Church buildings - New Zealand - West Coast Region

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1940s

By: Neely, Paddianne Wallace, active 1988-2015

Reference: PAColl-7311

Description: View of the Franz Josef Glacier seen through the window of St James Anglican Church, Franz Josef. The forground is taken up with the altar, cross and candlesticks. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1940s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) in black cardboard mount. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: Ca 1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0611-G

Description: Other Titles - Tyree No. 1064 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1950, [1961]

By: Munro, William Alexander, 1903-

Reference: MS-1695

Description: Source of title - Cover title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (30 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-7479

Description: Francis Joseph (sic) Glacier near the outlet of the Wai-au River; tabular flume, Donolly Creek, Ross height 98 feet length 800 feet - a flume supported on poles above the creek; Aylmer Street, Ross showing the Junction Hotel, Dunedin Hotel, and Dr Bush's consulting rooms in front of the Morning Star mining claim; the viaduct from the creek at Ross height 167 feet; Bond Street, Ross with a church and what may be the Star Bakery in the foreground and along the street from the left, Provincial Hotel, J Manson & Co, Shamrock Hotel, Gay and Green Hall of Commerce, Bank of New Zealand(?), Post Office, Post Office Hotel, a wholesale wine merchants and the Camp Hotel; and the few buildings of Lagoon Town between Ross and Hokitika. Photographer unidentified. From the same unidentified album Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004615, 004646 to 004649 and 004654 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1948 - 1961

From: Ellis, Frederick Vincent, 1892-1961 :[Designs for leadlight windows, ca 1925-1961]

By: Ellis, Frederick Vincent, 1892-1961

Reference: A-448-002

Description: Design for a stained glass window, showing a maiden in a field at night holding a large bunch of flowers. At her feet is a lamb and above her, a cherub playing a horn. Below the scene is an area for dedication, in which the artist had put 'Inscription here' This window was intended as a memorial to a young girl who drowned (information from F V Ellis's son and donor of the collection) Stamped on verso of design: [Roy] Miller Studios, Stained Glass Artists, 51 Leith St, Dunedin PO Box 32 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Design for window at Westport [in Chinese white] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 395 x 175 mm Provenance: Donation: Frederick Ellis, Inglewood, 2011

Date: 1942-1956

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-2

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1942 to 1956. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are mountaineers A C Clough, Ron Biggs, and Ken Hall; publican Jack Ritchie; journalist H J E (Bert) Kane; Mrs P Koerstens; and bushmen Doug Macalister and Ron (Tiki) Brimmicombe. There is an unidentified solider and some portraits of unidentified children. Featured natural environments include Tatere Gorge, Lake Haupiri and surrounding area, and the Otira Gorge. Contains prints of individual buildings as well as broader views of towns. A number of wooden buildings are in a state of decay, but houses, churches, and other buildings are still in use. Further images (and series of images) of note include: the transportation by boat of a tractor at Milford sound and a Land Rover to Jackson's Bay; workers at the Kopara Sawmill; industry at Mussel Point; and locomotives, boilers, dredges, and other machinery relating to mining. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: ca1905

From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston

Reference: PA1-o-993

Description: Album opens with two images of Denniston buildings all of which are houses except for a church. There are some views of the surrounding countryside as seen from the plateau and a view of the roperoad railway with trucks crossing the plateau in winter. Two waterfalls are probably scenic features photographed from the horse track connecting Denniston with the coastal plain. Other images relate to Christchurch. These include boating on the River Avon, and groups of people photographed standing on two different bridges, one of them in the Botanic Garden. From Wellington there is an image of the Skyline tea kiosk at the top of the Kelburn cable car. Four images record people on a beach backed by vertical sandstone cliffs beyond which can be seen what looks like gum trees. These images were probably taken somewhere in Australia Two images are flashlight photographs taken of a group of people probably in a mine Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: June 1996

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PAColl-10788-12

Description: Photographic prints of press photography by Damer Farrell from June 1996. Includes images of netball, and rugby games and players, clay target shooting, motorsports enthusiasts with trophies, motorsports vehicle, Also includes female model wearing body paint, teacher and students in a classroom, sculptures, sign for "Ross Historic Goldfields Walkway", opencast mine, wreck of motor vehicle, people holding a life-ring from the "SS Abel Tasman Melbourne", awarding of Chief Scouts Award certificate to Michael McEnaney, and a series of images of church services. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). 38 colour original photographic print(s). Processing information: Photographic prints originally enclosed in brown paper bag annotated "June 1996" were rehoused in archival enclosures.

Date: 2001-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000507

Description: Photographs of South Westland, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Franz Josef and Haast villages and glaciers, coastlines and lakes in the southern region of the Westland district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (south Westland)" Quantity: 170 digital photograph(s).

Date: [ca May 1881]

From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

Reference: PA1-o-415-01

Description: Trinity Church, Greymouth, showing damage caused by a hurricane in May 1881. Photographed circa May 1881 by an unidentified photographer, possibly William Herbert Perkins. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Trinity Church Greymouth (after destruction by hurricane May 1881.) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20 cm, mounted on album page

Date: 2001-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000506

Description: Photographs of Reefton, West Coast. Includes aerial photographs of the township, frost and icicles, men cooking over an open fireplace and boiling water in a kettle over coal. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (reefton)" Quantity: 48 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-067

Description: View from beach to mountain, with the town of Westport in the middle distance. Buildings include two churches Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 365 mm

Date: [Circa 1860 to 1870]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-042

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s (some dated 1868), and about 1870. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from comparison with handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p 51) Early photographs of Wellington show a view down Boulcott Street, a view probably from Boulcott Street looking down over `Rhodes Bay' (now the reclaimed area beyond Willis Street), and looking towards the city from Thorndon. One view in the North Island shows the Kinross residence in Napier. Most of the photographs are of central North Island, with particular emphasis on the volcanic areas around Lake Taupo, Lake Rotomahana, the Waikato River (including the Huka Falls and Aniwhaniwha Falls), Tokaanu, Ohinemutu and the Pink Terraces. Several scenes show military outposts and redoubts, including two of Captain Gilbert Mair "and his men" (the Arawa Flying Column), at Kaiteriria Pa, Rotokakahi "just arrived after a raid after Te Kooti"; and one of the interior of the pa "with Captain Mair's contingent". In the South Island scenes include Lyttelton, Akaroa Harbour, the Otira River and Gorge, Bealey River, the summit of Arthurs Pass, the Porters Pass Hotel, Taramakau River, Gibson's Quay at Hokitika, one of several small churches at Hokitika, and Hereford Street (Christchurch). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1921

From: Shannon, W H, fl 1970 : Photographs of Hokitika and district

Reference: PAColl-6351-04

Description: The construction site of St Mary's Catholic Church in Hokitika, showing men on the scaffolding and another man stopped with his bicycle in front of the building. Photograph taken in 1921 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.6 x 16.4 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-23

Description: View of Waiuta township looking south. Middle distance centre is the Anglican church. To the left of the church on the rise is the hospital. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967

Reference: 1/2-103252-F

Description: Group, many with umbrellas, gathered around a church in Greymouth, photographed circa 1910 by an H Williams, possibly Hanwell Williams. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1900-1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-000111-G

Description: Scene at Ahaura, with St Mary's Catholic Church. Photograph taken by William Archer Price between 1900 and 1930. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - St Mary's Church Ahaura. No 1262B. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative