Dr William Delano Walker personal diaries

A loose leaf diary detailing WD Walker's daily life including study, medical duties, travel and personal routine.

This part of the loose leaf diary documents WD Walker's interest in photography.

Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:

  • separation sheet annotated "New Zealand

  • New Zealand list of photographs (diary May 1929) with list of 22 photographs

  • Description photographs of New Zealand, 1. A Mauri maid, 2. An old Maori woman. Reverse 3. Whakarewarewa Village

  • 4. A Maori Pah, 5. The Tohunga's store house. Reverse 6. A Maori's washing day

  • pencil notes on the reverse of a Rouges & Vagabonds Fellowship subscription form

  • 7. Maori cooking, 8. Maori children, 9. The poached egg - boiling mud. Reverse 10. The Great Wauirakei geyser, 11. Waimungu

  • 12. Steaming cliffs surrounding Lake Rotomahana, 13. Launch on Lake Tarawera. Reverse South Island

  • 14. A distant view of the Franz Josef Glacier, 15. The head of the Franz Josef glacier, 16. Climbing on one of the many thousands of ice peaks

  • 17. A view near the Hermitage, Mount Cook, 18. Self putting on skis, 19. Mrs Walker enjoys a spill on the Tasman Glacier, 20. Mts Cook and Tasman. Reverse 21. Self making friends with a Kea

CreatorDr William Delano Walker
ControlAA 357/4/29/14
Date Range1920  -  1938
Quantity 0.1cm,    
FormatsGeneral Publications, Diaries, Indexes
Series AA357/04