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Parker, Daniel P, fl 1902-1930 :Photographs of Thames and Northland

Date: ca 1898-1905

By: Parker, Daniel, active 1890-1911; Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-7431

Description: Photographs of Kamo (Whangarei), Rodney County and Coromandel, taken, probably in the 1900s, by Daniel P Parker of Coromandel. Includes views of the construction on a timber dam (probably in Coromandel), Coromandel Public Hospital, Kennedy Bay (Coromandel), a stream crossing between Opitonui and Coromandel, bush camps in the Coromadel district and a traffic bridge in Rodney County. Daniel P Parker is recorded in the Wise's Post Office directories as an engineer in Coromandel from 1902 to 1930. Between 1906 and 1911 he is also recorded as a photographer. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :At The Levels. The old house and the new. [1893?]

Date: 1893

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-6-018

Description: A slab hut on the right amongst bush, half overgrown, with a new larger house next-door Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 151 x 251 mm.

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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Mountain and bush. 1880s?]

Date: 1880 - 1890

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

Reference: A-213-070

Description: A stream in the foreground, with snagged logs, tall native bush in the middle ground and sheer mountains in the background above water, possibly Mitre Peak and probably in Fiordland Other Titles - [Mountain scene] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 300 x 155 mm

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Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :Seaforth River, at confluence with Kenneth Burn....

Date: 1896 - 1900

From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Collection of views of scenic areas of New Zealand. 1896-1900]

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Wilmot, Ernest Herbert, 1855-1952

Reference: E-141-q-005

Description: Looking up a rocky stream, with native bush and tall mountains beyond Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Signed: G N Sturtevant Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 188 x 141 mm

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Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views

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.

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[Howard, Eliot] :Titiranghi. In the kauri forest. June 18[91?]

Date: 1891

By: Howard, Eliot, active 1890s

Reference: A-234-002

Description: Native forest with kauri trunks, tree ferns and nikau From a sketchbook dated 1891 On same sheet as A-234-003: Mount Eden. Auckland Other Titles - Titirangi Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 127 mm

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Photographs mostly of Otago

Date: ca 1880s

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7301

Description: A road through the bush in Paradise; path next to Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown; a view of Queenstown showing the wharf; a paddle steamer at the wharf in Queenstown with Eichardt's Hotel in the background; Kawarau Falls with a mill next to them; Kawarau Falls station; Remarkables from Frankton; seated portrait of John Hodge; head and shoulders portrait of Henry Hodge; and a view of the Remarkables with Queenstown to the left. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003189, 003233 to 003236, 003510 to 003512, 005107 and 005108 Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson), 1844-1903 :[Bush at Urenui. 1890s?]

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-045

Description: A pond or lake fringed with tall bush Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 228 x 164 mm

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Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :Putikituna Stream, Taranaki. From photo by L C S...

Date: 1896 - 1900

From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Collection of views of scenic areas of New Zealand. 1896-1900]

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Sladden, Lewis Coster, 1867-1939

Reference: E-141-q-011

Description: Looking upstream towards native bush Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signed: G.N.S. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 150 x 206 mm

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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833?-1898 :In Kinloch Bush. [1860-1890]

Date: 1860 - 1890

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-186-045

Description: Shows a sketch of lake seen through trees, with a mountain range in the distance. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet 198 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Brian Groshinski, Australia, in 2003.

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William Hunt and sons, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-08

Description: Native forest with nikau palms, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands. In the right foreground seated are (from left) William Hunt, and sons Frederick William Hunt, and Herbert Alexander Hunt. (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

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Smytheman, V :Scenic views of New Zealand

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Nairn album 1

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-q-167

Description: Album of photographs taken between the 1860s and 1890s by various unidentified photographers, with one identified as being possibly by Daniel Louis Mundy, and one by James Bragge. Two early photographs, one of `Oakbourne Station', the home of John Davis Canning was taken circa 1860s, and one of `Orua Wharo' the home of John Johnston, and later his son Sydney Johnston, was taken circa 1870s, before the new house was built in 1879. Page 7 contains pressed ferns. Non-New Zealand photographs include several of Fiji, including Levuka, Taveuni, and an avenue of palms; one of the carving on Sir Joshua Reynold's bed at Tarrington; one of an Elizabethan glass cup; a carved overmantel; two views of Arundel House at Brighton, and one of Heston Church near Osterley Park. In the North Island, apart from the views of Oakbourne and Orua Wharo in the Hawke's Bay region, there are several views of the Pink and White Terraces, two showing the White Terraces both empty and full, Clay Island beneath the White Terraces; two views of the Manawatu Gorge and Seventy Mile Bush; and a view of Wellington City. South Island views include Milford Sound, Stewart Island, Braida Crags, the Wyndham River; a large group of people at celebrations surrounding the laying of the foundation stone for St John's Church in Invercargill; and two views of an exhibition of a Japanese village displaying such things as banners, lanterns and furniture, held in a hall in Invercargill. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown leather cover, gold decoration; 31.0 x 27.5 cm

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Allan album 3

Date: 1895-1915

From: Allan, John Calder, 1879-1963 :Photographs of Cable Bay, Nelson

Reference: PA1-q-009

Description: Photographs of the Cable Bay area, near nelson, including the Cable Bay Station and homestead, with images showing the social life of the Cable Bay Station employees. Includes photographs of children, families, family pets, picnicking and camping. There is one postcard from Wakapuaka, which includes two images of 12 to 15 men wearing dark suits, posing outdoors, similar images to several photographs included in the album. Photographs taken by John Calder Allan between 1895 and 1915 Other Titles - Sunny memories Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 285 x 300 mm red buckram, with black decoration around title "Sunny memories" embossed on cover, in phase box

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Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson), 1844-1903 :[Bush stream near Otaki? 1890s?]

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-011

Description: A rocky stream in native bush Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 228 x 164 mm

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Baillie, Jeavons :Photographs of the Railway workshop, Dunedin, April 1893; a steam tim...

Date: 1893 - 1910

By: Baillie, William Jeavons Hall, 1941-

Reference: PAColl-0296

Description: Photographs of worker in engineering workshop, Dunedin Railways, April 1893; unidentified steam hauler in bush; general view of Te Aroha, ca 1910 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy photographic print(s) (of 2 images) in one envelope. Physical Description: 3.5 x 3in original sepia print mounted on card; 10x8in copy prints

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Mangaho Falls, Chatham Island

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-46

Description: The Mangaho Falls on the Owenga Road, Chatham Island. (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

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Schaef, A W :A bush scene in New Plymouth

Date: ca 1890

By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PA4-0799

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of four children and a woman standing on a bush track. Photograph taken by A W Schaef ca. 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - A pretty bush scene in New Plymouth; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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Group of Moriori or Maori, Chatham Island

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-47

Description: A group of Moriori or Maori men and women standing and seated beside two nikau palms. A stand of native forest can be seen behind them in the distance. 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

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Te Whakaru and Hanson Bay, Chatham Island

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-25

Description: View of Te Whakaru and Hanson Bay, Chatham Island. In the middle distance right, is Alexander Shand's house and a patch of native forest. In the foreground is clear pasture and some sheep grazing near a group of trees. (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

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