Croquet

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: B-113-021

Description: Unfinished, with the homestead, pencil outlines of two croquet players on the lawn, and, on verso, unfinished pencil sketch of a croquet player Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 272 x 382 mm

Date: [Circa 1970s to 1980s]

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

Reference: PA1-o-570

Description: Album of coloured photographs probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell. None of the people shown are identified; some of the scenes were taken at `Rozel' the home of Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell. Rhoda McWhannell's brother Bill and his wife Inga are identified from another album in the McWhannell sequence (at PA1-q-276). A number of holiday snapshots are taken in the Taupo, Wairakei area, with one view of thermal steam vents at Wairakei, and several of the Waikato River and the Huka Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured white plastic cover; photographs inserted in plastic pockets; 20 x 15 cm

Date: [Between 1980 and 1983]

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

Reference: PA1-q-278

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. The first part of the album covers a trip Mrs McWhannell took overseas in 1980, travelling to Russia, England, China, India, Kashmir and South Africa. The travel images include scenes in St. Petersburg and Petrodvorets (Russia); with friends in Bramshott (England); in Peking, with Xie Feng, Professor of ornamental plants at Peking, Joy Lee, and Hazel Le Rougetel (writer of books on roses and gardens); scenes at a famous garden which includes bonsai trees, "Zhuo-Zheng Yuan" or "The Humble Administrator's Garden", Suchow (i.e. Suzhou) China; the Taj Mahal, Rajasthan, amd Fatehpur Sikri in India; scenes in Srinigar, including Lake Dal (Kashmir); and photographs of her brother (Bill McCurdie and sister-in-law Inga McCurdie and their daughter Kirsten taken in New Zealand in 1974), and Kirsten and her family in Kloof, South Africa. The following images are all in New Zealand, and are chiefly snapshots of friends and family, some identified, many who are not. They include groups visiting two houses, The Kinder House in Auckland, and The Elms in Tauranga. One sequence shows the 80th birthday celebrations for Dinah Strang held in a garden near Putararu. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey vinyl cover, embossed pattern of kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30.5 x 36.5 cm

Date: 1976 to 1977

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

Reference: PA1-q-282

Description: Album of photographs relating to Rhoda McWhannell's family and friends. The bulk of the album consists of her travel to South Africa to stay with her brother Bill McCurdie and his wife Inga at their home in Kloof; visiting Mauritius on the way; and areas they visited in South Africa. The latter part of the album is in two sequences. The first shows Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat McCurdie and her fiance Keith Orange photographed at `Rozel' in November 1976; then their wedding at Auckland Cathedral on 18th December 1976. The second section is scenes at Rozel in January 1977 with trees and farmland; and a group of women playing croquet on the lawn. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with orange vinyl cover; 33.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: ca 1867-1898

Reference: PAColl-7223

Description: Photographs of: the front of the second St Mary's Cathedral on Hill Street ca 1870; St Mary's ca 1880; Mantell and his son Walter in Mantell's garden with St Mary's behind it ca 1868; Mantell, John Buchanan, Mantell's son holding a croquet mallet and James Hector in Mantell's garden with St Mary's behind ca 1868; view from Mantell's garden of St Mary's on the right and two and three storey houses on Hill Street on the left ca 1890s; St Mary's ca 1890s; and Mantell next to a tree in his garden with another man and St Mary's above it ca 1890s. Photographer unidentified. The first church on the site was built in 1851. The second, with a tower and spire was built in 1867. Between 1880 and 1885 the spire was removed and the tower redesigned but it burned down in 1898. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart is the third building on the site. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1934-1935?]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-052

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. The only identifying information is a few pencilled notes giving some locations, but there are no captions identifying people. There is a large sequence showing events surrounding the first celebrations marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6th February 1934 attended by Lord Bledisloe. He had purchased the site, and donated money for the Treaty House renovations in 1932. The celebrations brought 10,000 Maori to Waitangi. The images show huge crowds, haka parties, various iwi performing, and parties of dignitaries including Lord and Lady Bledisloe, Joseph Gordon Coates and George William Forbes. Other scenes with Lord Bledisloe show him visiting the Waitaki Hydroelectric power station. Views of New Zealand include Government Tourist Bureau accomodation houses including those at Waitomo and the Hermitage (Mt. Cook); accomodation houses at Helensville and Parakai with interior and exterior views, and showing activities available (spa pools, games such as croquet, golf, and bowls); anglers standing by swordfish they have caught; skiing and ski lessons; and waterfalls. Industrial and agricultural views show dairy cows, citrus groves, the Kiwi Bacon Factory, printing presses, and race courses. A number show people at the beach at Mount Maunganui, and a large group picniking. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B3'; 40 x 58 cm

Date: 1983

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-156

Description: Shows two scenes. In the first a man is looking in the rule book while a woman searches for a lost ball in a rabbit hole. In the second a woman hits a rabbit with a ball. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1896 - 1891

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-496-q

Description: Rough sketches of people and landscapes, some identified as being in Otago and Southland in the 1880s and up to 1896, some interleaved with related photographs, showing the artist's use of photography for recording a particular landscape. Includes many photographs. See shelf-list for titles. Inscriptions: Album cover: W. M. Hodgkins; Album page - some drawings and photographs titled. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, illustrated on 102 pages, page size 111 x 183 mm, binding printed green boards, green buckram spine. Finding Aids: Shelf-list available.

Date: [ca 1913, 1915-1922]

From: Lockett family: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1861

Description: Photograph album relating to Edith Constance Lockett of Lower Hutt, Wellington, illustrating her family life and her brother Kenneth Ewart Lockett's military service. Images taken by E C Lockett and unidentified photographer(s) ca 1915-1920s. Album inscribed 'Edith C Lockett, Lower Hutt, Feb 10th 1917' on inside front cover, and likely compiled by Edith Lockett. The album contains images of the Lockett family, particularly Edith Lockett and her siblings, Kenneth Ewart, Winifred Maud, and Edward William Lockett. The album also contains group portraits with Edith Lockett's parents, Ada Florence (nee Harrowby) and Henry George Lockett, and members of their extended family and friends, chiefly taken at the family home at 14 Stevens Grove, Lower Hutt. The album also has photographs from Kenneth Ewart Lockett's military service in World War One from November 1916 onward, and shows Kenneth and other soldiers at their camp, and includes images of army tents at an unknown location. The album also includes images of recreation activities primarily by women, such as women swimming and both men and women at the beach. Some photographs show women playing croquet and tennis, and with horses. There are also photographs in the album of bicycles and automobiles. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Edith C Lockett Lower Hutt Febry 10th 1917 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Small maroon leather album, measuring 18 x 15.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1910s]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: PA1-o-476

Description: Album of photographs which include 12 pages of views of Scotland and one postcard of the memorial cairn at Culloden. They include views in and around Inverness, including the Caledonian Canal and Culloden. Pages 13-34 show photographs of New Zealand, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau. Scenic views of the South Island are mostly in the Southern Alps, Southern Lakes district and the Buller Gorge; and in the North Island they are mostly in the central volcanic area around Wairakei, Taupo and Whakarewarewa, and also include views of the Whanganui River One of the images shows young Maori women heating kettles and cooking food in hot pools at Whakarewarewa Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 22 x 28 cm

Date: [Circa 1930]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-050

Description: Photographs of large groups of people taken on tours run by New Zealand Railways, using rail and road transport. The album covers various trips taken by large groups of unidentified people, mostly in the North Island, and only as far south as Tokaanu and the Whanganui River. They travelled by rail, by road and by ferry. Very few of the photographs have captions, but several are labelled "Commerce trip", and include images of farming, ploughing, stock sales yards, and a large group of men picnicking around a hangi (p. 14). There are a few South Island views, including Lincoln College and Akaroa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled "Tours Book B1"; 36.5 x 49.5 cm

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6963

Description: Assorted views of army life and family photographs many of them taken on a beach. One of a hot air balloon is advertising Hudson's Baking Powder with the slogan "Bound to Rise". Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059554 to 059869 and 106041 to 106083 Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [1970s]

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

Reference: PA1-q-276

Description: Coloured photographs inserted under plastic; probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell. Most of the images show plants, many of them flowering, including natives such as cabbage trees, karaka berries, kowhai flowers, manuka, and kauri gum on a young kauri. Other plants include red currants, water lilies, wild chicory, lasiandra (or tibouchina), gourds, sedum, scarlet nerines, ginkgo trees, dogwood, fuchsias, passionfruit, wych elms and maple trees. One photograph shows the Penn family (Michael and Helen Peen, with their children James and Sally) taken at Hamilton in 1977; and several show Merta Alford (Harriet Mercy Alford), at her home in Cambridge, NZ. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, cream markings, entitled `PhotoAlbum'; 29.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1905 - 1910

From: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues for sporting equipment and sports gear. 1900-1949]

By: H E Partridge Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SPORTS-GEAR-1906-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for sporting goods: cricket bats and balls, cricket stumps, batting and wicket-keepers' gloves, cocoanut matting pitches, cricket nets, cricket boots; tennis racquets and racquet covers, tennis balls, nets and poles, tennis shoes; lawn markers and sprinklers for sports grounds, steel quoits, croquet balls, hoops and mallets; lawn bowls; running shoes; "Olympic" embrocation for athletes; silk elastic hosiery, suspenders, swimming costumes, water wings, water polo balls, wool sweaters, air rifles; hand tally registers (for counting). Inside back cover advertises "Kia-ora" briar pipes. Date estimated from an illustration of a cricket bat signed by the Australian Cricket XI for 1905. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 60 pages, each 213 x 137 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dick Scott, in 2007.

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7531-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7530-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7536-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7537-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7540-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7539-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative