Places

Date: 1975

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1975

Description: Includes calendars: Seatrans Consolidated (NZ) Limited, December 1974-January 1976. (Art work is six colour reproductions of plates from Walter Buller's `A History of the Birds of New Zealand' supplied by the Turnbull Library). (2 copies). Palmerston North 1975 Calendar. (Art work consists of six black and white reproductions of pen drawings by Wilhelmina G Irving). (2 copies). Chatham Islands Jockey Club Centennial, 1874-1974 - December 1974-January 1976. (Six reproductions of colour photographs of Chatham Islands scenes by an unidentified photographer). (2 copies). Wellington 1975 Calendar. (Six black and white reproductions of pen drawings by Wilhelmina G Irving). The National Bank of Australasia Ltd. (Art work consists of 13 colour prints of suburban scenes in early Australia from 1827-1885 by various artists). The Pelorus Press Ltd [Auckland] - December 1974-January 1976, plus a calendar for 1976 in small print at the back. Auckland City Art Gallery: calendar for August 1975 to July 1976. (Art work is a colour reproduction of `Fishing in the Spring' by Vincent Van Gogh). Quantity: 7 calendars, and 3 duplicates.. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 1999-2000 - 29 Oct 1999 - 20 May 2002

By: Selby, Rachael Ann, 1949-; Richmond, Joanna Mary, 1946-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHColl-0673

Description: Maori and Pakeha were interviewed for this project, which looks at the history of Otaki and the lives of ten of its community. Language - mainly English but possibly some Maori within interviews by Rachael Selby Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Interviewer(s) - Rachael Selby Interviewer(s) - Jan Richmond Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011052 - 011064 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 10 printed abstract(s) and accompanying photos and material. 10 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Several photocopies of photos accompany documentation Search dates: 1930 - 2000

Date: 21 October 1998

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1998/3358-F

Description: Aerial view of the Waikanae River and adjacent flooding, Waikanae, and Kapiti Island. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford 21 October 1998. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: 14 March 1968

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1968/1133-F

Description: View of Courtenay Place, Wellington, and Downstage Theatre from the Embassy Theatre Building. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 14th of March 1968. Photograph taken to show the Downstage Theatre site in context which was thought to be the most favoured location for the new Hannah Playhouse. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960]-1972

By: Thorn, Benji, active 2005

Reference: PAColl-8161

Description: Photographs taken on holiday trips in the South Island. Cities and towns include Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Greymouth, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Tarras, and Queenstown. Many houses and public buildings have been recorded. There are views of the sounds, beaches, countryside, lakes, and people. One of the sequences records a tramp on the Heaphy Track in 1968. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 377 colour original transparency/ies 35mm colour slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm Provenance: These slides are part of a collection purchased by a friend of the donor at an estate auction in Lower Hutt in 1998. All that the donor knew was that the photographer was a woman. He received the slides from his friend.

Date: 1940s-1960s

By: Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996; Bull, Lui, active 1998

Reference: PA-Group-00595

Description: The main subject areas include ships, birds (especially sea birds), trees, native forest, places in the form of pastoral landscapes, coastal views, towns and historical buildings. There are sequences of Maori and Pakeha doing crafts, mainly weaving and dying. One sequence of Maori weaving records the process from the cutting and preparation of the flax to the finished product. There are also family portraits and groups, and photographs of friends. A number of photographs were taken to build up a resource of natural textures and patterns such as driftwood, river boulders, and clouds. The subject range of the collection can be accessed through George Bull's card index. The original envelope sequence numbers relating to this can be followed in the negative registers. There are in fact colour negs among the mass of black and white negatives Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-009786, 015246, 082104-F to 083126-F; 1/4-83685-F to 1/4-85607-F; 1/4-87126-F to 1/4-88982-F; 1/4-120202 to 1/4-120218; 1/2-180428 to 180478 and 181299 to 181356; 1/2-233415. Also at 35mm 23691 to 23744; 25047 to 25451; 25617 to 25862; 35mm-91811 to 35mm-91837. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) handcoloured. 5637 b&w original negative(s) Of which 724 are 35mm neg strips comprising 1,953 images.

Date: 5 March 1988

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1988/1061-F

Description: A police officer inspects the street outside a policeman's fire-damaged house, Masterton, New Zealand. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson 5 March 1988. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1880s-1999

From: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6884-3

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery sent to Douglas Lilburn by friends and family members. The members of the Order of New Zealand photographed in 1988. Views of Ascot Street, Thorndon, Wellington, which include Lilburn's house, and photographs of a building in Newtown, Wellington. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1933-1942

From: Pearson, Alfred William, fl 1924-1949 :Photographs relating to the New Zealand Navy

Reference: PAColl-8948-1

Description: Pumpkin Cottage, Trentham. St John's Anglican Church, Trentham. Trentham Military Camp. Heretaunga Railway station. Military parade of naval personnel. An ANZAC Day commemoration at the Wellington Cenotaph. Naval personnel with members of a Maori concert party. Sailors at Maritius and New Caledonia. Naval boarding party on deck. Portraits of Alfred William Pearson. HMS Leander, june 1940. Two group photographs taken at reunions, probably in the 1950s. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943, [ca 1963]

By: Cook, Rodney, 1930-

Reference: PAColl-8596

Description: Photographs of hydroelectric power plants on the Waikato River, at Ohakuri, Waipapa and Aratiatia. Other photographs show the permanent villages at Maraitai and Wairakei, and in particular the community halls built for those villages. The photographs were taken ca 1963 by a Ministry of Works staff photographer. Also included are photographs of Aratiatia power station taken by Rod Cook. Collection also includes aerial photographs of Auckland taken during World War II by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Some of these photographs were progress photographs to send to the Head Office Hydro Design in Wellington, but most were taken for a display of Government architectural design work. The Ministry of Works operational centre was at Mangakino, with later a construction group at Aratiatia. Rodney Cook was project architect at Mangakino and then Aratiatia from 1961 to 1964. The photographs were probably all taken in 1963. (Info from Rodney Cook). Quantity: 136 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 8 November 1994

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1994/3397-F

Description: View of flooding in Kilbirnie Crescent, Kilbirnie, Wellington. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson on the 8th of November 1994. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1989]

By: Burton, Michael, active 1992

Reference: PA-Group-00393

Description: Transparencies of Eketahuna scenes, taken ca 1989 by Mike Burton to provide the same views of the town as depicted in Christopher Aubrey's 1891 paintings. Also includes views of Eketahuna School. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies strips with 12 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 120

Date: ca1910-ca1920

By: Porteous family

Reference: PAColl-7595

Description: Comprises photographs, probably taken by John Porteous, relating to his educational activities (mostly in native schools) and family. The localities are in the Gisborne Region and include Tikitiki, Tuparoa, and Reporua. Specifically, one group of photographs record a rugby match between Tikitiki and Rangitukia schools, and two others show Reporua school children collecting driftwood from the beach and participating in an Arbour Day celebration in 1912. There are a general views of Reporua and Tuparoa and one of Reporua School. Other images are of people grouped in front of unidentified meeting houses. There is also a view of East Cape, unidentified landscapes one with a bridge, a midden of human bones, and a group of Fijians in traditional dress The negatives are family photographs Arrangement: Negative at 1/4-107919-G to 1/4-107961-G Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 44 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1079 - Transfer from Porteous family papers (MS-Group-1079).

Date: 1900 - 1979

By: Jones, William Robert, 1930-2009

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Jones

Description: Includes postcards of: Denniston Incline, Buller Gorge road, Cape Foulwind, Cape Foulwind houses, Tunnell in Buller Gorge, Loading coal at Westport, Palmerston Street Westport, Little Hawk's Crag in Buller Gorge, Granity, Lyell Bridge, Roman Catholic Church at Westport, Millerton, Wesport entrance, Bradshaw's Creek Westport. Quantity: 9 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographs and offset prints, on postcards, sizes varying aroun 90 x 140 mm.

Date: March 1987

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1987/1016-F

Description: Child on tricycle at a point where the footpath has been broken by an earth quake at Edgecumbe. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson in March 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1928-1932]

By: McBride, Denise, active 2001; McBride, Megan, active 2001

Reference: PAColl-6359

Description: Photographs of Brooklyn, and views of the city from Brooklyn. Many of the photographs include parts of Central Park, and streets such as Brooklyn Road, Tanera Crescent, and Ohiro Road. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-182006-F to 1/2-182019-F, and 1/2-182020-G to 1/2-182024-G Quantity: 19 b&w original negative(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film and glass negatives, dye coupler print Provenance: Donated by Denise and Megan McBride, Havelock North, 2001

Date: 1940

By: Abbott, Leonard A, 1923-2007

Reference: E-819

Description: A spiral bound sketchbook containing 16 black and white photocopies and two loose colour laser copies from Leonard Abbott's 1940 sketchbook, made during his voyages during the second World War. The sketches include ship portraits of the M.V. 'Waiwera', sketches of the Panama Canal, views of Auckland city buildings, Cheltenham Beach at Devonport, Auckland from Ponsonby park, The Bluff and other hills at Napier, hills at the Wellington Harbour heads, a view of Wellington Railway Station and Government buildings from the ship, and a view of Wellington and harbour from the Botanical Gardens. The loose colour laser copies are a ship portrait sketch by Abbott of the M.V. 'Waiwera' and the colour photographic postcard of the same ship at Auckland. Also includes an account of Mr Abbott's first journey to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Photocopies and laser copies in sketchbook 183 x 283 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Leonard A Abbott, Surrey, England, in 2007. Transfers: One copy of the word-processed account, and one diary photocopy to be transferred to Manuscripts..

Date: ca 1992-1995

By: Ercolano, Philippe, -1995

Reference: PA-Group-00673

Description: Roving documentary type photographs of people and events in Aotea Square and on the streets of Central Auckland. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36812 - 35mm, 36841, and 35mm, 36850 - 35mm, 36882 Quantity: 154 b&w original photographic print(s). 83 colour original photographic print(s). 15 colour original negative(s) each negative a 35mm strip. 20 b&w original negative(s) each negative a 35mm strip. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6863 to PA-Group-00673 in 2011.

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-203

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Dunedin - Rattray Street cable car, 1935; Leith Stream; lower Stuart Street; The Exchange looking south; Robert Burns statue in The Octagon; elevated view of St Paul's Cathedral and Dunedin Town Hall; The Centotaph, Queen's Gardens; Otago University, 1931; Dunedin Botanic Gardens; Otago Boys' High School; tram in Princes Street; elevated view looking north along George Street; panoramic view taken from Mornington looking north; aerial view over Mornington showing High Street School, Hawthorne Avenue, Kaituna Bowling Club etc; aerial view showing St Kilda and Forbury Park Trotting Club; Larnach's Castle (taken during the Baptist Union Annual Assembly); Otago Peninsula from above Macandrew Bay looking towards Port Chalmers; wharves at Port Chalmers, 1935; new wing of the Medical School, 1948. Christchurch - Captain Cook's statue, Victoria Square; group under a tree near Bridge of Remembrance; canoeing on the Avon River; Hagley Park; Christchurch Botanic Gardens; Band Rotunda; Cathedral Square; Avon River; Mona Vale; Captain Scott's Statue with Christchurch Club in background; Worcester Street Bridge; Rolleston statue and Canterbury Museum in Rolleston Avenue; Bridge of Remembrance; Christchurch World War One memorial, 1937; Christchurch Hospital, 1941; daffodils beside the Avon; aerial view showing Christ's College, etc; aerial view of Addington Racecourse, 1934 & 1937; aerial view of Christchurch Botanic Garden; Edgar Stead's home, Ilam; hillside suburb showing access path and stone retaining walls; pupils at Fendalton School during PE class, 1948; Kerr's Reach, Burwood, 1949 Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 23 August 1999

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-7993

Description: Photographs of Streets in Ngaio, taken in August 1999 as a millenium project, with sponsorship by Ngaio Pharmacy Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-80140 to 35mm-80169 Quantity: 30 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 108 frames. 108 colour original photographic print(s).