Places

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1925 - 1860 - 1866

Reference: A-138-038

Description: Shows main street and shops of goldfield town 18 miles south-east from Greymouth. Men standing around outside the shops, a horse and cart half-way along the main street, a dog in the foreground, hills in the background. The hotel in the right foreground is named Criterion Hotel, the shop in the left foreground Edward Ryan Wholesale ... Merchant. There is a railway line running down the centre of the street. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash drawing 152 x 241 mm Provenance: No provenance is given on the catalogue card for this item. However, the date of [1925] suggests that it was probably prepared as a book illustration.

Date: [ca 1920-1945]

Reference: PAColl-6962

Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1901-1930s]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6865

Description: 18 negatives of various scenes. Five are of the fire on Mein Street, Newtown in 1901 which show the chimneys left standing, police at the scene and people's belongings piled up in the nearby town belt; three are of a procession in Wellington; two are of a war memorial; two are of a car; two are of a coal mining railway through the bush probably on the West Coast; one is of a woman in a bathing suit about to dive off a yacht with others on board; one if of Panckhurst & Co Drapery Emporium next to the main post office in Westport; one is of a bridge; and one of a crane towed by a steam locomotive probably next to the Hutt Road. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-032163 to 032180 Quantity: 18 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1954]

From: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-223-07-1

Description: Jimmy Donovan riding a horse near his store, Okarito. Photographed by Jim Henderson in about 1954. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6 x 6 cm

Date: ca 1907

Reference: 1/2-044532-F

Description: Looking along the flooded streets of Greymouth. On the right, a group of people are outside the store of ironmonger, Duncan McLean. In the centre there are two people in a horse and cart. Taken circa 1907. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1901

From: Addison Family :Photographs of Agnes Addison

Reference: 1/2-201517-F

Description: Mrs Agnes Addison, her daughters Alice, Agnes, and Jessie, and an unidentified woman, photographed in front of Mrs Addison's drapery store, Hokitika, in 1901 by an unidentified photographer. The store opened in 1886 and the original building was replaced in 1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 10 x 12.5 cm