZ Club near opening time Jan 1942 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1942

From: Little family :Photographs relating to World War II

Reference: PA1-o-266-28-1

Description: Street scene in the city of Cairo, Egypt, photographed in 1942 by an unidentified World War 2 New Zealand soldier. Looks across a street towards a multi story building housing the Anglo-Eastern Pharmacy. Inscriptions: Album page - right of image - Cairo Street scene 1942 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.7 x 14.1, on album page 21.2 x 22.4 cm

Date: [ca 1942]

From: McDougall, Robert Alexander, 1904- :Photographs and postcards relating to R A McDougall's experiences in Egypt during World War II

Reference: 1/2-066112-F

Description: Street scene with New Zealand soldier, Alexandria, Egypt, during World War 2. Photograph taken circa 1942. Photographer unidentified. Other - Inscription from original print read: "The 'tough' street, Alexandria" Other Titles - The tough street, Alexandria Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative