Places

Date: 1913-1922

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-228

Description: Views of Lake Rotoma, Hamurana Creek, and the Sanatorium gardens, Rotorua; Pukekura Park, New Plymouth; friends and houses in Napier; all 1916. Photographs of "Greenhill" homestead near Hastings, its gardens, and a group of visitors. Also "Ben Lomond" a house on the hill at Napier, its gardens and owners. All photographed in October 1921. Harold and Mabsie Hislop's house "Clovelly" at Wadestown, its gardens, and visiting friends. All photographed in 1916. A holiday at the Hermitage which included climbing trips and views of the Southern Alps. Photographs taken on board HMS New Zealand, and a view of ships stranded in Wellington Harbour by the waterside strike. Two photographs of a golfer on the Miramar golf course. All taken in 1913. Photographs of young women at Days Bay photographed in 1922 Inscriptions: Album page - `Wishing you very happy returns of this day, Aug. 18th 1916. With love, Dorice' (At end of album, upside-down) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red suede cover, entitled `Album. H.S.H.', containing platinum and silver gelatin prints; 18 x 34 cm

Date: [1880s - 1890s?] and [1920s?]

From: Iorns, Bennett, 1883-1977 :Photographs relating to Masterton and the Wairarapa

Reference: PA1-o-244

Description: A pocket inside the front cover of this album contains 23 loose photographs of landscapes in New Zealand, many of them Government Publicity Photos. In the South Island various views show Milford and the Milford Track, Tasman Glacier, Mount Cook, and the Buller Gorge. In the North Island there are several views of a group of fallow deer near Featherston; two of geysers at Whakarewarewa; and two of caves in the Waitomo Cave system, showing the underground river in the Aranui Cave, and stalactites in the Ruakuri cave. The main body of the album contains older photographs, circa 1890s, of townscapes in the Wairarapa. Two scenes show groups of Maori performers, one of a posed group of men and women, some holding taiaha and mere; the other of a group of young girls dancing on a podium. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with imitation crocodile skin cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26 x 33 cm

Date: Dec 1900-Mar 1904

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: MSY-4600

Description: A journal kept by Ranfurly's chief aide-de-camp, Dudley Alexander. Most of the journal comprises his illustrated letters to his sister Alice. This give detailed descriptions of places, various events and travels, people met and observed, historical anecdotes and more as Alexander accompanies the Governor, the Governor's family, politicians and others around New Zealand. The accounts are profusely illustrated with artworks, photographs, newspaper clippings and other mementoes of Alexander's travels. The events and adventures described are: A cruise on the Government steamer `Hinemoa' to New Zealand's sub-antarctic islands, 27 December 1900 to 21 January 1900. Included are sketches by Alexander, plant specimens, newspaper clippings and a photograph of the `Hinemoa'. A March 1901 tour on the Governor's train through the central North Island to Lake Taupo. A April 1901 tour by horse and train from Auckland to Wellington via Tauranga, Kati Kati, Paeroa, Te Kuiti, Mokau, New Plymouth, Opunake and Hawera, with accompanying map and photographs. A December 1901-January 1902 second visit to the sub-antarctic islands on the "SS Tutanekai". On this visit Ranfurly was accompanied by his wife and by the artist C N Worsley. Accompanying the account are sketch maps by Alexander, watercolours by Lady Ranfurly and Worsley, a sketch of an seabird by Dr Wilson of the Antarctic `Discovery' expedition, and a photograph of Alexander and Lady Ranfurly shooting seabirds. An account of a excursion on the Tasman Glacier, 12-16 February with Lady Ranfurly, with a watercolour sketch of Alexander by Lady Ranfurly, sketch maps and photographs. A March 1902 excursion to Mount Cook through central Otago, where Alexander describes the gold fields at length, Alexandra and Dunedin, illustrated with sketches, photographs, a map, and a small gold nugget. A railway journey on the lines south of Auckland, through Waingaro and Cambridge and on to Rotorua and surrounding districts, through the King Country and back to Auckland, accompanied by photographs and newspaper clippings. A drive through inland Victoria, Australia, in November 1902. A fishing expedition to the Opihi River near Timaru. A April-March 1903 expedition on the Tasman Glacier with photographs. Clippings relating to the Antarctic `Discovery' expedition of 1901-1903, with a sketch map by Alexander and a 23 March letter from Edward Evans of the expedition. A May 1903 railway journey to Rotorua from Auckland, with sketches and photographs of Tarawera and thermal areas, and on to Te Aroha and then to Te Kuiti, Waimarino and surrounding areas. Their are extensive photographs of and sketches of the party, the thermal areas and of a Maori whare inspected at Te Kuiti. A February excursion on the `Hinemoa' to Collingwood, Karamea, Westport, Greymouth, and back to Nelson. A journey through the Urewera ranges to Ruatoki to talk with Tuhoe leaders, with extensive photographs of the expedition. This expedition is also covered in a photograph album. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1895

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

Reference: PA1-q-137-36

Description: Top photograph (PA1-q-137-36-1) view of the head of the Tasman Glacier from the Hochstetter Glacier. In the background can be seen the Rudolf Glacier, De la Beche, the Minarets, Elie de Beaumont, Lendenfeld Saddle, and the Hochstetter Dome Bottom photograph (PA1-q-137-36-2) view of the Male Brun Range and Mount Chudleigh, Canterbury Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two silver gelatin photographic prints mounted on album page 360 x 260 mm (page size)

Date: 1861

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-083

Description: Shows a range of mountains with glaciers. Labels mountains in the distance: Mt Delabeche, Mt Tyndal, Mt Darwin? On verso of C-097-083-1 Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, plate 17. See also copy by N Chevalier, same title (National Art Gallery) reproduced in Day, M.N. "Nicholas Chevalier" (page 47) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 430 mm.