Murchison

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Murchison, Westport and Lake Brunner views] / Cranleigh Barton [1950s?]

Reference: A-227-417

Description: Shows a church surrounded by trees with a grassy field in the foreground and a hill in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-003

Description: Photographs of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson taken circa 1940s for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of road construction, towns, rivers, bridges, lakes, mountains and personalities. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 19 Jun 1929-18 Jun 1999

By: Blundell, Henry Neil, 1909-2002

Reference: MS-Group-1426

Description: Includes newspaper clippings relating to Blundell's career as a reporter for the Evening Post,issues of the `Red worker'and the `Printers bulletin', reports, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Blundell's coverage of the Murchison earthquake. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donated to the Wairarapa Archive, then transferred to Alexander Turnbull Library. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts on the 31 August 2005 ; material transferred to Photographic Archive from Manuscripts - To Photographic Archive - 28 black and white photographs of the Murchison earthquake (PAColl-8695).

Date: 1933-1934

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 : Papers

Reference: MSX-4636

Description: Paper presented by Furkert to the Institution of Civil Engineers on the effects of the Murchison and Napier earthquakes on engineering structures in both regions. The volume also includes `The Influence of earthquakes on structural design' by Herbert Cecil Edgar Cherry and `The Design of an earthquake-resisting structure: the Domionion Museum, Wellington, NZ, by John James Booth. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1924

From: Janes, J (Mrs) : Panoramic photographs

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-532

Description: Identified and dated by comparison with PA6-133 (print from same negative) Arrangement: From unprocessed panoramas box 1 (2W106 unpr coll 190) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1959-1962

From: CORSO : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1675-08/29

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: 1929

By: Herron, Dorothy, active 1982

Reference: PAColl-0236

Description: Views of the effect of the Murchison earthquake on the landscape and buildings. Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 27 Jun 1929

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 : Reports and newspaper clippings

Reference: MSI-Papers-7325

Description: An Evacuated town; Murchison as it stands today (Evening post, 27 Jun 1929) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 6 Jul 1929

By: Harney, Viti Louisa Ruth, active 1929-1931

Reference: MS-Papers-1440

Description: Letter from Harney vividly describing the Murchison earthquake of 17 Jun 1929 as experienced at Oparara near Karamea, where she was teaching at the time (17 Jun 1929) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1991-1992 - 01 Jan 1991 - 01 Oct 1992

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; New Zealand. Ministry of Civil Defence

Reference: OHColl-0071

Description: Interviews with three survivors of the 1929 Murchison Earthquake, recorded by the Oral History Centre of the Alexander Turnbull Library for the Ministry of Civil Defence. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Sponsored by - Ministry of Civil Defence Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Accompanying material - project report Quantity: 9 C60 cassette(s). 3 printed abstract(s). 3 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Find this in the project reports completed after each stage Search dates: 1929

Date: 2006-2007

From: La Plante, Steven, fl 2001-2015: Photographs of war memorials

Reference: PAColl-10421-08

Description: Photographic prints showing war memorials for WWI and WWII, in various localities in the South Island. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s) (Resin coated silver gelatin prints).

Date: 28 March 1950

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-E/262-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd showing rural landscape with bush and forestry work. It is sheet 1 of 2 sheets, taken for Bounty Oil Ltd Australia. Also includes logos for Shell, BP, EWSO and Amoco. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size)

Date: 28 March 1950

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-E/263-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd showing rural area with bush and forestry work. It is sheet 2 of 2 sheets taken for Bounty Oil Ltd Australia. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size)

Date: [ca 1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Schmid, Max, 1945-

Reference: PA12-10740

Description: Photographs of historic houses in Christchurch, Dunback, Timaru, Arthurs Pass, Oamaru and Murchison. Sail boats at a wharf in Westport. Landscape views of Limestone Valley Road, near Queenstown, in the Grey River area, and Lake Pukaki. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies 35mm transparencies.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Briscoe, George H, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1594-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse, left centre. View angled onto a corner verandah with bays on either side, front door by the left bay. Another verandah further left. Path up to the house from bottom centre. Paddock on right. Newly cleared land with tree stumps behind the house, left and right, on hills behind house, and along the hills on the right. There are a few houses along the base of the hills across the centre of the image. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - G.H. Briscoe. Murchison. West Coast Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 107.8 cm

Date: 1940-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-126

Description: Photographs related to geography and geology, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1940 and 2000. Images related to geology are arranged alphabetically from C to LA. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1974-1987

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: MS-Papers-12224-1

Description: Comprises seven notebooks. One is undated and contains research notes about Canterbury and Wellington Province bridges, Glenmark Station, and Martha Mine. Two loose pages also have notes about bridges. The other notebooks are dated 1974-1978, 1976-1978, 1978-1983, 1979-1983, 1982, and 1984-1987. Most have lists of places visited and dates on their inside front covers. One notebook includes notes on sites in the United States of America and England. The notebook for 1979-1983 contains notes from "Directors' meetings" from 1979 and possibly was used later for recording site visits as all the vists are dated from 1981 onwards. The notebook for 1984-1987 contains some entries in the back that document a trip in the manner of a diary. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Notebooks of various sizes, with cardboard or plastic covers, either stapled or spiral bound. Processing information: The place names noted in the inside front covers of the notebooks have been listed in this record. Other geographic names and specific building and structure names have not been listed.