Places

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-038

Description: A rough sketch of Waitahuna valley and stream, with a hut, possibly a toilet, on the stream's left bank and piles of dirt from gold-mining. There is a bucket beside the stream by a large rock in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 173 mm.

Date: [Circa 1907 to 1915]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Moore, May Gertrude, 1874-1954

Reference: PA1-o-284

Description: The signature `May Moore' inside front cover, is possibly that of Mrs May Moore (daughter of Sir Joseph Kinsey), who travelled and mountaineered in the areas covered by the album. Album containing 21 scenes of the South Island. Of these, 12 were taken by photographers Muir and Moodie, between 1907 and 1913. The Muir and Moodie numbers for these views are 1810, 6743, 6752, 6780, and 6782 to 6789. The photographer for the other nine images is not identified. 24 leaves are blank. Several of the Muir and Moodie views were taken on 1st January 1913, a number of which show various stages of a group crossing the Haast Pass on horseback. Places noted include Cameron's Flat, Will's Bridge, the Burke Huts, and Mule Flat. Inscriptions: Album page - May Moore Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with loose green cloth cover, entitled `Photographs'; 24 x 30 cm

Date: 1923

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-233

Description: Scenes of a group of trampers in the Greenstone, Mackenzie and Routeburn areas. Photographs probably taken by Thomas Alexander Hunter, tramping with four other men. They are identified only as Irwin (Thomas Hunter's older brother Irwin Hunter?), McIntyre, A. Walt and M. Walt. Inscriptions: Album page - `Greenstone, MacKenzie, Route Burn. 1923. Irwin, McIntyre, A Walt, M Walt, T A Hunter' (hand-written inside front cover). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey card cover; 10 x 15 cm

Date: 1872

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-007-7

Description: A view of a hut at Lake Wanaka with mountains in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - K Holmes Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (oval shape). Physical Description: Pencil 84 x 84 mm (diam)

Date: Jan 1906

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

Reference: PA4-0747

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Edgar Williams standing by his Punga Hut at Catlins, showing Rabbits hanging around it. Photograph taken Jan 1906. Inscriptions: Verso - In ink: Edgar Williams - His Punga Hut at Catlins. Jan `06 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Dunedin, Australia, and Central Otago] 1872 [and] 1878

Reference: E-032-2-048

Description: A cottage with a thatched roof, a chimney at one end, in a bush clearing. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sketchbook page, page size 113 x 188 mm

Date: 1870

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-002

Description: A hut built with rock walls and a thatched roof, backed up against a schist cliff, with low hills and a rider on a road in the background. To the right, a separate drawing of a rock formation in a semi-human shape The site appears to be approximately at modern Gorge Creek, south of Alexandra The hut is likely to be one built by a gold-miner Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-002/003

Description: A small hut near a creek amidst bush and mountains. Two men stand outside the hut, one carrying a staff The drawing on the previous page (E-016-3-001) is titled From Mount Allen from the Camp, Tom's, probably the hut shown in this view. Other Titles - Mount Allan Inscriptions: Recto - top left - title [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1983. 1986

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6497

Description: Photographs of short tailed bats on Codfish Island. Trip to Caples Valley, Queentown Lakes District, in search of the South Island Kokako (native wattlebird), October 1983. The party included Rhys Buckingham, Peter Child, Graeme Elliot, and John Kendrick. There are images of the team and their equipment. Caples Valley viewed from the approaching helicopter. Photographs of Top Caples Hut. Views of Caples Valley and Caples River. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1967

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3426

Description: A record of a tramping trip on the Heaphy track in 1967, and views of Dunedin. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1967 Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, one sketch dated 1864, one 1893]

Reference: E-014-q-1-054-2

Description: A man seated on a container, with a wharf shed beyond him, the latter presumably made from the cabin of the ship Oscar No ship called the King Oscar was wrecked in New Zealand. However, the Oscar, sailing from Port Chalmers, was wrecked off Invercargill in 1861, and her parts salvaged. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title in pencil] Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 69 x 95 mm

Date: 1870s-1902

From: Mueller family :Photographs

By: Browne, Charles Pelham, -1916; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4363-1

Description: Photographs of group including Richard Seddon taken by C P Browne; the US transit of Venus observatory at Queenstown; Granny's hut at Bluff Harbour; bridge over the Shotover River at Arthur's Point; a group including Gerhard Mueller; gold miners next to a river at Orepuki; and a group of Land Commisioners taken in 1902 and including Thomas Humphries, Gerhard Mueller, Mackenzie, Major Richardson, D Barron, G J Roberts, F W Bronte, T S Weston, Marchant, Dr Giles, H McCardell, Col N Y A Wales (taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns); a man using surveying equipment; group including Jakob Luper Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints

Date: 1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1224

Description: Mainly a series of holidays, tramping trips, and local excursions. The first is a trip to the head of Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound via the Milford track. It begins on the road between Glenorchy and Paradise, then through the valley of the Route Burn River to the Hollyford Valley where the party camped on the shores of Lake Howden. From there they passed Lakes Fergus and Gunn into the Eglinton River Valley and on to Te Anau, and then onto the Milford track to Milford Sound via the Clinton River Valley. Images on the way include Mount Balloon, Mount Elliott, Routeburn Hut, and Lake Ada. There is a view of Mitre Peak, Mount Tutoko, and the Pembroke Glacier from Milford Sound. The second series relates to a camping trip to Wanganui and the Whanganui River. This includes a game of golf and visiting friends in St John's Hill. There are views of the party's camp and a number of images taken during a canoeing trip up the Whanganui River in what looks like a Maori dug out canoe. Two other images in this group are of men standing beside the trigs on Mounts Holdworth and Dundas in the Tararua Ranges. The third series is of family and friends at home in Eastbourne and in the bush at Muritai; Girdlestone, a friend, and two women on motor cycles on the coast road; views of Eastbourne from the hills above the suburb; women on the beach and reading at home. The fourth series relates to a trip to the Volcanic Plateau during which the party climbed Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. There are two group photographs of the whole party, one taken in front of the Waihohonu Hut, and the other on the summit of Mount Ruapehu. The fifth series shows a party of men and women on a walk and a picnic in the beach forest in Gollan's Valley near Eastbourne. The sixth series is a record of a holiday to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds taken by a group of men over Christmas 1913. There are views of the sounds and surrounding landscape, of Portage where the party stayed, and of boat and fishing trips that they made during their stay. The seventh series is of a tramping trip to the Orongrongo River Valley. The views are of native forest, the river and the mountains, and one of two men boiling a billy beside their tent in the bush. The eighth series consists of two photographs of the wreck of the "Devon" on the rocks at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington harbour. This occured on the 25th of August 1913. The ninth series is a group of photographic postcards of the Te Anau, Milford region, and probably relate to the trip recorded at the beginning of this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1953

From: Given, Bruce B :Photographs of Charleston and Lindis Pass

By: Given, Bruce, 1916-2001

Reference: 35mm-16016-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) 35mm strip with 4 copies of 1 image.

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-003232-G

Description: A hut, possibly raupo, with a man outside with some cattle; Purakanui Bay in the background. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1880

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

Reference: A-182-045

Description: A rough mountain hut, made of stone, with thatched roof and stone chimney, its front propped up with branches. To the left is meat hanging from a gallows and to the right two men on horseback have reached the top of a mountain track in front of the hut. In the background the mountains around Lake Wakatipu and part of the Lake can be seen. The central mountain peak is also shown, unfinished, on the reverse of the paper Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 144 x 252 mm

Date: [ca 1925-1927]

From: Ainslie, Esme Airini Mollie, 1901-1983 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1290

Description: Photographs of tramping in Otago and a trip to Nelson with the Tararua Tramping Club, 1926-1927. Includes views of the United States Battle Fleet ca 1925, and portraits of friends of Esme Harrison. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 27.5 x 19.5 cm, without a cover

Date: [1870s-1880s?]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-081

Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-195

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm

Date: [Circa 1906 to 1909]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, Charles Tenison, active 1906-1910

Reference: PA1-o-456

Description: Photographs of the West Coast, Christchurch and Dunedin taken by Charles Tenison Salmon, circa 1906 to 1909. Two photographs show unidentified children; a small boy wearing a sunhat, shorts and a jacket and socks and shoes playing with a toy boat at the edge of a stream (p 6); and a young girl wearing a dress, socks and shoes, and a lacy hat (p 23). A number of images show native clematis flowering in the Otira Gorge; and several show wild coastal scenes in the Dunedin area. Other - Negatives are held of these images Inscriptions: Album page - Photographs taken by Charles T. Salmon, about 1906-1909 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 19.5 x 26.5 cm