Owenga

Date: [1873?]

From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992: Photographs, chiefly relating to the Chatham Islands

By: Barker, Samuel Delabere, 1848-1901

Reference: PA1-q-041

Description: Photographs of various areas in the Chatham Islands and the people who lived there in the 1870s. Group photographs include those of the Hunt family, the Gregory family, the Langdale family, the Beamish family, and groups of unnamed Moriori. At least some of the photographs were taken by Samuel Barker who visited the Chatham Islands in 1873. Information from comparison with images in published items. Arrangement: Images are numbered sequentially throughout album At one time this album apparently belonged to the Shand family (also of the Chatham Islands) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey covered album, 32 x 27.5 cm Provenance: Donated by W B Burt, Christchurch, 1972

Date: 21 Aug 1938

By: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957

Reference: MS-Papers-3877

Description: Letter to his cousin, Joseph John Guest. Provides an outline of developments on the Chatham Islands, 1912-1938 and describes the changing circumstances of Island families during this period Source of title - Supplied title Joseph John Guest was father of the donor, and headmaster of Te One School on the Chatham Islands, 1906-1912. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: ca1900-ca1939

By: Clough, Richard Lea, 1939-

Reference: PAColl-4788

Description: Arrangement: Negatives in 35mm sequence at 17762 - 17771. Identification of and information relating to the subjects of the negatives is housed in PAColl-4788-1 (IRN 182384) Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 b&w copy negative(s) 35mm strips containing 42 images.

Date: 1938

Reference: PA1-q-052

Description: Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General. Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1983 - 1897 - 1950 - 1985 - 1910 - 1962

From: [Calendars for the year 1985, of approximately A3 size. 1984].

By: Tanner Couch Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1985-1-01

Description: Each of twelve pages shows a scene from the Chatham Islands schools: Te One School 1897, 1910, 1962, 1983 and 1984; Kairakau School 1950; Pitt Island School 1983 and 1908; Drill lesson and craft lesson; Te Awatea School; Owenga School 1950; School bus 1950 and 1982; Kaingaroa School 1950. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on both sides of six sheets, spiral bound, 455 x 295 mm. Provenance: Gordon Wills Johnson, 2000.

Date: 1938-1944

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0078-10

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Thompson, Fred, active 1969; Thompson, Charles, active 1901

Reference: PA1-o-495

Description: Album of various aspects of life in the Chatham Islands circa 1890s-1901, presented to Charles Thompson (possibly Captain Charles Thompson who sailed in the area during this period). Photographs taken by an unknown photographer. All the photographs are described in large letters on the original negatives. On page 23 there is a photograph showing Kiti Karaka Riwai in front of the wharerunanga (meeting house) at Wairua Inscriptions: Album page - "Handed on by his son Fred Thompson" Physical Description: Album with green leather cover, entitled "To Charles Thompson from his Chatham Island friends, August 1901"; 24 x 31 cm

Date: January-February 1933

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests

Reference: PA1-o-1319

Description: Photographs taken and purchased, by Charles Fleming during a trip to the Chatham Islands. The images cover the principle settlements of Waitangi, Te One, and Owenga. Also landscape features such as Waikaripi, Red Bluff, the Nairn River, Te Whanga Lagoon, Tennants Lake, the Pinacles on the south coast, Titirangi Bluff and fossil bed, Mount Dieffenbach [Diffenbach], basalt pillars at Port Hutt, views of the north and south coasts, Maunganui rock outcrop, Tioriori, Momoeatoa [Momoe-a-Toa], Cape Young, Lake Pateriki, and Lake Huro. Life on the Chathams includes native forest, stranded whales, sheep, the Chatham Islands aster (Olearia sedimentata), the Chatham Island forget-me-not (Myosotidium nobile), karaka trees, and a colony of Chatham Island Shags (Phalacrorax onslowi). There is a photograph of Bob McClurg's garden, and another of his two grandaughters. This trip was organised by Arthur William Baden Powell who was the conchologist at the Auckland Institute and Museum. He invited Charles Fleming to go with him. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1951

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Woollett, E, active 1951-1955

Reference: 1/2-039101-F

Description: (Bus?) shelter at Owenga School, Chatham Island, Chatham Islands. Photographed for the National Publicity Studios by E Woollett, between June-August 1951. Other - Information on back of file print reads: "Owenga School shelter shed, the only shelter for 23 pupils, is small and in bad repair." Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1930

From: Wills Johnson, Kate Miria, 1929-1995: Papers and photographs relating to the Chatham Islands

Reference: PAColl-6262-1-01

Description: Children from Owenga School, Chatham Island, Chatham Islands. Photograph taken circa 1930 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.5 x 14 cm Processing information: Previous access statement 'Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was removed in May 2022.

Date: Between 1930 and 1939

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-653-15-1

Description: Seals at Owanga, Chatham Islands. Photograph taken in the 1930s, probably by Ernest Matthias Guest. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Seals at Owanga Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 109 x 66 mm mounted on album page

Date: 1951

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Woollett, E, active 1951-1955

Reference: 1/2-039088-F

Description: Pupils at desks in a classroom at Owenga School, Chatham Island, Chatham Islands. Photographed for the National Publicity Studios by E Woollett, between June-August 1951. From back left: Jim Pomare, ? (obscured), ?, Charlie Preece, Des McDonaldson, Valerie Preece, Marie Pomare. Middle: Bobbie Pomare, Ron Brown, Tony Pomare, Jim Brown (hands on face), Alan Hill. Front: Elane Harvey, ?, Ida Donaldson, Eileen Harvey, ? Joan Pomare, ? Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Teacher and pupils identified by Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1951

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Woollett, E, active 1951-1955

Reference: 1/2-039089-F

Description: Pupils at desks in a classroom at Owenga School, Chatham Island, Chatham Islands. Their teacher Jim Bowkett stands at back. Photographed for the National Publicity Studios by E Woollett, between June-August 1951. From back left: Jim Pomare, ? (obscured), ?, Charlie Preece, Des McDonaldson, Valerie Preece, Marie Pomare. Middle: Bobbie Pomare, Ron Brown, Tony Pomare, Jim Brown (hands on face), Alan Hill. Front: Elane Harvey, ?, Ida Donaldson, Eileen Harvey, ? Joan Pomare, ? Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Teacher and pupils identified by Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: January-February 1933

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests

Reference: PA1-o-1319-39

Description: View of the boat harbour and adjacent coastal cliffs, Owenga, Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Photographed by Charles Fleming in January or February 1933. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.6 x 16 cm