Wharves - New Zealand

Date: 1972, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1980

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11661

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1992, 2004, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11662

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Most slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: ca 1897

From: Jenkin, Robert :Albums of photographs by Arthur Jenkin, ca 1895-1898

By: Jenkin, Arthur, active 1890s

Reference: PA1-o-1046

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1910s]

From: Duncan, Miriam Darwin, 1893-1981 :Photographs relating to life and work of Dr James Malcolm Mason

By: Mason, James Malcolm (Dr), 1864-1924

Reference: PA1-q-067

Description: Album chiefly of scenes in New Zealand, taken by an unidentified photographer [possibly James Malcolm Mason]. None of the images are formally identified, but several were taken in the Port Chalmers area. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Grey album with black spine and corners, 30 x 23 cm

Date: 1950s-2000

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: Series-6440-07

Description: Negatives, prints, and transparencies of industrial buildings and structures taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton, 1950s-2000. Includes photographs of flour mills, flax mills, sawmills, woollen mills, powerhouses, breweries, freezing works, wharf buildings, brickworks, gasworks, engineering workshops, lime kilns, hop kilns, lighthouses, and mine structures such as cyanide tanks, poppet heads, and coal bins. Date range is taken from the few dates annotated on the back of prints or on negative enclosures. There is another smaller sequence of industrial heritage negatives, transparencies, and prints at Librayr reference Series-6440-10 Bibliography - Thornton, Geoffrey G. 'New Zealand's Industrial Heritage', Wellington N.Z. : Reed, 1982. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negatives, prints, and transparencies were generally, but not always, together in usually labelled glassine bags. The glassine bags were arranged mainly alphabetically by place name, in a small cardboard box, labelled "Industrial". Some bags held only negatives; a few held only prints or transparencies. Quantity: 476 b&w original negative(s). 324 b&w original photographic print(s). 48 colour original transparency/ies. 22 colour original photographic print(s). 20 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints separated from the negatives are at Library reference PAColl-10686-08 and PAColl-10686-09 - Transparencies are at Library references PA12-4282 to PA12-4284 and PA12-4380 to PA12-4382 Negatives are at Library references 1/4-136991-F to 137300-F, and 1/4-137386-F to 1/4-137573-F. Processing information: Negatives, prints were, and transparencies were separated and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage. Not all names associated with this sub-series have been indexed.

Date: 1957-2004

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: Series-6440-11

Description: Negatives, prints, and transparencies of industrial buildings and structures taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton,1957 to 2004. Includes photographs of flour mills, woollen mills, breweries, wharf buildings, gasworks, hop kilns, lighthouses, water towers, and mine cyanide tanks. Also includes photographs of stables at Morven Hills in Lindis Valley, and a racecourse stand at Trentham. Date range is taken from the few dates annotated on the back of prints. It is likely that these items were extracted from a larger sequence of negatives, transparencies, and prints of industrial buildings and structures; see Library reference Series-6440-07 Bibliography - Thornton, Geoffrey G. 'New Zealand's Industrial Heritage', Wellington N.Z. : Reed, 1982. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negatives, prints, and transparencies were generally, but not always, together in labelled glassine enclosures. The glassine enclosures were in a small chocolate box labelled "Industrial Heritage", in no particular order. Enclosures were labelled with the type of building/structure (and sometimes name of company/owner) on the left-hand side of the bag and the location on the right-hand side. Quantity: 41 b&w original negative(s). 35 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original transparency/ies. 2 colour original photographic print(s). 2 colour original negative(s). Transfers: Prints separated from the negatives are at Library reference PAColl-10686-10 - Separated transparencies are at Library reference PA12-4393 - Separated negatives are at Library references 1/4-137574-F to 137615-F. Processing information: Negatives, prints were, and transparencies were separated and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage. Not all names associated with this sub-series have been indexed.

Date: 30 August 1976

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-054

Description: Depicts the 'Maritime Unions' as an angry man jumping on an unexploded sea mine (labelled 'Old fashioned public patience'). The mine sits on the edge of a wharf and the man is pointing at a ship in the distance. Refers to the visit of the nuclear powered USS Truxtun to Wellington Harbour and subsequent strike action by maritime unions. The Port of Wellington was closed to all ships by the strike, including the inter-island ferries. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - "There could be a nuclear explosion!" [in pencil]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick. [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen, Letraset and pencil on paper, 390 x 520 mm

Date: 1894

From: Pollock album

Reference: PA1-f-049-1-5

Description: The New Zealand government steamship `Hinemoa' moored at an unidentified wharf. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1894. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.7 x 11.2 cm, on album page

Date: [ca 1928]

Reference: PAColl-5531

Description: View of Queen's Wharf, Wellington, seen across the roof of the Wellington Harbour Board offices. Ships in the view include - The `Holmdale' (In the foreground partly obscured by the Harbour Board building). Next vessel back at Queen's Wharf no.6, is `Katoa.' Beyond `Katoa' is `Makura.' Upper left is `Maunganui.' Source of descriptive information - Library client identified the location of this photograph and the ships in the view, October 2010. Arrangement: Copy neg at 1/2-031025 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1894

From: Pollock album

Reference: PA1-f-049-1-2

Description: The New Zealand government steamship `Hinemoa' moored at an unidentified wharf. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1894. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.7 x 11.2 cm, on album page