Buses

Date: 1949-ca1970

By: Larsen, Malcolm Richmond, 1923-1985

Reference: PA-Group-00072

Description: Mostly about commercial bus tours run by Larsen from 1949 to some time in the 1960s or early 1970s. Tours relate to New Zealand and Australia. Included are photographs of a ceremony relating to building of Wellington City Mission's Russell Kemp Home at Titahi Bay. Other photographs relate to the Larsen family. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at F 69904 1/4 - F 70111 1/4. Album at PA1-q-112 (Donald Hansen Album) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 454 b&w original photographic print(s). 21 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6952

Description: 13 miscellaneous images: a house with a verandah and deck chairs; two of battleships, one moored at Overseas Terminal; the marina at Oriental Bay with the boathouses and Mount Victoria in the background; a view over Island Bay; a field of hay stacks; a large railway junction with various rolling stock and chimneys in the background; a view over Days Bay including the pier; men and women rock climbing; two motor buses outside a large house, possibly a hotel, with people milling around; the door to the Observatory Tower at the University of Canterbury; HMS Hood moored at an unidentified location; and people cooking outdoors under an awning. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058211 to 058223 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: June 1984, January-May 1981, October-November 1980

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PAColl-1278

Description: Quantity: 18 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Heritage Incorporated :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6220

Description: Photograph of a party of children in Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch, before setting out for a picnic at Selwyn Huts, provided by the Heritage Movement Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Picnic provided for 150 children by Heritage Movement. Five bus loads were taken to Selwyn Huts. Picture shows crowds and buses in Riccarton Avenue en route for picnic Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print

Date: 1972

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

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

Reference: B-134-347

Description: This cartoon relates to a proposed 10% rates rise in Wellington. An anxious ratepayer is asking a man from WCC whether this is true. The man replies that it is possible but there will also be some reductions such as a 20% reduction in suburban bus services. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 310 x 440 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1965

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

Reference: B-133-419

Description: The words of a mayoral candidate are interpreted in terms of transport. The first two scenes show the current mayor (Frank Kitts) refusing the mayoral car and walking instead. The third shows trams are back as the Municipal Electors' candidate wishes. The fourth shows the Mayor standing waiting, with a dismal look, at a bus stop - Does he mean...as the Citizens Party representative, he intends to travel with the rest of the citizenry? The debate about public transport continues. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil, 284 x 397 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [ca 1915-1944]

By: Read, James Cornelius, 1871-1968

Reference: PAColl-0502

Description: Fourteen photographs taken by Sgt J C Read of ANZAC Day in London. They include views of Australian and New Zealand troops marching along The Strand watched by large crowds; dignitaries, including King George V, leaving the memorial service held at Westminster Abbey; and two in Gallipoli, one of wounded soldiers waiting to be transported and the other of New Zealand graves. The collection also includes one photograph from the Second World War of the staff of the Radio Development Laboratory, which was probably on Majoribanks Street, Wellington, and the Governor-General Sir Cyril Newall. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1836

By: Ackerman & Company

Reference: A-047-004

Description: An early English horse-drawn bus Reproduced from an early lithograph published by Ackermann & Co. in 1836. Same as A-047-016 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 190 x 255 mm

Date: May 1936

From: New Zealand Department of Education: Photographs of schools

By: New Zealand. Department of Education

Reference: PAColl-2825

Description: Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-103969 to 103970 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) etc. Physical Description: Print 124 x 206 mm on mount 240 x 330 mm Processing information: Print previously housed at framed print no 260

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: 1966

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-500

Description: The news item refers to Wellington bus drivers, who decided at their stopwork meeting to 'give the Council time to remedy problems of illegal parkers and haphazard pedestrians. The view is that if the drivers can endure the situation a little longer, the solution will work itself out. headlines illustrate the fact that city transport makes a loss and can't continue, ending with 'Big Council decision - end of buses'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, letratone and pencil, 287 x 390 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1946-1970

From: Larsen, Malcolm Richmond, 1923-1985 :Photographs relating to the Larsen family and tourist bus tours

Reference: PAColl-2523-4

Description: Mostly about commercial bus tours run by Larsen from 1949 to some time in the 1960s or early 1970s. Tours relate to New Zealand and Australia. Included are photographs of a ceremony relating to building of Wellington City Mission's Russell Kemp Home at Titahi Bay. Other photographs relate to the Larsen family Quantity: 154 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1883-1884]

By: Hill, E E (Mrs), active 1974

Reference: PAColl-0376

Description: Two photographs of a group of men and women standing outside the windows of a large house with others leaning out of the windows. One has the majority of the people named on the photograph itself and the other has that information written on the back. It is possibly the Patchwork Company which was run by the family of Charles Hill, as the photograph is from the Hill family papers. There is also a photograph of a large military camp at Island Bay with rows of tents and men and armaments in formation. In the foreground is a horse-drawn omnibus. Photographer(s) unidentified. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints Provenance: A note with the photographs states that these were originally in a Hill family scrapbook.

Date: 1968

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-900

Description: The first scene shows four lanes of traffic (cars have Do-it-yourself Transport Service written on the side), and Lodge says let the citizenry provide their own improved service - and just sit back and rake in the profits. The second scene shows workmen taking out a bus stop sign and putting in parking meters. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and pencil, 253 x 348 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6848

Description: 25 images including two of what is probably earthquake damage to buildings in Hawke's Bay following the 1931 earthquake; four of a gathering at a wool shed flying the union jack (location unknown); one of the war memorial in Cathedral Square, Christchurch; one of a small wooden church without a tower or steeple (location unknown); a general view of the town where the same church is located; two of a derailment; eight of various locomotives, steam, diesel and electric, including one of a railcar sitting at Wellington Railway Station and one of an electric locomotive and carriages at Paekakariki station; one of a line of buses at a rural depot with passengers waiting; two boys and a man next to their car; a boy crouching next to a man; and a landscape (location unknown). Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029898 to 029903, 030017, 030035 to 030036, 030039, 030044 to 030050, 030997, 031000 to 031003, 031006, 031011 and 031015. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1948-1939

From: National Council of Young Men's Associations of New Zealand: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-724

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

Date: ca 1950s

By: Calcinai, J M (Mrs), active 1972

Reference: PAColl-7382

Description: The Thorndon Quay facade of Wellington Railway Station with a bus parked on the left. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: Eph-A-TRANSPORT-1940/50-01

Description: A child's scrapbook comprising transport tickets which have been pasted into pages. Also includes two envelopes of miscellaneous loose tickets which accompanied the scrapbook, and one New Zealand Express Company envelope. It is unclear whether this envelope accompanied the scrapbook. Scrapbook contains pages of tickets in the following categories: Wellington tram; Christchurch tram; New Plymouth tram; NZR Road Services; Wellington-Eastbourne by ferry and bus; Wellington-Johnsonville by train; Wanganui tram; Wellington bus; Wellington tram; Christchurch tram; Christchurch-Richmond-Burwood-New Brighton-East belt-Buxtons Corner tram; Old Christchurch tram; New Brighton Tram Co.; Napier tram (Hawkes Bay Motor Company); Wellington train; Wellington bus; North Auckland bus; Devonport Steam ferry Company; Soldiers all day ticket. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Exercise book, with tickets stuck to pages, 210 x 165 mm. Processing information: Description enhanced February 2023 to improve clarity of dates and contents.