Places

Date: 1880s

From: Burton brothers album 2

Reference: PA1-o-081-05

Description: View of the Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, showing two boys wearing suits and boaters reading from a book. A feature of the view is a young monkey puzzle tree. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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.

Date: [ca 1887-1891]

By: Gant, Robert, 1854?-1936

Reference: PA-Group-00058

Description: Two albums of photographs taken mainly in Masterton about 1887-1891, probably by Robert Gant. Most photographs of individual men and groups of men, often posed in tableaux, and including men dressed as women. Many subjects appear to be homosexual men. Most photographs have captions. Some landscape scenes of Masterton, Wellington, Woolwich and other overseas locations. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2007. Albums belonged to Jennifer Blackburn, great-grandaughter of Charles Blackburn (the 'CB' of the photograph captions). Jennifer Blackburn given the albums by her Aunty Coll (Colleen)

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

Date: [ca 1870]-1951

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-q-945

Description: There are several subject groups in this album. 1. Family childhood and youth. The earliest family photograph dates from the 1870s and is a portrait of John Pascoe's paternal grandmother as a young woman. The photographs become prolific from about 1918 to 1930. During the 1920s many photographs are of Pascoe and his friends as boys, often with family members, taken during outdoor activities such as staying at baches at Rakaia huts, at picnics, swimming, boating, tramping, hunting and horse riding. Several show John Pascoe with a banjo, and there is a group photograph of Bloys Banjo Band taken about 1930. 2. The next group relate to Christs College, Christchurch. These consist of views of some of the buildings including the interior of the chapel. Many are groups of college sports teams and sudents dressed in striped blazers, the school orchestra, the school cadets, school friends and some teachers. Some of the photographs show study interiors and boys at work in them. 3. Photographs of John and Paul Pascoe as young men in their first suits; Paul Pascoe at architectural school; John and Dorothy Pascoe's wedding in 1940 and of their first house. Related to this group, though scattered throughout the album are photographs of John's father's law offices when John worked there, of Paul Pascoe in England in the mid 1930s, and later of his wife and children at the time that his second son was a baby. 4. John Pascoe as a harrier with the christchurch Harrier Club in the late 1920s. There are photographs of individual runners, group photographs of harrier teams, and many more of races about to start or underway. 5. John Pascoe as a civil servant during the late 1930s and during the war. Some of these are official photographs such as the group at the beginning of the album which relate to the publishing of "Making New Zealand" and the team producing it. As well there are a number of small images of Pascoe's collegues at the Department of Internal Affaires, some photographs of him in operation as a war time official photographer, and a group photograph of Joseph Heenan and his staff standing on the steps of Parliament house. Other photographs include Dorothy, the children, and activities with children in the early 1950s. There is also a photograph of the window of Whitcombe and Tombs bookshop in Wellington displaying Pascoe's book "Unclimbed New Zealand." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [189-?]

By: Hamilton, Ian, active 2007

Reference: PAColl-9067

Description: Photograph of Mount Cook Boys' School, Wellington, taken ca 1890s by an unidentified photographer. Shows rows of pupils and teachers in front of the school building. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - No 21 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 22.6 x 37.3 cm, on cardboard

Date: 1866

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

By: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918

Reference: E-370-001-1

Description: Garforth and Hawkins, (Hawkins was tutor to the children of J. D. Tetley of Flaxbourne Station, Marlborough), one swimming and one seated (naked) on a raft in the breakers by the water's edge, with two boys and two dogs cheering them on from the beach. Several buildings visible at the foot of hills beyond the shoreline. The account below the drawing describes the construction and use by the two men of a makeshift fishing raft. While swimming with the boys, the two men tried the raft, were swept off shore, and had to abandon it and swim to shore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 95 x 205 mm

Date: 1885 - 1887

From: Hodgkins family :Scrapbook [1860s-1920s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950

Reference: E-316-q-033

Description: A landscape showing reflections in a river, possibly with a hut in the bushes to the left. Probably the work of Isabel Hodgkins. A cartoon showing two small boys, both with patched trousers, hanging down into a very large barrel beside a house. Shows the artist's (either Frances or Isabel Hodgkins) younger brothers studying a frog in the barrel. The house is likely to be in Dunedin, possibly at Roseneath Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 103 x 167 mm; pencil on wove paper, 141 x 182 mm glued into album on page 285 x 255 mm

Date: [ca 1896-1959]

From: Pharazyn family: Photographs from the papers of Noel Pharazyn and his sister Eleanor

Reference: PAColl-10031-3

Description: Includes:- Portraits of Noel Pharazyn as an 18 month old child, ca 1896. Unidentified woman in oriental fancy dress, ca 1920. Group photograph of unidentified schoolboys and teachers, ca 1908. Three photographs of (probably) soldiers of the Royal Field Artillery excercising with field guns, ca 1914. Group photograph of (probably) soldiers of the Royal Field Artillery, World War One. Noel Pharazyn, a boy on a tricycle, ca 1898. Group, including Noel Pharazyn standing and seated in the countryside, ca 1928. Group of three unidentified women outside a house, ca 1938. Noel Pharazyn, Walter Nash, Mrs Nash, and a group of unidentified men, Hawaii, ca 1945. Photographs of (probably) Eleanor Pharazyn on holiday among classical ruins and in London, 1950s. Groups of unidentified women and children waving tricolor Flags (possisbly France), 1950s. Portrait of Colonel Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji at the time that he was a military attache in Washington, 1945-1946. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]

By: Sorrell, William Edward, active 1890s-1900s

Reference: PA7-51-27

Description: Photograph of a young dark-haired boy seated on skin draped over a chaise lounge, possibly in the photographer's studio. Taken by W E Sorrell, 179 Colombo Street, Christchurch, in 1890s or early 1900s. At one time the photograph was in a frame Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 190 x 153 mm

Date: [ca 1880s]

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

Reference: PA7-39-22

Description: Large group of boys (and some men) at the saltwater pool at St Clair, Dunedin. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4678 - St Clair Bath near Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 19.1 cm on mount 22.6 x 29.2 cm

Date: 1851 - 1853

From: Crompton, William Morgan, 1811-1886 :[Sketchbook in France and New Zealand] / W M Crompton and A D Crompton, 1844-1882

By: Crompton, Amelia Dorothea, 1842-1858

Reference: E-122-q-083

Description: Two girls and a teenage boy approaching a water hand-pump. Shows three members of the Crompton Family, Mary (b 1842), Dora (Dorothea) b 1842 and Harry, born 1840. The inscription 'Sketches at Omata' is in the hand of a descendant, E. Crompton, and dates to 1982 Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - A D Crompton [signature]. Also identification of each person depicted. Also a later title added 1982 by E. Crompton Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 165 x 265 mm

Date: 1880 - 1888

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s]

Reference: E-311-q-014-1

Description: Three schoolboys in a doorway, one standing leaning against the door and two sitting on the doorstep. Possibly shows the younger members of the Hodgkins family Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph on album page, 259 x 161 mm.

Date: ca 1890-1930

From: Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church :Photographs of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Hardie Shaw Studios; Muir, James, 1870?-1935

Reference: PAColl-4443-1

Description: Photographs of various groups associated with Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, mostly sports teams and bible study groups but including one group of young women. Some are unidentified but those that are include: Presbyterian Bible Class Rugby Reps with the names G Wallace, W H Incledon, J A Galloway, E C Chartres, A Mitchell, S Maxwell, A C Todd, B M Gibson (Captain), A J B Gray (Manager), F C Henry, L J Brooker, F H Brooker, W E Penno, H Tonks, E P Edwards and J Tolley; two copies of Kent Terrace Junior Bible Class 1927 with the names K Dunnett, M McLean, L McKay, R Howe, L Bogren, C Shewen, L Anderson (Sub-Leader), R Griffiths (Retiring Leader), Rev J Baird, E Brown (Leader), R Allen, K Burbidge, J Burbidge, N Burnette; Kent Terrace Football Club with the names C G Falconer, J W Mardon, N R Watt, J A Dalgleish, A G McFarlane, C R Gaylor, W A Penno, D L Irwin, J C Johnston, G Edmonston. Also included are some photographs of individuals including C S Falconer, co-founder of the Young Men's Bible Class on 2nd November 1902. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-071939, 071940, and 077766 to 077767. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [late 1890s]

From: Hogg, F M : Photographs from the papers of Alexander Wilson Hogg

By: Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931

Reference: PA7-53-26

Description: Richard John Seddon and others at a Liberal rally held near Greytown. The crowd in the front of the platform on which Seddon and supports are standing are mainly children. Others identified on the platform with Seddon include: A W Hogg, John O'Meara, J T M Hornsby, Jimmy Carroll, J D Heagarty, W Hall-Jones & Joseph Ward. Photograph taken by A E Winzenberg of Masterton Inscriptions: Verso - centre - 1st Liberal picnic, Dalefield (in pencil). Names of those on platform (in different hand, in ink) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21.3 x 28.8 mm

Date: [January or February 1867]

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-003-2

Description: Two of the Tetley boys, (Cadwallader and either the oldest, Willy, or the youngest, Frank) watching from the Picton Wharf while one of their horses is winched onto the deck of a steamer, and the other horse waits its turn. The artist also comments 'The busy people of Picton stand on the wharf admiring with hands in pockets' of the group of men and women also standing on the wharf, waiting with boxes. The ship, as recorded on the following page of the sketchbook, is the Ahuriri Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 87 x 205 mm

Date: ca 1900

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/2-038752-G

Description: Unidentified children with rival guys, on Guy Fawkes day at Ohingaiti, circa 1900. Shows a group of children, standing by two effigies of Guy Fox in wheelbarrows. The four boys in the foreground wear suits and hats. Photograph taken by Edward George Child. Other Titles - 5th November Rival Fox's at Ohingaiti Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 5th November Rival Fox's at Ohingaiti Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1890s

From: Haynes, W (Mrs), fl 1955 :Photograph album of photographs taken by C Edwards

Reference: PA1-f-020-12-3

Description: Group of boys, two of whom are fishing in the Avon River, photographed in Victoria Square, Christchurch. Beyond them can be seen the Oxford Family Hotel. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1886

From: Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918 :Photograph album

Reference: PA1-q-075-32-1

Description: A group of girls and boys in their bathing suits on their way to a swim. There is a small house with a veranda in the background. Photographed in 1886 by Charles Yates Fell Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1887

From: Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918 :Photograph album

Reference: PA1-q-075-14-2

Description: Men women and children sitting on the banks of a stream at Broad's Bay, Totaranui. Photographed in 1887 by Charles Yates Fell Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print