Buildings - New Zealand - Otago Region
Photographs of trips to the South Island and the East Coast of the North Island, of New...
Date: ca1984-1989
From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of South Island, East Coast, North Island, and Campbell Island
By: Poppleton, Philip George, 1922-2002
Reference: PA1-q-635
Description: Photographs contained in this album include of Orape [?] Cemetery and Waiaua Marae Urupā. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Mills & Co, Wool and Grain Stores, Port Chalmers
Date: [ca 1890]
By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925
Reference: PAColl-8123
Description: Mills & Co Wool and Grain Stores at Port Chalmers. Photographed ca 1890 by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Mills & Cos Wooland Grain Stores Port Chalmers; Mount recto - beneath image - De Maus exhibition photo. And fine art publisher, Dunedin and Port Chalmers. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14 cms, mount 27 x 22.4 cms
Various photographers :[Six Dunedin postcards, collected by Joy Storie. 1900-1910].
Date: 1900 - 1910
By: William Beattie & Company; William Collins, Sons & Company; Storie, Joy, active 2001
Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Dunedin-1900-01
Description: Includes: High Street, Dunedin, N.Z. Heaven's Gate, Paradise, N.Z. / P.T. Series no 5141 Dunedin N.Z. panoramic view from Town Hall clock, showing harbour, etc. No 336 / W Beattie & Co Fine art publishers, Auckland NZ. The "Moa" series. Knox Church and Manse, Dunedin, N.Z. / Guy. At the wharf, Kinloch (photographic) Musselburgh Rise (Dunedin City Council tram) Collins & Sons, N.Z. Quantity: 6 postcards. Physical Description: Photographic prints, on postcards, ca 89 x 139 mm.
Views of Dunedin and Port Chalmers
Date: ca 1880-ca 1889
From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PA1-q-921
Description: Views of Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Waihola, Lake Moke, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, the Hooker Glacier, Tapanui, Oamaru, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Hooker River, Moonlight Gorge, Bowen Fall, and general views in Canterbury and Otago taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :Dunedin harbour. [1930s?]
Date: 1920 - 1939
From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]
Reference: A-265-006
Description: View looking over the tops of houses and buildings to the harbour and the hills beyond on the opposite side. A smoke stack can be seen in the middle distance near the harbourside. Artist's colour notes. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title and initials in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 252 x 175 mm
Views of Wellington, Auckland, and Dunedin
Date: [ca 1904-ca 1970]
From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums
Reference: PA1-q-1014
Description: Postcards of Wellington, Auckland, and Dunedin. These include views of the cities, their notable buildings, suburbs, harbours, and beaches. Of the three cities Wellington is most richly represented with, in many cases, good clear photographs of streets and buildings. The Wellington cable car is well represented and trams are conspicuous features throughout the collection. There are single photographs of Invercargill and Oamaru. Several postcards in the Dunedin section are views of the Waipori Gorge. One photograph shows the Salvation Army Institute building at Featherston Military Camp. There are also some greeting postcards throughout the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Dunedin (N.Z.). City Council :City of Dunedin. Moana Pool souvenir, including official ...
Date: 1964
From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to notable buildings in New Zealand]
By: Evening star (Dunedin, N.Z.); New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. Otago Centre
Reference: Eph-B-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1964-01
Description: A photographic history of the choosing of the site and the progress of building of the pool, with a central programme. "This official souvenir booklet is published by the Otago Centre, N.Z.A.S.A. with the generous permission of the Dunedin City Corporation ...". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 276 x 218 mm.
Dunedin Hospital and Hawkins Hill Radar Station
Date: 1975-1980
From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects
Reference: PAColl-9842-18
Description: Photographs relating to Dunedin Hospital include - New ward block in last stages of construction, ca 1975. Lecture theatres and bridge linking them to the Medical school, ca 1975. Various hospital buildings, ca 1970s. Boiler house extension, 14 September 1979. Progress photographs recording the construction of buildings for Hawkins Hill Radar Station, Wellington, February 1979 to February 1980. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011
Images of Central Otago
Date: [1980s]
From: Sheffield House Publications Collection
By: Hargest, Miles, active 1982
Reference: PA12-11299
Description: Images of Central Otago. Includes views of landscapes. Roads. A church. A hotel. Houses. Ruined buildings and other structures. Flocks of sheep. An antique motor launch. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.
Central Otago people
Date: [1980s]
From: Sheffield House Publications Collection
By: Hargest, Miles, active 1982
Reference: PA12-11306
Description: Mainly photographs of unidentified people living in Central Otago. Also a gold panner in action, and a large mechanical digger operating. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.
Images of Dunedin and Invercargill
Date: [1980s]
From: Sheffield House Publications Collection
Reference: PA12-11300
Description: Includes - Elaborate Victorian houses, Dunedin. View of First Church, Dunedin. Street view, Invercargill. Quantity: 3 colour original transparency/ies.
Michelsen, Johan Oscar (Rev), 1844-1936: Photograph album relating to the Christian mis...
Date: [ca 1878-1920s]
By: Michelsen, Johan Oscar (Rev), -1936
Reference: PA1-o-1870
Description: Reverend J Oscar Michelsen's photograph album relating to his time as a missionary in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), circa 1878 to 1890s. Also some photographs relating to the Sprague family of Dunedin, New Zealand, taken circa 1900s-1920s. Photographer unidentified. Michelsen has written a short caption under each image. - Vanuatu images are mainly taken on the island of Tongoa. Other locations include the islands of Nguna, Efate, Epi, Emae, Erromanga, Aneityum, and Aniwa. Buildings featured include mission houses, churches and some private residences (both European and indigenous). There are also some images of boats, road building, a banyan tree and other flora, scenic landscapes (mainly beaches and harbours), men in traditional dress, traditional drumming, and a scene from a meeting regarding the purchase of land for Tongoan mission station. Single print of collaged images relating to Michelsen's life is entitled "Autobiography in Photography" and includes portraits of Michelsen and a Bible & Tract Depot. Also contains one photograph of a sketch of Futuna Island. - Contains images of clergy and their wives and children: Rev D McDonald (from Victoria), Rev Robert M Fraser and his wife, Rev H A Robertson (from Canada), Lily (Michelsen's baby daughter); Rev Charles Murray and his wife, Mr Milne and his four children; Rev J W MacKenzie (of Canada); Captain McLeod; and Rev J G Paton. Identified indigenous people include Taripoamata and Timataso (Tongoan chiefs); Kaiasi (cook of Rev Fraser); Tarisaliu (a Tongoan chief) and his wife; teachers Taripoa, Tarisogoliu, and Man[ooi?] (the first Tongoan martyr); Manamlaka (Tongoan chief and teacher) and his wife Leriki; teacher Maripan; Matokoali (a Ngunese chief and teacher) and unidentified Ngunese Christians; [Nalemahina?] servant of Mr Milne; Tongoan teachers Manutae, Tanioto, and [Tinafuna?]; and Tongoan chief Mataputi and his family. - Also includes [family?] photographs taken circa 1890s to circa 1920s, many of which are in Dunedin, New Zealand. Identified figures are Mr A Boles, Vera Burgess, Mrs Jock Campbell (nee Maggie Moffett), Mary Smyth, Mrs Lewis, baby Bill Lewis, Albert Smyth, Cecil [Smyth?], Ernie Sprague, Sprague family portrait (man and five children), Newton Sprague, and Francis Walter Sprague. There are many portraits of unidentified men, women, and children. Other photographs show Signal Hill, Dunedin Botanic Gardens (with band rotunda), Dunedin cityscape and street scenes, Smyth's dairy factory, Otago Harbour, coastal scenes, man driving a horse and trap, greenhouse (interior and exterior), rowboats, and a dog and girl on the beach. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Accompanying material - contains printouts on the background of the New Hebridies Mission which were interleaved in the album when it arrived at the Library Inscriptions: Album page - top right - first page inscription reads: "To Mrs Rang[imina?] with affectionate regards from her son-in-law OM" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with reddish brown cover embossed in black and faded gold with a cameo at the centre, 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Purchased 2014. Vendor purchased the album at an auction a few months before selling it to the Library.
Harbour-Tyne Streets oral history project, stage I and part of stage II
Date: April 2001 - April 2004 - 19 Mar 2001 - 06 Apr 2004
By: Foley, Jacqueline, 1951-
Reference: OHColl-0800
Description: Interviews with current and former workers of various sites located in Harbour and Tyne Streets, Oamaru. The interviews provide a commentary on work practices and the work places including the buildings, some being designated as historic, that they occured in, within this area. Stage I contains twelve interviews: Alvin Bird, Molly Douglas, Ivan Geddes, Ken Gemmell, Bernard Gillies, Cecil Hinkley, Ruth Kinzett, Ena Muirhead, Maurice Plunket, Lindsay Simpson, Muir Tavendale and Margaret Wallis. Stage II interviews are currently: Stuart Catto, Michael O'Brien, Donna Demente Ogilvy and Barry Rooney. Abstracted by - Jacqui Foley Awards/funding - Project received an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Jacqui Foley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014570 to OHC-014606 Quantity: 37 C60 cassette(s). 15 printed abstract(s). 16 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete for fifteen interviews Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come for Muir Tavendale. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Jacqui Foley Most of the abstracts contain photographs of the interviewees and some show the buildings where the work practices were located
Photographs, including one of Onslow House, Dunedin
Date: [ca 1920]
From: Clarke, John Clifton, fl 1920s :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10082
Description: Page from a photograph album belonging to John Clifton Clarke. Four images, taken circa 1920s by unidentified photographers, possibly all in Dunedin. Includes one of boarding house and residence Onslow House, Dunedin. Also one portrait of a young man surrounded by boxes of chocolate and other foods. Quantity: 1 album page with 4 photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
35mm South ISLAND
Date: [ca1985], 1995-2002
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1306
Description: Ring binder storing photographs taken by Les Cleveland in the South Island, in particular on the West Coast, in circa 1985 and between 1995 to 2002. Contains 35mm negative strips in sleeves and the corresponding contact prints as well as interleaved handwritten notes on the content of the photographs, including information on locations and people. Contains images of a number of unidentified people, including a family and other locals from Neil’s Beach, a Jackson Bay Christmas party, and unidentified women at a street stall outside O’Connors Bar (location unknown). Identified people include Bernie Preston (owner of Preston’s Bakery, Hokitika), artist William Stegn, and multiple photographs of Cleveland family members. The Cleveland family are seen on a number of holidays, with Peter, Edward, Mary and Les Cleveland all appearing in the photographs. Holiday destinations include to the Queenstown-Lakes District in 2000 and a Christmas vacation at Neil’s Beach in 1997. Neil’s Beach photographs also include two young women, one of whom is likely Donna (who later married Peter Cleveland). Donna Cleveland also appears in Queenstown images. A photograph from circa 1985 shows Mary, Edward, and Peter outside the Lake Chalice Hutt in their tramping gear. Hokitika photographs feature buildings and businesses including exterior photographs of the sheep-shaped entrance to a store called Sheep Station, Carnegie Library on Hamilton Street, Westland District War Memorial, an art gallery located in the old Custom House, and various hotels and bars. Also includes photographs of the Hokitika canon, South African War memorial, and the interior of Preston’s Bakery. Neil’s Beach photographs feature the wharf and beach scenes including Les Cleveland standing on the wharf, various buildings, cabbage trees, a dead tree, and driftwood. Some images may have been taken on Haast Beach. Also contains photographs of the graveyard at Lyell and some rural scenes. Christchurch photographs include a set of images relating to the Warner Hotel. These images show the hotel building itself as well as Paul Thompson being interviewed about it in Cathedral Square by an unidentified radio reporter. Other Christchurch images include a Bofors anti-aircraft gun installed outside the Christchurch Museum with some images showing a protestor playing a guitar by the gun and anti war placards. Otago Region photographs feature Queenstown, Cromwell, and Arrowtown as well as rural areas. Photographs show dwellings, businesses, a church, river scenes, an Arrow International building site, the Cardrona Hotel, and scenes from the shooting of the film Vertical Limit including a large climbing wall. Also contains photographs of unidentified people. There are also a few images of Wellington, with a photograph showing the Hong Kong Café on Taranaki street. Photographs of a demolished building are also possibly taken in Wellington. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Prints and negatives originally stored in a ring binder labelled "35mm South ISLAND" on the spine. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 62 b&w negative strips and 17 contact sheets. Physical Description: 35mm film strips, contact sheets, and holograph notes. Processing information: Due to the high likelihood of the presence of PVC in the plastic covering of the original ring binder, the photographic materials were removed and placed in a new binder that met with the Library's conservation standards. The original binder has been disposed of. Not all names associated with this item have been indexed.
Clyde Dam and lake, Otago - Photograph taken by Phil Reid
Date: 13 February 1993
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-
Reference: EP/1993/0590-F
Description: Clyde Dam, Otago, and surrounding countryside. Lake Dunstan is behind the dam. Photograph taken February 1993 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. This photograph accompanied news that approval had been given to raise the lake level to the third stage. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 2 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm
Postcards of Onslow House and St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin
Date: [ca 1910s-1920s]
From: Unwin, Diana Mary, 1923-2014 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9220
Description: Postcards depicting Onslow House, Ocean Beach, Dunedin, taken by Guy; and St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, taken by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard. 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcard. Physical Description: Postcards
South Island trips
Date: 1970-1973
From: Einhorn family :Photographs
Reference: PA12-7960
Description: South Island trips. Trip to Queenstown 1973. Views of Queentown streets and buildings. On board ship, Lake Wakatipu. Photographs relating to Mount Cook. These include - Views of the McKenzie Country, 1971. Lake Pukaki, 1971. Mount Cook Village seen from Black Birch [Stream?], 1970. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.
South Island trips
Date: 1973
From: Einhorn family :Photographs
Reference: PA12-7959
Description: South Island trips. Trip to Queenstown 1973. Views of Queentown and its buildings, and Lake Wakatipu. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.
Photographs of Dunedin and Port Chalmers
Date: ca1868-ca1875
From: Allen, James Weaver, b 1822 :Photographs of Dunedin and Port Chalmers
Reference: PAColl-7476-2
Description: General views of Dunedin City and Port Chalmers, city streets, some principle buildings, commercial buildings many showing the names and occupations of business enterprises, and surrounding countryside Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).