Seventy five year old photographs ... roll #5 (NZ)

Good photos, bad photos or just plain old amateur photos, either way I’m loving all these old images.
 
I actually liked the first one with the streamers. The jumping horse is the best one out of this roll.

I hope the owner gives some thought towards presenting these photos in a good way, at least in a photo album. Perhaps you can give the owner of the collection some ideas, Keith?
 
These are better than most amateur pictures of that early era.

She timed the horse jump and passing ship perfectly - that's a far better picture of the RMS Aorangi than any on the web. The pictures driving through Banff hint at French advertising posters of the time.

Leica sold these as travel cameras for wealthy 'sports' and these fit that image. Sure you had HCB, but if you go through the old Leica magazines, they're mostly well-framed and exposed 'beautiful wife in front of the Matterhorn' snaps. Cameras were only for chronicling your (special) travels and life. If you happened to somehow make them visually 'interesting', you were notable.

This series is fascinating.

- Charlie
 
Keith, I think this series you are doing should make us think about what people will be able to learn of us 75 years from now. Perhaps only the film images we "sports" are making will be recoverable then, too. I was just going through a binder of glassine neg files and found a few rolls I shot on Plus X in Saigon in '70. I wonder if any of the images our troops are making in the various sandboxes today will be viewable in any fashion in 2050?

Whatever the owner does with your recovered images, thank you for giving us all a rare, personal look back to a much more innocent and pleasureable time. GF
 
The Second World War arrived in New Zealand with a bang when the trans-Pacific liner Niagara was sunk by a mine off the Northland coast. The sinking shocked the public and shattered any illusions that distance alone would protect these islands from enemy attack.



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this sort of thing won't happen in 20 years time let alone 75. CD probably unreadable, hard disk wiped, SD cards unreadable. Our era will become a time of mystery. what were probably thought of as "snaps" at the time have become valuable history documents.
 
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I thought I recalled something about a "Naiagara" getting sunk by a mine in WW2...

Suva wharf from memory doesnt look too much different when I was there last...

The 'cabins' are someones house. Typical old Kiwi farm houses.

Note the hat on the man in the last picture looks like an ex WW1 style Army.

It might be a farmstay arrangement for passengers off a ship, and an afternoon horseriding...

I tell yyou what though, if you knew what property it was and we all went there, I bet you it would look exactly the same right now...
 
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I thought I recalled something about a "Naiagara" getting sunk by a mine in WW2...

Suva wharf from memory doesnt look too much different when I was there last...

The 'cabins' are someones house. Typical old Kiwi farm houses.

Note the hat on the man in the last picture looks like an ex WW1 style Army.

It might be a farmstay arrangement for passengers off a ship, and an afternoon horseriding...

I tell yyou what though, if you knew what property it was and we all went there, I bet you it would look exactly the same right now...
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From information I know now she was visiting her sister Lucie who emigrated to NZ with her husband in the early thirties ... they obviously owned the farm.

Lucie is the woman sitting on the little horse!
 
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