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Peter Webb Galleries :Photographs of New Zealand scenes

Date: 189-

Reference: PAColl-2084

Description: Maori woman with pipe; Maori family outside their house; Maori canoe. Buildings, streets, parks, gardens, river and coastal scenes - locations include Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Napier, Rimutaka Hill Road and Masterton Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Sheat, A J : Photographs

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

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Gully, John, 1819-1888 :Lower Brougham Street ; New Plymouth in the 1850s / by John Gul...

Date: 1856 - 1979 - 1860

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Taranaki Museum

Reference: C-108-008-a

Description: Looking north east across the waterfront and the mouth of the Huatoki Stream, with Richard Brown's store in the foreground, the Kawau kainga and Maori Church across the river in the background. Original watercolour in Taranaki Museum (Puke Ariki). On sheet 418 x 584 mm Accompanied by a descriptive leaflet Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 328 x 508 mm

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Gully, John 1819-1888 :Lower Brougham Street ; New Plymouth in the 1850s / by John Gull...

Date: 1856 - 1979 - 1860

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Taranaki Museum

Reference: C-108-008

Description: Looking north east across the waterfront and the mouth of the Huatoki Stream, with Richard Brown's store in the foreground, the Kawau kainga and Maori Church across the river in the background. On sheet 418 x 584 mm Accompanied by a descriptive leaflet Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 328 x 508 mm

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Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and T...

Date: ca 1878-1902

From: Creator of collection unknown :Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and Taranaki regions

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PAColl-3722-3

Description: Arrangement: In order by copy negative number - 1/2-11800-F to 1/2-11861-F (some missing) Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box. Provenance: Contact prints made ca 1970s from plates no longer in existence

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Sigvertsen, Jeffery R :Album of Burton Brothers photographs

Date: ca1880-1903

By: Sigvertsen, Jeffery R, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-q-546

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand, New Zealand Cities and Maori Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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New Zealand Tourist Department :Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth

Date: [1890s?]

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA7-49-41

Description: Coloured view of the boating lake in Pukekura Park (also known as the Recreation Grounds) looking towards the band rotunda. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Title Physical Description: 172 x 280 mm

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Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A group I once saw in Maoriland, New Plymouth 1856. [Welling...

Date: 1856 - 1995

From: Various artists :[Set of 9 cards issued for Treasures in Trust exhibition]. National Library of New Zealand, 1995.

By: National Library of New Zealand; Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-498-012

Description: Shows close view of group of two Maori men and one Maori woman in profile, riding horses. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on card.. Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on card, 105 x 140 mm (folded). Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit, in 1995.

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Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

Date: ca1855-ca1940

From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984

Reference: PAColl-4889-1

Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.

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Photographs of various New Zealand locations

Date: ca 1876, 1920, 1935

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

Reference: PAColl-2143

Description: Devon Street, New Plymouth; Clifton; Brighton Sandspit; Cathedral Square, Christchurch; bullock team. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

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Bell, Francis Dillon, 1822-1898 :New Plymouth - Devon St and Mt Egmont, 1845. No. 459/1...

Date: 1845 - 1969

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: B-086-024-a

Description: View of New Plymouth with streets, scattered houses, Mount Taranaki in the background. The original, at the time of publication, was in the possession of W F Airey, Esq, Lower Hutt New Zealand. Printed by Pictorial Publications Ltd. No 459 of a limited edition of 1000 prints issued at $5 each. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 254 x 373 mm Provenance: Donated anonymously, December 2008.

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Neilson, Debbie :Photographs of New Plymouth, Waitara, Waitomo caves, and Rotorua

Date: ca1880-ca1935

By: Nielson, Debbie, active 1996

Reference: PAColl-5036

Description: 5 albumen prints of New Plymouth and Waitara, 46 snapshots and postcard photographs of the thermal district, Napier, Waitomo caves and other places in the North Island Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Found at Hunterville dump in January 1996 by Ms Neilson, who offered them to the Whanganui Regional Museum, giving them permission to dispose of as seen fit.

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Franklyn, F :Mount Egmont from seaward [ca 1900]

Date: 1890 - 1900

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

Reference: A-141-021

Description: The snowy peak of Mount Egmont seen from the sea close to shore, with houses, fences and church spires visible, probably part of New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 130 x 240 mm

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New Zealand Tourist Department :Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth

Date: [1890s?]

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA7-49-40

Description: Coloured view of the boating lake in Pukekura Park (also known as the Recreation Grounds) looking towards the band rotunda. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Title Physical Description: 172 x 280 mm

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Smytheman, V :Scenic views of New Zealand

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884 :The Maplestone prints, 1969. Wellington; The Alexander T...

Date: 1849 - 1969

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: C-028-024/026

Description: Contents: New Plymouth, 1849; Hawkestone Street, Wellington, 1849; Stoke, Nelson, 1849 Sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken. `Produced by Pictorial Publications Ltd., Hastings, New Zealand. `Published in an edition of 2,500 sets...' Note on each print: `The original is in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.' Other Titles - Folder title: Three colonial views from watercolours by H Maplestone Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs, 292 x 433 mm

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McIntosh album 15

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm

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St Mary's Anglican Church, New Plymouth, and battle sites around New Plymouth.

Date: ca1860-1984

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5822-2

Description: Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Bunney, John Wharlton :[Views in the settlements, 1858] [Christchurch] Avon Fine Prints...

Date: 1858 - 1975

By: Avon Fine Prints; Bunney, John Wharlton, 1828-1882

Reference: C-061-008/011

Description: Contents: Auckland in 1858. - Dunedin, 1858?. - New Plymouth in 1858. - Port Lyttelton in 1858, Canterbury, New Zealand. Title from publication notice Nos 5 and 6 of limited edition of 1,000 copies each. Reproductions of the original watercolours held by the National Library of Australia, Canberra Same as C-061-008-a/011-a Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, 364 x 545 mm, 383 x 536mm, 366 x 549 mm, 369 x 581 mm on sheets 551 x 679 mm

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New Plymouth breakwater

Date: between 1875-1910

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

Reference: 1/1-006061-G

Description: New Plymouth breakwater. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis in New Plymouth, between 1875 and 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

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