Dawson Falls

Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1900 - 1930

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, Dorothy Evelyn, 1887-1963

Reference: E-754

Description: Includes pencil and watercolour sketches of Botanical gardens Wellington, manuka in Botanical Gardens Wellington, near Wellington, Point Howard from the road to Lowry Bay Petone, the Heads from York Bay Wellington, native beech York Bay Wellington, Egmont from Mokoia (several sketches), Mokoia homestead (2 sketches - similar to watercolour at B-163-005), stream near Melville Rd Kaponga, tree manuka on the "Round trip" D[awson] Falls, adult totara and weinmannia racemosa at the edge of the paddock at D[awson] Falls, Hastie's Hill, totara at D[awson] Falls - stem is shortened in this drawing, totara at D[awson] Falls. Latest date may be around 1930 - this is the date of the watercolour of Mokoia homstead at B-163-005. Inscription inside front cover indicates that the sketchbook was given to Dorothy E Moore from her mother in 1900 and then to Dorothy's sister John L Moore in 1920, also by the mother. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound red buckram sketchbook with gold-inscribed title "Sketches" on front cover, with 19 leaves, each 165 x 225 mm.

Date: 1937

From: [Holdsworth, Alice Mabel] 1878-1963 :[Plants and scenery from a New Zealand trip] 1936-1937

Reference: E-252-q-007

Description: A branchlet of Mountain tree Ivy, also known as Orihou, in leaf and berry Other Titles - Orihou Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in album. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 310 x 230 mm in grey buckram album

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).

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

Date: 1899

From: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916 :[Album of watercolours]

By: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916

Reference: E-285-q-018

Description: Shows Dawson Falls Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 295 mm

Date: 1899

From: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916 :[Album of watercolours]

By: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916

Reference: E-285-q-021

Description: Shows an extremely large rock in the river below Dawson Falls Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 295 mm

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: Various artists :[Twelve sketchbooks, by Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght (3), Emily Muriel Lysaght (4), and another Lysaght family member (5). 1890-1903]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971; Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-892

Description: Includes landscape sketches with some locations identified: Dunedin Harbour, Totaranui, Above Dawson Falls, From Mt Egmont, Near Dawson Falls, [Cave Rock] Sumner?, Mt Alanander / Alexander?, Near Geraldine from the Hopes, Opuha River, Greymouth, From train north of Greymouth, Nelson, Cape Farewell, Awaroa. Artist is probably either Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght, or Emily Muriel Lysaght. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, dark blue morocco hardbound, 163 x 233 mm.

Date: 1935-1936

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1041

Description: Photographs taken on holidays, Christmas 1935 and Easter 1936. Waterfalls, streams, hills, valleys and Mount Taranaki; Edward on a horse, and with friends on Mount Taranaki Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1920 - 1939

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-740

Description: Includes watercolour and pencil sketches, of Cassowary and cereopsis geese; several views at Puketitiri including one of lace bark trees; Dawson Falls; Victoria Falls Egmont; Pine trees at Mokoia about 1930 just before they were cut down; bush at Dawson Falls; shield ferns [...] & fuchsias Egmont; tree fern at B C Lysaght's Mokoia - when I had finished drawing I turned round & a large black bull was behind me with its head down but not ill disposed; honeysuckle tree near the fort at B.C.L's; poplar Mokoia; cabbage tree Mokoia; Egmont from Tongahoe Valley; native pines below [...] gulley Mokoia; karaka at 4-mile Point Taupo Dec 18th 1939; [Egmont] from Mrs Collins's house South Rd Hawera; [Egmont] from Mokoia. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound beige buckram volume, of 16 leaves, each 230 x 290 mm.

Date: 1910 - 1929

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: B-167-023

Description: Pencil study of a water race, and of boulders. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 290 x 460 mm.

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Strauchon, John, 1848-1934; Strauchon, Kathleen St. George, 1899-1981

Reference: PA1-o-483

Description: Photograph album containing Taranaki scenes. Album created by John Strauchon, Chief Surveyor & Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki District between 1894 and 1902; photographs possibly taken by him? (Pages 32 onwards are empty). The first section of the album (pages 1-16) contain images of Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki), including two accomodation houses, the Manaia Mountain House (Or Dawson's Falls Mountain House), and the Egmont Mountain House; Fanthams Peak; the Kapuni Stream; and Bell's Falls and Dawson Falls. The second part of the album (pages 18-31) contains views in and around New Plymouth, including two of celebrations during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Inserted in page 11 are two untitled loose photographs, one of a South Island glacier, and the other a lake scene. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine with ornate gold decoration on spine, entitled "Album"; 20 x 29 cm

Date: 1954

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-379-073

Description: Shows a view of a waterfall of muddy water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 357 x 257 mm.

Date: circa 1880, 1934 - 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Wade, Keith Reginald, 1920-1992; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-029

Description: Scenic photographs of the North Island, 1934 to 1955. Includes Manawatu - Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Northland and Auckland Regions. Also includes photographs of the first school in Palmerston North and the Bank of Australasia Corner, Palmerston North, circa 1880. Photographers include W. Hall Raine, Keith R. Wade, Harold J. Dunstan, J M S Beale, A W Powell, and aerial photographs by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1931

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-741

Description: Includes pencil sketches of Mount Taranaki, mountains of the Central Plateau, Lot's Wife, tree ferns, young pine trees at Mokoia 1931; view from drive gate Mokoia; Mayor Island from Mount Maunganui; Tauranga from the Mount; Mt Maunganui Sept 1931; north view of plains from Dawson Falls; snow in paddock at Dawson Falls; sketch for picture at 2 1/2 mile Point Egmont; Ranunculus Lyallii leaf (watercolour); Summit of Egmont from Lake Dive Nov 1931; two rimus Egmont; tree sketches with colour notes; From Hasties Hill. One inside front cover: Patent ring-bound cartridge sketch books containing 36 leaves of fine cartridge paper, manufactured by George Rowney & Co., Ltd ... London. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound grey string-tied volume, of 33 leaves, each 128 x 185 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1959

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-379-071

Description: Shows an unfinished watercolour sketch of Dawson Falls. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 357 x 257 mm.

Date: 1937

From: [Holdsworth, Alice Mabel] 1878-1963 :[Plants and scenery from a New Zealand trip] 1936-1937

Reference: E-252-q-008

Description: Two branches of the Karamu Note on lower right describes colour etc Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in album. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 310 x 230 mm in grey buckram album

Date: 1952 - 1961 - 1955

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-750

Description: Includes pencil sketches of R. nivicola Jan 31st the last just above Kapuni hut, Kapuni hut Feb 1952, Geranium Kapuni hut 7/3/52, Dawson Falls March 1952, on way to Ohakune to stay with Tom [...] 21/11/55, Luxmore with kowhai [and] snow, kawakawa May 1961 (design for woodcut?), black fantail at Te Anau (design for woodcut), kingfisher and stilt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey-covered booklet of 24 leaves, each 100 x 168 mm.

Date: 1937

From: [Holdsworth, Alice Mabel] 1878-1963 :[Plants and scenery from a New Zealand trip] 1936-1937

Reference: E-252-q-005

Description: A branchlet of mahoe or whiteywood in leaf and berry Other Titles - Whiteywood Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in album. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 310 x 230 mm in grey buckram album

Date: [Between 1943 and 1965]

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

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-201

Description: Album of photographs; many are contacts from 35mm film, some are prints, taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1943 and 1965. Consists mainly of trips, including camping trips, in the North Island and the South Island of New Zealand. Some are related to his zoological and botanical interests, including photographs of "vegetable sheep" (cushion plants that grow in New Zealand's mountain ranges (Raoulia australis)); and wetas. Others relate to his interest in photography. One trip shows members of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society at a camp at Dawson Falls (Mount Egmont); and another shows members of the Photographic Society of New Zealand attending a convention at Queenstown in 1956. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm