Places

Date: ca 1898-1905

By: Parker, Daniel, active 1890-1911; Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-7431

Description: Photographs of Kamo (Whangarei), Rodney County and Coromandel, taken, probably in the 1900s, by Daniel P Parker of Coromandel. Includes views of the construction on a timber dam (probably in Coromandel), Coromandel Public Hospital, Kennedy Bay (Coromandel), a stream crossing between Opitonui and Coromandel, bush camps in the Coromadel district and a traffic bridge in Rodney County. Daniel P Parker is recorded in the Wise's Post Office directories as an engineer in Coromandel from 1902 to 1930. Between 1906 and 1911 he is also recorded as a photographer. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: [ca 1970-ca 1979]

From: Giles, T Rex, 1929-2006 :Photographs of deer farming and hunting, opossum hunting, taxidermy, and mining.

Reference: PAColl-8752-2

Description: Photographs of deer carcasses being processed for export at Consolidated Traders Ltd's works at Rongatea and Rotorua. Also featured are carcasses of wild pigs awaiting processing and frozen goat carcasses bagged and ready for export. Several photographs show bales of deer pelts packed and covered with hessian. Deer photographed on Rex Giles' farm, Forest Park, at Maroa north of Taupo. Most of these photographs were in albums of plastic sleaves and were probably used as promotional material for the company. The prints were removed from the albums as the type of plastic bonds with the emusion of the print. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900-1912

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7586

Description: Two photographs of Duntroon Railway Station with Campbell Street next to it; men working on the railway near Duntroon railway bridge; the railway bridge at Duntroon; the bridge over the Mangaroa River with some old track next to it; looking down the platform at Palmerston North Railway Station with goods trains in the yards, a passenger express train at the platform, the Railway Hotel on the right and in the distance the businesses of Barraud & Abraham and A Loufresne, builder; Middlemarch Station with the Railway Hotel and a Billiard and Sample Rooms on the right; Fairlie Station with a coal train on the left; and steam locomotives including the Rotorua express at Morrinsville station. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Two have a stamp, or part, in German on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007953 and 007960 (duplicate at 1/2-105892) 1/2-007952 and 007959 are probably part of this collection too. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1929-1975]

From: Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5023-1

Description: Mainly photographs of the Chateau Tongariro and The Hermitage in the 1950s and 1960s. There is also a group of photographs of NZ Tourist Dept hotels taken in the 1970s, a number of views of the crater lake, Mount Ruapehu, and its surroundings taken after an eruption, and views of Mount Ngauruhoe erupting probably sometime in the 1930s Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: ca 1937-1950

From: Jones, Winifred, fl 1950-2004 :Photographs relating to Frederick Jones

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-1230

Description: Album containing photographs relating to the work of Frederick Jones as Postmaster General and Minister of Defence, including photographs of opening ceremonies for post offices around New Zealand, the Jones family, the Achilles arriving at Auckland, and Jones meeting various personalities. Album also contains souvenir items from the opening of the Chief Post Office, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather bound album 24.5 x 31.2 cm

Date: ca 18 Jun 1996

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Science-Geology-Volcanoes and volcanic eruptions-03

Description: Tina Salvador from the Turangi Pharmacy sells masks to guard against the ash cloud visible behind her. Shows her crouched by the sign outside the shop which reads: "Volcanic filter masks $4 each". Photograph taken by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid circa 18 June 1996. Published in the Evening Post on 18 June 1996 Arrangement: Print in Evening Post illustrations file at cabinet 14, drawer 4 Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print 17.8 x 12.7 cm

Date: [194-?]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-034167-F

Description: Interior view of a grocery store in Arapuni, Waikato, showing a woman and a young man serving two women. Both of the customers have young children with them. Shelves lined with items for sale are visible behind the counter, including Hospital toilet tissue, Rinso, Sunlight soap, and DYC vinegar. Photograph taken ca 1940s by an unidentified National Publicity Studios photographer. Caption - Note on back of file print reads: "Auckland. Arapuni village has its shops, service station and golf course." Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - A929 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [between ca 1900 and 1928]

From: Chappell, George A, fl 1900-1928 :Negatives, chiefly of gold mining at Waihi

Reference: 1/2-023680-G

Description: Stereographic photograph of a group of men working in the melthouse of the Talisman Gold Mining Battery at Karangahake. Shows men pouring bullion from a crucible inside a corrugated iron building. Photograph taken between 1900 and 1928, by George A Chappell. Other - Note on back of file print reads: `Pouring billion [sic] from a Crucible at Talisman Gold Mining Company's Melthouse, Karangahake' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-05

Description: Pat Wade Post Mistress at Waimihia Post Office. Photographed by Fiona Clark on the 29th of January, 1988 Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/1-010388-F

Description: Scene in the meeting house lounge of the Spa Hotel, Taupo, circa 1950. Shows the carved central support pole of the building and a hotel employee arranging roses alongside. Photograph taken for National Publicity Studios. Notes on back of file print, from National Publicity Studios, read: "This carving of the head man of the Tribe is very valuable, and is insured for £350. The whole structure is supported by this God and Tuatara Lizard which he holds." Source of descriptive information - File print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-02

Description: Reina Lobb, former Post Mistress and General Store keeper, Oparau. Behind Reina Lobb can be seen the general store building which was her home in 1988. Photographed by Fiona Clark on the 2nd of February, 1988 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

Date: ca 1908

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001735-G

Description: Delivering mail, Te Rauamoa, circa 1908, photographed by William Archer Price. Shows a horse drawn carriage on a road and a group of men and women. One of the women holds a mail bag. A dog lies under the carriage. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Delivering mail Te Rauamoa NZ 2033 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-06

Description: Post Mistress Atiria Takiari standing on the porch of the Mahoenui Post Office. Photographed by Fiona Clark on the 3rd of February, 1988 Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

Date: 3 February 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-01

Description: Margaret Karl and Linnete Steele at Ohaupo Post office, two days before its closure, photographed by Fiona Clark on 3 February 1988. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye destruction print 20.2 x 25.3 cm