Parks - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: ca 1900-ca 1925

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-4

Description: Most of the images in this collection are photographic postcards. The largest group are of the Wairakei thermal area taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Others are of Kawaroa Park, New Plymouth, McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa, Shannon, a view of the Wellington wharves and Custom House, Mount Egmont, and the Skippers road. One group are of the war memorial erected by Roseneath School, Wellington. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-004

Description: View looking across the lake in the Pukekura Gardens towards Mount Taranaki and its foothills. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 144 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1890s?]

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA7-49-41

Description: Coloured view of the boating lake in Pukekura Park (also known as the Recreation Grounds) looking towards the band rotunda. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Title Physical Description: 172 x 280 mm

Date: Ca 1910s

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000376-G

Description: View of a lake in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, with a bridge in the middle distance, a rowing boat on the water, aand a small pavilion in the right foreground. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Recreation Grounds. New Plymouth. [No.] 202 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: Ca 1910s

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000377-G

Description: Two men and a woman in a rowing boat on a lake in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. The woman is feeding the birds, including a swan and a goose. There is a small pavilion on the bank in the distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Recreation Grounds. New Plymouth. [No.] 300 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [Between 1935 and 1936]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Smytheman, V (Miss), active 1935-1936

Reference: PA1-o-470

Description: Snapshots taken in the North Island of New Zealand between 1935 and 1936, taken by an unidentified photographer. Several of the images show war memorials, in Featherston; the memorial clock in Gisborne; and memorial gates at Victoria Park, Stratford. The last three scenes show groups of women. They include Alice, Ivy, Gwynne, Tess, Mrs Carte-Lloyd and Mrs Booth Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled tan cover tied with brown ribbon, entitled "Photo album"; 11.5 x 17.0 cm

Date: [May or August 1974]

From: Hewson, Paul, 1948- :Hawera, a personal view

Reference: PAColl-8796-26

Description: Spectators at rugby match, Hicks Memorial Park, Camberwell Road, Hawera, photographed May-August 1974 by Paul Hewson. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 15.7 x 23.4 cm, on mount 38 x 30.5 cm

Date: [1890s?]

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA7-49-40

Description: Coloured view of the boating lake in Pukekura Park (also known as the Recreation Grounds) looking towards the band rotunda. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Title Physical Description: 172 x 280 mm

Date: ca1929-ca1932

From: Kensington, Jacqueline :Photographs, certificates and theatre programmes relating to the Reeve and Oxley families

By: Kensington, Jacqueline, active 1995; Kensington, Iris Merle, 1905-1982

Reference: PA1-q-557

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1890s]

Reference: PAColl-7053

Description: Views mostly in and around New Plymouth but including clergymen gathered for Archdeacon Govett's jubilee in 1898, crowds in Pukekura Park for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubliee in 1897 and a Floral Fete in 1896, a homestead called Tokotahi near the Tiraumea River in Pahiatua County, the old mountain house on Mount Taranaki, and an area called Grant's Braes (now Waverley) in Dunedin. All the views are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002136 to 002173 Quantity: 38 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film 1/2 plate copy negatives

Date: ca 1890s

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3329-01

Description: Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter addressed to "Sire Sedone, Pirima, Neuseland" from Niue; a gathering of Tongans outside a marquee in Nuku'alofa for the Queen's birthday celebrations; Seddon and what are probably other parliamentarians standing on the steps of a building; a large totara; the Seddon family on a visit to the state schoolhouse in Levuka, Fiji; the Seddon family gathered round an ornately framed certificate noting Seddon's achievements; Huka Falls taken by the Burton Brothers; Seddon holding a taiaha seated in a group of seven working men; the recreation ground in New Plymouth looking towards Mount Taranaki; two portraits of Samoan girls; a cart travelling on the Cable Bay Road looking out over the bay taken by Tyree Studio; Lake Taupo from Motutere taken by Burton Brothers; and a group of men, possibly including Seddon, sitting and standing on the steps of a building. Other than the first six, these prints are all stuck to pages from what may have been an album. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039549-G

Description: Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top centre - Panorama New Plymouth Gardens Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1935-1936

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1041

Description: Photographs taken on holidays, Christmas 1935 and Easter 1936. Waterfalls, streams, hills, valleys and Mount Taranaki; Edward on a horse, and with friends on Mount Taranaki Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1950s]

Reference: PAColl-6861

Description: 19 scenes of what is possibly a holiday in the New Plymouth area. They show a woman standing in front of a tent; a group of people around a trestle table with a trophy on it in front of a tent; the Sugar Loaf Islands; a church or similar building seen from across a lake; several of a large park with a lake in it; two of a row of wooden huts with a woman standing outside possibly near the beach; two caravans possbily in a holiday park; two views of houses near the sea, one with Mount Taranaki in the background; and one of a woman in a tailored suit. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-031115 to 031133 Quantity: 19 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1851

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Lloyd, John Yeeden (Major), 1795-1865

Reference: A-434-033

Description: Page includes four illustrations. The top scene is a view across fields towards Mount Taranaki at the far left. Two views in the centre of the page Also show scenes with Mount Taranaki at the far left. The view on the Waitara River shows a Maori settlement. The lower image shows a small settlement on the river bank amongst bush-covered hills. Artist may be Major John Yeeden Lloyd. Other Titles - Waitara Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings and letterpress on page, 402 x 276 mm Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2010.

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2317-F

Description: Panoramic view of Pukekura Park showing the lake on the left with the bridge at the far end. Two unidentified boys are standing on the right on a wide path lined with tree ferns and cabbage trees, and tall trees in the background. Grass in the left foreground with a border of plants by the lake. Small kiosk on the far left with verandahs and steps down to the water. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - New Plymouth Gardens, N.Z. No. 294A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 97.0 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2316-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across native bush to snow above the tree line on Mount Egmont in the centre of the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Mt. Egmont" from Jackson's Lookout. 1923; Photographer's title on negative - "Mt. Egmont" from Jackson's Lookout. No. 295[A?] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 87.1 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2319-F

Description: Panoramic view of Pukekura Park showing a small boy standing on a path between two areas of lake. His mother is coming down a path on the right. Flax in the centre foreground, a path winding round the lake on the right. Trees include tree ferns, palms and rimu. A rustic wooden building is seen at the end of the lake on the right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Date from other images taken in the Taranaki area, and from Moore's own numbering sequence Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - New Plymouth Gardens. No. 294B. New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 101.2 cm