Places

Date: 1916

By: Smith & Anthony Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Canterbury-1916-01

Description: One side of the folded sheet shows a bird's eye view of "The road to Hanmer from Christchurch, with labels for Papanui, Styx, Belfast, Chaney's Corner, Whites Bridge, Kaiapoi, Woodend, Waikuku, Saltwater Creek, Leithfield, Amberley, Greney's Road, Glasnevin, Waipara Bridge, Weka Pass, Waikari, Hurunui, Culverden, Montrose, Upper Waiau Ferry, and Hanmer. Also marked are the following hotels (in order from Christchurch to Hanmer): Papanui, Phoenix, Belfast, Royal Hotel (Woodend), Royal Hotel (Leithfield), Railway Hotel and Crown Hotel as well as Frew Brothers Garage (all Amberley), Great Northern Hotel and Star & Garter Hotel as well as Mercer's Garage (all Waikari), Hurunui Hotel, Culverden Hotel, and Jollie's Pass Hotel and St Helen's Station (Hanmer). Rivers are named or shown: Waimakariri, [Kaiapoi], Ashley, Saltwater Creek, Kowai, Waipara, Hurunui and Waitohi, Waiau. The verso includes advertisements for Star Motor Petrol, the 1916 Overland, Ford cars, Goodrich tyres (from E W Pidgeon & Co Ltd), Motorol oils, Dunlop Tyres, Culverden Hotel, W D Berry & Co Garage in Christchurch. Also shown are photographs of the Troopers' Memorial Amberley, Weka Pass, Hurunui Hotel, and Culverden Hotel. Dated from an advertisement for the 1916 Overland, Colonial model. Other Titles - The road to Hanmer from Christchurch Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheet, 235 x 990 mm, folded inside cover to 235 x 110 mm.

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: [ca 1872-1880s]

By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4608

Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints

Date: 1958-ca1964

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PAColl-7359-7

Description: Photographs of the Hermitage under construction in 1961, of tour groups, groups learning to ski, of staff parties, and one of the Prime minister of Japan and his wife during a visit to the Hermitage. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1984

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Gabites Porter & Partners (Firm)

Reference: E-821-f

Description: Includes a perspective drawing of the exterior, cross sections, floor plans and roof plan for a multi-storey hotel on Kilmore Street, Chester Street and Durham Street Christchurch. Original file numbering was: 004.02.04.018 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Felt pen on photocopies in bound volume, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Mount Cook Village. 1900s onwards ]

By: Hermitage (Aoraki/Mount Cook, N.Z.); Munt, Jeanie, active 1978

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Mt-Cook-1930s-01

Description: Menus for a set breakfast menu. Each has a different "scene in the Southern Alps" on the cover. These include: Mt Cook and the Hooker Glacier, The Hochstetter Icefall, Mt Cook from Red Lake Mt Sebastopol, Mt Sefton and the Stocking Glacier. Two sets held. Dated 1930s because the phrase "thousands of feet above worry level" was being used on posters at that time. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on cards, 137 x 209 mm, to be folded to 137 x 104 mm.

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4534

Description: Postcard of Partington's Mill with Eady's Piano Van in front of it and the junction of Queen and Customs Street with Thames Hotel and trams taken by Frederick Radcliffe; statue of Logan Campbell in Cornwall Park; Lake Tarawera taken by Blencowe; Lyttelton harbour taken by Muir & Moodie; and Evans Bay, photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-10.

Date: 1863

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus], 1822-1897 :McRae's house, Waipapa [1867?] Dickinson's house of accomodation, Kai Kouras Nov 3rd 1867.

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-017-2

Description: Shows the buildings and sheds of the accommodation house at the left, with trees and the Kaikoura Range in the distance. Other Titles - Kaikouras Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 240 x 330 mm.

Date: 1905

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: 1/2-002299-F

Description: Postcard of the hotel with the mountains behind it. The caption reads Mount Cook Government Hermitage Hotel. A Tourist Dept. photograph (F T Series No 265). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1983

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1983].

By: Mayes, Rob, active 1998

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1983-01

Description: Shows a profile of a young man with shaved head, in four different versions. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Relief print, 521 x 355 mm.

Date: 1944

By: Brown, Rachel, active 1990s-2022

Reference: PAColl-5847

Description: Photograph of the Hermitage, December 1944 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1961-1969]

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PAColl-8016

Description: Photographs relating to Dennis's work with Tourist Hotel Corporation, particularly Mt Cook National Park and with Cook Islands Hotels Limited. Includes photographs of the Hermitage and a model of a Rarotongan hotel. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1886

By: Weekly press (Newspaper); Buckland, Francis Edward, active 1886

Reference: B-055-021

Description: Includes: 1858: The whole of the township - Turton's Accommodation House. 1866: Travelling facilities - The Christchurch-Timaru Coach 1886: Travelling facilities - Traffic bridge; Railway bridge 1886: Part of the town- View in East Street. Extended Title - Supplement to the Canterbury "Weekly press", September 10th, 1886. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (On each image): Whitcombe & Tombs Ld. lith. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Four black & white lithographs on sheet, 288 x 445 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.

Date: ca 1900-1912

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7586

Description: Two photographs of Duntroon Railway Station with Campbell Street next to it; men working on the railway near Duntroon railway bridge; the railway bridge at Duntroon; the bridge over the Mangaroa River with some old track next to it; looking down the platform at Palmerston North Railway Station with goods trains in the yards, a passenger express train at the platform, the Railway Hotel on the right and in the distance the businesses of Barraud & Abraham and A Loufresne, builder; Middlemarch Station with the Railway Hotel and a Billiard and Sample Rooms on the right; Fairlie Station with a coal train on the left; and steam locomotives including the Rotorua express at Morrinsville station. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Two have a stamp, or part, in German on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007953 and 007960 (duplicate at 1/2-105892) 1/2-007952 and 007959 are probably part of this collection too. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-102

Description: A hotel called Star of the South beside a road, the Rangitata River in the foreground, a horse and cart on the road and hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1866

Reference: 1/2-004391-F

Description: Three coaches under the trees outside Paget's Hotel, Leithfield. The middle one is a Sampson's coach and the one on the right is a Cobb's coach although markings are not visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Jun 1965-Nov 1967

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MSY-5363

Description: Scrapbook of clippings, photographs and brochures relating to tourism and the Tourist Hotel Corporation particularly to the Hermitage in the Mt Cook National Park and related topics Arrangement: Loose papers at MS-Papers-7261-60 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Loose photographs.

Date: 1911

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels and hostel accommodation in Christchurch. 1890-1999]

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Christchurch-1911-01

Description: Postcard shows a photograph of the front facade of a two-storeyed hotel with some arched and some bay windows, in a Christchurch street. On the ground floor of the building are signs for F W Tucker, jeweller, and the business of S N Robinson. Dated is handwritten by the sender of the postcard, Mabel, who is writing to Miss Mary Adams of Greenfields, Blenheim. She says "Dear Mary, I thought you would like a view of hotel. It is a lovely new building & rooms are so nice". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 91 x 139 mm.

Date: ca 1868-1875

Reference: PAColl-7315

Description: Horse and cart on a street in Timaru with the Bank of New Zealand, the premises of Clarkson Turnbull and the Post Office nearby; and the Royal Hotel Timaru with another building under construction behind it. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives