Places

Date: 1860s

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: Micro-Art-004

Description: 1. Sketchbook of a journey up the Rangitikei River 1862 (51 drawings); 2.Sketchbook of a journey to Havelock and the Pelorus Sound and Central Otago, 1864 (75 drawings); 3. A journey up the Manawatu River, 1862 (94 drawings); 4.Journey up the Wanganui River, 1861 & 1862 and other journeys (71 drawings - ); 5. A journey from Upper Hutt to Waikanae, Jan 1863. 6. A journey to the Waikato, Feb. 1864; 7 & 8. A journey to the Wairarapa, 1863. Physical Description: Negative microfilm (486 frames)

Date: 1864

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-125

Description: Scenes of East Coast area, Hauraki Gulf, Waikato, Northland and Picton Attribution on stylistic grounds Supplied title. Quantity: 40 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink or ink and wash on paper 135 x 180 mm in album ([68]p.), ¼ dark blue morocco, purple buckram Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Russell Smith of Masterton

Date: 1981

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-784

Description: The scene is outside the rugby grounds where Manawatu were playing the Springboks. Police are searching and frisking spectators on entry to the grounds to prevent protestors from disrupting the game. One policeman is restraining a spectator carrying a placard and telling the Sergeant that the spectator is determined to enter the grounds free-of-charge. Refers to the game played in the Waikato at which protestors against the Springbok tour disrupted the game by running onto the pitch, causing the game to be called off. Extended Title - Go ahead with the tour down with N.Z.R.F.U.! Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 455 x 320 mm.

Date: 1928

From: Angus, Robert K, fl 1964 :New Zealand photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-010

Description: Album containing 1928 souvenir booklet celebrating New Zealand's first Commerce Train, which travelled through Auckland Province between 26th October 1928 and 4th November 1928. Souvenir number of the Commerce Train News, published by New Zealand Railways. Bound in with the book are photographs taken by an unidentified passenger on the trip. There are photographs in the booklet, which include several portraits of men on the trip, photographs of farmland, dairy factories, cement works, Arapuni Hydroelectric works showing the dam and the spillway, kauri forests, trains and cars, and group photographs of the personnel. Full lists of personnel are included in the book. Other - Photographs possibly taken by Robert Angus, manager of Cook & Son, Shortland St., Auckland, who was a member of the tour. Father of the donor Robert K Angus? Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 320 x 260 mm dark blue suede cover, spine embossed with decoration

Date: 1974, 1978

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-848

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikato-1970s

Description: Includes pamphlets promoting tourism to Waikato including Hamilton, Matamata, the King Country, Tokoroa, Okauia mineral baths, and Orakei Korako. Ephemera on hotels in the area may be housed at Eph-A-HOTELS-Waikato. For other Waikato material see under Eph-A-TOURISM-Waitomo, Eph-A-TOURISM-Coromandel Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and offset printing on pamphlets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-539-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the growing gap between the rich and poor in New Zealand. Soldiers explain why it is humane to cut people's throats once they've been driven from their homes. Jenny Shipley reacts negatively to Jim Bolger's book. Jenny Shipley does a unicycle act on the high/slack wire. She can't look down for fear of falling, and she can't look up for fear of the coalition government she carries on her shoulders. Jack Elder and Tuku Morgan line-up behind Tau Henare in a new political allegiance. The American Republicans are exposed in their determination to impeach President Clinton over sex allegations no matteer what public opinion is. Jenny Shipley announces under National's new housing policy people in sub-standard housing will be assisted to buy their properties rather than rent them. Tim Shadbolt has been re-elected Mayor of Invercargill. Russia backs the bloody regime of Slobodan Milosivic against the Albanians. Jenny Shipley receives a negative reaction from the Dairy Board members over comments they should dig their own graves and make their wills. Jenny Shipley's intention of ending the Producer Board's statutory monopolies is thinnly veiled to avoid farmer backlash prior to the election. The Labour Party surges in the polls although their visibility is low. A paralell is drawn between roading reforms proposals and the manner Warriors' boss comments on players like Matthew Ridge. Commment on telephone electronic cueing messages. Canadian newspapers report that Wellington has the best views in the world. A Wellintonian watches as storms blow uprooted trees, boats, cars and other debris past his window. General Pinochet in jail being interrogated over his part in crimes of terrorism committed against Chilean critics of his Military Junta. Two contenders for the Auckland Blues Rugby coaching job are given a lesson in sportsmanship. Otago win the NPC (National Provincial Championships). Palestinian and Israeli leaders are booed by their supporters for their efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. The Met. office build an ark as an indication of the weather to come. Tuariki Delamere considers his political future. Tau Henare sums up the essence of his new Mauri Pacific Party. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1980 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikato-1980s

Description: Includes pamphlets promoting tourism to Waikato including Hamilton, the MV 'Waipa Delta', Waingaro hot springs, Waihi, Kawhia, Otorohanga, Morrinsville and Tokoroa. Ephemera on hotels in the area may be housed at Eph-A-HOTELS-Waikato. For other Waikato material see under Eph-A-TOURISM-Waitomo, Eph-A-TOURISM-Coromandel Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and offset printing on pamphlets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: [1990-1998]

By: New Zealand. Early Childhood Development Unit

Reference: PAColl-9569

Description: Photographs of staff and activities of the Early Childhood Development Unit. Includes children playing, educators, conferences and seminars. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 74 colour original photographic print(s). 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photoprints Provenance: Donated by Patricia Laurenson, Wellington, 2009

Date: Jan 1931, 28 Dec 1934-2 Feb 1935, 27 Dec 1935-17 Jan 1936

From: Johnston, Phyllis, 1904-1998: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1896

Description: Photograph album formerly belonging to Phyllis Johnston. Contains images taken during three holidays in New Zealand. Compiler of albums, and photographer(s), are unidentified. Album is extensively captioned though few people are identified. - Motoring trip of North Island in January 1931, following family on a camping trip in a A-Model Ford. Route, as suggested by image order in album, goes via Hastings, Wairoa, Lake Waikaremoana, Morere, Gisborne, Opotiki, Ohope, Whakatane, Rotorua, Whakarewarewa, Tauranga, Waihi, Thames, Mercury Bay, Tui Glen, Waiwera, Waipu, Whangarei, Bay of Islands, Mount Messenger and Dawson Falls. Images feature camp grounds and sites, car with tent awning erected and with gear packed alongside, picnicking scenes, motoring scenes, and tourist sights on route. Images and sites of note are: Tongoio Falls; Aniwaniwa Falls; road between Gisborne and Opotiki including ford, adjacent ranges and valleys, bush, and coastal views; Whakatane War Memorial; Road between Whakatane and Rotorua, including bush, Lake Rotoma, Hongi's Track, and Tikitere geothermal area; Whakarewarewa, including tourist group with Guide Rangi, Maori children bathing, and Frog Pond; Tauranga Harbour and railway bridge; gorge between Waihi and Thames; bullocks hauling Kauri logs south of Coromandel; 'Rotten Row' cabins at Waipu; Christ Church, bay and sea shore, and view of town from the flagstaff, Russell; cream being delivered by row boat in Bay of Islands; Zane Grey Camp, Otehei Bay; car on barge crossing between Russell and Paihia (including car transfer to shore); Williams Memorial Church, Paihia; and Waitangi Falls. Miss B G Kirk appears in a number of images (identified in one). - Road trip to South Island in 1934-1935 features images of Christchurch, Dunedin, and Oamaru. Christchurch images include views of Cashmere, Lyttelton, the road to and picnicking at Governors Bay, Sumner, Opawa, picnic ground 'Kauriki' (and poplar avenue in area), Christchurch Botanical Gardens (including Rose Garden), Avon River, Christchurch Art Gallery (interior and exterior shots), Canterbury College (School of Art, cloisters and observatory), Scott's memorial fountain, Victoria Lake, Beaths Department Store rooftop garden, stone house at Cracroft Wilson estate, and various social scenes including 'Thor' at an easel, a family portrait (Mr and Mrs Wilson with Thor, Lance, and Helen), and an unidentified tennis party. Dunedin images include Knox College, Winter Gardens, child Maklin Duncan of Elgin Road, and Mrs Hosking, some of her children, and her father Mr White. Oamaru images show the cityscape, Basilica, and Oamaru Gardens (fountain, duck pond, swans). Also includes a copy of a studio portrait of Winnie M Munro and Mr and Mrs Munro on their balcony. - Anakiwa, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Blenheim summer holiday (1935-1936) pictures feature the natural sights of the Marlborough Sounds area as well as family holiday snaps of holiday activities such as social events, picnics, fishing, bush walks, and day trips. Images of note include: Anakiwa Homestead (with interior and exterior shots); Anakiwa beach, wharf area, and views of Tiri Moana, Kenepuru, Mahau, and Pelorous Sounds taken on a bush walk; Picton including 'Betty and The Youth' at Picton War Memorial, view from the water, and view from across Shakespeare Bay; various boat rides (including on the 'Alcedo') and a small bus; group photograph of those at the New Year's Eve Ball at Anakiwa including people in costume; Mrs McDougall, Miss Ray Cuff, and Mrs Raine dressed as Three Blind Mice; Havelock main street and wharf; Pelorous River (including bridge and rapids); Bay of Many Coves; Ship Cove (including Captain Cook Memorial); ice cream eating; Blenheim War Memorial; the plane 'Karoro' at Woodbourne Aerodrome and Rongotai Airport; and an aerial view of Marlborough taken on route from Woodbourne with Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cardboard album tied with leather string, 20 x 24 cm

Date: 1879-1942

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-026

Description: Published by J. D. Wickham, [1879?], missing pages 93-94. Includes many annotations by Cowan, and loose papers including correspondence, clippings, drafts, and photographs. Also an image of Patara Te Tuhi, and a sketch map of the Waikato District tipped in to the back cover. Correspondence includes a letter from C. [Charles?] Garlick, of Taneatua, dated 31 January 1928; a letter from A. R. Weal, of Pukeatua, Te Awamutu, dated 20 February 1930, which contains information about Te Awamutu Troop, Waikato Cavalry, provided by his father T. Weal; and a letter by George Graham [signed also as Hori Kereama], of Auckland, dated 11 March 1942. Graham's letter includes discussion relating to the legal status of the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori participation in both World Wars, Kīngitanga, and Māori leadership. Also includes two photographic prints, one of Von Tempsky, and one of Gate Pā Memorial Gates. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume, loose papers and photographs

Date: [1930s]

From: Harrison Grierson Consultants Ltd: Glass negatives showing topographical plans of areas in Waikato Region

Reference: 1/2-237105-G

Description: Photograph showing display board with 8 photographs and captions. Photographs are of Putaruru Hotel grounds and a large pinus insignus log, Putarururu Forests block, Maraetai block, T.T.T North block, Hill's block, Waikato Forests block and Tahorakuri block. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) (Glass). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 4.8 inches

Date: 1954

From: New Zealand Railways :[Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1950-1959]

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1954-02

Description: A pamphlet promoting rail travel from Auckland to Rotorua, with a history of the building of the rail link, its engineering features, a map of the route, and "wayside notes" about the locations travelled through. There are scenic photographs and views of the inside of the train carriages. The front cover features a train and a tiki. Other Titles - Christchurch Quantity: 1 pamphlet. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlet, 460 x 375 mm. (folded 230 x 96 mm)

Date: 1840-1867

By: Luce, John Proctor, 1827-1869

Reference: Micro-MS-0932

Description: The microfilm comprises six journals (1852-1867), copy of typescript letter (1840) and `Pilgrimage to Jerusalem' by Luce (7-13 Oct 1841) The journals are described as private journals; vols 1-4 covering 1852 to 1863 and Luce's service including Portsmouth, Karatch Bay, Malta, Cape Coast, Sierra Leone and Dahomey Luce writes of his service in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific in volumes 5 and 6. Volume 5 (1864-1866) includes an index of contents, notes and clippings and detailed descriptions of the `Esk' being at Auckland, going to Tauranga, the East Coast and Poverty Bay, Wellington, New Hebrides, Fiji and Sydney, with descriptions of cattle trade, a journey to Wanganui. Also includes lists of letters written and sent, and received, readable books in the ship's library and of `Officers and dates of dining with me'. Volume 6 (1866-1867), which is described as a very rough notebook, includes a photograph of Luce (1865) and clippings and covers the `Esk' being in Auckland, Thames, Norfolk Island, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fiji, Tonga and the Friendly Islands. Includes description of a trip round and up the Waikato River and a cruise from Thames to Wellington. Source of title - Supplied Luce served with the Royal Navy from 1840; these journals cover the period 1852 to 1867 and include time served on the `Esk' in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: The Back file includes a printout of the contents of the microfilm. Provenance: Originals presented to the Royal Anthropolgical Institute in Sep 1970 by Luce's great-grandson, John Reid; this copy was made for the library. Photograph of Luce at beginning of volume 6

Date: 1950 - 2020

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Wai

Description: Includes ephemera for hotels in locations beginning with Wai - . Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Reference: PAColl-5202

Description: Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-037894 to 037910 Quantity: 17 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1970, 1960s

By: de Lyon, Paul, 1916-2008

Reference: PAColl-3688

Description: Pollution Advisory Council, Wellington map; Lithology map, East Coast, North Island; plan of Ruahine Block subdivision; two maps of Lower Waikato Waipa Control Scheme ground water wells Arrangement: Negatives at F20398-F20403-1/1. There are two prints for 5 of the 6 negatives (one set of prints is missing for F20398-1/1). The intention was probably that one set of prints should go into the PRS files Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: ca 1924

Reference: PAColl-7325

Description: Copy negatives of photographs in an album. The Mimi valley deviation on the New Plymouth to Te Kuiti highway; the road alongside Porirua harbour showing submerged telegraph poles; men spreading and rolling gravel on the Gisborne to Wairoa highway at Morere; men laying concrete on the Christchurch to Timaru highway; number of horse-drawn carts on a riverbed being loaded with shingle; and horse-drawn scoops collecting shingle from a riverbed for the Hamilton to Rotorua highway. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003415 to 003420 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1989

By: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022

Reference: PA1-f-241

Description: A camping holiday made by Jennifer McLeod and her Dutch Composer friend, Peter Schat. The record goes from Pukerua Bay through the central North Island, the Desert Road, Lake Taupo to an unidentified thermal area. The rest of the photographs are from the east coast which included the Bay of Plenty. The final sequence is a trip made to Picton. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1989 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: Transfer from further papers of Jennifer Helen McLeod (MS-Group-0144).

Date: ca 1900s

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PAColl-7512

Description: Postcards of Mita Taupopoki of Rotorua seated in a doorway holding a taiaha and wearing a kakahu; Pera Tutoko in a feather cloak holding a carved stick; Hitiri Te Paerata; half-length portrait of Pirohi; three quarter length portrait of Petera Whataiwi holding a patu; head and shouldes portrait of Patara Te Tuhi showing his moko; half-length portrait of Tahi Tahi holding a patu; head and shoulders portrait of Taraia Ngakuti Te Tumuhuia; two of Ngakurapana, a Ngapuhi chief; head and shoulders portrait of Rangiriri of Rotorua (different from the other Rangiriri in this collection); head and shoulders portrait of Taurau Kukupa; three quarter portrait of Mohi Te Puatau with moko holding a carved wooden patu (also identified as Wetani Rore Tatangi); a head and shoulders portrait of Rangiriri; and an unnamed Maori chief with moko. They are all part of the Tanner Brothers Maoriland series of postcards. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005198, 005199 and 005462 Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).