Harper, George (Sir), 1843-1937

Date: Apr-Aug 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-04/1

Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1914-1926, 1950

By: Harper family

Reference: MS-Papers-1444

Description: Chiefly letters and diaries sent to parents in Christchurch by Captain R P Harper, Lt G Harper and C Harper, mainly from Zeitoun Camp, Egypt and Gallipoli while serving with the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Includes maps

Date: [ca 1927-1951]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-199

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, late 1920s-1950s. New Zealand people in the news - Campbell Island meteorological station personnel; Watkins family of Hastings (champions in three sports), 1939; Hon W E Parry & Hon Walter Nash at celebrations to mark Lower Hutt becoming at city in 1941; Bishop Cherrington, Rev G H Scurr & Rev L K Collins, 1931; Captain S G Stringer, 1927; Colonel A W Orsborn & family; Mrs Ellingham of Dannevirke; Mrs Basilia Schulte-Baeuminghaus & daughter Ira (of Bavaria); Len Hodge (Canterbury junior diving champion) with John McCormack, USA; MPs J A McL Roy, T L MacDonald & A S Sutherland, 1949; John Smith (pilot instructor), 1937. Photographs relating to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Phillip, 1947 Photograph of Mr B Lusk (solicitor), Mrs Bayley, Mr R E Fawcett (solicitor) and Mrs Bayley's father, T Palmer arriving at the Supreme Court Auckland during the trial of William Alfred Bayley, who was charged with the murder of S P Lakey and his wife at Ruawao, May 1934. Jubilee Exhibition of Canterbury College of Art - Former directors examining a portrait by R Wallwork of Robert Herdman Smith (director of the Art School in 1905). Directors are Gordon H Elliott, Frederick Gurnsey, Archibald F Nicoll and R Wallwork. Archibald F Nicholl painting the portrait of George Harper, 1932; Frank Callaway (Director of King Edward Technical College); Colonel A W Orsborn, new Chief Secretary for Salvation Army in New Zealand, & family, 1933; Canterbury pioneers at Bridle Path Memorial Service - John Chapman, Rev F G Brittan, Richard Evans, 1939. Wynne Smith, song-writer; group photograph of Brigade Commander & Commanding Officers and staff of 6th Infantry Brigade NZEF, 1940 (named on verso); nurses at Waiouru Camp Hospital (named on verso), 1951; Officers and staff of Waiouru military camp, 1951 (named on verso); Senior officers of Dental Services at Burnham (Lt-Col W M Ford, Lt G W Stanley & Major E B Reilly), 1950; Grant-Dalton Trophy awarded to Wellington (No 2) Squadron in 1950 - Leading Aircraftman W M Whitehead with Squadron Leader Oldfield & Group Captain F R Dix; Miss Kane, Mrs Burrell, Mrs Ross & Mr Duckworth Barker UNESCO at Pan-Pacific Conference; group photograph of members of the council of the New Zealand Educational Institute at the annual conference held in Dunedin, 1948 (named on verso); family group photo taken at Hope Gibbons Golden Wedding, 1931. Group photo of Mr A G Harper, Mr & Mrs H B Burdekin, Sir Howard & Lady Kippenberger, General Young, Mr & Mrs W S Lett. Two photographs relating to lighthouse on Portland Island, off Mahia Peninsula (article in NZ Free Lance, 12 Apr 1950, p 17); eight photos and undated letter about life of a New Zealander who married the lighthouse keeper at Pine Islet, Queensland, Australia. Overseas people in the news - John Foster Dulles, President Truman's special representative & Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary, 1951; Harold MacMillan, Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, General Lord Ismay, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, and Lord Leathers, Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport etc; Anthony Eden and others, 1951; Price & Princess Paul of Serbia & baby son; General Eisenhower; Earl Haig; Gladys Cooper & Sir Neville Pearson; group at christening of Sally, daughter of Sir Neville & Lady Pearson (Gladys Cooper); Marshall Tito at Centotaph in Whitehall, 1953; Flight-Lieut George Stainforth; Auriol family; aerial view of Singapore showing Raffles Museum & Library, 1950; Dr Otto Schmidt, 1937; Ruling princes of India in London; Dutch swimmers G Galliard & Irma Schumacher, 1951; Major `Wid' Watson (famous jungle fighter), 1944; Korean internees return to Britain, 1953. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: May-Jun 1899

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-233

Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field; includes proposal to set up a temperance society Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jul 1892

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-187

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; also includes telegram from [?] F Jamieson, Leeston; letter regarding the Rakaia Road Board; letter from [?] Embling written from the Wellington Club; letter from Rev Father McDonald or O'Donnell, Catholic Presbytery, Darfield; and letter from Lewis [?] Hotop, Queenstown, regarding tree planting and taxation. Several letters relating to the women's franchise bill. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level list available.

Date: Aug 1891

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-179

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes private circular from the Australian Mail from London; letter from A [?] MacKeig, Rakaia; petition relating to formation of the Farm Homestead Association signed by Arthur Wilson, Leeston, Arthur Greenwood, Alexander Knox-Callagag, Leeston, Henry Hamilton, Edward George Small, John Grierson Doyle, Thomas Blanch, Andrew Foster, James Crawford, James Huston and Walter Chapman; telegram from Westport regarding A H Turnbull's retrenchment from Public Works signed by Gilmer, Colvin, O'Brien and 30 others; letter from `A Broken-hearted Mother' regarding the 1889 bill legalizing marriage with deceased, husband, brothers; resolution from the Anglican diocese of Dunedin regarding the proposed change to marriage laws in the Divorce Bill; plans relating to sale of land relating to Falsgrave and Junction streets and East Town and South Town Belt. Much correspondence relates to the passage of the women's franchise bill. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Feb-Mar 1892

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-184

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level list available.

Date: Jun 1889

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-156

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1931-1938

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-12/3

Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jan-May 1882

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-103

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered under Name below; also includes letter from Mrs [?] M C Ramage, Moberley Road, Upper Norwood, to Miss Norrie; and biographical piece by Hall, probably for his knighthood Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1936

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-5936-26

Description: George Harper, on his birthday, in 1936. Photograph taken by William George Weigal. Published in the New Zealand Free Lance 29 April 1936 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [192-?]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-009259-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative