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Photographer unknown: Views of New Plymouth, Taranaki and Dunedin
Date: [ca 1890s]
Reference: PAColl-7053
Description: Views mostly in and around New Plymouth but including clergymen gathered for Archdeacon Govett's jubilee in 1898, crowds in Pukekura Park for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubliee in 1897 and a Floral Fete in 1896, a homestead called Tokotahi near the Tiraumea River in Pahiatua County, the old mountain house on Mount Taranaki, and an area called Grant's Braes (now Waverley) in Dunedin. All the views are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002136 to 002173 Quantity: 38 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film 1/2 plate copy negatives
Field album 6
Date: 1894-1897
From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
Reference: PA1-q-078
Description: Family photographs of the William Hughes Field family, their home in Everton Terrace, Wellington, with views of Wellington and the harbour taken from various streets nearby. One group of images taken from Kelburn Park in February 1897 show the ship (with an escorting flotilla) in which Lord Glasgow was leaving New Zealand after his term as Governor of New Zealand. A few images show scenes in Christchurch. The yacht `Sunbeam' (privately owned by Lord Brassey) is shown in Wellington Harbour in a number of views. Several photographs shows areas on the outskirts of Wellington. Views fom Pukerua of the hills to the north and Kapiti Island; Otaihanga (with one of a Maori family at their home); Upper Hutt, showing Mr and Mrs Sarjeant's backyard, Mr and Mrs Barber's orchard, and two views of a farm owned by Mr [Martin?]; the coast at Island Bay, and fishermen and their huts at Island Bay. Signature of William Hughes Field is found inside the front cover `W. Hughes Field. 1895' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey album with black corners and spine, entitled `Photographs. W.H. Field. Index'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm
Field album 9
Date: [1870s-1880s?]
From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
Reference: PA1-q-081
Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm
Nairn album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]
From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji
By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)
Reference: PA1-o-359
Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm
West Indies and New Zealand album
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1890s]
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Bourne and Shepherd (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-265
Description: Album of images taken by various photographers, some of whom are identified, probably between 1870 and 1899. Views of New Zealand (tourist scenes of the South Island include the West Coast, Queenstown-Lakes District; and of the North Island include thermal areas around Lake Rotomahana, Ohinemutu, and Wairakei). These are interspersed with scenes in the West Indies, India, and Australia. Names of places shown in the album are listed above. Pages 29-30 show images of "SS Tarawera" in Wet Jacket Arm. Pages 30-32 show views of one or possibly two ships. The names in pencilled captions are not clear. The ship on page 30 appears to have the name RMSS Rune [or Rane, or Rome], but on page 32 that name is crossed out and appears to be RMSS Shamun? However the name on page 31 appears more like RMSS Shannon, and photographs of the Shannon appear very like the full image in this album on page 30, in which the ship is sailing through "the canal". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cover, black corners and spine, entitled "L.H.[?]. West Indies and New Zealand"; 37.5 x 27.5 cm
Holder album 1
Date: [Between 1863 and 1872]
From: Holder, Miss: Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-f-030
Description: Album of undated photographs taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, owned by `Miss Holder' (her name printed facing page 1) Scenes are all of the North Island, in particular Bay of Islands, Thames, Rotorua, Taupo, Waikato and Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound album entitled `New Zealand views'; 30.5 x 42.0 cm
Kinsey album
Date: [1890s]
From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering
By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Inglis, Charles, active 1894
Reference: PA1-q-137
Description: Album includes scenic photographs of areas in the region of the Southern Alps, including panoramas and closer views of mountains, valleys, rivers and glaciers. Many photographs show groups of men and women, many of whom are identified, camping and climbing in the Southern Alps area. Also shown are scenes of The Hermitage at Mount Cook (one of which shows a bullock team for transporting stores, and another which shows Frayne's coach leaving Mount Cook); views of the Birch Hill Station; and Ball Hut (with a curtained-off area as a "ladies' compartment"). Many of the photographs were taken by Joseph James Kinsey, some also by Arthur Paul Harper, Charles Inglis, and Kinsey's daughter May. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover; 37.5 x 29.5 cm
Mundy album 3
Date: 1868, 1871 etc
By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881
Reference: PA1-f-041
Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm
Mundy album 1
Date: Between 1860 and 1870
By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881
Reference: PA1-f-039
Description: Photographs of New Zealand, both North and South Islands, taken by Daniel Mundy between 1860 and 1870. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p. 51). The views include a number in the Thames goldfields, with scenes of gold batteries, miners' huts, and a tramway. Mundy includes two rivers which are now differently named, the Tekihe River [i.e. Taheke River], and Tiremakau River [i.e. Taramakau River]. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover; spine title "New Zealand scenery, 1860-80. Mundy. 4638-4685"
"New Zealand Views, 1881"
Date: 1881
From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums
By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Smith, John Stace, active 1880
Reference: PA1-f-186
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
McWhannell album 1
Date: [1890s to 1910s]
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-o-550
Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken in the South Island, except for one view of `Woodcroft', the home of Dr John Kinder in Arney Road, Remuera from about 1880 until his death in 1903. Many of the South Island views are related to early surveyors William Duncan Ross McCurdie and his wife Olga McCurdie, and Ernest Herbert Wilmot, who were surveying land near Tahakopa, Tautuku, McLennan Valley and the Catlins. Several show the homes of early settlers in the Tahakopa Valley. Of particular interest are a view of women voting at their first election at Tahakopa (28.11.1893); one of an early settler's first home at Tahakopa; the first boat sailing up to Mr McCurdie's camp; and a group of horsemen on a beach, parading before going to war (1914). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light maroon cover, darker spine and corners; 25 x 20 cm
Photographs
Date: 1870s-1902
From: Mueller family :Photographs
By: Browne, Charles Pelham, -1916; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-4363-1
Description: Photographs of group including Richard Seddon taken by C P Browne; the US transit of Venus observatory at Queenstown; Granny's hut at Bluff Harbour; bridge over the Shotover River at Arthur's Point; a group including Gerhard Mueller; gold miners next to a river at Orepuki; and a group of Land Commisioners taken in 1902 and including Thomas Humphries, Gerhard Mueller, Mackenzie, Major Richardson, D Barron, G J Roberts, F W Bronte, T S Weston, Marchant, Dr Giles, H McCardell, Col N Y A Wales (taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns); a man using surveying equipment; group including Jakob Luper Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints