thanks to Annie for her message:
Subject: Curlett - Johnson
To: ngairedith
From: sconzani
Date: 2013-08-10 14:08:43
Hi there
I see you have both these names listed in your research and just thought I'd point out to you a mystery photograph album that has been discovered by the folks at Auckland City Library, which features both these names. Maybe it has some connection to your family?
thank you Annie, well spotted

This is a blog site I haven't see before, called:
KINTALK, Whanau korero: Family history
- can you identify the individuals in the photos??
*Mr & Mrs Walter Johnson celebrating their golden wedding anniversary
*Portrait of Mildred Dunn, aged 3 years, Mrs Curlett on the reverse
(is this Mildred Madge Dunn, daughter of Henry DUNN & Ellen SAUNDERS of Eketahuna?)

The four research centres in Central, South, West and North Auckland hold a wide variety of published diaries. Including diaries from: Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's war in the North (1845); Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923); Annie & Harold Beauchamp on board R.M.S. "Ruahine, travelling from Wellington to London (1898) and a NZ solider in a POW camp during WW2 (and of course, great old photos)
the blogs they follow:
* Heritage et Al: featuring unique collections and resources at the research centres and heritage collections across Auckland Libraries
* Historypin blog
* Auckland Art Gallery: Outpost
* The Hocken Blog
* Antipodean Footnotes
* Early New Zealand photographers (with more than 200 links, see notes below)
* Inside Stories
* University of Auckland Library: Special Collections
* National Library of New Zealand blog
* New York Public Library: Archives: Out of the box
* Heritage & Research at Auckland Libraries
* More blogs by Auckland Libraries

NOTES
The individual links (as at Aug 2013) at the link above
'Early New Zealand Photographers':
Akaroa (10), amateur (1), Artist and Photographers Cashel Street West (1), Ashburton (11), Auckland (34), Balclutha (2), Blenheim (7), British Photographer (3), Cashel Street (3), Charleston (1), Chatham Islands (2), Chester Street (4), Cheviot (1), Christchurch (114), Chrystoleum (1), church (1), Colombo Street (8), Cromwell (1), Dannevirke (2), Dargaville (1), Dunedin (52), English born (1), exhibitions (8), Female Photographer (3), Fielding (1), fire (3), Fox Glacier (1), Franz Josef Glacier (2), Geraldine (3), Gisborne (6), Gore (6), Grahamstown (1), Greymouth (16), Hamilton (3), Hanmer Springs (1), Hawera (5), High Street (9), Hokitika (17)
house (8), Inangahua (1), Invercargill (22), Kaiapoi (2), Kaikoura (2), Kumara (1), Kurow (1), Lawrence (6), Leeston (1), Levin (1), Lichfield Street (1), Lyttelton (12), Mancester Street (2), Manchester Street (1), Marton (1), Masterton (3), Melbourne (1), Milton (5), Mosgiel (2), Motueka (1), Napier (7), Nelson (14), New Plymouth (5), New Regent Street (1), New Zealand born (1), Oamaru (16), Onehunga (1), Otago (2), Oxford (1), Oxford Terrace (1), Paeroa (1), Palmerston (1), Palmerston North (2), Petone (2), photo enlarger (2), picture framer (1), Port Chalmers (1), Postcards (6), printers (1), publisher (8), Pukekohe (1), Rakaia (2), Rangiora (4), Reefton (8), Roxburgh (1), Samuel Hurst Seager (1), Southland (1), Stratford (2), Swannanoa (1), Sydenham (1), Sydney (1), Taihape (1), Tauranga (1), Temuka (5), Thames (1), Timaru (34), Tokomairiro (1), Victoria Square (2), Victoria Street (1), Waikouaiti (1), Waimate (4), Wanganui (8), Wellington (35) - West Coast (6), Westport (8), Whangarei (1), Winton (1)

SEE ALSO: CURLETT marriages New Zealand 1852-1927


PHOTO
Cover of PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM #224 that was handed into a librarian in Pukekohe, Auckland. It was found in someones flat and rescued before it was put into a skip. It was given to the family history team for identification and preservation.
The album is now kept in Sir George Grey Special Collections