Totaranui

Date: [1890s to 1910s]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-550

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken in the South Island, except for one view of `Woodcroft', the home of Dr John Kinder in Arney Road, Remuera from about 1880 until his death in 1903. Many of the South Island views are related to early surveyors William Duncan Ross McCurdie and his wife Olga McCurdie, and Ernest Herbert Wilmot, who were surveying land near Tahakopa, Tautuku, McLennan Valley and the Catlins. Several show the homes of early settlers in the Tahakopa Valley. Of particular interest are a view of women voting at their first election at Tahakopa (28.11.1893); one of an early settler's first home at Tahakopa; the first boat sailing up to Mr McCurdie's camp; and a group of horsemen on a beach, parading before going to war (1914). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light maroon cover, darker spine and corners; 25 x 20 cm

Date: 1967 - 2003

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-071

Description: Shows leaves, fruit and flowers of a fuchsia plant. Artist's list: Flowers from Marakopa nr Waitomo 11.11.67; fruit Feb. 2003 from Hakarimata Ra., Ngaruawahia. Section through fruit, and seeds from Tautuku, Catlins. All coll. by A Eagle. Appears on page 141 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand". Other Titles - November; February; near Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 261 x 211 mm.

Date: ca 1890-1935

Reference: PAColl-7225

Description: Collection of photographs used by Dewar in his book Chaslands, a number of which include extensive notes. The photographs are of: Harry Croft's hut on Wallace Beach; Heathfield Dairy Factory with six wagons loaded with urns outside (the notes name all the men in the photograph); Waikawa sawmill tramline with timber truck; Arthur and Fred Croft outside their house at Chaslands; Chaslands School (the notes name all the teachers 1895-1950); MacLennan Railway Station showing the cleared hillsides around it; a car at the far end of the bridge near Chaslands; the boys and girls of Ratanui School with their teacher George Dewar ca 1935; the Chaslands rugby football team with Fred Croft, Donald Little, Bandy Kini, George Dewar, Kangaroo Bill Wells and Herb Ottenshaw (others not known); the junction of McLennan and Tahakopa Rivers showing the ford from Owaka to Chaslands (with notes); the first passenger train on the Catlins extension line at MacLennan Station; Tautuku Bay from the top of MacLennan's Hill; two of men in Cathedral Caves; bush scenes around Chaslands; Houipapa Valley from Gibb's Hill with Catlins Lake in the distance; white pines near Owaka; the buried forest north of Poimawea; a car on the road at Smillies Quarry; Curio Bay at Waikawa; and Mount Samson with the bridge over the Chaslands River in the foreground. Arrangement: Copy negatives housed at 1/2-002484 to 002506 Quantity: 23 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1929-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-180

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1929-1959 Athol; Milford Hostel with Sheerdown Mountains in background; aerial views of Milford Sound; Aerial view of Southland Boys High School, Invercargill; Tautuku Beach & white pines near Huiopapa (photographer J D Roberts, 1959); harvesting oats in Five Rivers district. Buller Gorge; Punakaiki; Dobson; Ross (aerial); Denniston & Denniston tepid baths; Franz Josef Glacier; Greymouth (Whites 47547); new Nurses Home at Reefton (opened Sep 1949); house once owned by Felix Campbell which was purchased from Dennehy Estate by Greymouth Borough Council, 1949 Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Between 1890 and 1898]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-550-09-3

Description: Grave of Temuc, the wife of a whaler, who died on 25 September 1846. Photograph taken, possibly by William Duncan Ross McCurdie, in the 1890s. The date 1884 in the album caption has been written over the previous entry of 1846. It is unclear whether this is an erroneous reference to the date of death, or to the date the photograph was taken. William McCurdie surveyed in this region from the mid 1880s until 1898 (Source: Furkert "Early New Zealand Engineers" pp 209-210). Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - Tautuku grave of whaler's maori wife 1884. Temuc. Wybrow clan Waikawa. (Mrs McCurdie was the first white woman at Tautuku 5 years later - 1891). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 7.4 x 10 cm mounted on album page

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-008

Description: The story of William McLeur Palmer; his parents who had both been transported to Australia, early years in Australia, arrival in New Zealand, whaling and sealing, development of shore whaling stations, his Māori marriages and Māori-Pākehā children. In later years William Palmer's life as boat-builder and carpenter is recorded. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Photographs of William Palmer and his daughter Mere Kui Tanner Processing information: Description updated 23 August 2023 following information provided by a staff member.