Exterior view of building (unidentified) Ornamental breeze-block wall, fountain pool & Norfolk Pine tree.

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Written with black ballpoint pen on piece of self-adhesive paper at bottom right of photo – R

Donated to reunion committee by Cedric Harris.

Children grouped together in unidentified playground ? 1 B&W photo print

They are all wearing winter clothing and most are wearing jackets. School trip to unidentified destination.

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Written with black ballpoint pen on piece of self-adhesive paper at bottom right of photo – R

Donated to reunion committee by Cedric Harris.

Another view of children grouped together in unidentified playground ? 1 B&W photo print

Woman (right, unnamed). They are all wearing winter clothing and most are wearing jackets. School trip to unidentified destination.

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Written with black ballpoint pen on piece of self-adhesive paper at bottom right of photo – R

Donated to reunion committee by Cedric Harris.

Children on log climbing frame in unidentified playground ? 1 B&W photo print

5 girls ? They are all wearing winter clothing and most are wearing jackets. School trip to unidentified destination.

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Looking over houses up valley 1 B&W photo print

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Young Girl standing beside stream 1 B&W photo print

Young Girl (unkown ?)

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Group of men (26) on steps of University building ? 1 B&W photo print

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River gorge with wire bridge in distance 1 B&W photo print

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Bridge destroyed by flood ? 1 B&W photo print

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Confluence of two rivers ? (right-hand river) 1 B&W photo print

Also see – #.0111 [showing same area of confluence & ‘other’ river]

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Confluence of two rivers ? (left-hand river) 1 Sepia tone print

Also see – #.0112 [showing same area of confluence & ‘other’ river]

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Face of clock has letters instead of numbers as follows – ELIZABETHII This suggests was specially prepared for Royal visit.

Large mechanical clock set in flower garden 1 B&W photo print

Woman & Teenager (unknown ?)

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Stone Church 1 B&W photo print

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Trees growing “over” road 1 B&W photo print

Woman standing beside car (unkown ?)

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Car – caravello, with registration plate – DP 3639 1 B&W photo print

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Stamped on back with black ink - Photograph by : J. Cumming, Levin, N.Z. Negative No….....

Five men (unidentified) each holding a different breed ? of sheep. 1 B&W photo print

Taken on farm (unidentified).

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Two men (unidentified) on farm 1 B&W photo print

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‘Actifed’ advertisement on large poster-map of ‘The Earth’s Moon’ 1 B&W photo print

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Man (unidentified) & woman (unidentified) 1 B&W photo print

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Inscription on reverse reads: “Bill Walker, Les Adkin, Jo Logan, Ernie Lancaster.”

Four men, dressed for tramping, and a dog stand on tramline tracks which appear to run across a river bed. The four men are identified as being Bill Walker, Les Adkin, Jo Logan and Ernie Lancaster.

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Who are the people in this magic lantern slide? Where is this house? Why is there so much mud? And, most importantly, had anyone heard of firearms safety? The child in the picture must be hoping that the gun isn't loaded.

If anyone can answer these questions (or can decipher the writing on this slide) please let the MAVtech Museum know! In the absence of any answers we can see why this slide is important: many family photographs and postcards show groups outside of houses. With land needing to be broken in, families outside their properties were seen as a kind of colonial pride.

What they are holding also speaks volumes about how people saw themselves (or at least, how they wanted to be seen). The man is holding a gun and is seen as a powerful provider. The boy holds a hammer- has he been helping with the work? The lady holds a book (a Bible perhaps? This was common for womens' photographs in Western countries back then). And the young lady looks ready to go to school or church in her neat hat and tidy clothing. These themes were often used in professional photographs and subconsciously spilled over into many early snapshots. 

Mind you- this could also be a professional photograph.

Also, this is a lantern slide, designed to be projected onto a wall. Unlike a personal photo album, these  slides were usually viewed as a large group. Extended family? A soldier overseas in the First World War? (the Dunedin Photographic Society took photographs of families that soldier relatives could then view near the front. These were all magic lantern slides.)

Photographs are often seen as perfect windows into the past but this one holds more questions than answers! 

Inscription on back – Theresa Hinemoa McDonald

Full length childhood photo of Theresa Hinemoa McDonald,standing in garden wearing light coloured dress with long sleeves and pintucking on skirt, beading at neck, dark sash, dark stockings and boots. Hair down.

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Two unidentified girls, aged about 3 years on a wooden rocking horse. The girls are dressed identically in woollen dresses, ankle socks and black shoes. They could possibly be twins.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

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Bride & Groom – Sarah and William Brown 1 B&W photo print {Fragile, damaged}

Formal studio photograph. William (‘Bill’) Brown was a railway ganger based in Shannon.

They had 6 daughters then a son (Alistair). 7 names have been used as identification in connection with the girls of the Brown family: Annie, Gwen (later Graham), Girlie (later Urwin), Jeanne (never married), Billie, Eris (later Mouldey) youngest (?) daughter and Maisie (later Hebley).

Annie believed born January 1906 (see Certificate of Proficiency Acc.#s2002.098.0034 gives her age as 13 years 10 months in Novemeber 1919).

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An enlarged copy of photo 1977.047.0071.

Formal photograph of Hector McDonald Snr. He is wearing a textured jacket with a dark cravat over a white shirt with upturned collar. He has a beard and moustache.

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Unidenified man

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Inscription on reverse reads: “C J Pownalls sons.”

Three young men, two standing and one sitting on a bench in a studio setting, who are described on the reverse of the photograph as “C J Pownalls sons.”

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An unidentified man is leaning against door frame in this oval photograph. The building into which the doorway is made of weatherboard. The man is wearing trousers and a vest over a shirt with a bow tie. He has his hands in his pants pockets.

1 B&W postcard

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A head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified elderly whiskered, balding man. He is wearing a jacket and waistcoat and the lack of clarity of the photograph suggests that it may be a copy or enlargement of a section of another photograph.

1 B&W photo print copy

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Printed on mounting board below photo - J. Bragge Photographer, Wellington, N.Z.

Printed on back - Portrait and Landscape Photographer James Bragge Wellington, New Zealand. Copies and enlargements to any size may always be had from this negative No. ......

Unidentified middle-aged man

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