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[Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: D-001-014/016

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

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Photographs of people and events

Date: 1983-1985

From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs

Reference: PAColl-5811-1

Description: Greek Week in Wellington, reading recovery teachers and pupils, Sir Graham and Lady Latimer, piano teacher Judith Clark, Wellington City buses, Author Fiona Kidman, Kristelle Plimmer bringer of gorilla grams, the Heng family from Cambodia, Children's author Lynley Dodd, teacher and students at Kimi Ora school Wellington, Election night 1984 including Bob Jones, artist Janet Paul, editor Margaret Moony, Buskers on Wellington's streets. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

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[Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints; Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014-a/016-a

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

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Field album 20

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

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Postcards and stereoscopes of New Zealand and Pacific

Date: [ca 1890s-1919]

From: Clark, Morton, fl 1900s :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9525-2

Description: Postcards collected by Morton Clark and family. Includes a number of postcards addressed to Miss Kathleen Clark (from Fred ?, Harry ?, Uncle Will and Jack Perston) to Mrs Morton Clark (from Fred, possibly a son, and Jack Perston); and Miss Campbell, Nurse at Wellington Hospital (from Sissie Battersby); and stereoscopes of the 1901 royal visit to Rotorua. Quantity: 48 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) stereoscopes.

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Army Department :Photographs of D-(artillery) battery

Date: 1898, 1901

Reference: PAColl-3375

Description: D Battery in Wellington comprising 6 pound Armstrong cannon at an Evans Bay shoot; posing for the camera at Miramar; in camp in Miramar. Also during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

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Ferguson, A P (Mrs), fl 1967 :Photographs of military forces, Wellington and the member...

Date: [188-?-190-?]

By: Ferguson, A P (Mrs), active 1967

Reference: PAColl-0045

Description: Photographs of military forces, Wellington and members of the Wellington Kennel Club, taken ca 1880s-1900. Photographs of members of B, D and F Battery of an artillery regiment taken at the Military Tournament at Hutt Race Course on 9th November 1891. They are standing or kneeling with their swords and their insignia can be seen on their arms. Portrait of the 1st New Zealand Contingent, taken November 1899 by Feeney Photo. Two men in naval uniform and one possibly in a mounted rifles uniform outside a tent ca 1890s. The names given are Campbell and Bell (naval) and Moorhouse. Men of an artillery regiment at the Military Tournament at Hutt Race Course in 1891 next to a wheeled gun. The names given are: Brown, Grise(?), Perrin, Burn, Tuckey, Howe, Tineman(?), Johnston, Jeffreys. The Education Board Offices on Mercer Street of which the Technical School occupied the second storey ca 1889 with a number of people in the yard outside. View along looking south along Lambton Quay with shops on the right including E Barber. House on sub-division 29-31 in Northland, Wellington ca 1878 View of the Wellington Club on The Terrace. Photograph of Government House, taken 1890 Photograph of NZ Loan & Mercantile Agency, Wellington Photograph of Anglican Cathedral, Christchurch Photograph of Cook & Co, land agents, Wellington Source of title - Title supplied by Library For other photographs of artillery regiments at the Military Tournament see PAColl-0731 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Harris album 1

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-115

Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm

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Wellington grows; an album of historical photographs relating to Wellington

Date: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Photographs of Wellington and Seaview

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.

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Sigvertsen, Jeffery R :Album of Burton Brothers photographs

Date: ca1880-1903

By: Sigvertsen, Jeffery R, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-q-546

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand, New Zealand Cities and Maori Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-: Photographs

Date: 1890 - 1901

By: Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-; Child, Edward George, 1860-1949

Reference: PAColl-2171

Description: Photographs of: seven men leaning on shovels outside a hut and two men with shovels holding the reins of drays at the harbour side (both taken by Anglo New Zealand photo); the railway line and water tank at Rata with men, women and children in an open railway carriage on the right; D class locomotive with four men standing next to it; men cutting flax on a wooden jetty next to a river; men outside a hut with piles of flax bundles; the Delphic captioned as "the largest boat that trades to New Zealand" moored in Wellington (taken by E G Child); a large crowd outside the Parliament Buildings for the memorial service on the death of Queen Victoria; and a group of men and one woman outside a corrugated iron hut. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

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Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :(The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellingto...

Date: 1842 - 1983

By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-028

Description: One of 4 prints issued as "the twenty-eighth set of the 'Turnbull Prints" with single information sheet [4] p. ; 300 mm. This view is from above the junction of Lambton Quay and Willis Street, looking out into the harbour A reproduction of an oil painting in the Library's collection Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph image 160 x 539 mm on sheet 250 x 590 mm

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Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

Date: ca1855-ca1940

From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984

Reference: PAColl-4889-1

Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.

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[Various artists] :[Nineteenth century New Zealand ports. Tauranga Owens Group, 1976]

Date: 1976 - 1840 - 1880

By: Sabatier, Leon Jean-Baptiste, -1887; Standidge & Company; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869; Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Gouldsmith, Edmund Thomas, 1852-1932; Owens Group (Firm); Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866

Reference: C-058-013/018-a

Description: Contents: Sabatier, L J B Mouillage de Kororareka, from a drawing by LeBreton. Standidge & Co. View of the lower harbour of Otago... from a drawing by Mary Townsend. Standidge & Co. Auckland, New Zealand... 1852, from a drawing by Hogan. Heaphy, C. View of a part of the town of Wellington... 1841. Gouldsmith, E T Tauranga, 1886. Offprints from Owens Group's 1977 calendar. Same as C-058-013/018 & ....018b Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, each 207 x 280 mm on sheets 245 x 305 mm

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Juriss, Maximilian, 1878-1960 : Papers

Date: 1883-1960

By: Juriss, Maximilian, 1878-1960

Reference: MS-Papers-1483

Description: Primarily records of World War One service, comprising scrapbooks of correspondence, reports, documents, etc. Served as Captain with British army in France until captured at Vimy Ridge, May 1916; later served with Inter-allied Commission and British Red Cross Society, dealing with Russian prisoners in Germany. Unpublished autobiography, business correspondence, photographs, clippings, Juriss family records. There are many souvenirs of his war service - a collection of medal ribbons, German and Russian prisoner of war currency, tickets, flashes, armbands, labels, a homemade compass and handmade programmes for entertainment etc Other - Remininscenes and annotated scrapbook of letters etc (Folders 1 & 2) were filmed and returned to Mr Juriss in Sep 1988 Quantity: 11 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 20 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Orders and decorations. Collection of medal riboons and World War One relics.

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Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :Wellington from Kelburn, 1858 / by Charles Decimus...

Date: 1858 - 1984

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-034-a

Description: View from farmland in Kelburn, looking north over Wellington City and Harbour towards Petone Reproduced from a privately-owned original watercolour Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproduction ; photolithograph image 320 x 589 mm on sheet 420 x 630 mm + 1 information sheet (270mm)

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McArthur, L M :Photographs relating to the Barnes family

Date: ca 1898-1971

By: Sarony Studio (Wellington, N.Z.); Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Peter Pan Studio; Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944; Anton, W J, active 1952; Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Davis & Company (Wellington, N.Z.); Robson and Boyer (Firm); Campbell, Colin, active 1914

Reference: PAColl-0580

Description: Family photographs of the Barnes family featuring the homestead Terewhiti and the following family members: Henry, Walter Ernest (Ernie - at various ages), Mary, Julia (Ernie's wife), Ernie's son Thomas, Lorraine, and Leslie. Also included are scenic views; scenes of mustering and shearing on the farm; Ernie and others in First World War uniforms; a burned down house; soldiers at Trentham camp eating a meal outside their tent (as a postcard signed by George McDermott to his brother and sister Alice and Bill); Lorraine Barnes taking part in a recording of the radio show The Quiz Kids as a member of the Hutt Valley team (The Quiz Kids was introduced by Selwyn Toogood in the 1950s); results of a national election being monitored on a wall chart ca 1930s; Ernie Barnes as captain of the Wellington Telephone Exchange Cricket Club; and two of officers and soldiers from the Second World War. The collection also includes a letter from the depositor with a small family tree. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of the Brockett and Harris families

Date: 1880 - 1930

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

By: Brockett, Frederick Charles, 1881-1956

Reference: PAColl-0016-1

Description: Includes factory interiors, processions, aircraft, and family photographs Quantity: 132 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

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Woods, S J, fl 1970s-1980s :[Historic buildings of New Zealand. 1980s?]

Date: 1921 - 1885 - 1867

By: Woods, S J, active 1970s-1980s; Blakeley, Philip William, 1915-1994

Reference: A-003-042

Description: Modern reproductions of artist's impressions of historic buildings of New Zealand: Auckland University, 1921; St Bartholomews, oldest church in Canterbury, 1885; Supreme Courthouse, Wellington, 1867; Oneida Homestead near Wanganui, 1871; The Waimate Mission House, 1831; Bath House, Government Gardens, Rotorua, 1890. Possibly calendars with date sections removed. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - S.J. Woods; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured, each image 228 x 323 mm, on sheet 280 x 372 mm, bound together with metal strip along top.

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