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Date: 1860s-1980s

From: Wills Johnson, Kate Miria, 1929-1995: Papers and photographs relating to the Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-964

Description: People of the Chatham Islands, and people with Chatham Island associations. There are photographs of people attending a Chatham Island picnic at Days Bay, Wellington, in 1989. Other photographs are of groups of people attending the centennial of Te One school in 1985. There are family photographs, many of them copies from originals and more modern colour prints of family get togethers. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Previous access statement 'Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was removed in May 2022.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-029

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden and a woman standing to the left in the foreground. Hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [Circa 1890s-1900s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Skeen & Co.; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: Pa1-o-517

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers many of whom are unidentified. Photographs are seen on pages 1-31, with pages 32-50 unused. Colombo is shown in the first part of the album, and includes street scenes, the "Old Colombo Lighthouse", the Galle Face Hotel(?), views of outrigger fishing canoes, carts drawn by humped cattle, "padda" boats on a canal, and a group of young Sri Lankan women. The second part of the album contains views of New Zealand, chiefly in the thermal regions with views of Ohinemutu, Hamurana Springs, the Poutuhu Geyser, Waimangu Geyser, the "Fairy bath" at Okoroire and the "Okoroire Natural Bridge Rapids". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, darker red corners and spine; 24.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: [ca 1894-1900]

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PAColl-10201

Description: Three black and white prints; no known link between prints. Taken by unknown photographers, probably between 1894 and 1900. Includes two class portraits of a girls school taken in a garden. One print captioned 'Lower Glenside School, October 1896', the other print embossed 'Hanna Photo', probably taken by John Robert Hanna of Auckland. Adult woman with lace cap features in both photographs. Also includes a wide view overlooking Taihape township surrounded by felled trees, bush and unsealed roads. Accompanying information - Lower Glenside School print was accompanied by a post-it-note 'Tawa mgt' (not retained). A girls day and boarding school called 'Lower Glenside School' operated from Upper Symonds Street, Auckland, circa 1890s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) (two prints mounted on card). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Provenance: Purchased by Ms Hoy from a Mary Potter Hospice ship, Thorndon, Wellington, April 2014. Nothing further known.

Date: [ca1885-1922]

From: McLeod, Rosemary Margaret, 1949- :Chiefly family photographs

Reference: PAColl-10026-4

Description: Includes:- Portrait of Robert Wyeth, father of Elizabeth McLeod, ca 1885. Portraits of Alexander and Elizabeth McLeod, ca 1905 and ca 1922. Snapshot of Alexander McLeod with his grandson, Nevin McLeod, ca 1921. Elizabeth and Alexander McLeod are Rosemary McLeod's great grandparents. Robert Wyeth is her great great grandfather. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: These photographs are associated with the documents in Manuscripts and Archives at MS-Papers-11255-4..

Date: [ca1880-1971]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-12

Description: Includes:-- The Maori Parliament House (Turangawaewae House) Ngaruawahia built 1912-1919. Portraits of tatooed Maori Women, all but one, unidentified. The ceremonial waka (ceremonial canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua fully manned, off Paihia, Bay of Islands. Philip Munro and Toni Muru in large interior decorated with a Cliff Whiting mural. Photomechanical copy of an engraved portrait of King Tawhiao. Dame Te Atairangikaahu enthroned at her coronation, 23 May 1966. Photomechanical print of portraits of King Tawhiao's head wife and second wife. Entrance to Maori King's residence (Turongo House) Turangawaewae Marae. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1870-1985]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-10

Description: Photographs relating to books by Michael King. These books include - "The Collector" a biography of Andreas Reischek. "Whina" a biography of Whina Cooper. One group of illustrations are labled "Spare illustrations for Men's book." Photographs of tattoed women that may have been collected/commissioned at the time that Michael King was writing his book "Moko." (1968-1971). A group of portraits of individual and groups of Maori may have been supplied from Canterbury Museum. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 12 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1897-1919

From: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940 :Photographs of Tutira and district, Hawke's Bay

By: Guthrie-Smith, Annie Lindsay, 1866-1933; Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940; Guthrie-Smith, Elma Katherine, 1878-1949

Reference: PA1-o-1641

Description: Photographs taken by members of the Guthrie smith family in New Zealand, Switzerland, Tirol, and Scotland. Included are Strathblane sheep station south west of Gisborne where William Herbert Guthrie-Smith and his siblings Harry, Archibald, Annie, Elma, and a D Guthrie-Smith that may have been James Robert Dennistoun Guthrie Smith, spent the Christmas of 1900. The main photographers were Annie, Elma, William and Harry. Included are - Views of the Hangaroa River. Members of the family, especially as a group, Christmas 1900. Cats, and dogs. Farm activities such as sheep dipping. Native bush in Peel Forest. Men and women on horseback at Strathblane. Snapshots from Scotland of the children of Guthrie-Smith's sister Jean who married James Clarke. The Guthrie-Smith family members at Tutira Station, 1900. Native forest and newly cleared land littered with the trunks of trees. Mangapapa Station being developed, 1900-1901. Groups, especially women, at the winter resort, Chateau d'Oeux, Switzerland, 1903-1904. Women on holiday, Tirol, 1907. Horses ridden by guests to a party given by Guthrie-Smith at Strathblane Station, 1900. Archibald Guthrie-Smith's farm and house, Glenreasdell, Scotland. Fancy dress dinner party, Scotland, 1912. A house called Pitfar, Scotland, that also seems associated with Archibald Guthrie-Smith. Archibald Guthrie-Smith in a traditional Austrian costume, 1912. Climbing party in the Campsie Hills, Scotland, 1912. Winter landscapes, Dumngoyne, Scotland, 1902. Guthrie-Smith women and their motorcar and chauffeur, 1912. Annie Guthrie-Smith with her goats, 1919. Portraits of William Herbert Guthrie-Smith, 1896 and 1902. Sir Malcolm McGregor of McGregor in naval uniform, 1905. Saddel castle, Scotland. View of Little Mount Peel, New Zealand. George and Emily Dennistoun of Peel Forest station, 1907. Picnic party, Mount Peel, 1897. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2010

Date: 1949 - 1851

Reference: A-163-019

Description: Two women and a child seated inside an A-frame structure with a canvas roof. The women are seated at a table and sewing. Beyond them is a piece of furniture, possibly a dresser, with a clock, ornaments and books on shelves. There is a wooden door opened at the front of the view Copied from Dr Barker's sketch `Studdingsail Hall, Christchurch, Jan 22/51' in Canterbury Museum. Drawn for reproduction in Andersen, J C Old Christchurch, 1949, plate 37, p. 61. Inscriptions include in pencil, below the work 'Plate 38, p. 62' Artist's initials, lower left, illegible, but may read L E W On same sheet as A-163-018 Studdingsail (or Studding Sail) Hall was Dr Barker's name for his first, temporary home in Christchurch, whose roof was made from a sail from the ship Charlotte Jane Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink wash, 187 x 152 mm Provenance: Purchase: Smith's bookshop, Christchurch, 1963

Date: [1898-ca 1968]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-11

Description: Most of the photographs are views taken at a Maori funeral. There are two men seated outside a raupo whare. View of a church in a bare winter landscape in England. Composite photograph (probably a copy print) entitled "The Season's Greetings from the Land of the Maori" 1898, by G T Edwards, Mercer. View across the waters of a bay through branches of a pohutukawa tree. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [ca 1951]

By: Goldsmith, Christina Mabel, 1885-1976

Reference: qMS-0854

Description: Goldsmith describes her mother's life from her birth in 1860 until her death in 1951, noting events in Wainuiomata, Whitemans Valley and Levin; some contributions from her son, R A Prouse. Photographs are included. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon), photographs (37 cm, blue pam case)

Date: [ca 1870-1979]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-9

Description: Photographs relating to books by Michael King. These books include - 'New Zealanders at War', published by Heinman, Auckland, 1981. 'The Collector: a biography of Andreas Reischek'. 'Whina: a biography of Whina Cooper'. 'Moriori" a history of the Moriori of the Chatham Islands'. Also views of Menton, France taken in 1971 for "Country Life." Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 2 photocopy/ies.

Date: Between 1895 and 1900

From: McArthurs Auction :Photographs of early drawings and paintings of Taranaki, and photographs of Hawke's Bay, Greymouth and others

Reference: PA1-o-405-13

Description: Group of Pakeha men and women (some thought to be relatives of surveyor Lewis Coster Sladden) photographed in front of a whare at Parihaka with Maori children in the late 1890s, by an unknown photographer. Source of descriptive information - Sladden family named by a library client, she has a copy of this image Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.8 x 15.3 cm, mounted on album page 15.1 x 20.3 cm

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

By: Franklyn, F, active 1890-93

Reference: A-141-014

Description: Two women, with a young girl to their left, viewd against the skyline on a bush-clad rise Disbound from original sketchbook [[18] leaves ; 230 x 280 mm), inscribed: F Franklyn. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 48 x 80 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Campbell, R E, (Mrs) :Photographs of the Reynolds family

Reference: 1/2-055973-F

Description: Emma Church, and her mother, outside the front door of Raith Cottage, Maori Hill, Dunedin, circa 1900. The cottage was the residence of Miss Church. Photograph taken by Frank May Reynolds. Inscriptions: On original album page - beneath image: Raith Cottage Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1814 - 1964

By: Morgan, Jack, active 1961-1966; Weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-077-002

Description: Samuel Marsden behind a makeshift pulpit, with the Bible, preaching to a group of Maori and Europeans, with a bay behind him on the left, with canoes and a European ship (the Active), and on the right Rangihoua, a hilltop pa. The Maori chief Ruatara is standing in uniform to the right of Marsden and in the left foreground is Korokoro, dressed in the regimental uniform given him by Governor Maquarie of New South Wales. This reconstruction was painted to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1st Christian sermon in New Zealand, and was commissioned to be published in the Weekly News, Auckland, December 16th 1964 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 380 x 280 mm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Birnie, J W: Photographs taken in Taupo including the Spa Hotel

Reference: 1/2-028370-F

Description: The grounds of the Spa Hotel in Taupo showing four women on a bridge over a stream. Photograph taken circa 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1879 - 1920

From: Ryall, Denis James, 1909-1982:Photographs ,including postcards, of Barrytown and members of the Ryall family

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA3-0199

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

Date: ca 1896

Reference: 1/4-021135

Description: Jane Maria Atkinson in profile seated at her desk writing, probably in her last house Fairfield in Nelson. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1890 - 1904

By: Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904

Reference: A-253-033

Description: Beach at Paraparaumu or Waikanae with Kapiti in the distance. Bathers in foreground Attribution to Nairn on stylistic grounds Inscriptions: Backing board verso - "(finished pictures) (for sale or for gifts)" [backing board removed. Inscription in an unknown hand] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card 176 x 253 mm