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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: 1899 - 1912

By: Brown, John Henry, active 1899-1906; Ellerbeck, Laurence Anderson, -1963; Parkerson, C P, active 1911-1912; Watson, Alexander James, -1920; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-3405

Description: Includes school groups in Te Aroha and Gisborne, NZ forces on Queens Wharf, Wellington, prior to departure for South Africa in 1899, and groups of tourists in the Thermal District Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s-1900s]

By: McEachen, John Allan, 1844?-1920; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-105

Description: Gold dredges, gold sluicing, and machinery associated with gold mining in the South Island. Includes a few photographs taken in Australia, particularly the Pioneer Tin Mine in Tasmania. Inserted in a pocket in the front of the album are 19 loose prints, chiefly showing various claims in the North Island, some of which are taken by H J Locke. Also named in these images are the Saxon Mine and Ivanhoe Mine. Pinafore Claim was located at Waiotahi, Thames. Cambria Claim was a gold mine located in Thames. Gold King Dredge was on the Clutha River near Roxburgh circa 1899. Title supplied by Library. Date range estimated partly on dates that dredges were known to be operating. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-062522 to 062553, and also includes those in the vicinity of 1/2-062625 and 1/2-062630 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mottled black exercise book, entitled `Photographs. Dredges. Sluicing. Machinery. New Zealand. Australia'; 35 x 23 cm Provenance: Purchased from American Book Service, 1975

Date: ca 1900

Reference: PAColl-7293

Description: Photographs relating to gold mining, chiefly at Waihi, circa 1900. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-019271 to 19317 Quantity: 47 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Chiefly glass negatives

Date: [190-?]

By: Welch, Isobel June, active 1979

Reference: PAColl-8914

Description: Postcards of Waikino township and Victoria Battery, taken ca early 1900s by unidentified photographers. The postcard of Waikino township was sent by Maggie White to Miss Isabell Patton of Puketui. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photomechanical prints 8.8 x 13.9 cm

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Hewitt, E (Miss), active 1980

Reference: G-440-2

Description: View downstream to a bridge with the rocky cone Pohaturoa in the background. May be based on a photograph by Josiah Martin entitled Pohaturoa Rock, Atiamuri, negative 82172 1/2, taken from an identical spot. Other Titles - Atiamuri Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 262 x 398 mm Provenance: Donation: Misses E. R. and E. I. Hewitt, Rongotai, Wellington, December 1980

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [ca 1860-1914]

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PAColl-0341

Description: Photographs of various scenes: two of the convoy in Wellington Harbour in October 1914 (one from Field album VIII); the Field children outside a dilapidated house in Waikanae; a photographed captioned "mother and Peter" of two women, four children and a man in the mouth of Karori tunnel; a train passing through Te Aroha (Field album V); Auckland from the north shore (Field Album V); Sir George Grey's house at Momona Bay, Kawau (Field album IX); an excursion train meeting a river boat (Field Album XV); a house next to a small lake captioned New Plymouth (Field album IX); two of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901 (one from Field Album VI); Mrs Edward and her mother on the verandah of their house in Khandallah; a post card of the station at Manakau; farm horses in harness eating at a trough (Field Album XV); Maori men, women and children around a meeting house for a tangi in Manaia, Coromandel - above the door is written Rahera Titia (Field Album V); Hot Springs Hotel beside the lake at Waiwera (Field Album V); looking down the Waimakariri from what is now Glacier Hotel at an old homestead and two of Mitre Peak and Milford Sound (stuck to the same piece of card Field Album IX); large two storey house (Field Album XVIII); and a panorama of Dunedin showing Rattray Street in the foreground and the wharves behind (Field Album VIII). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-115913 to 115936 Quantity: 42 b&w original negative(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1890s-1910s

Reference: PAColl-4655

Description: Photographs of: bullock teams pulling wool bales; a family group with Mrs Keals her husband Leslie Keals and Norman Keals who murdered her indicated; a house in Port Waikato; a boy standing outside King's College; a group of three Maori girls; a man in a makeshift shelter described as the first shelter in Wairamarama; a group of nurses; the opening of Wairamarama Hall; and the interior of Hornly, Wairamarama showing a fireplace, mantlepiece etc Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/2-031961-G

Description: Thermal area, Tokaanu, Taupo district, photographed by Edward George Child circa 1900. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Dated by cataloguer from display dates at PAColl-3084. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Puias Tokaanu Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-020260-G

Description: Tourists observing the Karapiti Blowhole at Wairakei, Taupo. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: ca 1900

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020552-G

Description: Gold sluicing flume, Karangahake, circa 1900. Photograph taken by Henry Wright. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1875-1910]

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/1-006465-G

Description: Wooden coal races, or shoots, amongst bush at Bayly and Ogles mine, Mokau. A man sits on the lower of the two races. In the foreground is a stretch of water and two men in a boat can be seen. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis ca 1875-1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Bayly and Ogles mine and shoots. No 5 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).