Parks - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-079

Description: View of the fountain in Albert Park. In the immediate foreground are the steps leading down to the fountain. There are four concrete urns on plinths beside the steps. Partington's mill can be seen on the horizon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-029

Description: Shows a view of the city and harbour of Auckland from Mt Eden, with Josiah Clifton Firth's house in the lower left, and Mt Eden Prison in the middle distance. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance. The top of the Coromandel Peninsula can be seen in the right distance. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 354 mm.

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958, 1960

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7766

Description: Phase 8 continued - 170. Cornwall Park, sheep grazing; 171. One Tree Hill Memorial, Sir John Logan Campbell (Early settler); 172-173. Overlooking Ellerslie, Penrose; 174. Onehunga, Manukau Harbour; 175. Memorial, Mt Hobson in background; 176. Royal Oak, Epsom, Memorial; 177. Volcanic crater below memorial; 178. Auckland airport. Three slides of views of Auckland in 1960. Includes views of the Winter Garden (Auckland Domain), and aerial views over the city Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

Reference: PA4-0752

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a scene in Albert Park, Auckland, taken by a photographer from Zak Studios. Note on back reads: ZAC Coll Inscriptions: Verso - In pen (partly obscured) [A]lbert Park, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1957

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7741

Description: Transparencies of aerial views of the 'Mariposa', Ellerslie Race Course, and Albert Park, Auckland, taken 1957 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1905

From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle

Reference: 1/1-007056-G

Description: Albert Park, Auckland, photographed ca 1905 by Thomas Pringle of Wellington. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Protected, Thos Pringle, Wellington N.Z. 1-10-05; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 529 Albert Park, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1940

From: Abbott, Leonard A, 1923-2007 :Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940 [Facsimile of the New Zealand section of a sketchbook]

Reference: E-819-010

Description: Shows a view with two tall pine trees in the foreground, looking out over a harbour to distant landforms. Other Titles - 8. Auckland. View from Ponsonby Park, 17 May 1940 Extended Title - From his 'Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940', page [10] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy 280 x 180 mm.

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4534

Description: Postcard of Partington's Mill with Eady's Piano Van in front of it and the junction of Queen and Customs Street with Thames Hotel and trams taken by Frederick Radcliffe; statue of Logan Campbell in Cornwall Park; Lake Tarawera taken by Blencowe; Lyttelton harbour taken by Muir & Moodie; and Evans Bay, photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-10.

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-040

Description: Shows tall trees and a flax bush in the foreground, with garden beds and lawns, a few houses on a hill to the left and sailing ships in the harbour in the background. A-161-032/041 and B-064-022 purchased together. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 231 X 175 mm

Date: [ca 1960-1970]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-032

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-070-1

Description: A view of Auckland Hospital from the Domain in 1882 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Auckland Hospital from `Domain' - 19/10/82. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 155 x 240 mm

Date: 1907

Reference: 1/2-002202-F

Description: View of various commercial and industrial buildings in Auckland with Albert Park in the background. Premises that can be seen are: J W Hoare & Co, Alfred Tyree & Co Ltd, DSC, and J Hodgson Woollen Merchant. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1929

By: Donner, Tibor Karl, 1907-1993

Reference: A-128-013

Description: View of the whole frontage of the building seen from between tall tree trunks in the left foreground, a bed of flowers and a cabbage tree in the right foreground. The artist "Tib" Donner was Auckland City Architect and a friend of architect Cedric Firth's Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 257 x 309 mm

Date: 1877 - 1983

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-030

Description: The Domain in the foreground, buildings and the harbour in the background Same as C-112-030-a Original watercolour in the Library, measures 420 x 620 mm Publisher's title, not on original Edition of 3000 One of 4 prints issued as `the twenty-eight set of the `Turnbull Prints', with single information sheet ([4] p. ; 30 cm) but without portfolio. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 450 x 630 mm on sheet 450 x 630 mm

Date: January 1991

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6631

Description: Kowhai tree in flower, Shakespear Regional Park, Auckland. Crowd at the release of takahe on Tiritiri Matangi Island. House at 24 Polkinghorne Drive, Manly, Whangaparaoa Peninsula. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: ca 1938-1940

By: McKenzie, Albert Lindsay, active 1940; McKenzie, Andrew E, active 1998

Reference: PA1-o-909

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, showing Haywards substation, Centennial Exhibition, Union Airways aircraft at Rongotai airport, and views of war memorials, other monuments, some buildings and parks and gardens in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. There are also some scenic views of rivers and landscape, and one photograph of bee keepers at work on hives. Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, the father of the donor, was born in Christchurch. He started an apprenticeship as a process art engraver, which was interrupted by World War 2, and never completed. He returned to Christchurch after the war. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: February 1957, 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7669

Description: Transparencies comprising an aerial view of Ellerslie Race Course, Parnell Rose Garden, Parnell Park, and Judges Bay, Auckland City, taken 1957-1958 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: [ca 1890-1936]

By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917

Reference: PAColl-0718

Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).