Thelma Kent

 Catherine Maud Kent (the photographer's mother) 

alongside rowboats at Lake Taupo, ca 1938

  

 Lake Kaniere, ca 1937

  

 Looking through trees, at the Dart River, Otago, ca 1939

  

 Maori in traditional dress seated in a waka on top of a truck taking part in a parade 

in Christchurch to celebrate the coronation of King George VI, 1937

  

Scene at Gouland Downs, Tasman distict, ca 1939

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thelma Kent

Group crossing a swing bridge over the Rangitata River in Canterbury 

to get to the ice skating ring at Mount Harper, ca. 1940

   

Man seated on a horse by a pond in Rees Valley, Otago, ca 1939

  

 Men with horse and cart, during road construction alongside the Makarora Bush nature walk and the Mt Aspiring National Park ranger station, Makarora, 1930s

  

 Scene with a car on a rural unsealed road, next to a fern covered 

bank, Fox Glacier district, West Coast region, ca. 1939

  

Woman standing on a fallen tree on the shores of Lake Hauroko, Southland, 1930s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thelma Kent

 An unidentified man and woman walking in snow 

in the Eglinton River Valley, Southland, 1930s

 Back country sheep station photographed from Docherty Creek, 

ca 1930s. Mount Elie de Beaumont is in the distance

   

 

Man crossing stream on horseback, Rees Valley, 

Queenstown-Lakes District, ca 1939 

 

Moeraki, ca 1940

  

Rock formations, Porters Pass, New Zealand, 1930s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thelma Kent

Robert Murrell's boat Pilgrim and Leila Black, Lake Manapouri, 1939

  

Snow capped Mount Tutoko seen from the Hollyford River, 1930s

  

View of Ashburton Gorge, Canterbury, ca. 1930s

  

Woman by Lake MacKenzie, 1930s

  

Woman walking among white fronted terns at Waitaki, Otago, ca. 1930s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thelma Kent

 Group of women at a campsite, with the photographer's 

Armstrong-Siddeley car parked alongside, 1937

  

 Horse and cart on a road lined with poplar and gum trees, Geraldine district, ca 1939

  

 Looking across the river bed of the Hokitika River, ca 1939

  

 Man ice skating on Lake Tekapo, ca 1938

  

Ngaire Hooper surrounded by wild flowers in Otira Gorge, Westland, ca 1940

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thelma Kent

 A woman standing on a track in the Eglinton River Valley, Southland, ca. 1930

  

 At Waikoropupu Springs, 1940s

  

 At Whisky Creek, Karamea, Buller district, West Coast, 1930s

  

 Clemens family, Gerald and his wife Molly, Edie and Tommy camping, ca 1939

  

Crossing the Dart River, Otago, 1930s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thelma Kent

Thelma Kent was a New Zealand photographer who had a real eye for landscape photography.

 A woman on horseback and children, ca 1939

  

 At Lake Manapouri, Southland, 1939

  

 Camping in the Lake Coleridge district during a storm. 

Rainbow appearing over the Craigieburn Range, ca. 1939

[this is one I'd like to see in color!]

  

 Group of six women having breakfast at a table while camping. There is a box of Weetbix on the table and some of the women are eating eggs. Ngaire Hooper is seated front left and photographer Thelma Rene Kent is at the head of the table. 1937

  

Karamea Bight, ca 1939

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand