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Bertram, James :Photographs relating to James Bertram's visits to China

Date: 1936-1987

From: Bertram, James :Photographs relating to James Bertram's visits to China

Reference: PAColl-6000-1

Description: Mainly records of James Bertram's trips to China. There are also some relating to his war service during the Second World War including two of dramatic entertainment by POWs at Omari Camp, Tokyo, Japan, in 1944. The Chinese material relates to his visit to China in 1936, another which he made with a group of New Zealanders in 1956 which included among others, Ormond Wilson, Roger Duff, and Evelyn Page, and other trips that he made in 1982 and 1987 Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 7 colour original photographic print(s).

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Bertram, James :Photographs relating to James Bertram's visits to China

Date: 1936-1987

By: Bertram, James Munro, 1910-1993; Falealili, Virginia, active 1999

Reference: PAColl-6000

Description: Photographs taken on visits to China made by James Bertram from the late 1930s to the 1980s Other collections of manuscripts belonging to James Bertram are held in the Manuscripts Section of the Alexander Turnbull Library Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 55 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Virginia Falealili is a neice of James Bertram. She and another neice cleaned out Bertram's house after his wife Jean moved into a nursing home. These photographs and manuscripts came into her posession as a result Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - Articles and lectures on China, a notebook made during a visit to China in 1956, letters from Oxford University and China written in the 1930s.

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Five Chinese coins, and one Portuguese coin

Date: 1870 - ca 1912-1930s

From: United Mine Workers' Union of New Zealand : Records

Reference: Objects-0524

Description: Maker(s) not identified. Includes: Portuguese coin of 1870; large silver/nickel coin of 1914 portraying left profile of Yuan Shi Kai with moustache; small bronze coin, inscribed "The Republic of China - Ten Cash" and showing the 5-colour flag - therefore dated between 1912 and ca 1930s; one large and one small silver/nickel coin featuring the portrait of Chiang Kai Shek, dated 1933 and 1936; and, one small silver/nickel coin inscribed Hu-Peh (ie Hubei) Province, 1 Mace and 4.4 Candareens. Possibly related to Frederick Bird of the China Inland Mission, whose visiting card was amongst the papers. Photocopy held with coins. His donation of Chinese coins to the Library recorded in April 1953 Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 6 object(s) in small cotton purse with metal dome.. Physical Description: Bronze, sizes vary, in small cotton domed purse Processing information: Added to MS-Group-0407, January 2024. Description edited as part of Objects survey, January 2024. Previous reference: Curios-027-010. Previous title: Various artists :[Six Chinese coins. 18--?].

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New Zealand delegation to China led by James Bertram

Date: 1982

From: Bertram, James :Photographs relating to James Bertram's visits to China

Reference: PAColl-6000-3

Description: Visit to Hong Kong, Beijing, and North Western China. There are photographs of James Bertram visiting the Sai Wan Bay War Cemetery in Hong Kong, and of gravestones in that cemetery. There are photographs of a meeting with Rewi Alley in Beijing and views of desert landscapes, and ancient city walls and watch towers probably somewhere in North Western China Quantity: 20 colour original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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No. 102: Visit to Zunhua, Hehei

Date: ca 1970s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5937-19

Description: Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-086528-F - 1/4-086545-F Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Album No. 17: Rewi Alley on tour in Guangdong, Macau, and Hainan Island.

Date: 1985

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-651

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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No. 108: Photographs of Chinese children

Date: ca 1940s-ca 1970s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5937-25

Description: Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-086746-F - 1/4-086775-F, and 35mm, 23834 - 23937 Quantity: 169 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 134 b&w original negative(s) of which 104 are 35mm strips.

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Album No. 110: Photographs of Shandan Beili School

Date: 1970s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-905

Description: Showing the builders and workers and the construction techniques used in building Shandan Beili School. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Album No. 29: Heroic sculpture of Rewi Alley in Beili Square

Date: 1987

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-661

Description: Photographs of the sculpure in Shandan, Gansu, celebrating Rewi Alley and his work in China Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Photographer unknown :Shanghai Mary Sept 1863. The 'celestial Polly' Invercargill N. Z....

Date: 1863 - 1865

From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867

Reference: E-395-006

Description: Top of page: a lock of hair held with pink chiffon ribbon, belonging to the 'celestial Polly' of Invercargill; centre of page: a photographic portrait, its top trimmed to an oval shape of a Chinese woman, 'Shanghai Mary'. Bottom of page: a lock of hair, again tied with pink chiffon belonging to 'Mrs 'Sydney Bill' the convict bride'. Between Mrs Sydney Bill's hair and the photograph is pasted a newsclipping "band of hope" Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 photograph(s). 2 curio(s). Physical Description: Albumen print glued to album page, 29 x 27 mm; two locks of brown hair

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[Ashworth, D J] :[Manner of carting fish and game birds at Port Louis, Mauritius, 1830s?]

Date: 1830 - 1840

By: Ashworth, D J, active 1840s

Reference: A-209-033

Description: The upper view shows two black men walking with a long stick between them on their shoulders. Large fish are suspended from the stick. They are followed by a black woman, a baby on her back and a large basket of fruit on her head. The lower view shows a single man with a similar long stick, holding suspended dead birds. He is observed by another man, possibly Chinese, with a long plait down his back. Inscriptions: Pencil inscription on the verso of A-209-031, referring to numbers A-209-031 to -038 'D. J. A.'s old drawings' Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: 2 pencil & watercolour on one sheet of paper, 244 x 171 mm (irregular) Provenance: Purchased with other Ashworth family material, Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

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No. 35: Photographs of China and the Chinese

Date: 1970s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5937-02

Description: Buildings and sites asscociated with the Communist revolution in China, Public buildings and events, ethnic minorities, martyr Zhou Yiqun Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-085708-F - 1/4-085718-F Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 colour original photographic print(s). 11 b&w original negative(s).

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Album No. 70: Visit to Xinjiang province

Date: 1970s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-688

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Album No. 86: Photographs of China and the Chinese

Date: ca1950s - ca1960s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-704

Description: Variety of images which show Chinese children and adults, men building a bridge of traditional design, industial and building projects, ancient buildings, agriculture and agricultural produce such as pineapples, ethnic minorities Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Album No. 74: Rewi Alley with Chinese and European friends and associates

Date: 1950s-1970s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-693

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

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Album No. 26: Rewi Alley with Chinese friends. officials and associates

Date: ca1980-ca1985

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-658

Description: Rewi Alley with friends associates and New Zealand relatives. Friends and officials include Xi Zhongxun, Wang Bingnan, Huang Hua, and Gansu leaders. There are also portraits of Shandan Beili School teachers and students. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Album No. 5: Photographs of Shandan Beili School

Date: 1970s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-894

Description: Showing the builders and workers and the construction techniques used in building Shandan Beili School. Quantity: 1 album(s).

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No. 109: Photographs of Chinese children and workers

Date: ca 1950s-ca 1970s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5937-26

Description: Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-086776-F - 1/4-086807-F, and 35mm, 23938 - 24044 Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 139 colour original negative(s) of which 107 are 35mm strips.

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Album No. 57: Rewi Alley with Chinese friends and associates

Date: 1980s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-680

Description: Rewi Alley with Youxie staff and Chinese friends, These include Liu Ding, Zhang Wei, Bi Shuowang, Li Keran, He Biao, Li Qiyang, Li Qiang, Zhang Xinxin, Chang Shuhong, Lu Guangmian, Wang Zigang, Shen Qizhen, Liao Mengxing Quantity: 1 album(s).

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Album No. 80: International friends of China, and Rewi Alley's New Zealand relatives

Date: 1970s-1980s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-699

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).