Places

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).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-003

Description: Photographs of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson taken circa 1940s for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of road construction, towns, rivers, bridges, lakes, mountains and personalities. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1929-1931

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-768

Description: Damage to buildings, roads, rivers and landscapes resulting from the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1900s]

From: Kenrick, Evelyn Helen, 1907-1991 : Photographs of New Zealand scenery

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-249

Description: Album of New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1900s. Includes one image of Thames Maori chief Taipari, who presented land for St George's Anglican Church at Thames in 1871 (taken circa 1870s by Foy Brothers). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cream buckram album, with dark red leather spine and corners, spine entitled `Kenrick'; 17.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: ca 1890

By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910; Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Cundy, Horace Gordon, 1907-1983

Reference: PAColl-3412

Description: Mostly photographs of scenic West Coast Region. Note that under Places only a handfull of the 108 photoprints have been indexed Inscriptions: All the photographs are identified on the back in pencil written in most cases in the same hand. Some of the negatives have reference numbers on the back in pencil. These may indicate that several sets of prints were made Quantity: 108 b&w original photographic print(s) in two boxes. Physical Description: Majority of photoprints approx 110 x 150mm (the few that are not are smaller)

Date: 1929-1948

By: Kendall, Leslie Frank, active 1920-1950

Reference: PA1-o-717

Description: Album compiled by Lesley Frank Kendall. The first section relates to tramping and the Mount Egmont Alpine Club. This includes - A large group of people on a mountain tramp ca 1929. Climbers on Mount Egmont. Building the first Syme Hut on Fantham's Peak, Mount Egmont, 1930. Military training camp at Long Bay. Emerson Street, Napier, in ruins, 1931. Two men on a motorcycle holiday. Group of photographs of the Wairarapa and Tararua Ranges. This includes - Men hunting in the Palliser Bay area. Views of the Rimutaka Range and road. Climbers on Mount Hector, Tararua Range, and at Kime and Field's huts. View of the Balclutha road bridge (built between 1933 and 1935). Kendall family members and a motor holiday in Central Otago ca 1936. This group also includes Queentown, the Buller Gorge, the DH 86 aircraft `Karoro,' and Canterbury. Views of Napier rebuilt. Sports matches include - New Zealand versus India, hockey, 1938. Otago versus Canterbury, rugby (probably Ranfurly Shield) 1938. Photograph group relating to a holiday in Auckland. Photograph group relating to a holiday at The Portage, Kenepuru Sound, Marlborough. Family gathering. Lesley Kendall in military uniform and Norma Clout on their wedding day, ca 1940. Group of photographs of unidentified children, people and places. Pig hunting trip, locality unidentified. Group of photographs of Lesley and Norma Kendall's first baby. Holiday on the South Island's West Coast. Wanganella on Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour, 1948. Views of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs relating to the Royal New Zealand Air Force training school at Levin, Second World War. Family photographs, views of Wellington, the Putangirua Pinnacles Palliser Bay, and Picton. Groups of people on holiday at Paraparaumu, 1930s. Groups of people on a day out at Ohariu Valley, Wellington, 1930s. Wellington College Mod. VB class, 1929. Lesley Kendall with athletic trophies for the 1929-1930 season. Family photographs, 1920s-1940s. House on Maungakiekie Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. Group photograph of a dance party, Mount Eden, Auckland, 1930s. Two photographs of New Zealand Air Force groups, Second World war. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: [Between 1920s and 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Pa1-f-053

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways, chiefly taken circa 1936, by unidentified photographers. The main sequences cover views in the Christchurch area, the Southern Alps and West Coast in the South Island; and Gisborne, East Cape, and Taranaki in the North Island. Many of the images were used in the New Zealand Railway Magazine which is available in full-text on the internet at http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-railways.html Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled Tours, Book 4; 39 x 59 cm

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1899

Reference: PA1-o-858

Description: Views taken on coach trip through Buller Gorge; also views showing the crossing of the Mohaka River, Taupo, Aratiatia, Wairakei, Hamurana Springs and Tikitere. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1870s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-9494

Description: Collection comprises tourist and scenic views of New Zealand, including envelopes of collectible souvenir photographs of New Zealand cities Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) stereoscopic images. 7 b&w original photographic print(s) stereoscopic images. 93 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: [ca 1881]

From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-415

Description: Photographs of Greymouth, Grey River, Brunnerton, Ahaura, Reefton, Waimakariri, Lake Pearson, Lake Brunner, Dillmanstown, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Ross, and the thermal areas of central North Island. The photographers represented include William Herbert Perkins, James Ring and the Burton Brothers. There is one interior view of a quartz-crushing battery at Reefton. Pages 55, 57 and 58 have portraits of women (and one man) in "Fancy Fair" costumes Inscriptions: Album page - "William Perkins. Greymouth. 1884" Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, darker corners and spine; "Album" lettered in gold on spine; 23.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 2002-2006

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000487

Description: Photographs of Buller, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Buller Gorge road, Buller towns and shops, Denniston, views of rivers and coastlines around the Buller district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (Buller)" Quantity: 143 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1911

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006769-G

Description: Suspension bridge over the Buller River, Buller Gorge. Shows the bridge in the distance, with a house in the foreground. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe in 1911. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: Jul 1954

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s

Reference: 1/2-039709-F

Description: A New Zealand Road Services bus crosses a truss bridge over the Buller River in the Buller Gorge, West Coast. Shows the Number 2208 "Westland Tour" bus (license plate S. 298) driving across the wooden bridge, surrounded by bush and native trees. The driver looks down out of his window. Photograph taken in July 1954, by Mr W Walker for the National Publicity Studios. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - left of image - A36,306 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.