Lake Tekapo

Date: September 1951, 1956

By: New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; Meyer, Robert John, 1921-1990

Reference: PAColl-0946

Description: Includes photographs showing the construction of the Tekapo hydroelecctric power scheme Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcard) in one envelope.

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1907 to 1915]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Moore, May Gertrude, 1874-1954

Reference: PA1-o-284

Description: The signature `May Moore' inside front cover, is possibly that of Mrs May Moore (daughter of Sir Joseph Kinsey), who travelled and mountaineered in the areas covered by the album. Album containing 21 scenes of the South Island. Of these, 12 were taken by photographers Muir and Moodie, between 1907 and 1913. The Muir and Moodie numbers for these views are 1810, 6743, 6752, 6780, and 6782 to 6789. The photographer for the other nine images is not identified. 24 leaves are blank. Several of the Muir and Moodie views were taken on 1st January 1913, a number of which show various stages of a group crossing the Haast Pass on horseback. Places noted include Cameron's Flat, Will's Bridge, the Burke Huts, and Mule Flat. Inscriptions: Album page - May Moore Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with loose green cloth cover, entitled `Photographs'; 24 x 30 cm

Date: November 1962-October 1963

From: Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 :Photographs relating to astronomy in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7344

Description: Mount John Obsevatory above Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, New Zealand. Includes views of Lake Tekapo, the site of the observatory, buildings under construction, and finished buildings. Photographs taken by Bateson. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Mount John is situated at the southern end of Lake Tekapo, on the western side. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Transfers: Transfer information - From Manuscripts : MS-Group-0826 : Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 : Papers. See also Cartographic and Drawings & Prints..

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-0755

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Lake Takapo and bridge showing a horse at the waters edge. Photograph taken by J W Permin. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Lake Takapo & Bridge; Recto - right of image - J W Perman - photo; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

By: Denton, William Henry, 1867-1954; Gardner, P C, active 1980s?

Reference: PAColl-1887

Description: Scenic photographs of New Zealand, particularly the South Island and Christchurch Quantity: 36 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1920s-1930s

By: Vinicombe, Audrey K, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5659

Description: Photographs of Graham and Elsie Massingham at various localities in New Zealand. Graham Massingham and his wife came out from England in the late 1920s. The 1928 Wises Post Office Directory describes Massingham as a company manager and lists him as living in Dunedin at 34 Dundonald street, Andersons Bay. Later in the 1930s he lived at 75a Grant Road, Wellington. He died on 20 November 1947. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1923-1928

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

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-079

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

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.

Reference: Pa1-o-389

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, mostly taken by unidentified photographers. One collage of Union Steam Ship Company ships, ship captains and the head office building in Dunedin was photographed and issued by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album cover pink and white pattern with gold tracery, red spine; 24.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918

Reference: A-120-050

Description: View from a hill looking down on the lake with mountains in the background In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 240 x 340 mm

Date: 1961-1989

From: Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 :Photographs relating to astronomy in New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-9510-6

Description: Photographs relating to the Black Birch and Mount John observatories, and some astronomical photographs. Included are - Photographs of a lunar eclipse taken at Mount John Observatory in 1968. Atronomical pnotographs of the night sky by Akira Fujii taken in the late 1980s (one is dated 1989). Mount John Observatory and a 60 cm refractor telescope, ca 1971. Sites of the Black Birch and Mount John observatories in the 1960s. Aerial photographs of Mount Melita, Nelson, dated 12 and 24 May 1962. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Audrey Walsh, Australia, 2007 Transfers: Transfer information - From Manuscripts : MS-Group-0826 : Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 : Papers. See also Cartographic and Drawings & Prints..

Date: 1884 - 1971

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; Palette Products Ltd

Reference: C-084-004

Description: A view of Lake Tekapo in 1884 Issued with text sheet entitled: "Early morning, Lake Tekapo". No. 106 of limited edition of 850 copies. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithograph 358 x 593 mm, on sheet 487 x 735 mm

Date: 1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-7171-32

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

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-224

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1947. Duck shooting at Lake Ellesmere; sign of the Pick and Shovel at Gabriel's Gully; disabled soldiers in wheelchairs watching a horse race; first aid clinic; locomotive having its tender filled with coal at Paekakariki; Herekino State Forest; Lake Wakatipu; The Chateau; Mount Ruapehu; Vogeltown Bowling Club, New Plymouth; Youth Travel Association party at Waiouru; rugby referees examinations held in Wellington (G R Penhale & D Chant); Hilton Thomassen and Jimmy Black of Taneatua Bowling Club, Whakatane (tallest & shortest players). House moving (Dr H B Berney's surgery, Masterton); Horsa Glider home and houseboats (England); Silver Jubilee display of sewing done by Correspondence School pupils held at Central Library, Wellington; English family building their own home; Les Curtice sounding the Last Post; Rehabilitation Committee meeting; R J Jacobs & C O Bell laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, Wellington (view of shops in lower Molesworth Street in background). Series of photographs taken at Ruatoki - Jim Merritt (Native Department supervisor), Rev Rangi (Maori Battalion padre), Takerau Tamerau (paramount chief of Tuhoe) and others. Series of photographs relating to the Post Office training school courses. Named participants included K R Murray, G H Glozier, T J Nixon, H McLachland, R W Hundy, D C Mundy, L W Palmer, H C Waterhouse, A J L Hamilton, B Story, R Innes, T Collins, A S Beck, R Cleary. Courses included engineering, morse code, switch board operators, automatic exchange switches; dismantling and testing telephones, etc. Helicopters (United States); Naseby (children's fancy dress parade); Tekapo; Country Library Service (librarian-driver Evelyn Franklin of Waikato, Coronation Library at Little River, and bus at Gropers Bush); Series of photographs relating to the Government Home Aid Scheme and day in the life of employee Edna Chandler. WAACS for welfare work in Japan - Subaltern J N Bullard & Junior Commander W M White; Pat Pysden and Pear Hunt; on parade (Ruth Ransfield, Margaret Bown and Doris Dempsey); Quartermaster-Sgt M V Wilson and P Cronin; Yvonne Trainor. Hine Hopu (carved guardian on Hongi's Track); Thomas Burn's statue in The Octagon, Dunedin; Young woman planting cauliflowers at Waimate farm; deerstalker's camp in Woodgrove district, North Canterbury; boy scouts in France; hikers on road to Milford Hotel; hydro-electric generating plant at Karapiro; holiday makers on board launch in Marlborough Sounds; Deepwater Cove, Bay of Islands; speed boat racing at New Plymouth; Pelorous Bridge; mayor of New Plymouth Mr Gilmour at civic reception held in Pukekura Park. Opening of the air service between New Zealand and Canada - Captain I N Holyman, managing director of Australian National Airways receiving first mail from Hon F S Hackett, Postmaster General; J A C Allum, Mayor of Auckland and Captain P Taylor. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1928-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-178

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1928-1960 Rural scenes near R G Deans estate, Homebush, 1960; Waimate (Victoria Park; aerial view, 1934 & 1947; silo at Queen Street, 1928); Kelsey's Bush; Kaiapohia monument, Kaiapoi; Lake Heron; junction of Lake Tekapo & Te Rapa River; Porters Pass; Lake Lyndon in winter & showing snow covered Fisherman's Hut; jet boating on Waimakariri River; The Hermitage, Mt Cook; Lyttelton Harbour; train crossing the railbridge over Rakaia River. Lewis Pass; Mount Cook (John Pascoe photograph); cars crossing the bridge over the Ashburton River; sheep on a Winchmore farm; elevated view of Akaroa; aerial view of Stewarts Gully and Waimakariri River; view of Lake Ohau with Volkswagen Kombi on roadside. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1879-1892

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9826

Description: Photographs of mountaineers, glaciers, mountains, lakes and rivers. Included are - Crossing the Hooker River by cable car (flying fox?). Percy Hawkins Johnson, W Low, J W Annan, George Edward Mannering, and Marmaduke J Dixon in the Murchison Valley, 1880. Irishman Rev William S Green and his two guides, Ulrich Kaufmann and Emil Boss, 1882. Mountaineers George Edward Mannering, Percy Hawkins Johnson and Mamaduke J Dixon photographed in 1889. Lake Pukaki, 1889. Tasman Glacier. Lake Tekapo. Hut in the Godley Valley. Mount Aorangi and the Hooker Glacier. Mount Aorangi seen from Ball spur. Panoramic View of mountains seen from Mount Sealy. Murchison glacier and river. Views of Aorangi, De la Beche Peak, and Tasman Glacier. Views of the Godley Glacier, 1892. Volynteers digging for Smith and Morrison in the avalanch of snow on the Rollesby Range, 28 August 1879. Quantity: 10 card mounts containing 33 images.

Date: [Between 1933 and 1958]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

Reference: PA1-q-203

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1933 and 1958. There are various sequences as follows: Museum trip to Lake Waikaremoana, December 1946; Holiday trip in 1937 which included Mohaka, Lake Waikaremoana and Urewera Country; Cass-Torlesse biological trip, February 1936; South Island trip, March 1939; and a Southern Lakes and Hollyford Valley trip in January 1940. The holiday trip in 1937 includes photographs of the Mohaka Viaduct under construction. At the beginning of the album a photograph shows Lake Waikaremoana after 21 years of deterioration due to state Electricity Department actions. This image was taken in January 1958, from approximately the same spot as one taken in February 1937. The Cass-Torlesse biological trip includes an image of "vegetable sheep" (page 48). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: July 1949

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1111

Description: Lake Tekapo. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken July 1949 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-031

Description: Views of New Zealand with particular interest in mountain scenery, both in the North Island and the South Island. They include numbers of images of chairlifts, skiing, rivers and springs, and thermal regions in the North Island. Most of the images are colour photos, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, during the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover labelled "Photographs", 250 x 300 mm