Places

Date: 1860-1900

By: Masterton Historical Society

Reference: PAColl-7329

Description: Photographs of Masterton including: Bannister's farm on the north bank of the Waipoua River at Akura with Charles Bannister standing on the bank; the militia of 1866, presenting arms, led by Captain Walter Perry (all names given in the caption); the Coles' house on Bridge Street (now Queen Street) and a studio portrait of what may be the Coles family; views of Queen Street; a crowd in the street for the opening of the new Post Office with the Public Institute behind it; a sale of sheep at the saleyards; a procession by friendly societies past the Prince of Wales stables; James Wrigley and his family outside his bootmaking business; James Wrigley and his wife and son John; a cart travelling over the Te Ore Ore bridge; the Anglican church; the first Post Office next to Iorn's Bannister store ca 1856; panoramic views of the town; the Waipoua River near the site of the old Kaikokirikiri Pa; Masterton school picnic at Woodroofe's farm; a painting of Worksop Farm owned by the Dixons by Charles Barraud; a band and procession on Queen Street passing Westlake's saddlery and Winzenberg's photography shop; Masterton's first band outside the Royal Hotel with E Braggins, the licencee and conductor (other names given on the reverse of the print); a ballast train coming from the ballast pit near the railway train with men standing on the carts; the Wrigley family in a field of cattle at their farm; a baby show; an 1854 land receipt for a section purchased by Iorns; a group of eighteen blacksmiths holding their implements; Liberal Party celebrations at Solway Show Grounds after the 1905 election with Seddon, Ward and others (named on the reverse of the print); William Hodgson Donald; Sergeant Price of the Masterton police; Donald Solway Donald; Mr and Mrs Charles Dixon; W W McCardle; and a tinsmith, one of the early residents. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Processing information: Negatives were allocated at 1/2-003434 to 1/2-003471 and 003673 to 003674 (duplicate at 1/2-004343) although only sixteen of these were made. Replacement negatives for two images at 1/2-132742 and 151351. 1/1-000763 to 1/1-000778 may also relate to this collection.

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1905-1906

By: Lower Hutt City Libraries

Reference: PAColl-7461

Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of Casa Loma, Mayor Andrews' house on Western Hills, Lower Hutt, ca 1905. Photograph of Stillingfleet, Kingdon Estate homestead, taken ca 1906. Arrangement: Prints at PAColl-D-1077 and PAColl-D-1078 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 10 April 1968

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

Reference: EP/1968/1580-F

Description: Houses in Kingston Heights, Wellington, destroyed by the Wahine storm, photographed 10 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0811-09-13

Description: 4 houses built for early settlers to the Wairarapa (architects: unknown). Images taken in the 1950s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [188-?-190-?]

By: Ferguson, A P (Mrs), active 1967

Reference: PAColl-0045

Description: Photographs of military forces, Wellington and members of the Wellington Kennel Club, taken ca 1880s-1900. Photographs of members of B, D and F Battery of an artillery regiment taken at the Military Tournament at Hutt Race Course on 9th November 1891. They are standing or kneeling with their swords and their insignia can be seen on their arms. Portrait of the 1st New Zealand Contingent, taken November 1899 by Feeney Photo. Two men in naval uniform and one possibly in a mounted rifles uniform outside a tent ca 1890s. The names given are Campbell and Bell (naval) and Moorhouse. Men of an artillery regiment at the Military Tournament at Hutt Race Course in 1891 next to a wheeled gun. The names given are: Brown, Grise(?), Perrin, Burn, Tuckey, Howe, Tineman(?), Johnston, Jeffreys. The Education Board Offices on Mercer Street of which the Technical School occupied the second storey ca 1889 with a number of people in the yard outside. View along looking south along Lambton Quay with shops on the right including E Barber. House on sub-division 29-31 in Northland, Wellington ca 1878 View of the Wellington Club on The Terrace. Photograph of Government House, taken 1890 Photograph of NZ Loan & Mercantile Agency, Wellington Photograph of Anglican Cathedral, Christchurch Photograph of Cook & Co, land agents, Wellington Source of title - Title supplied by Library For other photographs of artillery regiments at the Military Tournament see PAColl-0731 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: ca 1890-1911

Reference: PAColl-7376

Description: Photographs of Khandallah: from Aplin's farm looking south west with Woodmancote Road centre left; from behind Gorsy Knob looking south with the Presbyterian Church at the junction of Khandallah and Cockayne Roads on the left and the Catholic Church at the end of the row of houses centre right - the former Anglican Babies' Home was in the trees to the right of Presbyterian Church April 1911; from the school, Clark Street in the foreground and the Catholic Church in the centre April 1911; from near the top of Box Hill looking north with a house on Woodmancote Road and others in the distance on Baroda Street; from near the top of Box Hill with Burma Road in the centre and Rangoon Street running to the top right; Aplin's farm from Sunnybank with Burma Road running across the centre with Maldive Street at right angles; and from Te Kainga (top of Jubilee Road) looking west. Others are entered as child records. Photographer unidentified. The image at 1/2-003774 (not included in this collection) is Crompton Smith (PAColl-4073) so this collection may be related. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003765 to 003773 and 003775 to 003779 Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: Ca 1950

From: Koppel, Irene, 1914-2004 :Photographic prints, albums and negatives taken by Irene Koppel

Reference: 35mm-35098-F

Description: Exterior and interior views of a house at Pinehaven, Upper Hutt, designed by Charles Fearnley. Photographs taken ca 1950 by Irene Koppel. Photograph published in Design Review v 3 no 2, September - October 1950. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 6 images. Physical Description: Film negative

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1905 to 1907

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 6 July 1964

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

Reference: EP/1964/2253-F

Description: View looking south-west from and apartment block along Oriental Parade towards Oriental Terrace, showing Oriental Bay and the Band Rotunda at right. Construction cranes can be seen on a building site at centre. Photograph taken 6 July 1964 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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: 1896 - 1936 - 1958 - 1902

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936; Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1232/1249

Description: Three plans of the "Wharenui" apartments at Oriental Bay. 15 plans of the grounds at Athletic Park, Rintoul Street, Wellington, showing site filling and digging, the grandstand at its extensions, the urinal and dressing sheds, the turnstile gates, the cycle track and extensions to the grounds in 1902. Quantity: 18 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes vary

Date: 1967 - 1979

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-005/007

Description: 1979 drawings for a new carport; 1969 extensions with an additonal bedroom with en-suite bathroom; 1967 original? plans for the house showing bedroom fittings and the door to the porch Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, sizes vary

Date: 1928

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-061-058/063

Description: Includes floor plans, sections and elevations, with larger details of some parts, a foundation plan and kitchen fittings. November 2016: added information from researcher: Existing at 95 Clyde Street, Island Bay Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on waxed linen paper, 557 x 730 mm.

Date: 1947-1948

From: New Zealand. Ministry of Education :Photographs from the Ministry of Works Library

Reference: PA1-q-940

Description: Photographs of regional plans, town plans, and architectural drawings of future city developments. Included is a plan showing urban development in the Wellington region, development plans for Upper Hutt, plans for the establishment and development of Porirua including an architects drawing of a proposed town centre, development plans for Johnsonville incuding an architects drawing of a proposed community and shopping area for the suburb, and some of the panels from the Wellington Architectural Centre's "Te Aro Replanned Project" exhibition of 1947/1948. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(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).