Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Date: [Between 1927 and 1965]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-113

Description: Album includes photographs, chiefly taken by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, from black and white photographs taken in the 1920s to coloured snapshots taken in the 1960s. Subjects range from scout camps and tramps in New Zealand, to views of military aircraft and scenic views of India, Egypt and Libya taken circa 1940-1943 while he was serving with R.A.F. squadrons. Later coloured snapshots show holiday scenes. The photographs are interspersed with postcards. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled red and black cover, black corners and spine, 24 x 34 cm

Date: 193?

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-112-009-2

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1914-1919]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-115

Description: Album includes a large section of British naval ships, some travelling in convoy, some camouflaged, with closeup views of armaments and naval personnel, taken by unidentified photographers during World War I. It appears that the creator of the album was serving on the SS Parattah. A section in the album covers a port-of-call by the Parattah to Nauru and the Loyalty Islands, showing scenes and aspects of life on the islands, including several related to the phosphate industry on Nauru. There are a number of images of a group on camels near the Spinx and pyramids in Egypt, dated 1919, followed by a section on the Yosemite area, California, with scenic views of mountains and valleys, and several showing the "largest tree in the world". The last section in the album covers the royal tour of HRH The Prince of Wales in 1920, in Sydney. Views of decorations in the city, crowd scenes, and night scenes of decorative lighting and fireworks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon album, 23 x 34 cm

Date: 1930s

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-117

Description: Album created by George Rainsford Craddock as a record of scouting trips in the King Country and Waikato, which followed ancient Maori trails, and historic quests. Maori legends and history in the form of newspaper cuttings attached to the album pages, which Gerald Craddock wrote himself, are interspersed with quotations from famous writers, and with photographs of the boys in the various areas. Some of the boys are identified, but only with Christian names Inserted in the front of the album is a slip dated October 1941 which mentions three of the boys (again only with Christian names) from his scout group who were killed in the second World War. Joe (an airgunner) came down 200 miles from Malta, in the sea in 1941; Basil (pilot) died when his plane crashed at Lossiemouth, Scotland in 1941; and John was brought down by a sniper's bullet in Iraq just before war broke out. Inscriptions: Album page - "Being an illustrated record of some fifteen scout camps, which I hope will prove an inspiration, and provide a romantic quest for Boy Scouts of the Waikato and King Country to follow. G.R. Craddock, February 1933" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown card-covered album entitled "The land of the faerie, beneath King Country skies. Leaves from a rambler's notebook" (by G.R.C.)

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Fallaise, P W, active 1917-1933

Reference: PA1-q-057

Description: Album of photographs interpersed with coloured, and black & white postcards, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera. The photographs relate to an area shown in many of Gerald Rainsford Craddock's albums at Tauraroa; to outings by boy scouts; and to various sites in Egypt and the Far East during World War II. These include an image of a bridge of boats at Baghdad, and photographs taken on an air armada from Egypt to the Far East in January 1942. A few coloured photographs are taken at the Blue Baths in Rotorua in 1965. The postcards are taken by various photographers including Muir and Mooodie (Dunedin, New Zealand), David James Aldersley (Wellington), and P W Fallaise (Sydney). Most of the postcards show scenes in Sydney, but there are a number set in New Zealand, some in Brussels, and some in Egypt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover, grey pages, 28 x 38 cm

Date: [Circa 1940s]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-114

Description: Album of photographs taken by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, interspersed with postcards, from the time he travelled from New Zealand, via Melbourne and Perth, to serve with the Royal Air Force in the Far East and the Middle East. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacks cover, black pages, 26.5 x 31 cm

Date: 1940-1943

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: Pa1-f-121

Description: Album of photographs interspersed with postcards (coloured, and black & white), newspaper cuttings, and typescript inserts partially in the form of a diary, relating to the views. Album created, and chiefly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, while serving with the RAF in Ceylon, the Middle East, Pakistan and Asia. Quantity: 21 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mottled grey cover, 29 x 38 cm

Date: 1918-1942

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford, 1910-1990

Reference: PAColl-2137-1

Description: Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s) loose album pages. 15 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) loose album pages. 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s) loose album pages.

Date: ca 1933

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-116-85

Description: "Kawhia; Where the Tainui canoe rests." Records of a visit to Kawhia Harbour and the place where the Tainui canoe is said to be burried. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1933 Top left photograph (PA1-o-116-85-1). View of a stretch of beach. On album page below print is written "The pah" Top right photograph (PA1-o-116-85-2). View across the sea to buildings on the edge of the land. On bottom of print is written "Tainui Glade from a launch" Bottom left photograph (PA1-o-116-85-3). Group of Boy Scouts sitting on the ground under scrub trees. On album page below print is written "The stone over burried canoe" Bottom right photograph (PA1-o-116-85-4). An upright stone standing among scrub trees above a beach. On the top of the print is written "Kawhia." On the bottom of the print is written "Stone marking the buried Tainui [canoe]" On the centre of the album page is drawn a map showing harbours from Manakau to Awakino Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1934

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-116-34

Description: Boy Scouts on the trail of Te Kooti photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1934 Top left photograph (PA1-o-116-34-1). Boy Scouts parading for morning prayers at Easter Camp. On the bottom of the print is written "morning prayer easter camp." Top right photograph (PA1-o-116-34-2). Boy Scouts with their bicycles crossing a stream. On the bottom of the print is written "crossing the third stream." Bottom centre photograph (PA1-o-116-34-3). A group of Boy Scouts backs to camera, looking out over bush covered hills. On the bottom of the print is written "Te Kooti Trail." On the album page below the print is written "above Te Kooti Creek." On the album page to the left of print is written "On the trail of Te Kooti - the most treacherous of all the Maori warriers - He had two secret strongholds in these parts." On the album page to the right of the page is written "After the Mohaka massacre Te Kooti lived at Kihikihi, Otewa, and Parawera. It is said that his flag was the emblem most stained with blood in New Zealand history." Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints