Places

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1890-1936]

By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917

Reference: PAColl-0718

Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical 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: 1880 - 1889

Reference: MapColl-v832.1291bje/[188-?]/Acc.25356

Description: Cadastral map of the Parnell Borough of Auckland, from Mechanics Bay, St. Georges and Judges Bay down to Hobson's Bay, including the Waikato and Kaipara railway routes. Shows the Parnell rise and the road to Manukau and Epsom, Gladstone and Avenue Rd, St. Stephens, Ayr and Brighton, as well as the Domain. Sections 1-4 and 95 are shown, and numbered blocks and lots within each section. Grammar School, St Stephen's School, an orphan home, a cemetry, a sawmill the Alexandra Hotel, Windsor Castle. a cattle market and reclaimed land are also shown. A private road is shown off St. Georges Bay Road leading to the only named property, that of Mr Aitken, Section One, (84) - 538. Stamped 'Boylan and Lundon, Civil Engineers' and on the linen 'Imperial tracing cloth' with trademark. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:1 684], 167 x 107 cm.

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Bailey, Conrad, fl 1980 : Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes, one including pressed ferns

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-030

Description: Album of photographs mostly of towns and buildings in Canterbury and Otago, chiefly taken by the Burton Brothers, circa 1880s. They all show city scenes including street views, and images of important buildings. The buildings include church buildings, bank buildings, insurance company office buildings, and hotels (both exterior and interior views of the Grand Hotel, Dunedin). In the North Island, there is a view of the Auckland Synagogue, and a view of Taratahi Homestead, the home of Lady Tancred and Sir Thomas Tancred, in the Carterton District. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth-bound album with leather spine and corners, lettered in gold "Views of New Zealand"

Date: ca 1880s-1940s

By: Ely, Dunstan, active 1949

Reference: PAColl-4351

Description: Copy prints made by Dunstan Ely of Auckland ca 1880s, particularly views in the Albert Park area and including a view over open land to Rangitoto. Also included is a street scene of possibly Queen Street ca 1880s with Darby's US Dining Rooms, M Levy & Co, Hull Brothers, Shera Brothers and the New Zealand Insurance Company premises all visible; and a street scene of Wellesley Street ca 1940 with the State Advances Corporation building on the left and looking up towards the public library. Original photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

Reference: E-955-f-009

Description: A distant view, taken just off-shore, showing the Hot Springs Hotel at Waiwera, the low-roofed bath houses to the right of it, and the long avenue of pine trees leading along the shore to the hotel A 1200 ft wharf was built in front of the hotel in about 1903. The hotel itself was destroyed by fire in September 1939 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 177 x 253 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: PAColl-4592

Description: Queen Street wharf, Auckland; Christchurch Cathedral and Cathedral Square; four photographs of businesses affected by flooding in Greymouth in 1887, including one of Mawhera Quay submerged; Cobden Railway Bridge, Grey Valley; Otira Gorge; sand bars off the coast at Hokitika with two ships in the distance; Revell Street, Hokitika; elevated view of W B Armson building on the corner of Hereford Street and High Street, Christchurch including the roof of the old Bank of New Zealand in the foreground; Lyttelton harbour; and a horse-drawn tram on the tramway between Kumara and Greymouth with bush on both sides. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029/040

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: [ca 1880s-1966]

By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979; Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-4454

Description: Mounted photographs of a moa skeleton compared with a human one; a view from Cains Terrace, Timaru showing the Post Office and old St Mary's Church; a group of Maori in traditional clothes outside the carved meeting house at Ohinemutu, Rotorua; view of Parihaka pa with Te Whiti's house on the left and Mount Taranaki in the background; Sir George Grey's house at Kawau Island with a jetty; two stuffed kiwi and a kiwi egg; a woman sitting outside a Maori whare with a pig; a man standing outside the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans with advertisements for Gaytime ice-cream and Speights beer 1966; and a loose print of a young woman sitting at the pihanga of a meeting house with a carved pare. Photographers include Walter Burke. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-029165, 071676, 071677, 071678, and 071696. Two of the images are described as the same as 1/2-031035 and 1/2-015845 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: ca 1860s

Reference: 1/2-007664-G

Description: The Greyhound Hotel on Queen Street with other shops to the left ca 1860s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s]

Reference: PA1-o-286

Description: Scenes of New Zealand, taken by unidentified photographers, chiefly of the South Island. The North island views include Whakarewarewa, especially Pohutu Geyser, Parliament Buildings in Wellington, Ohinemutu, Albert Park & Queen's Wharf in Auckland, and a stretch of the Okoroire-Rotorua Coach Road. South Island views include Lyttelton, Kaikoura, Cathedral Square in Christchurch, and a stretch of the Blenheim-Kaikoura Coach Road. Photographs of Sydney and the Conway River have been removed from the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft brown school notebook (E. Wolff & Son, London, [printers]), with hand-printed label attached, entitled `Views. Lyttelton, Christchurch, Conway R., Kaikoura, Sydney, Auckland & Picton Wharves'; 21.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: ca 1860s

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870

Reference: PA1-o-346

Description: Chiefly photographs of Ireland and New Zealand (particularly Auckland). Appears to have been compiled by an Irish officer with the Imperial forces during the 1860s. Among the New Zealand views are photographs taken by John Kinder and Lieutenant-Colonel J H Rocke, 18th Royal Irish Regiment Photographs of people are not identified in the album, but have been identified by comparison with other photographs, and include Judge William Martin and his wife, and Governor Gore Browne and his family. Photographs by J H Rocke are apparently those of countryside around Auckland Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cloth bound album; 24.0 x 19.5 cm

Date: ca 1867-1880s

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882

Reference: PAColl-7478

Description: Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland with the Supreme Court on the left; Eden Crescent, Auckland with the Supreme Court in the distance; elevaated view of Grahamstown looking towards the wharves with the Moanataiari Hotel in the foreground; a view of Shortland; view of Nelson looking across the harbour to the Post Office on the waterfront and the cathedral beyond; and the waterfront at Hokitika showing a bonded store on the left and a boat and a coil of rope in the foreground. Photographer was Tensfeld. The prints have the same format and two are duplicates of prints in the Tensfeld album PA1-o-493 but the provenance is otherwise unknown. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004560 to 004563 and 004777 (copy negatives from original prints) Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1870-1880

By: Best, Walter, 1848-1929; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Monkton, Charles Henry, 1840-1890; Harding, R E (Mrs), active 1949

Reference: PA1-q-028

Description: Photograph album compiled by Walter Best, comprising views of Wellington, Auckland, Picton, Nelson, Naseby, Manawatu Gorge, Mahurangi, Te Ore Ore Pa, Masterton, Hutt River, Lorne station on the Waikohu River, Napier, Lyttelton, West Coast, Reefton, Maitai Valley, Bulls, Wanganui, Waitotara, Waimate plains and Mitre Peak. Also includes a photograph of the Best family home, Fernbank, Tinakori Road. Photographers represented include James Bragge and Charles Henry Monkton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/1-000763, 1/1-000783, 1/1-00260, 1/1-002712 to 1/1-002721; 1/2-004094, 1/2-004136, 1/2-004698, 1/2-004699, 1/2-014969, 1/2-015699, 1/2-018087, 1/2-020713, 1/2-020714, 1/2-020716; 1/4-009246, 1/4-010018, 1/4-010023, 1/4-10024, 1/4-010894, 1/4-014970 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs R E Harding, Wellington, in May 1949

Date: [Between 1873 and 1880]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-14

Description: Photograph of Parnell, Auckland probably taken in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-15. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - Parnell, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 230 x 358 mm mounted on paper 235 x 365 mm

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001797-G

Description: View looking north from the hill above Waiwera, showing the Waiwera Hotel by the shore, and Mahurangi Island, the islet in the Hauraki Gulf. Photograph taken circa 1880s-1920s, by Herman John Schmidt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1890-1920

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001798-G

Description: View of Waiwera, with the Waiwera Hotel on the right. Taken by Herman John Schmidt between 1890 and 1920. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Between 1873 and 1880

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-15

Description: Photograph of Parnell, Auckland probably taken in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-14. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - Parnell, Auckland 1870s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 25.9 x 34.6 cm