Places

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-043

Description: A red clay road on a steep hillside through dense bush, including tree ferns. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [ca 1869-ca 1900], [ca 1950s]

From: Wainuiomata Historical Society: Photographs

By: Richardson, Wal, active 1950

Reference: PAColl-7664

Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of road works in Ghuznee Street, Wellington, ca 1950s, by Pacific Photos, Courtney Place, Wellington. 3 photographs of Seaview, taken from the top of the Wainuiomata Hill in 1950 by Wal Richardson. Album leaf with 5 photographs of Wellington, ca 1860s-1900s, including preparations for visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Wellington, wedding of Ted and Amy Yates, portrait of a woman, Te Aroha Bathhouse and fire damage in Lambton Quay. Duke of Edinburgh visited New Zealand in 1869. Cadman Bathhouse opened in 1898. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album leaf with 5 b&w original photographic prints. Provenance: Donated by Wainuiomata Historical Society, October 2002, through Mrs Vicky Alexander. The photographs were given to the society by the late Mrs Claire Burdan, whose husband was descended from Richard & Mary Prouse, and from the Dixon family, of the Dixon aerated water business. The photographs appear to have come from these families.

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.