Parks

Date: ca 1860s, 1878, ca 1910

Reference: PAColl-3511

Description: Park Masterton 1978; gorge, farmland, workers huts; men horses and wooden buildings ca 1860s Arrangement: Negative numbers allocated: G174814-16-1/2 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1874

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Gibr[altar] 1874 [to 1877]

Reference: E-350-q-046

Description: An extensive view across a large park, with a man and a woman standing beneath a tree in the left foreground, trees, flags and a large marquee in the distance. Possibly a large fair in a London park Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page 170 x 240 mm

Date: 7 Apr 1923

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-202

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1948

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-012

Description: A male and a female office worker are seated on a park bench with a recumbent figure beside them. She is feeding her lunch to a flock of pigeons swirling around them while he is trying to read a book. He asks her: "Lady, would it be too much to ask you too [sic] BUZZ OFF AND FEED YOUR FEATHERED FRIENDS SOME PLACE ELSE!" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil, 310 x 240 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: H-727-032

Description: The six scenes in the Wellington Botanic Gardens all show courting couples looking angry at being disturbed. They are 'Tulip Sunday', 'spring time', the 'band rotunda', the 'rose garden', 'the swan' and 'a pleasant walk'. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 2 A4 size photocopies sellotaped together

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: 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

Date: 1973-1985

By: Tritenbach, Paul, active 1950s-1996

Reference: PAColl-5053

Description: Slides of New Zealand parks taken for Paul Tritenbach's book on Botanic Gardens and Parks published in 1985. Slides of the Auckland area and the South and North Islands generally. Other slides were taken as illustrations for a wide variety of articles. There is also a group taken to illustrate Tritenbach's book on Auckland's historic schools published in 1985 Quantity: 1569 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1975

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-1/18/1A-Acc.

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations + 1 transparency. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale indeterminable, 83 x 59 cm.

Date: 1950s

Reference: PA1-o-1908

Description: Album of hand-coloured photographic prints, depicting scenes from England and Wellington, including some with caption information by unidentified compiler, taken in the 1950s by unidentified photographer(s). - Includes photograph captioned "England", showing rural scene with swans and rowboat on a pond in a meadow surrounded by trees against a backdrop of hills. - Photographs of Lyall Bay and surrounding area including one showing the intersection of Queens Drive and Toru Street with bay and hills in background, and other images featuring seagulls on a sandy beach, and children swimming at a beach with rocky outcrops. Also includes image captioned "Polish Hostel - Lyall Bay", showing "Ngaroma", the Polish Girls Hostel building in Queens Drive, with view over the bay. - Features two portraits of visiting foreign naval vessels docked in Wellington: the Italian Cruiser 'Raimondo Montecuccoli', in November 1956, and the United States USS 'Arneb' (AKA56), in 1956. - Also includes views from Newtown, featuring images captioned "Newtown Zoo Lake Wellington - Sept 1956", showing swans and ducks on a pond with zoo buildings in background. Other animal portraits include a white swan with cygnet, and one showing two horses with a foal. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album in full suede leather binding with decorative cord and colour illustration of Maori whare under the title 'Photographs' on front cover, 26.5 x 39 cm, 20 leaves (14 blank). Provenance: Donated by Sean McMahon, Wellington, 2015. Donor purchased the album on Trade Me in March 2015. No provenance information available.

Date: 2-27 Apr 2009 - 5 May 2009 - 02 Apr 2009 - 05 May 2009

From: The founding of landscape architecture in New Zealand oral history project

By: Chalmers, Barry Lionel, 1950-2009

Reference: OHInt-0857-07

Description: Interview with Barry Chalmers, born in Bluff in 1950. Talks about his family background, being the youngest of eleven children, his birth mother dying when he was very young, and being brought up by an uncle and aunt who interested him in tramping, nature study and environmental activism. Talks about working for stock and station agents Donald Reid Ltd for three years after he left school, then as a bar manager, a labourer with a landscape gardening company, and as a groundsman at Lincoln College. Talks about deciding to become a landscape gardener, completing a Diploma in Horticulture at Lincoln College and then the new Diploma of Landscape Technology course. Discusses the course content and teachers, and compares it with the Landscape Architecture course. Describes his career in local government 1975-1998, in parks and recreation departments in Dunedin, Whakatane and Wellington Region. Comments that he worked in management from the mid 1980s and saw the need to establish landscape principles at a political and senior management level. Reflects on the relationship between parks and recreation and landscape, early parks people having trained at Kew, and the increasing use of New Zealand native plants in landscape design. Talks about working in Whakatane 1983-1986 where the practice of landscape architecture was new and having difficulty getting his design ideas implemented. Comments that under the Reserves Act 1977 management plans were required for all parks and reserves but councils were reluctant. Discusses his position with the Wellington Regional Council where he set up and managed the Recreation Department and implemented the strategic plan for the regional parks network. Comments on the different types of landscape in each park as well as their histories and their uses including recreation, farming, forestry and water collection. Mentions land acquisitions, and refers to conflicts between the local and regional councils over recreational land. Refers to having to educate councillors about the landscape approach to managing regional parks. Comments on parks being considered discretionary in difficult economic times and having to use volunteers. Discusses introducing park rangers, and establishing "Friends of" to get community involvement. Talks about the development of the summer treks programme to promote the regional parks, developing picnic areas and simple structures, and protecting heritage structures and sites. Refers to leaving the Regional Council in 1998, setting up a consultancy and working with councils in the lower North Island on parks and reserves strategies. Mentions the conflict between developing amenities and retaining natural character and the need to involve the community, citing Te Raekaihau Point on Wellington's south coast as an example. Reflects on the need for a new approach to open space and built environment management, and comments that he regards landscape as infrastructure. Accompanying material - Abstracts accompanied by two appendices: Citation from the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (2006); Citation from the New Zealand Recreation Association for outstanding contribution award to parks and open spaces (2007) Interviewer(s) - Shona McCahon Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 5 Electronic document(s) (abstract, appendices, form). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s) (Jpeg file). 1 interview(s) over 8 days. 8.12 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001330, OHA-7353. Search dates: 1950 - 2009

Date: January 1968?

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2941

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis possibly in January 1968. Includes scenic views of Lake Waikaremoana, images of campsites and camping scenes, and images of people walking on trails and at the lake front. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Stamp on transparency card reads "JAN 68NZ..." Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1970s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2940

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1970s. Includes transparencies taken inside an unidentified freezing works, showing images of workers processing the meat. Also includes transparencies showing people walking at Kaitoke Regional Park, including park signage and scenic views. Also includes transparencies taken in Wairoa, showing buildings, people, and scenic views of Lake Waikaremoana. Transparencies showing Waikaremoana and Wairoa are continued at PA12-2940. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in May 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-12.

Date: 2010-2019

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to parks, environmental reserves and recreational areas]

By: Friends of Bolton Street Cemetery; Karori Wildlife Sanctuary Trust; New Zealand. Department of Conservation; Wellington (N.Z. : Region). Greater Wellington Regional Council; Wellington (N.Z.). City Council; Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-PARK-Wellington-2010/2019

Description: Comprises ephemera of octavo size relating to national parks, parks and reserves in the Wellington region from 2010 to 2019. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containg 40 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 2000-2009

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to parks, environmental reserves and recreational areas]

By: Hutt City (N.Z.). City Council; New Zealand. Department of Conservation; Wellington (N.Z.). City Council; Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-PARK-Wellington-2000/2009

Description: Comprises ephemera of octavo size relating to national parks, parks and reserves in the Wellington region from 2000 to 2009. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 78 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 1934-1936

From: National Council of Young Men's Associations of New Zealand: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-721

Description: Two YMCA holiday tours of the North and South Islands in the mid 1930s. In particular there are some good interiors of the Waitaki power station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1914-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6900

Description: 134 family photographs mostly taken in a back garden but with a few taken in next to a river and by the sea (possibly Island Bay). Two views are of Wellington streets and one shows a young man at a wireless telegraphy set. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-038504 to 038639, 038655 and 106036 to 106037 Quantity: 139 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1976

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-1/18/2-Acc.

Description: Identifies in colour urban areas, streams, rivers, public roads, Park and Zone boundary etc. Coloured ref key given. Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations + 1 transparency. Physical Description: Coloured ink on white paper. Scale indeterminable, 83 x 59 cm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1930

From: Various photographers :Prints from panorama negatives

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948; Tanner, Robert, 1866-1952

Reference: PA6-320

Description: Small lake in the grounds of 'Lansdale`. Part of the garden designed by Alfred Buxton for Robert Tanner Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - The Lakelet "Lansdale" Longburn Relationship complexity - Original R P Moore negative at Pan-2013 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).