Sinbad Gully
South Island album
Date: [Circa 1910s?]
By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau
Reference: PA1-o-473
Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm
Photograph album containing photomechanical views of New Zealand tourist areas
Date: ca 1910
From: Robinson, Mr :Photograph albums containing mainly carte de visite portraits and views of New Zealand
Reference: PA1-f-063
Description: Large format photomechanical tourist views of New Zealand taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly published by Wrigglesworth & Binns in "W & B Series". Places shown are listed above. One photograph shows a young maori woman wearing a feather cloak and a hei tiki, and carrying a mere. Other Titles - Robinson III Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 430 x 295mm rebound with blue "Library" marbled covers
Mair album
Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]
By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts
Reference: PA1-o-321
Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm
Tourist Department album 9
Date: [Circa 1900s]
By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department
Reference: PA1-o-501
Description: Photographs of the South Island, chiefly showing the are around Fiordland and Stewart Island, taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in fold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm
Field album 9
Date: [1870s-1880s?]
From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
Reference: PA1-q-081
Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm
New Zealand lecture, part 7 of 8 sheets of slides
Date: 1958 to 1959
From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia
By: Hatwell, Neville, 1918?-1969
Reference: PA12-8813
Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. Several of these were taken by Neville Hatwell. This sheet shows Queenstown Lakes District, and Milford. Views include Queenstown; the Remarkables in the evening with the launch 'Moana' moored at a pier on Lake Wakatipu in the foreground; Lake Manapouri; Te Anau township; the Eglinton Valley and Hollyford Valley, both taken by Neville Hatwell; portal of the Homer Tunnel, and views the other side en route to Milford Sound, including Mount Tutoko and the Cleddau River; the Milford Track; views of the Sound, Sutherland Falls, Lake Ada, Sandfly Point and Sinbad Gully; and the Milford Sound airstrip with a small plane on the runway. The slides are not filed in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm
Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :View from head of Sinbad. [1888]
Date: 1888
From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Te Anau. 1888-1889
Reference: E-176-f-068
Description: View of Sinbad Gully and surrounding mountains Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 130 x 240 mm
New Zealand album 2
Date: [Circa 1900s-1910s]
By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: PA1-o-365
Description: Album showing various aspects of New Zealand life in cities, on farms, and in industries such as gold and coal mining, the timber industry, dairy industry, and flax industry. Other images focus on New Zealand scenery ranging throughout the North Island and the South Island. Photographers are mostly unidentified, but groups who are named are A. Northwood, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Album identical in content to that at PA1-o-364. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, entitled `New Zealand'; 24 x 30 cm
McLennan album
Date: [1900s]
By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931; New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: PA1-o-316
Description: Album of scenic views of New Zealand, many taken by Thomas Pringle, others taken by photographers from the New Zealand Tourist Department, and others by unidentified photographers. A number are hand-coloured. South Island scenes include Milford Sound, lake and mountain views, and some of Christchurch city. North island scenes include a number in Wellington, with views of city streets, the Chief Post Office, Government Buildings, St John's Church and the railway station. Most of the other North Island views are of tourist destinations, particularly in the thermal regions, with hot springs, geysers and mud pools. There are a large number relating to Maori, especially at Whakarewarewa, with taniko weaving, flax weaving, poi dancers, te hongi, and posed portraits of young girls in front of a meeting house wearing different styles of cloaks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown textured cover; 25.5 x 30.0 cm
Mitre Peak and Sinbad Gully, Milford Sound
Date: [ca 1 May 1905]
From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle
Reference: 1/1-003294-G
Description: Mitre Peak and Sinbad Gully, photographed by Thomas Pringle, circa 1 May 1905. The figure in the boat is Donald Sutherland, the explorer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Thos Pringle Wellington Protected 1.5.05; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 507 Mitre Peak, and Sindbad[sic] Gully, Milford Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
New Zealand album 1
Date: [Circa 1900s-1910s]
By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: PA1-o-364
Description: Album showing various aspects of New Zealand life in cities, on farms, and in industries such as gold and coal mining, the timber industry, dairy industry, and flax industry. Other images focus on New Zealand scenery ranging throughout the North Island and the South Island. Photographers are mostly unidentified, but groups who are named are A. Northwood, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Album identical in content to that at PA1-o-365. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, entitled `New Zealand'; 24 x 30 cm