Places

Date: [ca 1930-1933]

From: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967: Photographs of New Zealand gold mining

Reference: PAColl-9540-3

Description: Views of Waihi, the open cast gold mines, and the mine buildings. Otira Railway station. Photographs of nurses. Portraits of women. Gardens. Joseph Divis on his trip overseas includes - Czechoslavakia. Japan. New York. Panama Canal. Joseph Divis and other people on board ships. In some cases there are prints on both sides of the mount. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s) stereographs.

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: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 193?

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

Reference: PA1-o-112-009-2

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

Date: [between 1927-1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-2263-1/2-G

Description: Arapuni, Waikato, probably relating to the hydro scheme. Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: Circa 1930s

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-039142-G

Description: Map, originally published in journal Radiant Youth, showing Maori schools in the Te Kuiti, Waitomo area. This image is a copy negative made by Albert Percy Godber. For another image from the same publication see 1/4-039141, with a map of the East Cape area. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1930s

From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1169

Description: The pumping station and lake at Western Springs, Auckland. Streams, native forest, native plants and localities in the hills and Hunua ranges between Manukau and the Firth of Thames. Auckland coastal sandstone cliffs showing their strata formations. Views of the Waihou River Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [between 1910 and 1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001518-G

Description: Delivery carts lined up outside the creamery at Tuakau (situated at the railway end of the main street). Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuakau Creamery. 2109 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1924 - 1934

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-050-014/015

Description: Includes floor plans for basement and ground floor (March 1924), and floor plan for first floor subdivision (July 1934). Title varies slightly. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper and waxed linen paper, sizes varying up to around 340 x 560 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [School exercise books of octavo size. 1800s-]

By: Veale, Jocelyn Edith, active 1940-1950s

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOL-EXERCISE-BOOKS-1930s-01

Description: Front cover shows title and space for the pupil to fill in name, standard and subject. At top is the advice: This book is not to be covered or mutilated in any way and is to be used for HOME-WORK subjects only. The covers inside and out, carry advertisements for Otorohanga businesses: Gordon M Fraser (surgeon dentist), Innes' Drinks, Miss G MacEwen (dressmaker and designer), Taylor the plumber (Otorohanga Plumbing Works), McDonal Ice Cream, H Addison & Son (grocer and general provider), Kehely's Sports Dept Otorohanga. The remaining pages, are filled with names and addresses. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ruled exercise book, 7 leaves remaining, 206 x 167 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Kay Hawk, Auckland, in 2011.

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: [1929-1930]

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

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-014

Description: Shows a boat moored by the bank of the river with a pig being winched on board. Two men are on board the boat and another two are on shore, one of whom is winching the pig. Photographed at the Mokau River in 1929 or 1930 by Robert E Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 7.9 x 10.3 cm

Date: 1926 - 1934 - 1944

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm); Atkins & Mitchell (Firm); MacLaurin, Robert William, active 1926

Reference: Plans-2002-058-037-033/035

Description: Includes a survey plan of the premises in 1926, by R W McLaurin, architect of Auckland. Also includes Atkins & Mitchell plans of 1934 (floor plans, elevations and sections). Also includes Mitchell & Mitchell sketch plans of proposed alterations in 1944 (floor plans only). Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings and diazo prints on sheets, sizes varying around 500 x 670 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: 1930

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

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2-172

Description: Newly-shorn sheep in a pen outside the shearing shed at Mangatoi Station photographed in 1930 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - One of Sunday's. Their trials are over for another year - newly-shorn sheep in the pen outside the shearing shed. Note door through which new arrivals are pushed.; Verso - bottom centre - 1930 shearing at Mangatoi Station Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.2 x 7.9 cm

Date: 1939 - 1940

From: McLintock, Alexander Hare, 1903-1968 :[Making New Zealand ; originals for illustrations / A H McLintock and Paul Pascoe]. - [1939?]

Reference: A-258-031

Description: Ink drawing shows a perpective drawing of a single storey house with verandahs along two sides. Original artwork prepared for "Making New Zealand", vol. 2, no. 20, page 14 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, image 36 x 75mm, on sheet 76 x 111 mm.

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: 1930 - 1950

By: Mayclair, J, active 1900s-1950s; Howell, John, active 1978

Reference: B-062-013

Description: View of Ngauruhoe emitting a plume of steam, possibly viewed from the North Inscriptions: Signed: J M & on mount in pencil, J Mayclair Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on paper glued to card, 152 x 302 mm

Date: [1929-1930]

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

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-012

Description: Shows a boat moored by the bank of the river with a pig being winched on board. Two men are on board the boat; three are on shore. Photographed at the Mokau River in 1929 or 1930 by Robert E Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 8.1 x 10.4 cm