AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: Early 1900s to 1940s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-127

Description: Album of newspaper & magazine cuttings, black & white photographs, coloured illustrations, and written information about New Zealand fauna. Mostly on various birds of New Zealand including different varieties of birds of prey, perching birds (e.g. stitch-bird or hihi, tui, kingfisher or kotare, bell-bird or korimako), kakapo, kaka, kiwi, kuku (or wood-pigeon); penguins, shags, gannets etc. Other sections include illustrations and written information about the tuatara, whitebait (or inanga), New Zealand fish, New Zealand insects and butterflies, and 7 pages of musical notes (p 45-51) indicating the different sounds made by various types of cicada. There are several articles about William Herbert Guthrie-Smith, written after his death in 1940.

Date: Early 1900s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-125

Description: Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, black and white photographs, and prints of colour illustrations. Mostly connected with New Zealand native trees, and the timber industry. There are pages dealing with different native trees, and then with the various processes involved in felling the trees; transportation, including horse-drawn, logging railways, and water-born timber using dams; and timber mills. On page [7] of this album there are three personal photographs taken by John Logan Campbell from his home in Parnell, used as Christmas cards in 1900 and 1901; on page [27] is a print of a photograph originally taken by Albert Percy Godber, showing a poster in Maori warning against carelessness in lighting fires in the bush (see full information about the original, in the record at APG-1454-1/4-G).

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877

Reference: PA1-f-001

Description: History of early New Zealand with photographs, newspaper and magazine cuttings. Mostly portraits of administrators, and governors. Includes information on the Treaty of Waitangi and the Wairau Affray, with a facsimile of the letter of condolence to the inhabitants of Nelson in New Munster from the Mayor, Alderman, Town Councillors and undersigned inhabitants of the Borough of Wellington. Copies of photographs of Parliament Buildings, including the buildings in Auckland used until 1865, the first building in Molesworth St., Wellington, and Parliament Buildings before the fire in 1907. Also one page devoted to New Zealand's first Labour Ministry with Michael Savage as Prime Minister. Album also includes fold-out panorama of St. John's College, Tamaki, Auckland. This is a copy of a lithograph by Mrs Caroline Harriet Abraham, which she possibly copied from a sketch by John Greenwood from his diary in 1851. (See Record at Ref. no. A-220-008, held in Drawings and Prints).

Date: [ca 1900 - 1940s]

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-126-06-1

Description: Group from the Island of Mangaia, Cook Islands, in traditional dress, with gods Vari (largest figure), and Tane Kiao (unidentified). Photograph taken in the Cook Islands between 1900 and the 1940s by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on album page. Other Titles - Mangaians in ancient dress with old-time gods Vari, the largest figure, and Tane Kiao. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mangaians in ancient dress with old-time gods Vari, the largest figure, and Tane Kiao Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15 x 19.7 cm, on album page

Date: [ca 1914]

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-126-2-01

Description: Photograph of the last residents of Raoul Island leaving by boat, taken ca 1914 by an unidentified photographer Inscriptions: mat verso - Bringing off last two inhabitants Sunday Island with Hinemoa's boat Probably members of the Bell family who resided on Raoul Island from 1878 to 1914. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11 x 6.7 cm

Date: [ca 1900 - 1940s]

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-126-06-2

Description: Group from the Island of Aitutaki, Cook Islands, in traditional dress. Photograph taken in the Cook Islands circa 1900-1940s by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on album page. Date from PA1-f-126. Location photograph taken estimated by cataloguer. Other Titles - Aitutakians in ancient dress Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Aitutakians in ancient dress Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.8 x 19.6 cm, on album page

Date: [ca 1927]-[ca 1943]

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-124-49

Description: Photographs and a drawing of four pou whakapakoko or Maori god sticks. Quantity: 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).