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Date: [ca 1914]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000736-G

Description: View of the fountain in Albert Park. A woman nearby with children, and two men are looking at the fountain. Houses in Princes Street can be seen on the lefthandside. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Albert Park. Auckland. 717. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: ca 1910

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-002884-G

Description: Looking at the original Arts Building, Auckland University College, from Albert Park. Taken by an Auckland Star staff photographer circa 1930. Designed by American born architect, Roy Alston Lippincott. The design won a competition in 1920, and was built from 1923 to 1926. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006

Description: Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1942

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0064

Description: The Mayor of Auckland, J A C Allum, photographed with a group of officials at the entrance to the Albert Park Tunnel. Photographed in October 1942 by the Weekly News. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970-1973, 1975

From: Oettli, Max Christian, 1947-: Photographs of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PADL-000094

Description: Photographs of farms, parks and gardens, taken 1970-1973 and 1975 by Max Oettli. Includes scenes in Albert Park and Auckland Domain, soccer game, tractor in Huntly, bamboo in Bay of Islands, cows on a farm, ferns at Titirangi, flax, people flying kites, beach scene at Mission Bay, nasturtiums, smoke house in Bay of Plenty, and Whakarewarewa. Arrangement: Photographs were originally in an electronic folder labelled 'farms,parks&gardens' Quantity: 21 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1914]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001643-G

Description: View of the fountain in Albert Park. A woman is sitting on the edge of the fountain and two men are walking along paths nearby. Auckland Hospital can be seen on the horizon, and Mount Eden can be seen in the distance to the right. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Fountain. Albert Park. Auckland. No 337. P.P.Co. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 07 Dec 2013-27 Jan 2014

From: Oettli, Max Christian, 1947-: Photographs of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PADL-001324

Description: Electronic scans of black and white photographs showing scenes taken in parks, farms, and gardens. Taken between 1966 and 1975 by Max Oettli. Includes photographs taken in Auckland Region: the fountain in Albert Park, youth at 'Jumping Sunday' in Albert Park 1969; familes picnicking, the Wintergardens, and lotus leaves on a pond, Auckland Domain; the underside of the wharf in Herne Bay; native bush, Kauri tree trunks, Titirangi; gravestones in Grafton Cemetery; Grey Lynn Park; trees in Myers Park; and people throwing peanuts for a monkey in a zoo cage [probably Auckland Zoo]. Includes photographs taken in Waikato Region: a field of cows (taken from a moving train); an elderly couple in the vegetable garden of their house, Frankton; and two women driving their trotting sulkies down a country road. Includes scenes taken on Great Barrier Island showing Michael Volkering, Rene Wilson, Margery Corneau, and Virginia Edmone tramping in the rain, hanging out at a hut, and Volkering standing inside a fenced plot. Includes photographs showing: a letterbox labelled 'P.Garden' in a field; nasturtiums (taken at Ohope); shadowy trees (taken at Rotorua); Suzy Reid lying on a slope of long grass; a kiwi symbol and commemorative plaque for NZI Insurance on a watergarden rock wall; and a Citroen Light 15 car (owned by Tony Haszard) and a cloud reflection (taken through a car sun visor). Source of description - information on file names by Max Oettli Arrangement: Files were delivered to the Library within a folder titled 'NZ 1967-75 2013 series' and subfolder 'farms parks gardens' Quantity: 25 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2064-F

Description: Panoramic view of Auckland city taken from the parapet of St Matthew's Church in Federal Street. Rangitoto Island and Auckland harbour are seen on the far left. Wellesley Street runs down the hill centre left towards the Auckland Art Gallery with Albert Park to the left of the gallery. Partington's Mill is seen near the horizon on the right, with Mount Eden behind. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Auckland from St. Matthew's Church, No. 1. New Zealand; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Auckland from St. Mathews [i.e. Matthews]. 25; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 136.6 cm