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Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

Date: 1924-1937

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-769

Description: Opens with views of the site of the Arapuni Hydro scheme and the Paturuahine Gorge which was flooded to form Lake Arapuni. This is followed by images of the repairs to the one of the water channels that took place in 1932. The rest are photographs of the dam at various stages of construction, the dam completed, views of the new lake, water flowing over the spillway, and the Arapuni falls created below the dam Two views of Atiamuri show the Pohaturoa Rock in the background Ten images of Stewart's Claim, a location south of Okarito, show scenic views some with gold dredging equipment lying around, a beach and a river estuary on which is a barge loaded with pipes. Eight images record before and after effects of controlled blasting on a limestone bluff at Cobden Quarry, Greymouth, photographed on the 15th of January, 1932 The last section are views of the construction of the Waitaki Hydro, and the new Lake Waitaki. There are also several images of the Mokau Falls at Waikaremoana Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1947-1955

By: Shaw, Geoffrey Conrad, active 1947-1966

Reference: PAColl-6596

Description: 14 photographs of tramping huts and general views: Waerenga hut and Baines hut in the Orongorongo valley; Flora hut on Mt Arthur; ATC huts on Mt Ruapehu and Moumoukai valley; Ketetahi hut on Mt Tongariro; Black Horse Hotel in Nelson; Upper Takaka Hotel, Takaka; a view of Collingwood; two views of the Hutt Valley from the Wainuiomata Hill; band playing in the sound shell at Wellington Botanic Gardens; a street in Kawhia; a hotel in Upper Takaka; and a view of Wellington from Brooklyn. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018137 to 018150 Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1850-1909

By: Baines family

Reference: MS-Papers-1125

Description: Correspondence and diary of William Mortimer Baines who came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. The papers deal with his interests in mining, timber and land. Includes letters from the Fooks, Dixon and Hunt families of Australia. Includes letters from Maryanne Verdon Baines (1859-1869), mostly to her husband after his departure for England. These are concerned to a large extent with her loneliness in Auckland and with plans for her voyage to England. In addition there are a number of letters written in 1869, by Maryanne and William's children, Fanny, Katherine and Rosa. Source of title - Supplied William Mortimer, came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. In 1869 he returned to Britain, although he retained a financial interest in land in New Zealand. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: Early 1950s

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: PAColl-6552

Description: 13 images (and 5 duplicate file prints) of Chateau Tongariro and the nearby roads. Includes the junction of state highways 47 and 48 with a chrysler parked at the side of the road, and one of the Tongariro National Park sign. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015096 to 015108 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

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

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: 1864

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-125

Description: Scenes of East Coast area, Hauraki Gulf, Waikato, Northland and Picton Attribution on stylistic grounds Supplied title. Quantity: 40 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink or ink and wash on paper 135 x 180 mm in album ([68]p.), ¼ dark blue morocco, purple buckram Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Russell Smith of Masterton

Date: 1905

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7465

Description: A train on the railway tracks next to the main street in Ngaruawahia at the corner with Jesmond Street; horses and carts waiting at Hamilton Railway Station with a train at the platform; people on the platform at Frankton Junction Railway Station with an advertisement for Standard Tea on the railway building and a train waiting; and a train at the platform at Mercer Railway Station. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1913, 1920-1932

By: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd

Reference: MS-Papers-5041

Description: Prospecti, draft annual reports, mining and geological survey reports, and newspaper cuttings relevant to a number of gold and coal mining companies Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres.

Date: 1869-1872

By: Turner, Henry James, 1849-1914

Reference: MS-Papers-0253

Description: Outward correspondence from Cambridge, Waikato where Turner worked as a stockrider and on a flax mill, written to his mother and brother in England. The letters include references to economic and agricultural conditions and to the shortage of Anglican clergy in New Zealand, with some emphasis in troubled relations existing between Maori and Pakeha, and on the system of unofficial land sale Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1900 - 1928

By: Chappell, George A, active 1900-1928?

Reference: PAColl-3076

Description: Includes stereographs Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-023589 to 023684 and 120000 to 120223. Prints at PAColl-3076-1. Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1908-1915

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1551

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of snow storm at Nelson College, Easter 1911 with Gilbert Coombe and family, Auckland Express train, Trentham Camp in 1912, Honours Board and baths at Nelson College (1908), Hospital Ship 'Mahend', Woodford House, Military camp at Browns Bay, Quarter Masters' Staff of 5th Wellington Regiment (1915), Waitomo Caves, and coach travel. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Reg. V. Kay, 368 Tinakori Road, Wellington, 11/1/1913 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 135 x 180 mm

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6639

Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: [1950-1977]

By: Isdale, Alistair Murray, 1911-2001

Reference: 74-087

Description: Comprises comprehensive drafts of histories of the Thames region, mostly taken from newspapers, and presented chronologically. Box 1 has Isdale's `History of Thames Borough' (pp 1-6209); box 2, `In extenso notes for history the `The River Thames'' (pp 1-8094); and box 3, further typescripts (pp 3152-7547, and pp 7548-8094). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Carbon typescripts with holograph annotations Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wairakei-1890s-01

Description: Includes illustrations (front cover by W Deverell) of the Wairakei Geyser, the Dragons; Mouth, the Champagne Cauldron, the Eagle's Nest, and Tongariro with a crater lake. There is an advertisement for the Geyser House Hotel, and a letter of recommendation from Dr F H D Allen of Napier. Dated from the 1890s, based on the period in which W Deverell was illustrating tourism brochures. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Folded pamphlet, 180 x 335 mm (open), with stapled inset 162 x 148 mm, folded to 180 x 84 mm.

Date: 1900, 1923 - 1933, 1938, 1947

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

By: Wells, Robert Ernest, 1905-2006

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2

Description: Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900s

Reference: PAColl-7530

Description: Photographs of land around Mangawhero and Mangapouri captioned on the reverse with the section numbers; also pictures of sheep and cattle farming in those areas. Also five photographs of land clearance and early settlement at Bethells or Te Henga. Photographs taken ca 1900s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: Three prints at PAColl-5800-42 to 44. Processing information: The negative at 1/2-005453 is a copy negative for an original print which is yet to be located.

Date: 1931 to 1934

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-116

Description: Album of tramps, camps, and other boy scouting activities, chiefly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, who was an active scout member and later scout master during the 1930s at Otorohanga. Maori legends and hand-drawn maps accompany the photographs, bringing New Zealand geography and history alive to the young scouts. Outings include following Te Kooti's trail, searching for caves where moa bones have been found, and climbing to various trig stations in the Waikato area. Other images show competitions for scouting badges and first aid instruction. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leatherette cover, loose-bound album, 18 x 30 cm

Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier