Places

Date: 1890 - 1910

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-072

Description: View of River Avon and Victoria Bridge Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

Date: 1819, 1914-1979

By: Martin, Charles Andrew, 1894-1960

Reference: MS-Group-0581

Description: Papers of Dunedin-born musician Charles Martin include music scores [1914-1936], scrapbook [1921-1944], letters [1931-1979] and various other papers Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 43 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Processing information: Some child records described

Date: 29 Jan 1869-22 May 1910 - 31 March 1956

By: Shand, Alexander, 1840-1910

Reference: qMS-1789

Description: Transcriptions of letters mostly from Shand to S P Smith dealing with comparisons between Moriori and Maori vocabulary, and other aspects of Chatham Islands and Moriori history. There is an index at the end of the volume. The volume contains a copy of a letter written by J C Andersen in 1956, which explains the context of the letters and this volume. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; ½ blue calf) Provenance: The original letters were given to J C Andersen, by Crompton Smith. According to a copy of a letter laid into this volume, from Andersen to the then Chief Librarian of the Turnbull Clyde Taylor, Andersen had organised for this copy of the transcriptions of the letters to be added to the Turnbull Library collection. Probably when Andersen was himself the Chief Librarian.

Date: 1865-1915

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Gungall, Arthur Frederick, 1863?-1927

Reference: PA1-q-1134

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1865-1915, with emphasis on 1893-1898 and 1911-1914. Series include: scenes from Cheviot (including Gore Bay boarding house, Port Robinson landing stage, farm displenishing sale (sheep), Baxton Creek, and Cathedral Bluffs); construction, testing, and opening of Ashley ferro-concrete bridge (with W McIntosh and Governor Islington); Wilson, Oram and Leithead family photographs in New Zealand (Lindean, Beauthorne, and Marston) and South Africa, featuring Christmas holidays, three generations portrait, grandchildren (Josie, Lionel, Bobby, and Alan) and pets (cat Billy Buster, various dogs); Ketches Amelia, Joseph and Emma Sims in Wellington and Kaiapoi, including naming ceremony; collected images of castles and estates in England; scenes from South Africa (Port Elizabeth, Bird Island, indigenous women, bullock train, and British cruiser off Capetown); and Winchester School. Events include Christchurch Agricultural and Pastoral shows of 1912 and 1914 (with J L Wilson and Dr Levenge present), King George V inspecting troops during royal tour, coronation parade at Woodford (including participants in fancy dress), Governor Ranfurly's 1898 visit to Kaiapoi, Silver Wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs R Wylie (Kaiapoi), rifle volunteer camp at Pareora (Timaru), and Victoria Jubilee. Named figures include A G Ashby in his motorcar, Lieutenant-Colonel Cossgrave, R J Alexander and son William, C Treleaven, J Leech and daughter at Brooklands (Rangiora), John O'Halloran, Henry Lauder, R S Bean and family (Ashburton), Thomas [McLeon?], and Jack Hardwick-Smith and teddy bear. Group photographs include: Dr C Nedwill, Captain Tom Bowling, J L Wilson, and shipmates at 'Chariot of Fame' jubilee; Mr Charles Leech (president) with Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Society Committee; Miss Barlow's class at Kaiapoi School (with Leonard Wilson); Mrs J Pattinson of Cumberland, and her eight grandchildren; North Canterbury Ploughing Match Committee at Mr [Peaches'] farm (Ashley); volunteer rifle officers, J H Hayman (superintendent) with Kaiapoi Fire Brigade; and Colonel Lean and officers and Springbank camp. Wedding portraits of Anderson and Scott (Lindean), Henry and Wright, Dr Hardwick-Smith and Friggs, Oram and Wilson (Beauthorne), and Leithead and Wilson (Marston) weddings. Buildings include Junction Hotel (Rangiora), interior of Press Newspaper building (lithographic department and main entrance), Bass residence at Bristol Street (Christchurch), Hansen's building (Australian Mercantile Union Insurance Company, F Gabites, W R Pengelly Tailor and Outfitter, Richards Watchmaker and Jeweller), St John's Church (Rangiora), Mansion House (Cheviot), and W Robinson's residence (Cheviot). Kaiapoi buildings and scenes include Bank of New Zealand, Golf Club pavilion, Emma Matthew's cottage, [Leonard?] Wilson's villa, Anderson's store, Press agency, Borough Council Chambers, Borough School, J Harold Evans' House, Parish Church, suspension bridge, Beswick and Birch's wharf, Kaiapoihia monument, gardens at Beauthorne and Marston, and various streets. Miscellaneous images include picnicking at Birch Hill, wood carvings by Thomas Leech, Waimakariri water supply scheme (Brown's Rock intake and luncheon), George V swimming baths (Rangiora), chickens, Skiddaw, P C Threkeld's prize dairy cows and Leicester ram, Waitangi Falls (Bay of Islands), cooking bullock [hangi?] at Rangiora New Year sports day, Timaru breakwater construction, Otira Gorge, and a Maori woman identified as 'Kaiapoi Maori Queen'. Postcards depict bath house at Hamner Springs, 'Land of the golden fleece', and an illustration of Port Elizabeth. Collected images by named photographers include Mt Egmont (A Gungall). Some hand coloured photographs in album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1908-2008

By: Chilton Saint James (School : Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: ATL-Group-00845

Description: Includes school magazines hand-produced by pupils of Chilton House and Chilton St James School; Minute book for directors of Hutt Girls' School, for shareholders of company and minutes of special meeting and report of advisory committee (1923) (MSY-4099) School register for Chilton St James School, 1917-1973 (MSY-2456) Recordings of Chilton St James Choir and parts of service (1953-1958; 1962-1974) Reminiscences of former pupils and staff Source of title - Supplied In 1897 Chilton House School, a private boarding and day school for girls, was founded on The Terrace, Wellington. In 1918 Hutt Girls' School Ltd established an Anglican private school for girls, Chilton St James School, in Lower Hutt. When the Chilton House School closed in 1930, Chilton St James School purchased their goodwill, and incorporating the name into the school. Quantity: 16 volume(s). 10 12" disc(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 5" reel(s). 1 folder(s). 1 10" disc(s). 1 7" disc(s). 1 7" reel(s). 0.41 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Originally the records were collected by the Chilton Historical Trust which had been set up to administer the archives of Chilton House and Chilton St James Schools. This function has been passed to the Chilton St James School archives.

Date: 1865

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B034

Description: Contains cosmological information including accounts of the fetching of the wananga from Io, the divine origin of various items and practices, a list of children of Rangi and Papa, the origins of the universe, the separation of Rangi and Papa, and the twelve heavens and their inhabitants; also contains information about the practices associated with the whare wananga and karakia Also contains a letter from S P Smith to Te Whatahoro stressing that Smith has not made any money from Polynesian ethnology, confirming receipt of material from Te Whatahoro, and inviting him to come and stay with Smith at New Plymouth Enclosures - A 3 page letter written Tihema 29 1910, addressed to H T Whatahoro from Te Mete [Percy Smith?] is inserted in the beginning of book Other - The book is stamped with the seal `Paremata o te iwi Maori o Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu = Parliament of the Maori tribes of the North and South Islands of New Zealand' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: ½ brown calf, black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 20

Date: 1872-1914

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-27

Description: Eight parchment land documents relating to Waimate North. ET/LT 024 is a conveyance for land at Waimate, George Clarke to Samuel L Clarke, dated 5 Aug 1872. ET/LT 025 is a conveyance for land at Waimate, George Clarke to Hopkins Clarke, dated 5 Aug 1872. ET/LT 026 is a conveyance for land at Waimate, dated 8 Oct 1872. Maketu Ruhe Tutana, Hoana Ruhe and Ihaka Te Tai to Marsden Clarke and John Betts Clarke. Iritana has also signed the document along with the other signatories. Also attached is a signed statement by William Kemp, saying he is a registered interpreter for the Maori language. ET/LT 027 is a conveyance of land at Waimate dated 7 May 1884. Marsden Clarke to John Betts Clarke. ET/LT 028 is a conveyance of land at Waimate dated 20 Nov 1894. Henry Tacy Clarke [middle name is spelt Tacey the document] to William Henry Brownwell. ET/LT 029 is a conveyance of land at Waimate dated 5 Feb 1898. Edward Blomfield Clarke to James McIntyre. ET/LT 030 is a conveyance of land at Waimate dated 23 Dec 1903. Philip Walsh to John Betts Clarke. ET/LT 031 is a conveyance of land at Waimate dated 10 Aug 1914. John Betts Clarke to Edward Blomfield Clarke. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: 1862-1918

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B054

Description: This volume contains information dictated by three tohunga, Apiata Te Aohau, Nepia Pohuhu and Paratene Te Okawhare, to Te Whatahoro; the narratives cover some common themes, including; Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay whakapapa, accounts of the creation of the universe, and the subsequent activities and conflicts of various deities; accounts and genealogies that set out the origin of various animate and inanimate things in the world; accounts of the migration of the Takitimu canoe, lead by Tamatea, from Hawaiki to New Zealand; information about the provenance of the material dictated by the tohunga Paratene Te Okawhare also discusses the influence of Christianity on the recital of traditional Maori accounts of cosmology, and provides instructions about who should be allowed access to the material and how whakapapa debates should be managed; he identifies some common errors made by non-experts in reciting genealogies; he also warns Te Whatahoro not to confuse the work of different tohunga, and points out that each school of learning will have their own version of events Physical Description: ¼ maroon, dark green boards 33 cm Provenance: This was one of four books loaned by Te Whatahoro to the Church of the Latter Day Saints

Date: [Circa 1880s to 1912]

By: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967

Reference: PA1-o-531

Description: Very clear views of West Coast gold and coal mines (mainly in the Reefton subdivision), and mining towns, taken by unidentified photographers, except for one of "Wondrous Waiuta New Zealand" Jos. Divis Photo (p 27). Views on various roads include the Reefton to Blackspoint Road, Reefton to Westport Road, the Buller Gorge, the Maruia Road alongside the Inangahua River, Progress Road, and fording a river near Progress Mill. Images relating to mines include a winter picture of the old Wealth (of Nations) waterwheel covered in icicles; and gold batteries at various stages of development. Gold mines include the Progress Mine, Wealth of Nations Mine, Welcome Mine, the Mountain Battery at Boatman's Creek, the Blackwater Mine and the Globe Mine. Coal mines include views of Lanky's Creek Coal Mine, and the Lanky's Creek to Energetic coal tramway showing new bridges and coal miners. One photograph (p 9) shows several men "beach combing" for gold on the West Coast. There are a number of articles in The West Coast Times, Otago Witness and Otago Daily Times talking about the success or otherwise of seeking gold by this method in the 1860s to 1880s (see Papers Past paperspast.natlib.govt.nz, search under "beach combing" "west coast") Inscriptions: Album page - "To Messrs E & A Spencer with best wishes from D Turnbull, Reefton, N.Z., 13/10/1911, 2/6/1912" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark grey cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 19.0 x 27.5 cm

Date: 1895-1915

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-810

Description: A family album, photos unidentified. Women, children, family groups, South African War contingents on Newtown Park Wellington, and a soldier photographed on the day troops began evacuating the Gallipoli Peninsula. There are also 2 photographs of the house at Tutu Totara Station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: 1917

By: Fear, Robert, active 1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5784

Description: Cooper describes her early life in Greenwich, Kent and Camberwell, Surrey; the voyages of her father, Captain John Parsons, to New Zealand for the Canterbury Association with mention of John Godley, her voyage to Lyttelton in 1853 on the Minerva, life at Dampier Bay (now West Lyttelton) and in Christchurch as a governess, her marriage to Charles Edward Cooper in 1859 and her husband's job with the `Lyttelton Times'; later period living in Timaru and return to Christchurch in 1894; and at Sumner 1899. Many early Christchurch families are mentioned. Anne Elizabeth Parsons was the daughter of the first harbour master of Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Ms and typescript

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 1970-1975]

From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Research notes on Joseph Gordon Coates

Reference: MS-Papers-7170-006

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-8077

Description: Photographs of Glynn Wye homestead, North Canterbury, and surrounding countryside including the Waiau River, taken ca 1900 by Edmund Wheeler & Son of Christchurch. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2004

Date: 1888-1910

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4821

Description: Whakapapa book for Te Rauhina Mohi of Hawke's Bay; also contains other Ngati Kahungunu whakapapa written by Tanguru Tuhua and others, and whakapapa by Hamiora Mangakahia; also contains loose correspondence from various people including Te Koreneho (possibly William Colenso) and a map of sites visited by T W Ratana in the far north Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1895 - 1956 - 1912 - 1957

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-015

Description: Six-panelled account of the popularity of dolphin Pelorus Jack in Pelorus Sound in the 1890s (until 1912) and of the dolphin Opo at Opononi in Northland in 1956. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

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

Date: 1899-1910

By: Timaru Beautifying Association

Reference: MS-2149

Description: Minutes, together with numerous letters and newspaper cuttings inserted Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (Ca 105 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, 25x18 cm, ½ purple calf, marbled boards, marbled edges