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Family photographs and views of Whangarei and district
Date: 1899-1909
From: Heath, Henry C, fl 1890s-1920s :Photographs of New Zealand scenes and Heath's family
Reference: PAColl-8432-2
Description: Unidentified family photographs, most of which are portraites. Included are three group photographs, in one of which the people are holding musical instruments. Photographs of Whangarei and district. These include views of Whangarei Harbour and the Railway Wharf; Tourists in a boat and standing in a large group; the Wairoa Falls; an unidentified railway station; People in carriages and on horseback on the road to the Wairoa Falls; Maori selling gum; the Kamo coach; views of streets, countryside, and a raupo dwelling; bridges and limestone cliffs at Whakapara; views of Whakapara; the Whangarei Falls; Maori women on horseback; the Mauna Falls; views of Whangarei and Kamo; the Victoria Bridge; local creeks; Parahaki Hill. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 box(es).
[Ryan, Thomas], 1864-1927 :View at Gisborne. Arrived Oct 7th 1881.
Date: 1881
From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Ten watercolours and one drawing including scenes after the Tarawera eruption. 1881-1887].
Reference: A-355-011
Description: Shows a view from the water, with a ship at the far right, and houses scattered along the shoreline with hills in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 252 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.
The Nairn River, Waitangi, Chatham Island
Date: [ca1880-ca1895]
From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands
Reference: PA1-o-1333-04
Description: The Nairn River, Waitangi, Cahtham Island. The buildings in the view are from the left: Pomare Hall, Hood's House (later Nairn House), Ngati Mutunga house (in the foreground), Seymour's house in bend of the river with Mangape house, Piripari house (right hand side of river). Photographed by Karl Gerstenkorn between 1890 and 1895. Seymour's house was built in 1867 by Sellwood. Mangape house was built by the missionaries, Engst and Baucke in about 1859. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm
James Cornwall loose album pages
Date: [ca 1890s-1940s]
From: Cornwall, James Caleb, 1879-1964: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10268
Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenes taken between circa 1890s and circa 1940s, chiefly by James Caleb Cornwall. Many images have a brief explanatory captions. Contains images including a kapa haka group performing on a barge, a building decorated for Royal [Coronation 1937?] with cameo portraits of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, animals at a zoo (pelican and [thar?]), a thermal area, and a bush scene. Transportation is featured, with photographs showing trains (locomotives and carriages, including a Fairlie locomotive) and railway architecture (train tracks and Main Trunk Line viaduct) as well as car and horse and cart scenes. Places and buildings include Hastings Main Street, Blenheim Memorial (clock tower and fountain), Palmerston North (including birds on pond [Domain?], a church, shops, and the main square), Arthurs Pass and Porters Pass, a Coromandel homestead, house and garden of Cara [Sawings?], and [Otago Settlers?] Museum, Dunedin. Unidentified figures appear in some photographs. Quantity: 10 loose album pages, with 38 b&w original prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints adhered to loose card album pages
Photographs of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1885-1925]
From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9827-2
Description: Includes - Unidentified river in a gorge, ca 1925. Small river or lake surrounded by trees. Staff at Blue Cliffs Station grouped outside the woolshed, ca 1890. Anama homestead. Photograph of SS Tainui under steam and sail, ca 1885. Photograph of a painting of SS Irnie, ca 1885. Family group on a lawn, ca 1905. Cust village, Canterbury. St James Church Cust, 1891. Views of people on ship's deck. Native forest scenic reserve, ca 1905. Woman and dog, ca 1890s. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).
Album of photographs of a journey in Canada
Date: 1890s-ca1923
From: Brusey family :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-974
Description: The first and largest section of this album records a trip in Canada and possibly the United States, made by a young man with a motor car about 1923. The second section are photographs taken on a visit to possibly Hawaii or Tahiti. Local people are recorded as well as a number of yachts tied up along the waterfront of a town, and a white warship. The third section include family photographs taken in Britain in the 1890s, and several shipboard views, two of which show what are probably crossing the line ceremonies involving a canvas swimming pool. Towards the end of the album a group of family photographs are associated with a large wooden New Zealand house. There is no information with the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
View of Waitangi, Chatham Island
Date: [ca1880-ca1895]
From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands
Reference: PA1-o-1333-01
Description: View of Waitangi, Chatham Island, showing the town, beach, and immediate hinterland. Photographed by Karl Gerstenkorn between 1890 and 1895. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm
Pauatahanui and Wellington
Date: 1842-1964
From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs
Reference: PAColl-9938-12
Description: This collection contains the contents of two albums. First album group relates to Pauatahanui, Porirua. Includes - Unidentified house. Grave stone of Len Walker who died in 1897 aged 100 years. View of St Adan's Anglican Church. View of St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. Views of an overgrown cemetery. Second album is mostly views of the Government centre and environs, Wellington. Most of this material dates from the late 1940s to the early 1950s and includes - The wooden Government building (now Law School). The Centotaph. Turnbull House (then the Alexander Turnbull Library). Wellington Railway Station. Bowen House. Magistrates Court. Bowen Street. Lambton Quay. Bunny Street. Molesworth Street. Government Printing Office. Parliament buildings and grounds. The old High Court building. Brick store on Waterloo Quay (now apartments). Hotel Waterloo. Defence Department building, Bunny Street (demolished about 1994). Other Wellington photographs taken by the Evening Post in November 1964 include a view of Manners Street, and two photographs of Wellington traffic. There is one photograph of houses and gardens in Regent Street, Newtown, dated 9 August 1962. This is part of a group of views of a site for Wellington City Council housing taken before demolition for that project began. Earlier photographs include - View of Kaikoura, ca 1910. Houses in Auckland, Christchurch, and the Stratford area, 1890s-1910. Taylor-Stace house, Pauatahanui. Photograph of a drawing of a coach outside an inn in Christchurch, 1866. Unidentified derelict cobb built house in overgrown garden. Views of the bridge of an unidentified ship. Barrett's Hotel, Wellington, by Samuel Brees, ca 1842. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: All of these prints were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. The photographs have been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library.
Lyttleton Family and Rokeby homestead and gardens
Date: [ca1870]-1935
From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels
Reference: PAColl-9129-1
Description: Edith Lyttleton's father and mother, Emily Lyttleton and Westcote McNab Lyttleton. Edith Lyttleton and her sister Emily in the 1890s. Edith's brothers Ray and Clyne. Grave of Westcote McNab Lyttleton. Unidentified carte de visite portraits. Family groups in the gardens of Rokeby homestead, 1890s. Group at Engleberg, Switzerland in 1911. Unidentified musical group. Unidentified railway track, probably on the Canterbury Plains. Franz Joseph Glacier Hotel, Westland, New Zealand. North American Indian, animals, and forest. Pet dogs. Edith Lyttleton in dog-drawn sledge, Yukon, Canada, 1920. Ships in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, ca 1870. Views of countryside, Halifax. Sailors, Halifax. Port and town, Australia. Australian military uniforms. Quantity: 71 b&w original photographic print(s).
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :The promontory of Jackson's Bay [20 March 1875]
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-066
Description: Looking east from the sea towards roof-shapes on the left indicating 'abt 15 houses', another house roof in the centre labelled 'Gvt Store', bushy hills behind and a rock in the sea to the right, possibly 'The promontory' of the title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, image size 105 x 230 mm.
View of Waipawa, the river, and surrounding countryside
Date: 1870
From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection
Reference: PAColl-9161-08
Description: Photograph taken 1870 by an unidentified photographer, showing a view over Waipawa with the river, native forest, and mountains in the background. The town's small wooden buildings have shingled roofs, and are surrounded by picket or post and rail fences. A large patch of fern can be seen in the foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Settlement of Tairua and surrounding area
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
[Artist unknown] :[View of Thames. ca 1870]
Date: 1867 - 1880
Reference: C-030-002
Description: Shows a view of a coastal settlement spread along the water's edge, backed by bush-clad hills, and seen from the water. Thames, originally named Shortland, was established in 1867 as a goldmining town, but had grown to the size shown here by 1870. The buildings depicted are likely to include miners' houses, hotels and stamper batteries Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 770 mm (trimmed)
The settlement of Lyell, West Coast Region
Date: ca 1890
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0736-G
Description: Looking over the settlement of Lyell, West Coast Region. In the centre is the Welcome Inn. Also shows the Criterion Hotel (above Welcome Inn); the Commercial and Empire Hotels (to right, rear views) and the Alhambra (pale building, on the spur). Taken by the Tyree Studio circa 1890. Source of descriptive information - Information about hotels from Library client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - LYELL BULLER RIVER TYREE PHOTO NELSON 5201 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
View of Sanson
Date: [1870s]
From: Creator unknown: Photographs of Sanson, 1870s, Ex Unsorted Print Collection
Reference: PAColl-3858-1
Description: View of the town of Sanson looking along its main street. Houses, a church and some other buildings can be seen. The dominant part of the image is the roadway. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1870s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 20 x 12.8 cm on cardboard mount, 22.4 x 14 cm
Bell Street, Wanganui
Date: [ca 1860s]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/1-000190-G
Description: Bell Street and marketplace, Wanganui, circa 1860s, with houses, and `Thomas's Albion Hotel' (right of centre). Washing hangs out on a line on the right. Photograph taken by William James Harding. Note on back of file print reads "Albion Hotel left centre. Bell Street. Market Place. c. 1860's" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Lawrence, Otago
Date: [191-?]
From: Buchan, Walter Charles, fl 1981-1995 :Postcards of New Zealand scenes
Reference: 1/2-056514-F
Description: View of Lawrence, Otago, showing the railway yards in the foreground and houses in the background. Photograph taken ca 1910s by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - LAWRENCE RAILWAY Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Creator unknown :Photograph of Christchurch
Date: [ca 1850s?]
Reference: PAColl-8252
Description: Photograph (painted over) of houses and buildings in Christchurch, taken from the Provincial Buildings looking northwest. Photographed circa 1850s? by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Painted silver gelatin print 14.7 x 11.3 cm
Photographs of two buildings in Sanson
Date: [1970s]
From: Creator unknown: Photographs of Sanson, 1870s, Ex Unsorted Print Collection
Reference: PAColl-3858-3
Description: Photographs of a two storied house and a building that is either a church or a public hall. Both have a picket fence separating them from the street. A horse is tied up to a gate. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1870s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20.5 x 13.8 cm, mounted on cardboard, 22.5 x 15.3 cm
View of Petone from above Sir James Hector's house, Ratanui
Date: Christmas 1892
From: Hector, James (Sir), 1834-1907 :Album of Wellington and Petone views
Reference: PA1-o-879-01
Description: View of Petone and Wellington Harbour from a hillside above Ratanui, Sir James Hector's house on the Western Hutt Road. In the Foreground can be seen a group which may be members of Hector's family. Photographed by an unknown photographer, Christmas 1892. Dated from inscription on album title page. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 12.7 x 17.2 cm, with cropped corners, mounted on album page.