Album page (?) photographs of people (some named) 14 B&W photo prints (many faded) glued to cardboard (4 on one side with 10 on reverse)

Side 1 - Top left photo: Young woman (wearing college uniform ?) standing in front of (school ?) building. Top right photo: 4 women in garden. (front row: “M. Cameron” [left], & ”? Colquohin” [right]). Bottom left: “M. (Mary) Cameron, Te Kara Road”, with bucket & cows. Bottom right: Bride & Groom (unidentified) in garden.

Side 2 - Top left: “May Windley” at docks. Top centre: Woman (unidentified) at docks. Top right: “Wilfred at Foxton”, sitting on driftwood on beach tying his shoe-lace. Top extreme right: “E. Couper” (young woman) standing in garden {badly faded & damaged}. Bottom left: “Dad in Rotorua”, large group of people on verandah of house. Centre: “Phoebe” & another yong woman (her sister ?). Centre right: “Mary Durns” {? or Burns} (faded thumbnail photo). Bottom centre: Young woman (unidentified). Bottom right: “Jinny Durns” {? or Burns} (faded thumbnail photo). Bottom extreme right: Mr “C.D. Couper” (faded thumbnail photo, damaged).

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Penciled on back: “Moutoa Bridge over Manawatu River 1924.”

See book – ‘From Bush & Swamp’, pages 74-76. First Shannon bridge over Manawatu River. Built 1908 at the former ferry crossing. Badly damaged by flooding 1924. Replacement built further north 1928.

An oval photograph showing three women crossing the Manawatu River via the Shannon Motoa Bridge in 1919. The three women have been identified as Mary and Jessie Cameron and Margaret Law.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

See also 1977.031.0006

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Inscriptions on reverse read: ” Ann (Mrs A Jordan P.N.) Mr & Mrs Cameron parents, Jess (Mrs J Shaw, Levin), Freda (Miss Cameron), Mary (Miss Cameron, twin of Jess). The Camerons came from Shannon and lived in Levin”. and Mrs B F Spencer, Stafford Street, Shannon. If not home, c/o Miss Cameron, c/o C Franks, Motor Garage, Shannon. As photo, Sepia, Oak Frame” also “The Manager, The Medallion Art Co, 182 Lambton Quay, Wellington”

Mr and Mrs Cameron pose in this formal photograph with their four daughters. The group is from left to right, back row, Ann (Mrs Ann Jordan, Palmerston North), Mrs Cameron, Mr Cameron, Jess (Mrs J Shaw, Levin), and front row, Mary Cameron and Mary Cameron (the twin of Jess). The Cameron family came from Shannon and lived in Levin.

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Inscription on reverse reads: “Shannon – Moutoa Bridge. Mary – Jessie Cameron, Margaret Law. 1919”

An oval photograph showing three women in a horse drawn gig crossing the Shannon-Moutoa bridge in 1919. The three women have been identified as Mary and Jessie Cameron and Margaret Law.

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Sheet 1 – 8 photos (4 related to Cameron’s) A3 Laser copy sheet (1 of 4)

Most with information penciled on back.

Top Row: a) Man with horse & cart – John Cameron with “Bonnie” at ‘Te Kara’, Shannon, 1917. b) Man riding horse over bridge - Dick McKenzie on Te Kara bridge, 1901. c) 3 women (?) in horse drawn buggy on bridge - Manawatu River bridge, Shannon, 1911. (see also – Acc.#1977.031.0006 postcard) (see also – Acc.#2002.018.0083 HHS Mounted Collection) d) 4 women in garden - Cameron sisters (R -L) Jessie, Mary, Annie, Freda at ‘Te Kara’, 1920.

Bottom Row: e) 3 young ladies with pet lamb harnessed to small cart - (L -R) Gwladys Jones, age 10. Annie Cameron, ” 9. Mary Cameron, ” 17. with pet lamb ‘Bruce’ at ‘Te Kara’, Shannon, 1912. (see also – Acc.#s2002.057.0024 not identified, c.1911) f) N.Z. Farmers Dairy Union creamery with 6 horse & carts. (see also – Acc.#s2002.019.0006 Margaret Street, Shannon, 1899) (see also – Acc.#s2001.022.0003 colour copy, identified as taken by Mr J. Cornwall (Manager), c.1901) g) Interior of church - St Davids Presbyterian Church on corner of Nathan Terrace & Bryce Street, Shannon (now scout hall). h) 2 toddlers under canvas shelter in garden - Mary & Jessie Cameron, born 1896, twin daughters of Mary & John Cameron.

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