Places

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

By: Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928

Reference: PA7-50-06

Description: Photograph of cricketers and their friends sitting in front of the pavilion in the Tauranga Domain. Tauranga Cricket Club played Opotiki Cricket Club, the match being won by Opotiki. Photograph taken by Thomas Edward Price in 1890-1910? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 173 x 277 mm

Date: ca1890-ca1914

By: National Archives of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-1969

Description: Scenes of Fijian village life and buildings in Suva and Levuka Training College in Auckland Post Office and The Strand in Tauranga Quantity: 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

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).

Date: 1880s - 1960, 1974

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Barnicoat, John Wallis, 1814-1905

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-041

Description: Photographs of places and personalities, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes Maori portraits and groups on marae, including the Duke and Duchess of York meeting Maui Pomare in 1927. Includes a photograph of the crowded deck of the `Waikere' a few minutes before the boat struck land in Dusky Sound in 1910. Also photographs of knighthood being confered upon George Richardson in Samoa; an archaeological site near Rotorua; Kumara, Westland, in 1886; Empire Day celebrations 1905; the first annual apprentice exam held at the Hutt shops, Hutt Valley, in 1930; and sketches of Riccarton House, Canterbury, made by J W Barnicoat in 1844 and R Park circa 1859. Photographers include Burton Bros, Muir & Moodie and Paul Popper. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1940s]

From: Cornwall, James Caleb, 1879-1964: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10267

Description: Photographs of family and New Zealand scenes taken between circa 1890s and circa 1940s, chiefly by James Caleb Cornwall. - Features images of unidentified hydro-electric dams and power stations. - Identified figures include Allan Brown's five children; Mr and Mrs Tom Smith and their daughter Edley (of Carterton); Mrs and Miss Grube; Jock the farm dog (1931); school children at Clareville school, near Carterton, with school building; James William Emet Cornwall, Fred Horton Cornwall, James William Cornwall, and Jack Lindsay walking down the street; [Jim Paul?] at his house; and F M Wallace and another unidentified man at the stock yards. - Images relating to farming show a lamb in docking cradle (an invention of James Cornwall), a dog [Jock?] herding sheep, Jack Lindsay's farm near Whakatane (including cow shed and cows), a horse, and the 1915 Agricultural and Pastoral (A&P) shows in Masterton and Fielding featuring events involving horses and cows. - Also contains a number of images relating to transport. Boats including a passenger liner, sailing ship, tugboat 'Melodeon', ship 'Australia'. Series of images relating to railways show viaducts on the main truck line (including Makatote, one near Horopito, and Mangaweka), a steam train travelling between Waiouru and Tangiwai, and train tracks near Rewa on the Rangitikei River. Further photographs show cars, road bridges (including on the Old Kaimai Road), and a horse drawn wagon on a beach. - Scenic images show the Rangitikei River area, Pukekura Park in New Plymouth (lake, lily pads, bush scenes), topiary at 'Coopers Garden Newman' with a lounge suite theme, waterfalls, bush scenes, thermal area, a blossoming tree, and flowers. - Identified places include Waihi Beach, Palmerston North Domain (Cornwall family camping trip), war memorial in Dannevirke Domain, Tauranga (including The Strand, beach scenes, Mount Maunganui, Military Cemetery, Ocean Beach, Mt Dury, the blowhole, [bowling club?], and Cornwall family), Manawatu River, Hastings (Main Street), Napier (Marine Parade), Fetherston War Memorial, and Masterton (Queen Street, Queen Elizabeth Park scenes (lake, band rotunda), Post Office). - Miscellaneous photographs include a Scottish pipe band, a brass band, a water tower, an image titled 'Native hut Fijian Court' at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington (1940). - Some of the images are printed as post cards and some are duplicated (one is hand-coloured and some may use other tinting or printing processes). A number of images have a brownish hue. Quantity: 126 b&w original photographic print(s) including one hand coloured image. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: ca 1890s

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Tauranga Domain

Reference: PAColl-7319-1

Description: A nurse standing outside one tent, with a boy seated beside her, two other tents and a cabin used for typhoid patients in Tauranga Domain. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [1860-1890]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

Reference: PAColl-1526

Description: Photographs of Horatio Gordon Robley and his collection of mokomokai and Maori artefacts; water-colour sketch of a young Maori woman by Robley; portraits of Charles Heaphy and Kate Heaphy; views of Auckland Harbour and wharves, Tauranga, and Nicholl's Creek waterfall, Dunedin. Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 watercolour sketch.

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s, ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Newcomb, Stanley Peter, 1934-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9453-6

Description: Scenic photographs taken for New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: circa 1880, 1934 - 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Wade, Keith Reginald, 1920-1992; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-029

Description: Scenic photographs of the North Island, 1934 to 1955. Includes Manawatu - Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Northland and Auckland Regions. Also includes photographs of the first school in Palmerston North and the Bank of Australasia Corner, Palmerston North, circa 1880. Photographers include W. Hall Raine, Keith R. Wade, Harold J. Dunstan, J M S Beale, A W Powell, and aerial photographs by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1887-1920

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works; Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: PAColl-4239

Description: Photographs of the opening of new Waiau Gorge Bridge with a procession of people and carts, Oamaru Post Office, Broken River with a public works camp in the foreground, men in front of Tauranga Post Office, Makohine viaduct, and Rangitaiki River Bridge in Te Teko. Photographers unidentified. Copy negatives of Parnell Post Office and the interior of the Parliament Buildings (original prints not located). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints also at PAColl-D-187 Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Print at PAColl-6075-54.

Date: 1813 and 1864

By: Nan Kivell, Rex de Charembac (Sir), 1898-1977; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Dominion Museum (N.Z.); Hale, Charles, active 1940s; Photo Studios Ltd; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: PAColl-4529

Description: Photograph of a silver kettle presented to Sir Joseph Banks by Queen Charlotte (wife of George III) when she visited him in October 1813. Photograph of a watercolour by E A Williams of Camp Te Papa at Tauranga in April 1864. Attached to the back is an explanation of the painting by the Acting Librarian at the University of Otago in 1957. Both items are in the Nan Kivell Collection at the National Library of Australia. Two photographs of a display of New Zealand paintings held during the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and a photograph of the engraving by Charles Barraud of the "Interior of Otake Church, New Zealand" which was included in the exhibition. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: PAColl-3072.

Date: [Between 1880s and 1906]

From: Wairakei Album

By: McKnight, Robert M, 1853-1933

Reference: PA1-o-509

Description: Album of photographs relating to a trip taken by a group travelling on the first "Motor Reliability Contest" in 1906; probably created and in part photographed by Robert M McKnight. The contest involved ten cars (4 Daracqs, 2 Cadillacs, and 1 Rover, 1 steam car, 1 Oldsmobile and 1 Leyland) travelling 400 miles from Auckland to Taupo and back. Photographs relating to the contest, including scenes photographed during the trip are on even numbered pages from 2 to 36, possibly taken by R M McKnight in 1906; odd numbered pages from 1 to 63, were taken by unidentified professional photographers, circa the 1880s to 1890s; all relating to the route taken on the 1906 road contest. Most of the earlier photographs are scenes in the thermal area around the Wairakei and Bay of Plenty Regions and include images of the Pink and White Terraces taken before and after the 1886 Tarawera Eruption. One of these earlier images shows "Macandrew and party at Wairakei." Views of the Motor Reliablity Contest show scenes taken on the route; groups of people involved; lineups of all ten cars; and one car fording a river. Loose print of view of Huka Falls, from this album, at PA7-49-08. The "Motor reliability contest" was held under the ausspices of the Auckland Automobile Association (Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12451, 14 March 1906, Page 7, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19060314.2.31). contests of the same name were held in Melbourne, Australia, and other countires. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, heavily decorated border pattern in gold; 28 x 38 cm

Date: 1879-1889, [ca 1910s], 1928, 1930-1942, [ca 1950s-1970s]

From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Batchelor's Candid Studio; Don & Beatrice Peat Studio; Redfern Studios Ltd; Russell Orr Ltd; Filmograph Company (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10468-2

Description: Contains photographs of Hannah's shops throughout New Zealand, the R. Hannah & Co. Ltd factory in Leeds Street, and company staff. Photographs were taken between 1879 and the 1970s by the Filmograph Company Wellington, F. G. Barker, Russell Orr, Batchelor’s Candid Studio, Redfern Studios, K. E. Niven Studio, Don & Beatrice Peat Studio, Jerome Studios, and other unidentified photographers. Photographs relating to Hannah's shops show building exteriors and window displays throughout New Zealand between 1928 and circa 1980s: Ashburton, Napier (showing earthquake damage in 1931), Masterton, Wellington (Cuba Street and Lambton Quay), Greymouth, and Auckland (Queen Street, Otahuhu). Other prints depict staff, customers, and shoe displays inside shops in Blenheim, Tauranga, and at 230 Heretaunga Street, Hastings. Further photographs also relate specifically to Hannah’s shops in the Hawke’s Bay, likely during the 1940s and 1950s. Eight prints depict the exterior and interior of a shop identified as “Hastings Branch”. Twelve prints relating to the opening of Hannah's 48th branch on Emerson Street, Napier, show signs announcing an opening sale, customers waiting outside, and the shop filled with staff, customers, shoes, and price signs. Other prints depict similar sales in Greymouth and Whakatane. Nine prints depict the Leeds Street factory interior and successive stages of the mechanised shoe manufacturing process, circa 1908. Prints show the factory layout, women sewing, men using different machines to assemble shoes and attach soles or heels, people packing shoes for dispatch, supervisors in white lab coats, and stacked raw materials or half-finished shoes. One print depicts the view towards Wellington Harbour over houses and commercial buildings on Cuba, Marion and Leeds streets. Several buildings are labelled: R. Hannah & Co., Aspro, People’s Palace, and C & A Odlin Timber & Hardware Co. Ltd. A 1952 copy print is an oblique projection line drawing of the Leeds Street factory. Photographs of staff include portraits of Robert Hannah (circa 1880s), William Hannah (circa 1930), S. L. Blank (1964), R. J. McAsley (1971), and Finance Director N. East (circa 1960s). Group portraits include two prints depicting workers outside the entrance to the R. Hannah Co. Ltd Cuba Street factory and first Cuba Street shop in 1879. Six other group portraits depict possibly managers in the Wellington warehouse "Conference Room" (1966), and supervisors "on occassion of retirement party" (1975). Named staff include: D. C. Brown, D. R. Watt, W. Davis, A. Dowdle, W. Muller, R. McIntyre, F. Owers, A. D. Anton, H. C. Campion, R. Parkes, H. T. Hutton, A. W. Pike, D. G. Finlayson, D. L. Travers, A. Cornish, R. J. Laffan, F. Wigney, J. F. Crump, G. T. Hedges, H. J. Lichtwark, Ray Jones, Denny Dawe, Doug Askew, Hal Crooks, Doug Luke, Ian Walker, and Rex Gardiner. Remaining prints show a Hannah’s shoes display at the 1952 Wellington Winter Show, Robert Hannah and another man with a car (1928), and a horse-drawn float displaying Hannah’s Christmas advertising in a parade at the Basin Reserve (1928). Arrangement: Chronological. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 83 photographic prints

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008838-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Includes a man and dinghy on beach. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1880s-1920s

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-017646-G

Description: Aerial view of the Tauranga harbour area, taken in the 1880s-1920s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.