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Morel, Leo (c1900-c1970)

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Streetscape of Main Street, Upper Hutt. At 3c is a black folder that contains the laminated prints in order. A lending copy of prints is listed as a SCHOOL KIT on the Library Catalogue, stored in the Library Stack.

Scope & contentThis collection consists of photographs and their negatives only.

The Library holds one major series of Leo Morel's photographs - a series of street frontages along Main Street c1947 (numbers L23 and R20-21 are missing from the negatives). Other individual images have been included in the Library's collection and may be identified where possible through the Photographs database.

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Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; north side 22, BNZ-Bird-Duncan (L22)

Queen Street saleyards and Savage Crescent.

Queen Street saleyards, during sale of cattle.

Queen Street saleyards; spectators and buyers.

Queen Street saleyards; cattle auction.

Queen Street saleyards; cattle sale.

Queen Street saleyards; photo of Council ban notice.

Queen Street saleyards; photographing notice of sale ban.

Queen Street saleyards and weeds; east end.

Queen Street saleyards and weeds.

Dunlop factory construction; west end; hillside view

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948, from the west end.

Main St, Upper Hutt, January 1948; south side 1, Askew, Federated Farmers, Gospel Hall (R25)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; south side 2, Askew-Gospel Hall (R24)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; north side 01, Pine Avenue-Taylor (L1)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; south side 3, Borough Council, Russell Street corner (R23)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; north side 02; Taylor's-UH Fish Supply-Trentham Bakery (L2)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; north side 03, UH Fish Supply-bakery-Self Help (L3)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; South Side 4, Borough Council-Russell St (R22)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; north side 04, Self Help-drapery-Brown (L4)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; south side 6, Benge-Baigent (R19)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; south side 7, Baigent-Majestic (R18)

Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; north side 05, Brown-Dorothy (L5)

Details

Archive Reference 18Date rangec1949Quantityc 50 photographs

Provenance

HistoryAccording to an article in the 'Upper Hutt Times' newspaper, 6 July 1949, Leo Morel was born at sea, grew up in New Zealand, and was interested in photography from the age of eleven. He studied art in the USA, then lived in the Cook Islands where he was a school teacher for three years, worked for a trading company, took over a plantation and volunteered for service when WW2 broke out. After the war he found his plantation overgrown and returned to New Zealand, first to Auckland, then in 1947 to Upper Hutt where he set up a studio at 20 Wilson Street (ph.311m).

He was particularly interested in news and child photography.

In 1950 Leo Morel applied for and was appointed as one of the United Nations official photographers. His first assignment (according to an article in the 'Upper Hutt Times' 6 September 1950) was to cover the recruiting, training and departure of New Zealand's force to Korea.

Leo Morel had hand colouring of his black and white photographs done by Miss Jean Rabbitt (later Mrs Penman) during the weekends.

Local memory has it that he left Upper Hutt to live on the West Coast, c1955?, where he married. One local photographer remembers him working as a photographer in Westport, 1956-1958.

Recent information about Leo Morel (from Danielle Carter at the New Zealand Maritime Museum, May 2020) puts his address in Westport at 142 Palmerston Street. The Maritime Museum were donated a number of his photographs which were of the ship Guardian Carrier in the Westport/Buller area; this ship arrived in New Zealand for the first time in 1964. One of these photographs is dated 1964.

There was no information about Leo Morel at the Alexander Turnbull Library or the New Zealand Centre for Photography, when enquiries were made in 1999.

Note:
The Main Street series c1947 was displayed during the 1996 exhibition "Images of Upper Hutt" sponsored by Clark's Accounting, and donations from that exhibition were used to help create two laminated sets of copies.
One set is available for borrowing, the other is issued as a school resource kit.

Series

Series18/1 Prints, Main Street photographs c1949It is not known what occasioned this group of photographs. The date is believed to be around 1950.The photographs are labelled:"Approach to Upper Hutt from Wellington end""R1-25" East side, north to south, Main Street, Upper Hutt"L1-26" West side, south to north, Main Strret, Upper HuttThese prints were developed from the original negatives (series 18/2) in 1996 to replace an earlier, sub-standard, set of reprints.18/2 Negatives, Main Street photographs c1949These negatives have been labelled as for 18/1. They may not be the original negatives; the numbering is out of sequence with the locations.There are 3 numbers missing from the sequence of negatives:L23, R20 and R21.

Items

Item Listing18/1 Prints, Main Street photographs c1949

18/2 Negatives, Main Street photographs c1949

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Location3g (formerly 3c)Custodial historyPhotographs discovered during processing of Library collection.