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Date: 1910 - 1934

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Northwood Brothers (Firm); Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-1627

Description: Arrangement: Original negatives at 1/1-06253, 06277, 06304, 10555, 11218, 1/2-021623 Quantity: 7 b&w copy photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Printed captions with collection.

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1935

By: Northwood, Richard Alfred, 1881-1955; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-019-a/024-a

Description: 6 images: Dalmation gumdiggers, Ahipara district, 1914; Group in Okahu Bush, near Kaitaia, felling tree for shingles to repair roof of St Saviours Anglican Church, ca 1934; Slab hut, Northland, ca 1930s; Baling flax, Lake Ohia ca 1920; Bullock team hauling kauri log from Hokianga bush 1910s; Gumdiggers camp, Houhora district 1910s. On container: An old gumfield warrior. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (beneath each of 6 photolithographic images): Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title]; Verso - top left - Photographs by / The Northwood Brothers / Published with the assistance of the Listener Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (2 copies of set with 6 images).. Physical Description: Cardboard envelope 510 x 390 mm, containing 6 images 258 x 334 mm, on sheets 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.

Date: 1914 - 1985

From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-019-a

Description: Shows a group of 3 seated and 6 standing gumdiggers with prods, kete and spades. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Other Titles - Dirty but happy Austrian gummdiggers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph; Recto - bottom centre - DIRTY BUT HAPPY AUSTRIAN GUMDIGGERS. 45 A. NORTHWOOD. PPOT 1-8-14 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.

Date: 1914 - 1985

From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-019

Description: Shows a group of 3 seated and 6 standing gumdiggers with prods, kete and spades. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Other Titles - Dirty but happy Austrian gummdiggers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph; Recto - bottom centre - DIRTY BUT HAPPY AUSTRIAN GUMDIGGERS. 45 A. NORTHWOOD. PPOT 1-8-14 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA4-0870

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of gum being loaded at Waitangi Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Loading Kauri Gum, Waitangi; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Akon - Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1 April 1897

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA11-269

Description: Photographic glass plate transparency (lantern slide), by Josiah Martin, with the title 'An Aristocratic Gumdigger' and the manuscript caption 'Gumdigger's Hut, Waitakere'. Features the imprint 'Josiah Martin, Photo., Auckland, N.Z.', along upper margin. Photographer's negative number is illegible, possibly reads "967" or "567". Image shows male subject seated on a wooden crate together with a small dog, alongside of an abode roughly thatched with nikau fronds, while the ground is strewn with various utensils and a glass bottle. Alice Rea identifies the location as Waimauku and not Waitakere. Rea, Alice. "They came for kauri but... : The Waimauku centenary, 1863-1963 ". 'Waimauku Early Settlers' Association', New Zealand, 1963, p. 19. https://natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1s57t7d/NLNZ_ALMA21265923830002836 Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Verso - above image - Josiah Martin, Photo., Auckland, N.Z.; Verso - bottom centre - Gum diggers Hut, Waitakere; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - An Aristocratic Gumdigger Protected 1/4/97 [negative number] [?]67 Similar photograph held at Auckland War Museum, reference PH-1958-1-15482 Quantity: 1 b&w original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Glass transparency - lantern slide Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath Rare Books, 2015. No further provenance information available. Processing information: Description updated 10 May 2023 following information from a staff member.

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

By: New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts; New Zealand. Parliamentary Library; Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: PA1-o-1883

Description: Photograph album containing outdoor views taken circa 1900-1905 by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department in the Northland Region of New Zealand. Photographers unidentified but many possibly taken by Thomas Pringle who was employed by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department in 1901. Compiler of album unidentified. Some images have captions. Images mainly show outdoor views, including landscapes, buildings, beaches, industry (including logging and gum digging), and harbours. Some show people. Whangarei and Whangaroa Harbour feature. Despite the title of the album: 'Maori life and scenery', Maori people do not predominantly feature, except in a loose print taken by Thomas Pringle in circa 1905, showing three girls playing 'whai' string game, and some other prints showing Maori families and individuals. Other: All prints have an inscription "New Zealand Government and Tourist Department Protected 7.1.03", however 7 January is not the date the photographs were taken. It is likely to be the date the was registered/patented. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Backing board recto - On spine: "ZZ/P575/Photographs of Maori Life and Scenery" and "General Assembly New Zealand library" insignia. This insignia is also on the front of the album. Relationship complexity: This album relates to PA1-o-1884 and PA1-o-1885 which came to the library at the same time and belongs to the same series of albums which were from the Parliamentary Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green album bound by General Assembly Library, with gold embossed lettering. 24cm x 31.5cm. Transfers: From Book Collections - From NZ & P Book Collections as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material.

Date: 18, 21 May 2009 - 18 May 2009 - 21 May 2009

From: Honouring seniors oral history project

By: Morgan, Reginald John, 1916-

Reference: OHInt-0979-05

Description: Interview with Reginald John (Jack) Morgan, born in Auckland in 1916. Describes the family background, and his parents, who ran the Hukerenui hotel. Tells of his father's death from influenza after World War I, and his mother's subsequent labours on the rough farm she ran - while raising seven children - after her husband's death. Talks about farming methods, and the transportation of materials and farm produce. Describes horse, rail, barge and railway transport of timber, lime rock, coal and dairy products. Gives details of collecting and marketing kauri gum and other jobs he did while at school. Describes milking cows twice a day, and getting the produce to the Whangarei Dairy Company, on atrocious roads. Discusses his shift from dairy farming to agricultural contracting, in particular to hay baling, which he worked at for 49 years. Explains the progress from manual to automated methods. Talks about his wife, and her supportive role running the family farm while he worked as a contractor. Describes the local extractive industries: native timber milling, kauri gum, prospecting and mining (for gold, coal, manganese, red ochre, mercury), mineral water, and quarrying. Talks about his interest in the history and the people of the district - Maori, and European settlers and community life Interviewer(s) - Patricia Cutforth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001254 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 6 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 2.06 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7483, OHDL-001264. Three digital photographs of Jack Morgan, one in his workshop (2009). Scanned B&W or sepia photographs of: Morgan farmhouse, early 1919; Hukerenui Store, 1920s; Hukerenui School (1923); Hukerenui Hotel 1936 flood; Hukerenui Home Guard; Morgan farmhouse, 1970s Search dates: 1916 - 2009

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

From: Lightbourne, Ruth Elizabeth (Dr), 1949- : Photographs

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Stewart, (Mr?), active 1897?

Reference: PAColl-10177-4

Description: Stereoscopic postcard prints taken circa 1900 around New Zealand, by photographers Radcliffe & Stewart. Prints mainly consist of images taken in the Auckland and Rotorua areas. Images include gum diggers and a bullock team hauling kauri logs in Northland, a man milking a cow and squirting the milk into the mouth of a cat, Kereru Geyser at Whakarewarewa, Twin Geyser at Wairakei, men fishing on Lake Rotorua, Rotorua Sanatorium building and grounds, young girls doing a haka outside Tamatekapua Marae, Ohinemutu, a maori dwelling (Rotorua), Okere Falls on Lake Rotoiti, beehive rock formation at Waiotapu, and a swarm of 50,000 bees at a hive. Quantity: 14 b&w stereoscopic postcards. Physical Description: Stereoscopic postcards

Date: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-371

Description: Views of various factories and businesses in the Auckland Region, taken circa 1906, by unidentified photographers. They include interior and exterior views, and employees. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Auckland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Auckland. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1920

From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-024-a

Description: Shows two men beside their sacking tent, one standing at right mending some sacking, and the other seated in front of the tent cutting gum. The tent chimney is made of sod. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm.

Date: 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

Reference: 1/4-091214-F

Description: Sutich brothers screening gum chips using a sieve at Te Kopuru. Two men hold the sieve while the other pours the chips through it to remove foreign matter. Photographed by Robert E Wells in April or May 1947. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: 1884-1968

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal; Sefton, William John, -1951; Auckland weekly news (Newspaper); Messenger, Derek, active 1968; Hutchings, Frank, active 1914

Reference: PAColl-2144

Description: Includes gum industry operations in Northland and Auckland; New Year festival, 1911; a wedding group, 1913; Queen Carnival at Dargaville, 1915; picnic in Dargaville, ca 1935; Dargaville Yugoslav Social Club group, ca 1936. Some photos in this collection are copied from holdings in Auckland Public Library and Auckland Institute and Museum. Many of the people in the photos are identified by name. Collection may be associated with John Mark Totich Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 51 b&w copy photographic print(s). 2 colour copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1920

From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-024

Description: Shows two men beside their sacking tent, one standing at right mending some sacking, and the other seated in front of the tent cutting gum. The tent chimney is made of sod. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm.

Date: 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

Reference: 1/4-091215-F

Description: Unidentified young man shovelling kauri gum chips into a machine at Elliot's, Te Kopuru. Photographed by Robert E Wells in April or May 1947. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: [Circa 1900s-1910s]

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-365

Description: Album showing various aspects of New Zealand life in cities, on farms, and in industries such as gold and coal mining, the timber industry, dairy industry, and flax industry. Other images focus on New Zealand scenery ranging throughout the North Island and the South Island. Photographers are mostly unidentified, but groups who are named are A. Northwood, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Album identical in content to that at PA1-o-364. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, entitled `New Zealand'; 24 x 30 cm

Date: [ca 1900-1919]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PAColl-7219

Description: Postcards of a Maori chief from Whangape in a feathered cloak with moko and carrying a taiaha; mail coaches leaving Ohaeawai; sheep mustering on McKenzie's Estate, Herekino where the sheep are being herded into a field next to a beach; two of the second oldest church in New Zealand at Waimate North; Bedgood's Mill at Waimate North; Bedgood's mill waterwheel; a horse and cart heading to the Waimate Show in the distance; Te Paki Cattle Station; Houhora Hotel and harbour; Mount Camel and heads, Houhora harbour; moonlight on Houhora harbour; Herekino settlement; Herekino harbour overlooking Keay's with Manukau in the distance; Kerikeri Falls; Kohukohu showing the hotel and other buildings on the waterfront; two boats on the Waihopo River; a girl talking to a boy on a horse with the staff quarters of the Kaitaia Wireless Station behind them; three views of the Kaitai Radio Station (in operation 1912-1929); two men on rope slings gathering gum from a kauri tree; view of Kaikohe; Government Buildings, Kaikohe; Kaikohe Hotel with two men on ponies outside; two men on bicycles with the Kaitaia Post Office behind them; view of Mangonui; a man boating in Mangamuka Gorge; the Mangamuka River; sheep being driven along a road in Marangai, looking west; two views of Marangai looking east; a view of Kerikeri from the river showing the Stone Store and Kemp House; the bathing pool at Ngawha Springs; the Black Lake, Ngawha Springs; Ngataki Lake, Waihopo; boys from Te Kao North Cape Native School doing a haka; Ohaeawai Hotel; the Church of England, Ohaeawai (with additional photography by Radcliffe); the pier in Parengarenga Harbour; sheep on the road at Ohaeawai; a loaded horse-drawn cart on the main street in Ohaeawai, looking west; a steam locomotive pulling kauri logs at Puketi; and a kauri tree in a forest with a hut behind it. Photographer was Northwood Brothers. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002254, 002392, 002395, 002741, 002742, 002744 to 002746, 002748 to 002750, 002788 to 002795, 002809 to 002811, 002825, 002826, 002828, 002881, 002882, 002889, 002909 to 002911, 003123, 003156 to 003159, 003187, 003260 (additional copy at 1/2-021628), 003499 to 003503, 003543, 026804, 002998 to 003000, 032360 Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1910 to 1919

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-180

Description: Partial index inside cover of album: "In this series of photographs we have endevoured to depict the manner of working kauri timber in the North of New Zealand...Northwood Bros." The Northwood Brothers worked from their Kohukohu studio from 1910-1919. Partial index relates to pages 1-58; no index for pages 59-66; pages 67-100 are blank. Images include various aspects of the kauri industry, including tree felling; transportation of logs by bullock team, horse tramlines, timber waggons, and on water; views of campsites, including a cook calling the men to dinner; and men climbing kauri trees in search of gum. Album at PA1-q-180 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, entitled `Views of North Auckland by Northwood Bros. Kohu Kohu, Hokianga'; 27 x 35 x 11 cm