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Tramping in the Rimutaka and Tararua ranges and a trip to the West Coast
Date: 1914
From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing
Reference: PA1-q-914
Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Photographer unknown :Photographs of the Royal Tour 1927
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.
Birrell album 3
Date: [1950s]
From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell
Reference: PA1-q-032
Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm
Boating on Lake Horowhenua
Date: ca 1914
Reference: 1/2-002833-F
Description: Two boats of men and women, the women in straw boaters, on Lake Horowhenua with the artificial islands created during the First World War behind them. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Amy Bock
Date: 1914
From: Whittaker, Ian :Photographs of the Mokau District and Amy Bock
Reference: 1/2-094176-F
Description: Amy Bock, photographed in 1914 in Mokau, New Plymouth, by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Harris album 1
Date: [1890s-1900s]
From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-115
Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm
Phyllis Hartwig (nee Godber), holding her baby son Norman
Date: 1936
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-038948-G
Description: The photographer's daughter Phyllis Hartwig (nee Godber), sitting on a cane chair in a garden, holding her baby son Norman. Phyllis Hartwig is wearing a floral dress and sandals. This image is a glass copy negative made from his own original, by Albert Percy Godber, in 1936. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Cook Album 1 :Camerons and friends, Waiwhetu, Te Ore Ore, Masterton, 1918-1923
Date: 1918-1923
From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-658
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: Photocopy of album showing which images copied in PAColl sequence at PAColl-1886.
Mercer album 2
Date: [1900s-1910s?]
From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations
Reference: PA1-o-339
Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm
Field: Photographs of Byrd's Antarctic expedition, sport events, ships, and other scenes
Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]
Reference: PAColl-6881
Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives
Group photograph of members of the Rover Rugby Football Club, Wairarapa, New Zealand
Date: 1906
From: Carterton Rugby Football Club :Photographs of teams from the Rovers, Dalefield, Carterton Druids, and Carterton rugby football clubs
Reference: PAColl-D-1040
Description: Group photograph of the Rover Rugby Football Club, Wairarapa, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1906. All names added to identical image at PAColl-D-1028 Identical images at PAColl-D-1027, PAColl-D-1028, & PAColl-D-1033 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin Print 285 x 360 mm on mount 460 x 550 mm
Photographs of England and the Pori area, New Zealand
Date: ca 1900-ca 1910
From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.
Reference: PA1-o-1206
Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Prints taken from duplicate negatives
Date: ca 1880-1910
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: PAColl-3064-1
Description: Rocks Road, Nelson looking south; a waterfall falling down large boulders; a carriage and pair of horses passing Windy Point in Buller Gorge; Garraty's Point, Cape Foulwind; Matai Bank, Nelson showing willow trees; school children, some bare foot, with their teacher outside their school; school girls with their teachers outside their school; Wakefield Cricket Club, part of Nelson Cricket Association, in their team uniform ca 1894; studio group portrait of a rugby team; two of the six members of the Nelson Water Polo Club (the seventh is shown in photograph); six girls in theatrical costume holding ribbons; men transporting wood across the Aorere River by punt for Collingwood Gold Fields Ltd; the sixteen members of the Takaka Races Committee; the staff of Nelson College in April 1901 - G T Palmer, F Milner, E J Parr, J Drummond, T A H Wing, W S Littlejohn; an unidentified man; two of unidentified groups of men; a clergyman and four other men under a tree; and an unidentified family group. Quantity: 20 b&w copy photographic print(s).
Gifford album 1
Date: 1896
From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs
Reference: PA1-o-181
Description: Views, chiefly unidentified, of a trip in the South Island in January 1896, photographed by Algernon Charles Gifford. Most of the photographs are landscape views of lakes and mountains in the Wakatipu area, but there are a number showing a group of six unidentified people in the garden of a single-storeyed house with verandahs, at Paradise. In another scene a man and woman, two of the previous group, are shown in a field with the man wearing riding clothes, seated on a white horse, and the woman standing by the horse's head with a dog beside her. Also one photograph shows three young girls, Bessie and Daisy Fergus, and Agnes Mill, also at Paradise. A large two-storeyed house with verandahs upstairs and downstairs is seen in one image. An envelope attached inside the back cover, contains 14 loose photographs of similar views. Inscriptions: Album page - Some mementos of a trip to Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, Glenorchy & Paradise via Invercargill, Jan. 1896 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 22.5 x 19.0 cm
Boys skateboarding, Hewer Crescent, Naenae, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Date: 22 January 1979
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1978/0264-F
Description: Boys skateboarding, Hewer Crescent, Naenae, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 23 January 1978. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative film negative, 35mm
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs relating to the Cox family
Date: ca 1860s-1870s
Reference: PAColl-7548
Description: Photographs of Sarah Shephard Cox seated holding her baby Rutu; half length seated portrait of Chrales Percy Cox; the house Bishop's Court in Christchurch with Charles Harper, Charles Cox, Harper's wife, Sarah Cox and Rutu Cox - one of the men is pulling a lawn roller; and members of the Cox family outside Bishop's Court, the women in crinoline dresses. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007805 to 007808 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Sharp album 2
Date: [1890s]
Reference: PA1-q-222
Description: Photographs relating to Herbert Spackman and his family and relatives, chiefly taken by him. Places include views of Wellington and bays, Eketahuna and the Wanganui district. Very few of the people shown are fully identified but are likely to be Harry Spackman’s: mother (Eliza Spackman, nee Hawkings), father (Henry Spackman), brother, mother-in-law (Mrs Coxall, mother of Harry’s first wife Amy), and father-in-law (Mr Parnell, father of Fanny Parnell, Harry's second wife). Several houses are shown, including: ‘Rangiuru’, located at 63 Hutt Road, Petone, Wellington; House of Eketahuna farmer David S Lowe; House of David S Lowe’s brother Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wanganui, both interior and exterior, ‘Ben Venuto’ situated at 59 Rintoul Street and house of Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wellington, both interior and exterior views. Herbert Spackman's nephew Roy Spackman (Clement Roy) attended Wanganui Collegiate School, and there are several views of the chapel (interior and exterior) and the music room. There is one group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate School boys (p 41). Source of descriptive information - Information sourced from various places including the internet, and a family member. Two articles on Henry and Herbert Spackman both before they left England, and in New Zealand can be found at www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-1.pdf and www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-4.pdf Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark red cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 29 x 24 cm
Allan album 3
Date: 1895-1915
From: Allan, John Calder, 1879-1963 :Photographs of Cable Bay, Nelson
Reference: PA1-q-009
Description: Photographs of the Cable Bay area, near nelson, including the Cable Bay Station and homestead, with images showing the social life of the Cable Bay Station employees. Includes photographs of children, families, family pets, picnicking and camping. There is one postcard from Wakapuaka, which includes two images of 12 to 15 men wearing dark suits, posing outdoors, similar images to several photographs included in the album. Photographs taken by John Calder Allan between 1895 and 1915 Other Titles - Sunny memories Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 285 x 300 mm red buckram, with black decoration around title "Sunny memories" embossed on cover, in phase box
Photograph of two ladies sitting on a rock near Mataura paper works, Southland
Date: [ca 1910]
Reference: PA4-0934
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of two ladies sitting on a rock near Mataura paper works, Southland Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Near Mataura paper works, Southland; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
Hunter Brown album 1
Date: Between 1908 and 1915
From: Brown, Charles Hunter, 1826-1898 :Photographs of the Nelson and West Coast districts
Reference: PA1-o-238
Description: The Miscellaneous section contains photographs of the Hunter Brown family and friends at various gatherings including Christmas parties in 1909 and 1910, and New Year's Day in 1911; views of houses; outing to Tahuna Beach; driving in horse and carriage along the Moutere Road; haymaking at Riwaka; the Moutere River; and a scene from the New Zealand Tennis Championships in 1908 The Westland trip was taken in 1911, and includes scenes in Greymouth; the Buller Gorge; Lake Kanieri; Lake Mapourika; several views of the Franz Josef Glacier including some taken close-up near the snout and a section of the terminal face; Mount Rolleston; the railway viaduct at Rolleston Gorge; the Otira Gorge; the mouths of the Otira Tunnel under construction at both the Otira end and the Bealey end; construction works by the Waimakariri River; and coaches arriving at Cass. None of the people are identified, but most of the locations are given. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black card cover, entitled `Miscellaneous and Westland trip' (hand-lettered in white ink); 16.4 x 22.6 cm