Hotels - New Zealand - Auckland Region
Reminiscence and notes
Date: [1940s]
From: Morrison, John M : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0128-3
Description: Typescript notes entitled `A New Zealander looks back' by C W Allison; notes on publicans' bush licences; biographies of W Berry, C W Cave, W J Napier, and T Maxwell. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Fletcher R A : Postcards of New Zealand
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.
Morrison, John M, fl 1883-1951 :Photographs of Takapuna and Milford
Date: [ca 1909-1925]
By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951
Reference: PAColl-6494
Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.
[Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Auckland. 2000...
Date: 2000 - 2009
Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Auckland-2000/2009
Description: Includes ephemera about the Aachen House Hotel, Airport Gold Star Motel, Auckland Airport Pacific Inn, Auckland Central Backpackers, Best Western Gateway, Citylife Auckland, Debrett Hotel, Manor Inn, North Shore Motels, Oakwood Manor, Rydges Auckland, Sheraton Auckland, Silver Point Motor Inn, SkyCity Hotel, Spencer on Byron Hotel. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm.
Gapes, Muriel :Photographs of Queen Street and the Grafton Bridge in Auckland
Date: ca 1860-1880
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-0582
Description: View looking down Queen Street towards the wharves from a point just above an intersection with the Anchor Hotel on the left and the firm E George & Co on the right, taken by John Tensfeld ca 1860. View of the first Grafton Bridge with the Symonds Street cemetery in the background taken by Burton Bros ca 1880. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
Grand Hotel (Auckland): [Luncheon and dinner menus, 5 September 1940 - 27 December 1940]
Date: 1940
Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1940-01
Description: Includes menus for most days, but not in strict chronological order. Logo of the Grand Hotel appears at the top of each menu. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, stuck on pages 202 x 125 mm.
Dickie, W K: Photographs of Auckland, photographs relating to the Babe and Ferguson fam...
Date: [ca 1890-1936]
By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917
Reference: PAColl-0718
Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch, and other buildings in Auckland and Wellington
Date: [ca 1958]-1977
From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects
Reference: PAColl-9842-36
Description: Includes - Views of Christchurch, some showing the new Bank of New Zealand building on The square in the later stages of construction, mid 1964. Photographs of the Christchurch Star offices. These relate to the new Bank of New Zealand building constructed ca 1964. Interior views of the new Bank of New Zealand building on The Square, Christchurch, ca 1965. New buildings, Auckland Hospital and Medical School, 1977. Mon Desir Hotel and surroundings, Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, auckland, ca 1958. Perspective drawing of the Guardiam Trust building, Wellington, 1965. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s). 19 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011
The Old Stone Jug
Date: [ca 1935]
Reference: MS-Papers-10039
Description: Small handmade book, handwritten, with coloured calligraphic capitals and three water colour sketches relating the history of the Old Stone Jug Inn, built in 1857 at Point Chevalier, Auckland. Author and date of composition unknown Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Art + Oject Auction House, Auckland, 2010
Junction Hotel, Newmarket, Auckland
Date: 1959
From: McNeish, James :Photographs and negatives of hotels in New Zealand
By: Lee, John Roland Preston, 1921-1998
Reference: 1/2-135130-F
Description: Junction Hotel, Newmarket, Auckland, on the corner of Great South and Manukau Roads, in 1959. Shows a two storey building with a large sign on the roof advertising Coca-Cola, and other signs advertising Newmarket Auto Trimmers, Newmarket Panel Beaters, and Hamburger Bar. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of file print Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Auckland by the Burton Brothers
Date: ca 1880s-1890s
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-7466
Description: Spargo's Gladstone Coffee Palace next to the Harbour Board offices with a ferry at the wharf; looking up Queen Street from the wharf with Spargo's Gladstone Coffee Palace on the right, Waverley Hotel on the left and a horse drawn tram on the wharf; view of shops on Queen Street with an ironmongers on the right; the Supreme Court building; and a man mowing the lawn in front of Government House. The photographer was Burton Brothers. Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
Queen Street, Auckland
Date: 1863
Reference: 1/2-004506-F
Description: The junction of Wakefield and Queen Streets in Auckland showing the Anchor Hotel on the left and shops on the right. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
[Creator unknown] :Plan of Parnell Borough [ms map]. [188-?]
Date: 1880 - 1889
Reference: MapColl-v832.1291bje/[188-?]/Acc.25356
Description: Cadastral map of the Parnell Borough of Auckland, from Mechanics Bay, St. Georges and Judges Bay down to Hobson's Bay, including the Waikato and Kaipara railway routes. Shows the Parnell rise and the road to Manukau and Epsom, Gladstone and Avenue Rd, St. Stephens, Ayr and Brighton, as well as the Domain. Sections 1-4 and 95 are shown, and numbered blocks and lots within each section. Grammar School, St Stephen's School, an orphan home, a cemetry, a sawmill the Alexandra Hotel, Windsor Castle. a cattle market and reclaimed land are also shown. A private road is shown off St. Georges Bay Road leading to the only named property, that of Mr Aitken, Section One, (84) - 538. Stamped 'Boylan and Lundon, Civil Engineers' and on the linen 'Imperial tracing cloth' with trademark. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:1 684], 167 x 107 cm.
Market Hotel and Maori Land Court, Auckland
Date: ca 1900s
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16
Reference: PAColl-7344-05
Description: The Market Hotel and the Manchester Unity Hall on Cook Street, Auckland. The photograph has been annotated with the captions Market Hotel and Maori Land Court Auckland over the respective buildings. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Carabain, Jacques, b 1834 :Queen Street, Auckland, 1889. Auckland, Aotea Centre Trust B...
Date: 1883 - 1889 - 1986
By: Carabain, Jacques, 1834-1933; Aotea Centre (Auckland, N.Z.)
Reference: D-019-034-a
Description: Shows view of Queen Street, Auckland, from corner of Fort Street, with Victoria Arcade (demolished 1978) on left, and The New Zealand Insurance Company building with clock tower on right. In the left foreground is A. B. Donald's sailmaking business, and Anderson's Imperial Hotel. Partington's Mill can be seen on the distant horizon. Accompanied by descriptive text sheet. From a limited edition of 250 reproductions. Painted from an 1883 photograph by George Valentine. Inscriptions: Original signed and dated: Auckland 20 december 1889, J. Carabain. It is not known when Carabain visited New Zealand. Probably it was as a brief stopover between Melbourne and San Francisco, in about 1885. While there, he possibly purchased a copy of George Valentine's photograph from Chapman's booksellers in Vulcan Lane. From this photograph, he painted the original oil painting finishing it in his Brussels studio in 1889. Even by about 1885, when Carabain probably visited, the scene was not as it had been when Valentine took the photograph in 1883. Donald's shipchandlers had already been replaced by an imposing neoclassical facade, and the Victoria Arcade had a verandah. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 552 x 716 mm, on sheet 603 x 765 mm.
Ely, Dunstan : Views of Auckland
Date: ca 1880s-1940s
By: Ely, Dunstan, active 1949
Reference: PAColl-4351
Description: Copy prints made by Dunstan Ely of Auckland ca 1880s, particularly views in the Albert Park area and including a view over open land to Rangitoto. Also included is a street scene of possibly Queen Street ca 1880s with Darby's US Dining Rooms, M Levy & Co, Hull Brothers, Shera Brothers and the New Zealand Insurance Company premises all visible; and a street scene of Wellesley Street ca 1940 with the State Advances Corporation building on the left and looking up towards the public library. Original photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).
McComb transparencies four
Date: [ca 1955-1956]
From: McComb, Kevin James, 1932-2012: Slides taken around New Zealand
Reference: PA12-11491
Description: Transparency slides showing North Island scenes taken by Kevin James McComb in circa 1955 to 1956, while on a roadtrip around New Zealand. Series of photographs show Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill at Kawerau with images including wood preparation plant, chlorine plant, lime "re burning and W'house", woodchip storage silos, sawmill, water treatment plant, a crane, general office, and the mill cafeteria after it was destroyed by fire. Also images of the surrounding hills and farmland. These images are dated January 1955 as well as January 1956. A group of men drinking in room at Rotorua Grand Hotel "Kawerau Elect. Dinner" in November 1955 are identified as Bob, Trever Evans, George, Ray Sullivan, Norman Choules, and Jim Coomber. Another image of the Grand Hotel at this time shows the dining room, table settings, and staff in uniform (including "Shirley Anne"). Also contains one image of Waimangu Geyser and surrounding bush and another of Cathedral Cliffs and Frying Pan Lake; two images of Lake Okataina with buildings, wharves, and boats (one taken from a boat, the other from the shore); and an image of Ron Whitlock lying on a bed at the Central Hotel in Auckland. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film phototransparencies in card mounts
Willott, Victor Alfred, 1888-1932 :100 years calendar. W Smith & Co. Auckland. Brett Pr...
Date: 1908 - 1910
By: Willott, Victor Alfred, 1888-1932; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd
Reference: Eph-E-CALENDAR-1909-01
Description: Colourful poster has a perpetual calendar in the centre, and is surrounded by advertisements for local businesses of Pukekohe, Papatoetoe, Manurewa, Otahuhu and Papakura. Above the calendar panel is a circular head and shoulders portrait of a clean-shaven Maori chief with facial moko; he is flanked by illustrations of the Scottish thistle and the English rose. Immediately above the calendar is a line of three-leafed clovers, and other illustrations included a boy and girl scout, and two illustrations of a taiaha and long-handled tewhatewha together. Advertising businesses include: Pukekohe: Herb Brunton, hairdresser and merchant; J Adams & Sons, butchers; H Dell & Sons, saddlers; R Miller, tailor; Frank Perkins & Co, grocers; W Wright, watchmaker Manurewa: Grand View Accommodation House; D R Tabot & Sons, storekeepers Otahuhu: B Jenkins, tailor; T Jameson, bicycle builder Papatoetoe: J Hunter, plumber and gasfitter; S E Moe, motorcycle shop; Frank H Wells, building contractor; W J Dilworth, saddler; G Rawnsley, boot and shoe maker Papakura: Richardson Bros, Papakura Steam Joinery Factory; Papakura Hotel (Mrs W A Waterman, proprietress); A Watson, boot and shoe emporium Text refers to 1906 in the past. The artist Victor Willot was 21 in 1909. Mrs Waterman of the Papakura Hotel died in 1915 aged 74 (information from Papers Past). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on sheet 780 x 580 mm. Provenance: Purchased from a private owner, June 2013.
Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Bath houses - [Bath] Avenue / Waiwera, from a boat / Hotel. [...
Date: 1888
From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888
Reference: E-955-f-009
Description: A distant view, taken just off-shore, showing the Hot Springs Hotel at Waiwera, the low-roofed bath houses to the right of it, and the long avenue of pine trees leading along the shore to the hotel A 1200 ft wharf was built in front of the hotel in about 1903. The hotel itself was destroyed by fire in September 1939 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 177 x 253 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm
Buildings of Rodney district
Date: 1998-1999
From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys
Reference: PAColl-9989-05
Description: Photographs of buildings in Rodney District, Auckland Region, New Zealand. Locations include - Mahurangi East and Mahurangi West. Matakana. Leigh. Helensville. Puhoi. Subjects include - Mahurang Regional Park, and Mahurangi Harbour. Houses. Views across pasture farmland with houses and trees. Individual houses, churches, farm sheds, shops and a Library building. Wharves, a dairy factory, a bridge. A museum in an old school building, a cemetery, and a memorial statue. Quantity: 162 colour original photographic print(s).