Places

Date: [1984 or 1985]

From: Thompson, Paul David, 1951- : Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints, also papers

Reference: PA12-5644-13

Description: Tree house sleepout attached to bach at Coromandel, photographed in late 1984 or early 1985 by Paul Thompson. Publication note - Published in: Paul Thompson, The bach (Wellington: Government Printer, 1985) p24 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 35mm

Date: 1 August 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-001803-G

Description: Dwellings on Wainui Road, Kopua, in the vicinity of Raglan. Taken 1 August 1910 by Gilmour Brothers. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wainui Road. Kopua. Raglan. NZ. 315; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G. Bros. Protd. 1.8.10. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [1984 or 1985]

From: Thompson, Paul David, 1951- : Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints, also papers

Reference: PA12-5644-19

Description: Interior of 3 metre square bach at Hahei, photographed in late 1984 or early 1985 by Paul Thompson. Publication note - Published in: Paul Thompson, The bach (Wellington: Government Printer, 1985) p30 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 35mm

Date: 1 July 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000231-G

Description: View of Te Mata township, looking south, 1 July 1910. Photograph taken by the Gilmour Brothers of Raglan. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Te Mata (looking south) N.Z. 135; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G Bros. Protd 1.7.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1869 - 1901

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878; Anderson, Nora, active 1901; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: C-126-006

Description: Extensive view framed by tree ferns and flax in the foreground, looking down unto a small river winding through cultivated fields and scattered houses, with the kainga mentioned in the title presumably the cluster of buildings to the right. There is a ridge of low hills beyond the near river valley then the extensive plain of the Waihou River, formerly called the Thames, with mountains in the distance The original watercolour by Liardet is at C-137-005. The Thames River, named by Captain Cook, is now known by its original Maori name as the Waihou River. The "Kawaeranga" River is the Kauaerangi. Mt Pukekawa does not appear to be a name used in the area depicted any longer - the closest Pukekawa is some 50 kilometres to the west on the far side of the Waikato River. On the verso is a pencil and faint watercolour drawing of a pair of pink dancing shoes and a fan. Other Titles - Embouchure, Kauaerangi River, Waihou River Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title, both artists' names and dates, in brown brushpoint in cursive calligraphic style.; Verso - "Mrs Anderson Coromandel sc" plus framing instructions dating from the 1960s. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 315 x 467 mm. Provenance: Owned by Warren Sisarich, 1960s. Sold at Dunbar Sloanes, Wellington, to Dr Neville Hogg of Dargarville.

Date: [1931?]

Reference: PAColl-9376

Description: Photograph of King Koroki's carved house at Ngaruawahia taken (1931?) by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.5 x 21 cm

Date: [between 1908-1915]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Jonathan Ltd

Reference: 1/2-000414-G

Description: View of Kawhia, looking over towards the trees where the farmhouse built by George Charlton formerly stood. At far left is a side view of the Kawhia Congregational Church. Also on left, is the St Elmo boarding house, on a hilltop, silhouetted by distant hills, with verandah facing the camera. To the left of St Elmo, side on, is Rosamond House. The wide grassed area, with horses grazing later became Pouewe Street. Photograph taken by Jonathan Limited (Firm) between 1908-1915. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print and from Library client. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Kawhia suburbs; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Jon Ltd 2011. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: January 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32249-F

Description: Aerial view of Taupo, taken January 1953 by Whites Aviation. Timber yards and a site with rows of newly constructed houses, possibly for workers, are visible. Area of central scrub was later the site of Taupo-nui-a-Tia College. Spa Road on right. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Finding Aids: Print available in Whites Aviation Blue 470.

Date: [ca 1916]

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

Reference: APG-1202-1/2-G

Description: The settlement of Karangahake. Shows buildings relating to gold mining in the centre. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1916. An original print from this negative is at Godber Album PA1-q-102, page 43 Dated from other photographs surrounding this one in the album, many of which are dated 1916 Inscriptions: Album page - Karangahake township and mountain. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1848 - 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-089-001

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea. This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade' A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed. This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder). See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah) Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 370 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction to Goodman Fielder in 1984. Passed in at Webb's auction, March 1995, lot 114.

Date: [1880s]

From: Young, L R, fl 1972 :Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry

Reference: PAColl-5521-23

Description: The settlement of Tairua showing a group of dwellings on the waterfront. Ferns are visible in the bottom left corner. Taken in the 1880s by Walker. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print

Date: 1 July 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000232-G

Description: Main street in Te Mata township, 1 July 1910. Shows the Te Mata Public Hall on the left. Photograph taken by the Gilmour Brothers of Raglan. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Main Street. Te Mata N.Z. 136; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G Bros. Protd 1.7.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1886

From: Goldie, Mr : Three negatives

Reference: 1/2-021474-F

Description: House at the northern end of the railway tunnel at Porootarao, with a verandah and fence, 1886. Three unidentified men stand on the left. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1845

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-216-f-085

Description: Shows the front of a small single-storey cottage with thatched roof and a verandah supported by five pillars. The cottage has two or three front windows and a front door, two chimneys and a lean-to, with a picket fence running from the house on both sides. A circular garden bed is in front and a cabbage tree, flax and another plant, possibly a fern, are to the right The Rev. Dr Robert Maunsell lived in this raupo cottage from 1838 to 1843. It was superseded by a 6-room wooden dwelling that burned down after three weeks' occupation. Maunsell and his wife were hosts to Governor Hobson in March 1842, with Chief Justice Martin, Abel Best and Edward Shortland also present. Dr Johnson was away from New Zealand between November 1844 and November 1846. He must have made this drawing from an earlier version or possibly initialled and dated it when he gave it to Mrs Hobson in England Other Titles - Maraetai Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J. J. 1845 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on yellow embossed wove paper, 63 x 100 mm (image) on sheet 82 x 225 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-009

Description: View from across the Waikato River towards the main buildings of the Maori king's residence. The long low building on the left is the 'General's quarters', the 'King's palace' is in the centre with dark red barge boards, the 'council chambers' are futher to the right and the closest building and the flagstaff is on the far right. There are two small canoes at the landing place, along with people and horses. There are also tents amongst the remaining buildings on the site Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Ngaruawahia from opposite bank of Waikato. 1864' in E. A. Williams' diary in the Hocken Library, p. 77 (The Turnbull holds a slide of this view) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 98 x 187 mm

Date: [between 1908-1915]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Jonathan Ltd

Reference: 1/2-000416-G

Description: A view of the waterfront at Kawhia, Waikato region, with St Elmo boarding house in the foreground. Includes a cliff at each end of the inlet and houses around the harbour. At the far end amongst some houses is a large Norfolk Pine tree. The two storey building immediately behind the Norfolk pine had a business on the ground floor and a hall above which was called Scott's Hall. Photograph taken between 1908-1915 by Jonathan Ltd. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print and Library client. August 2022, researcher provided information about the two storey building immediately behind the Norfolk pine It was built in 1903. and later became known as Ward's Hall and was used as a cinema from about 1914 to the early 1950s. It was demolished sometime between 1969 and 1974 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Photographer's title: Bird's eye view waterfront Kawhia; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - JON LTD 1999 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1931

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: PAColl-0001-2-1-053

Description: View of a house constructed of trunks of tree fern, with corrugated iron roof and external chimney. Photographed at the Mokau River in 1931 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - 1935 Annual. Class I Country Homes or VII Open.; Verso - top right - Mokau River 1931.; Verso - centre - This snug little home, surrounded by bush, has been built almost entirely from trunks of the tree fern, and is a really striking example of what a clever bushman can accomplish. With an inside lining of the same wood it is amazingly cosy and homelike.; Verso - bottom centre - Robt. E. Wells, Little Waihi Rd, Hawera. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.6 x 16.2 cm

Date: 1868

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096134-G

Description: House and garden of Wirope Hoterini Taipari, in Shortland (now known as Thames), photographed in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Woman at right centre also appears in 1/2-096130 and 1/2-096138 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 68 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-010

Description: A few of the outer buildings of Ngaruawahia with tents and a fence to the left. Three men, two standing, one on horseback are in the left foreground. A paddle steamer is crossing the Waikato River, towing two small barges, on the right. Hills on the other side of the river. Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Ngaruawahia 1864' in E. A. Williams' notebook in the Hocken Library, p.41 (The Turnbull holds a slide of this view) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 121 x 205 mm

Date: 1874 - 1880

By: Tizard, Frances Walker, 1850-1895

Reference: A-389-006

Description: A bend in the river, with houses on the distant bank. The houses are possibly on the edge of Thames. On the near bank, a standing and a seated Maori figure. There is a small canoe on the water in the right foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff paper, 166 x 256 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Dunbar Sloane auction, Auckland, April 2004, (possibly in a sketchbook) from the Tizard family, Thames, 2004