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Date: 1890 - 1910

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-072

Description: View of River Avon and Victoria Bridge Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: May 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1271

Description: River Avon, Christchurch. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken May 1955 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: [ca 1872-1880s]

By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4608

Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1948 to 1951

Reference: PA1-o-380

Description: Photographs of various activities, and group photographs taken at New Zealand Student Christian Movement conferences held in Christchurch, summer 1948-1949, and Auckland, summer 1949-1950. Names of members attending the conferences are fully identified in the group portraits. Some of the small photographs taken by different members have captions, but not all. A number of pages include newspaper cuttings associated with the conference and people involved. Includes an envelope containing nine small photographs of a theatrical production performed at the 1950-1951 conference. There is no identification of the play or cast members. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, red panel down the centre, entitled `N.Z.S.C.M. Summer Conference, Christchurch 1948-9; and 1949-1950'; 26 x 21 cm

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-111

Description: Scenic views, mostly of New Zealand, some of Australia, and a few taken in Scotland. Photographs mostly taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead; two of those taken in Scotland were by George Washington Wilson (G.W.W.). The album also contains a large number of coloured postcards, coloured reproductions of paintings, and coloured scraps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, with black spine and corners, 27 x 38.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1890s]

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

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

By: Denton, William Henry, 1867-1954; Gardner, P C, active 1980s?

Reference: PAColl-1887

Description: Scenic photographs of New Zealand, particularly the South Island and Christchurch Quantity: 36 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1880s]

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

By: Bodleian Library

Reference: PA1-f-014

Description: Collection of photograph album pages (lacking covers) which contain images of New Zealand, and images from trips to Switzerland and England (London and Oxford). Many of the photographs are in colour, taken by Dr Ken Birrell circa 1950s. A number of aerial photographs show areas around the Southern Alps, and Queenstown. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album pages, of varying sizes, lacking covers. 43 leaves are 240 x 300 mm, and 12 leaves are 240 x 375 mm, contained in phase box

Date: [ca 1923-1929]

From: Nolan, Iris Evelyn, 1916- :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1202

Description: Album containing photographs of Iris Nolan (nee Dickens) as a young child, her family, and their home at Riverside, Masterton, ca 1923-ca 1929. Also includes photographs of the family in Christchurch. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Brown cardboard album 16.5 x 22 cm, containing 56 photographs

By: Thomson, James Allan, 1881-1928

Reference: Plans-80-1090

Description: Plan, elevation and cross-section for a wooden bridge with two towers, probably for the Avon River in Christchurch Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour on cartridge paper, 560 x 781 mm Provenance: Verso of the plan reveals that it has been used in the past as wrapping for a parcel posted from Westport to Dr J. Allen [sic] Thomson, Director of the Dominion Museum. The postmark is illegible but the stamps, one for 2 1/2d, one for 8d, bear the face of King George V. Dr J. Allan Thomson died in 1928.

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Bilbrough, David Murray, 1952?-1997: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5675

Description: Two photomechanical reproductions of views of the River Avon, Christchurch taken circa 1910 by unidentified photographers. One is taken by the Madras Street bridge, the other by the Gloucester Street bridge. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1951

From: [Posters collected by Allen Matthew Hale, for rowing regattas. 1935-1962]

Reference: Eph-D-ROWING-Hale-1951-01

Description: Poster lists the events of the Centennial programme and the Akaroa programme, and states the conditions, information for North Island contestants, transport of boats, general information about camp accommodation. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print black on yellow poster, 560 x 420 mm. Provenance: From the papers of A M Hale.

Date: ca 1938-1940

By: McKenzie, Albert Lindsay, active 1940; McKenzie, Andrew E, active 1998

Reference: PA1-o-909

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, showing Haywards substation, Centennial Exhibition, Union Airways aircraft at Rongotai airport, and views of war memorials, other monuments, some buildings and parks and gardens in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. There are also some scenic views of rivers and landscape, and one photograph of bee keepers at work on hives. Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, the father of the donor, was born in Christchurch. He started an apprenticeship as a process art engraver, which was interrupted by World War 2, and never completed. He returned to Christchurch after the war. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: August 1909

From: Page Collection :Christchurch and general New Zealand towns and scenes; costume. ca. 1880-1910

Reference: PA4-0735

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Avon River, Christchurch, taken by an unidentified photographer August 1909. Inscriptions: Verso - In ink: River Avon Christchurch, Aug 09. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1935 - 1946 - 1962 - 1939 - 1952

By: Hale, Allen Matthew, 1890-1973

Reference: Eph-D-ROWING-Hale

Description: Includes: 1935: South Island championship regatta, Port Chalmers. Saturday 23 February 1935. Controlled by the Otago Annual Regatta Committee. Poster / programme. 1939: Regatta and carnival on the banks of the Waikato River, Hamilton. 30 January 1939. 1946: New Zealand Victory championship regatta, to be held under the auspices of the Wanganui Rowing Association on the Aramoho course. Saturday 23 February 1946. (2 copies) Christchurch regatta. Saturday March 16, Stewarts Gully. 1947? Christchurch Regatta Stewart's Gully, Saturday March 22, [1930?, 1941? or 1947?] 1949: New Zealand championship rowing regatta, conducted by the Auckland Rowing Association at Karapiro, Saturday 26th February 1949. 1951: Canterbury, N.Z. Centenial Games Rowing Regatta to be held on the Avon River, January 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1951. Programme for each day [poster] Canterbury, N.Z. Centenial Games. programme of rowing events to be held on the Avon River, January 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1951 and NZ Championship Regatta at Akaroa, January 6th. (2 copies) New Zealand Championship regatta to be held under the auspices of the Akaroa Regatta Club on Akaroa Harbour, Saturday, 6th January 1951. Poster (2 copies green, 2 copies blue) 1952: Wanganui Rowing Association annual regatta, to be held on the championship course, Wanganui River, Saturday, 23rd February, 1952. Programme / poster. 1962: N.Z. Championship rowing regatta to be held on Kerrs Reach Christchurch ... 28 February - 3 March 1962. Programme / poster. Quantity: 12 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on papers, sizes ranging up to 760 x 510 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Allen Matthew Hale, donated in 1976. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1412..

Date: 1890-1898

By: Hill, Mabel, 1872-1956; Mason, Elizabeth, 1909-

Reference: E-514

Description: Shows scene on Avon River Christchurch; beech willow and fir trees; scene with brigands; nude model after Edwin Long; copy from Victorian loan collection (Dunedin South Seas exhibition 1890; copy of Ralli's "Snake charmers"; autumn leaves; J. A. X. in repose; African lilies in Kaikorai Valley 24.4.90; Nicholls Creek Falls (probable Dunedin area - dated 26.4.90); Silverstream 27.4.90; St Clair Dunedin 28.4.90; Scotch fir; rushing stream with bridge (the Leith?); A portrait [of a woman] 12.8.90; "She paints" (red conte); Masterton 10.11.90; Scheherazade; A stiff Nor'wester; "Wind"; Residence of A Evans Esq, Kaikorai Valley Sketchbook has been started from both ends; all pages are used. Inscriptions: Album page - (Inside front cover): Mabel Hill, Wellington School of Design, 31 March 1890.; (Inscribed on cover): Mabel Hill Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Hardbound book, 26 leaves, 132 x 182 mm.