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Photographer unknown :Photographs of the Royal Tour 1927
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.
Meldrum album
Date: [Between early 1900s to 1910s?]
By: Meldrum, Jessie Irene McCallum, 1896-1986
Reference: PA1-o-337
Description: Photographs of the Hutt Valley railway line, some of which has been constructed. Some of the scenes seem to show the route the line will take, with a number of panoramic views of country areas in the valley, some older photographs of Upper Hutt township, a panoramic views of Lower Hutt and Petone taken from the Belmont Hills, and scenes at the Upper Hutt Railway Station. Two photographs show New Zealand Railways steam engine No. 197 at Upper Hutt Railway Station Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled `Album', lettered in black with surrounding decoration; 17.5 x 21.5 cm
Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931 :Masterton Railway Station
Date: [ca 1900]
By: Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931
Reference: PA7-53-24
Description: View of the railway station, sheds and sidings. Photograph taken by A E Winzenberg, exact date unknown Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Cowan Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21.2 x 29 cm
AFCM album 2
Date: Between 1910s and 1930s
From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PA1-f-002
Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.
Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Khandallah Railway Station. ca 1960s]
Date: 1967 - 1969
From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1967-1969.
Reference: B-148-050
Description: View of the station with control box and waiting room, and nearby telephone box Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Charcoal and watercolour, 380 x 553 mm
Erskine and Whitmore :Photograph album of New Zealand views
Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]
By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: PA1-o-151
Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Railway Stations
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).
Tricker, Gary Walter Morice, 1938- :Railway station 1973
Date: 1973
By: Tricker, Gary Walter Morice, 1938-2021; Glover, Denis James Matthews, 1912-1980
Reference: B-111-011
Description: Shows Petone Railway Station. A woman's head emerges from below the cupola, another large face appears at the north window, and a vase of flowers is in the left foreground. Artist's original title was 'Waiting notes'. (Information from the artist to Library staff, before 1980) Artist's proof, first state Other Titles - Waiting notes Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - monogram, title, Artist's proof 1st state, signature, '73 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour etching and aquatint 220 x 173 mm on sheet 386 x 280 mm
Wellington trams and Lower Hutt railway station
Date: 1963
From: Smith, Alan Eldridge, 1945- : Collection
Reference: 35mm-02148-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising three images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative
Trentham, Upper Hutt, and naval seamen
Date: 1933-1942
From: Pearson, Alfred William, fl 1924-1949 :Photographs relating to the New Zealand Navy
Reference: PAColl-8948-1
Description: Pumpkin Cottage, Trentham. St John's Anglican Church, Trentham. Trentham Military Camp. Heretaunga Railway station. Military parade of naval personnel. An ANZAC Day commemoration at the Wellington Cenotaph. Naval personnel with members of a Maori concert party. Sailors at Maritius and New Caledonia. Naval boarding party on deck. Portraits of Alfred William Pearson. HMS Leander, june 1940. Two group photographs taken at reunions, probably in the 1950s. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).
Audrey Killalea boarding the Silver Fern train for Auckland
Date: 27 July 1991
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1991/2142-F
Description: Audrey Killalea boarding the Silver Fern train at Paraparaumu Railway station, bound for Auckland, taken 26 July 1991 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Audrey Killalea had last travelled to Auckland by train in 1946, with her two young sons. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Creator unknown : Photographs from an album of Nelson and Wellington Railway Station
Date: ca 1900s
Reference: PAColl-7551
Description: The yards at Lambton Railway Station and two views of Nelson looking towards the hills, one showing the Post Office in the foreground and the spire of the cathedral amongst the trees in the centre. Photographer unidentified. These photographs appear to be from the same album which has not been identified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005571 to 005573 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Searle album 2
Date: [Circa 1932]
By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984
Reference: PA1-f-131
Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm
35mm colour slides of Waiouru, and Wellington streets, buildings, events
Date: 1991-1993
From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images
Reference: PAColl-2992
Description: Slides of Waiouru, and Wellington streets, buildings and events. Includes an image of a building labelled as the Stoddart Building. Inscriptions: Mount recto - [each slide is identified in blue ballpoint on plastic slide mounts] Quantity: 46 colour original transparency/ies. 2 container(s) plastic slide containers containing slides in one envelope. Physical Description: 35mm colour slides
Patricia Elizabeth Reid - A Railway family
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-081
Description: The essay covers the period 1882-1941 and describes the lives of Elizabeth and Alexander Allan, their voyage to New Zealand in 1882 on the Loch Doon, their homes at Cross Creek on the Rimutaka Incline, and Upper Hutt. It describes the railway township of Cross Creek and the Fell railway system; the accident by which Alexander lost his life. The story continues with Elizabeth's life and those of her 10 children and their families especially Helen Includes a family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Photographs of Alexander and Elizabeth, and Elizabeth and Amelia Burrell
Wadestown Railway Station
Date: [194-?]
From: Trueman, Patricia Nan, active 1960-2020: Collection
Reference: PAColl-9722
Description: Three women at Wadestown Railway station. At right is Mr R McCluggage. Photograph taken ca 1940s by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 5.9 x 8.2 cm Provenance: Donated by Miss Patricia N Trueman, Gisborne, in 2010
Further photographs
Date: [ca 1890s-1970s]
From: Rogers, Charles Marsden, 1892-1964 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9542
Description: Photographs of tramping trips, houses in Karori, factories, Crown Lynn pottery, taken by Charles Marsden Rogers. Includes postcards of NAC airplanes and old postcards and photographs of sports spectators, wedding party, picnics and boating. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera.
St John's College :New Zealand photographs
Date: 1880s
By: College of St. John the Evangelist (Auckland, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-6362
Description: Photographs by Burton Brothers, F Coxhead, Wheeler & Son, and other 19th Century New Zealand photographers. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).
[Hill, Perry Martin], 1926-2005 :[Waterloo station and state houses. 1960s]
From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]
Reference: Plans-2007-030-0777
Description: View of Waterloo Station; three state houses in Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Letratone, various sizes
[Photographer unknown] :Carterton in flood
Reference: PAColl-D-0696
Description: Carterton in flood during 28-29 June 1947. Shows railway station and surrounding area. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - above image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Date Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints 150 x 95 mm on card 430 x 435 mm