Places
Places related to your search results. This map shows just part of our unpublished collections – there's more coming as we add location information to records. Learn how to use the map.
McLean album
Date: [Early 1880s?]
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912
Reference: PA1-q-153
Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm
Webster album 3
Date: [1880s-1900s?]
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By: Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-518
Description: Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context. Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm
Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916: Views of the The Spa Hotel, Taupo
Date: [ca 1900]
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916
Reference: PAColl-6486
Description: Two views of The Spa Hotel, Taupo surrounded by trees with some people on the driveways. The intials JM appear at the bottom right of one of the images which indicates that Josiah Martin was the photographer. The reference numbers on the images are 347 and 347a. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-002892 to 002893 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
Bethune album
Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA1-f-013
Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Date: [ca 1885-1945]
By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: PAColl-0422
Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
Album 4
Date: 1886
From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 : Tarawera eruption, 1886
By: Blythe, John Cunningham, -1892; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916
Reference: PA1-o-122
Description: Photographs mostly taken in the area of Mount Tarawera after the 1886 eruption, showing the extreme changes to the landscape. Chiefly taken by Charles Spencer and J C Blythe, members of the survey party led by Stephenson Percy Smith. Some are taken by photographer Josaiah Martin [possibly not a member of the survey team]. The album includes one image of a boiling acid lake on White Island. A hand-printed index can be found at the beginning of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green linen cover with dark green leather spine and coners, spine title "Photographs. Tarawera eruption 1886. Presented by M. Crompton Smith. Vol. 15". 26 x 31 cm
Creator of collection unknown: Photographs relating to Dalmatian gum diggers, life on t...
Date: 1884-1968
By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal; Sefton, William John, -1951; Auckland weekly news (Newspaper); Messenger, Derek, active 1968; Hutchings, Frank, active 1914
Reference: PAColl-2144
Description: Includes gum industry operations in Northland and Auckland; New Year festival, 1911; a wedding group, 1913; Queen Carnival at Dargaville, 1915; picnic in Dargaville, ca 1935; Dargaville Yugoslav Social Club group, ca 1936. Some photos in this collection are copied from holdings in Auckland Public Library and Auckland Institute and Museum. Many of the people in the photos are identified by name. Collection may be associated with John Mark Totich Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 51 b&w copy photographic print(s). 2 colour copy photographic print(s).
Photographs, chiefly taken in New Zealand
Date: [ca 1890s]
From: Onslow, William Hillier, Earl of, 1853-1911 : Photographs, chiefly taken in New Zealand
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936
Reference: PAColl-0380-1
Description: Photographs, taken circa 1890s, chiefly in New Zealand. Includes portraits of Maori taken by Henry Wright at Karaka Bay, Wellington. Portraits taken by Wright are at PAColl-0380-1-02 to PAColl-0380-1-04, and at PAColl-0380-1-07 to PAColl-0380-1-15. Other photographers unidentified. Includes portraits of Hoani Taipua Te Puna-i-rangiriri, Kereopa Takumaru, Heni te Rei, Wi Parata Te Kakakura, Maraku, Tamikaua Te Hoia. (Note that names have been transcribed from the backs of the prints and many contain errors.) Other portraits unidentified. Includes 3 photographs by Josiah Martin. Includes 4 photographs taken of Sri Lanka. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s).
Martin album
Date: [1880s]
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908
Reference: PA1-o-334
Description: According to the inscription inside the front cover (by an unidentified person), the date is firmly established as 1884, however the album has a number of photographs of the Tarawera area, both before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. These include views of the White Terraces, one of which has a group of Maori cooking food in the hot pools; a carved house at Te Wairoa, showing interior and exterior before the eruption, and the exterior afterwards; a group of Maori at Te Ariki (one of the places most devastated in the eruption with the loss of many lives. This image has the inscription `Natives of te Ariki first to be killed by eruption'); views of Mount Tarawera covered in mud and ash; and the Old Mill, destroyed in the eruption. Many of the images have the signature initials J.M. (Josiah Martin), and a few have the initials F.A.C (Frank Arnold Coxhead) who may have taken them, but which may just have been printed by him. The last few views are in Tasmania, including Burnie - Emu Bay, and the Guide Falls, near Burnie. Inscriptions: Album page - `Ex libris Brent Gration-Maxfield. 1967'; Album page - `New Zealand. 1884. An early series of 46 4to sepia photographs of New Zealand views. The date, 1884, is firmly established by the letter opposite [attached to album page. Unsigned and undated], which refers to both the album and G.A. Sala's visit in 1884 (see the D.N.B.) to New Zealand to gather information for his book "The land of the golden fleece" which was published in 1885' Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, leather corners and spine; 25.5 x 22.5 cm
Walsh album 1
Date: 1882-1890
From: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914 :Photograph albums
By: Foy Brothers (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Pulman (Firm); Scowen, Charles T, active 1870s-1890s
Reference: PA1-q-255
Description: Album of views in Auckland, Thames, Coromandel and Papanui (all New Zealand), Norfolk Island, Egypt (including the Suez Canal), Aden, Bombay, Ceylon (including Colombo), Victoria (including Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne), Kilkenny, Paris, Bordeaux and London. The photographs were collected by Philip Walsh, and include photographic copies by Josiah Martin of paintings by Walsh himself. The photographers include Josiah Martin (Auckland), Foy Brothers (Thames), Pulman (Auckland), and Charles T Scowen (Colombo). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album, impressed with black and gold pattern; 35 x 27 cm