Opened in 1876
Pukekura Park
New Zealand places
Date: [ca 1933-1959]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Watherston, R A, active 1956
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Photographs of parents, sister, relations, childhood, Africa, New Zealand, Norway, and ...
Date: [ca 1924-1958]
From: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984:Photographs and postcards
By: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984; Vogt, Birgette Marie, active 1950s-1990s
Reference: PA1-o-748
Description: Anton Vogt was conceived in 1914 just before his parents returned to Norway from Argentina. His father, Volrath Vogt, had gone to Argentina as a young man of 20 in 1905. There, among other things, he worked as gaucho, herding cattle on the Pampas. In 1912 he married Margot Herlofsen, another Norwegian in Argentina, and in 1913 they had their first child, Sito, Anton's sister. Anton was born in Norway where his parents lived during World War I. His father worked as a business man supplying chemical products to the British Government. After the war the family moved to London where Volrath established what was at first a successful business in the boom of the immediate post war years. When the business failed he moved with his family to the Waterberg district, 200 miles north of Johannesburg in what is today Botswana. There during the early 1920s he managed a 200,000 acre cattle ranch on the edge of the Kalahari desert for a Norwegian consortium When this venture came to an end in 1926 the family came to New Zealand and ran a small shop at Bucklands Beach, Auckland. Anton and his sister worked at various jobs during their late teenage years and largely supported the family financially. In 1931 Anton got a job with the Western Electric Company and they sent him to Hamilton where he Lived for most of the 1930s. He then went to Wellington in the late 1930s still in the employment of Western Electric. In late 1938 Anton married his first wife, Rosalind Lees, and in 1939 entered training college. He Worked in broadcasting during the 1940s. Anton and Rosalind had six children Photographs in this album cover the period from childhood in Norway during the First World War to young parenthood in the late 1940s. It is rich in Norwegian relatives, African cattle ranches and family, friends and colleagues in New Zealand. There is also an interesting personal record of Erling Tambs, a Norwegian yachtsman who sailed from Oslo to Auckland in the "Teddy" ca 1931 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
North Taranaki and Pukekura Park
Date: [ca 1960s]
From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip
Reference: PA12-6970
Description: Photographs of North Taranaki and Pukekura Park taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Includes views of Waitara Valley, Urenui, and Pukekura Park. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm
Willis, Archibald Duddington (Firm) :Mt Egmont from the Recreation Ground, New Plymouth...
Date: 1880 - 1890
From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].
Reference: E-068-004
Description: View looking across the lake in the Pukekura Gardens towards Mount Taranaki and its foothills. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 144 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm
Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and a tour of the South Island
Date: 1925
From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays
Reference: PA1-o-1052
Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
New Zealand Tourist Department :Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth
Date: [1890s?]
By: New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: PA7-49-41
Description: Coloured view of the boating lake in Pukekura Park (also known as the Recreation Grounds) looking towards the band rotunda. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Title Physical Description: 172 x 280 mm
Salmon album 10
Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]
From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints
By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999
Reference: PA1-q-206
Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm
Photographs taken by Charles William Clift
Date: ca1855-ca1940
From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift
By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984
Reference: PAColl-4889-1
Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.
Lake at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth
Date: Ca 1910s
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000376-G
Description: View of a lake in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, with a bridge in the middle distance, a rowing boat on the water, aand a small pavilion in the right foreground. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Recreation Grounds. New Plymouth. [No.] 202 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Lake at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth
Date: Ca 1910s
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000377-G
Description: Two men and a woman in a rowing boat on a lake in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. The woman is feeding the birds, including a swan and a goose. There is a small pavilion on the bank in the distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Recreation Grounds. New Plymouth. [No.] 300 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Smytheman album
Date: [Between 1935 and 1936]
From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes
By: Smytheman, V (Miss), active 1935-1936
Reference: PA1-o-470
Description: Snapshots taken in the North Island of New Zealand between 1935 and 1936, taken by an unidentified photographer. Several of the images show war memorials, in Featherston; the memorial clock in Gisborne; and memorial gates at Victoria Park, Stratford. The last three scenes show groups of women. They include Alice, Ivy, Gwynne, Tess, Mrs Carte-Lloyd and Mrs Booth Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled tan cover tied with brown ribbon, entitled "Photo album"; 11.5 x 17.0 cm
The B K Ltd :Souvenir of New Plymouth
Date: ca 1918
By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928
Reference: PA1-o-1214
Description: Album containing 12 photographic postcards of New Plymouth and district, by photographers F G Radcliffe and David Aldersley. Photographs taken ca 1914-1918, and album complied ca 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cardboard album 13.5 x 18.5 cm, containing 12 photographs
New Zealand - Miscellaneous photographs published in 1947
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
Unknown photographer :North and South Island motor tours
Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]
Reference: PA1-o-1247
Description: Album of photographs taken on motor tours in the North and South Islands, mid 1920s-early 1940s. Includes Tourist Series and commercial postcards as well as original photographs by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
New Zealand Tourist Department :Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth
Date: [1890s?]
By: New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: PA7-49-40
Description: Coloured view of the boating lake in Pukekura Park (also known as the Recreation Grounds) looking towards the band rotunda. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Title Physical Description: 172 x 280 mm
Merle Reeve's record of the Hawkes Bay earthquake, Pukekura Park (New Plymouth), and he...
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).
Smytheman, V :Scenic views of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1890-1950]
From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes
By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970
Reference: PAColl-0531-1
Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photographer unknown: Views of New Plymouth, Taranaki and Dunedin
Date: [ca 1890s]
Reference: PAColl-7053
Description: Views mostly in and around New Plymouth but including clergymen gathered for Archdeacon Govett's jubilee in 1898, crowds in Pukekura Park for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubliee in 1897 and a Floral Fete in 1896, a homestead called Tokotahi near the Tiraumea River in Pahiatua County, the old mountain house on Mount Taranaki, and an area called Grant's Braes (now Waverley) in Dunedin. All the views are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002136 to 002173 Quantity: 38 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film 1/2 plate copy negatives
Derbidge photographs
Date: December 1921-ca 1924
From: Derbidge, M (Mrs), fl 1920-1935 :Photographs of the Derbidge and Harding families
Reference: PAColl-7712-1
Description: Photographs of the Harding homestead at Raukawa in Hawkes Bay, earthquake damage after the Napier earthquake of 1931, views of places visited on holiday, and photographs of the "Southern Cross", taken ca 1927 to ca 1934 by Mrs M Derbidge. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s).
Godber album 2
Date: [Chiefly between 1934 and 1947]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-194
Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber, chiefly between 1934 and 1947, but including copies of some of his earlier photographs. Views include trips in the North and South Islands, and views of his home and family, especially in Whiteman's Valley Road and the area around Silverstream. Also various scenes of floods (Hutt River), and storm damage. Photographs associated with roads and railways include steam locomotives, tunnels, bridges and viaducts, some under construction. Among the trip photographs are views of Ngaruawahia, including King Koroki's house (opened in 1938) and the Maori Parliament House. Other views of Maori interest include meeting houses, rock paintings and wood carving. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 100 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26.0 x 33.5 cm