Places

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-032

Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm

Date: [Between December 1943 and February 1946]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-205

Description: Photographs from three expeditions in the Homer area, between the Upper Hollyford Valley and the Cleddau Valley, December 1943-January 1944; December 1944-January 1945; and the Homer Tunnel Museum Expedition in February 1946, all taken by John Tenison Salmon. Many of the photographs are landscapes, but others show native plants growing in the area. Two sequences show the damage caused by avalanches, one showing damage to bush and to a bridge in 1944; the others show damage from a major avalanche which buried the eastern portal of the Homer Tunnel which was under construction at the time (September 1945). Members of the first two expeditions include George Howes and Murray Smith, and Walter Reginald Brook Oliver and Ray Forster. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1920s

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: 1/2-032295-F

Description: View of Milford Sound with the Bowen Falls on the right. Photographed by R P Moore some time between 1922 and 1930 PA6-229 is the same image Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1866-[ca 1955]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9827-1

Description: Includes - Photographs of explorer Charles Edward Douglas. Group of men in a cart drawn by four horses, 1920. Group of South African War veterans outside the Beverly Home, Timaru, 1950s. Antarctic explorer Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd laying a wreath at the Scott Memorial, Christchurch, ca 1928. View of Lyttelton. Men crossing a river. Farmers tree at Beverly. Bowen Falls, Milford Sound. The Prince of Wales at Ashburton, 17 May 1920. Galloway homestead. Fraser's jewellery shop, Timaru, ca 1935. Views of Southland, ca 1905. Crowd at Invercargill celebrating the relief of Mafeking, May 1900. Early settler's houses, one built of cobb and thatched. Photographs relating to the centenary of T & J Thompson Ltd, Timaru, 1944. Brunner coal mine, 1866. TSS Earnlaw on Lake Wakatipu. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1938

By: Walker & Muston (Firm)

Reference: F-072

Description: A detailed plan of the Provincial Court, with the North Island at the right, the South Island and Stewart Island at the left, and Cook Strait in the middle, crossed by a bridge. There were stands for provinces and also for the New Zealand Tourist and Railways departments. Other features included Lake Taupo, Mount Cook, a Maori village, Bowen Falls, gold dredges, several railways, Arapuni Hydro-electric scheme, Wanganui River, Queen Charlotte Sound, Lake Coleridge. This court was later renamed the Dominion or Government Court. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, 635 x 1435 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Schmid, Max, 1945-

Reference: PA12-10910

Description: Photographs taken in Fiordland National Park. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca December 1936 - January 1937]

From: Salmon, Albert Armitage, 1899-1982: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-10262-2

Description: Mounted images with annotations from Albert Armitage Salmon's 1936-1937 trip to New Zealand. The images follow the route of Salmon and his companions' travels tramping and travelling through the South Island. Photographs taken by Salmon. - The bulk of the images show South Island scenery, particularly Milford Sound and nearby mountains, and Tasman Glacier. Includes images of Sutherland Falls, Lake Ada, the Cleddau Valley, the Darran Range, Barren Peak, Sheerdown Peak, views of Milford Sound, Mitre Peak, The Lion, Mount Pembroke, Bowen Falls, Anita Bay, Lake Te Anau, the Remarkables and Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, Mount Sefton, Tasman Glacier, Mount Haidinger, Mount Haast, Silberhorn, Mount Tasman, the Hochstetter ice fall, Mount Cook (Aoraki), rock formations in West Canterbury, the Raikaia Gorge, and aerial views of Franz Josef Glacier and the Waiho River. - Several images show Irene Booth, Reg Booth, Mary Hansen, and Eric Keehn tramping through glaciers with Scottish guide, Duncan Darroch, who is wearing a kilt. One image shows Keehn amongst foxglove plants in bloom at Milford Sound. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) on mounts. 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Between 1915 and 1924

By: Buckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878-1939; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-261

Description: Photographs, some by identified photographers, chiefly relating to lighthouses in the South Island of New Zealand. Most of the signed photographs are dated between 1915 and 1919. The unsigned ones were taken in 1924, possibly during a trip to the lighthouses on the Government ship Tutanekai. Many of the images show aspects of life at remote sites, including travel by dinghy, transportation of cattle using slings to carry them from a ship to a dinghy and then to land, and picknicking on Stewart Island. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Lighthouses etc Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking covers; 24.5 x 31.5 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

Date: 1938-1939

By: McBride, Muriel, active 1938-1985; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PA1-q-150

Description: Photographs of YMCA Christmas trips in 1938 and 1939, to Milford Sound and the Whanganui River, taken by William Hall Raine. As well as photographs there are a number of newspaper and magazine cuttings, some of which were produced in the New Zealand Free Lance (January 25, 1939), following the Wellington Y.M.C.A. party on their trip to Milford. The photographs of the Whanganui trip were not taken by William Hall Raine, as he was on the Milford trip at the time. The Whanganui scenes are in an envelope inserted in the front of the album, and show the party travelling by ferry up the river, with picnics on the bank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, entitled `Scrap album'; 29.7 x 23.4 cm

Date: 1907-1959

By: New Zealand Sounds Hydro-Electric Concessions Ltd

Reference: MS-Group-0157

Description: Records of New Zealand Sounds Hydro Electric Concessions Ltd, incorporating also the records of the Milford Sound Nitrate Syndicate Ltd, and various research studies on the feasability of nitrate and aluminium production and other possible uses for electric power produced in Fiordland. Includes newspaper clippings on the Bowen Falls controversy. The bulk of the records are concerned with the period ca 1920-1930. The records include correspondence, a cash book, a financial ledger and a number of printing plates. Source of title - Supplied by Library Accompanying material - Accompanied by biographical details about Joseph Orcheston, founder of the company in Back file Relationship complexity - The second volume of the Directors' Minutes (MSY-3183) is held under A92-022 The Company was founded in 1925 by the donor's father, superseding a previous Milford Sound Nitrate Syndicate. Both companies had been formed with the intention of exploiting the hydro-electric potential of Fiordland. The company was fully active only from 1925-1927 It was the first company to investigate Milford Sound and Lake Manapouri for its potential to produce hydro-electric power. Quantity: 4 volume(s). 32 folder(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, and maps Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs have been transferred (PAColl-8585) - To Cartographic Collection - Various maps.

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Hawley & Company

Reference: PA1-q-251

Description: Album of photographs taken by James Valentine & Sons, circa 1880s-1900s. Most of the images have a caption printed into the photograph, and many also have a hand-written caption beneath. At some point many of the photographs have been removed from their slots, and others have been placed in the wrong slot so that the subject and caption on the photograph does not match with the caption below. Places are listed above. There are five photographs of Maori, three of women, two of chiefs. The names given are difficult to identify, having complicated spelling, and the captions on photographs have faded in some cases. They include "Maori wahine Ngareti"; "Maori chief Hoera Watene"; "Maori chiefs Panapa Tenihotiti and Topopoki" and "Maori wahine Huihana?". One photograph, of Atiamuri, has the name "Hawley" as photographer. Other Titles - "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with greenish cover, entitled "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" in gold lettering; 39 x 31 cm

Date: 10-15 February 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8782

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes a group of seagulls, ducks and trout at Queenstown, Lake Wanaka in autumn, the road from Queenstown to Kingston from bus, road to Lumsden, Lake Manapouri from the Waiau River, Lake Te Anau from the road, Te Anau southern fiord, waterfall, road through beech forest after coming through the Homer Tunnel, looking down the Cleddau River, Mitre Peak from the hotel, looking over Cleddau River to Arthur Valley, Bowen Falls from airstrip, view of Milford Sound on launch trip. Slides on this sheet are numbered 232-264 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 237, 239-240, 245-247, 252-252, 261, 263) showing Lake Manapouri from a view point, Te Anau township, road and hills in the area, the Homer Tunnel, looking down from the tunnel to Milford Sound, looking up at Mount Tutoko from the road, Mitre Peak from the hotel and looking back at the hotel, looking up the Cleddau Valley, looking down the Cleddau River to Mitre Peak, looking across to Arthur Valley, Sinbad Gully and Mitre Peak, general view over the Milford Sound airstrip, and Milford Sound from a launch trip. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 12 February and 1st March 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8783

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of a launch trip in Milford Sound and some of the Milford Track, taken circa 12-15 February 1959. There are no photographs from the period between 15 February and 1 March during which time Williams travelled to Te Anau, Invercargill, Dunedin (including the Invermay Agricultural Research Station), Christchurch, Nelson, and Wellington, before taking the bus to New Plymouth (information from his diary). The views of the New Plymouth area include a view of Mary and Matthew Russell's home Tupare where he stayed, views of Mount Egmont, a garden with flowers, and an unidentified country house at Tokaora (near Hawera). Slides on this sheet are numbered 265-299 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 268, 270, 274, 277-284) showing a launch trip on Milford Sound, and parts of the Milford Track; then slides (nos. 287, 289, and 291-295) which go straight to the New Plymouth area showing Mary and Russell Matthew's house Tupare from the river, Mount Egmont, and a country house on the road to Tokaora. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 16 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1904 - 1914

From: Various artists :[Postcards and greeting cards collected by McCarthy. 1880s-1940s?]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-McCarthy-002

Description: Postcard shows a photograph view of Bowen Fall. "M & M" indicates the photographer Muir & Moodie. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 140 x 89 mm. Provenance: Part of the McCarthy Collection of greeting cards.

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7030

Description: Photographs of the Milford environment taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Views include Milford Sound and Mitre Peak from various points; Bowen Falls; looking down the Arthur Valley from Lake Ada; ship, and launch in the sound; Milford Sound from the Stirling Falls; interior views of the Milford Hotel, including the foyer, dining room, and a mural; the Hollyford Valley; a "sun burst" throwing light onto the water. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7029

Description: Photographs of the Milford environment taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Views include Mount Tutoko; boats at Milford; The Lion and Mount Pembroke from "old river bed"; The Lion from Barren Ridge; Bowen Falls; Looking up the Cleddau Valley; Stirling Falls from a yacht; Mitre Peak from the Milford Hotel, and from other angles; The Lion in cloud; Arthur Valley; falls on Mitre Peak after rain; Sheerdown tops with snow; Mount Isolation and the Cleddau Valley; two images of "sun burst" throwing light onto water. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7028

Description: Photographs of Kaniere, Te Anau and Milford areas taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Views include a waterfall, and rimu trees in the Kaniere area; Mount Cook from Hokitika; Lake Te Anau; Eglinton River Valley; the Wilderness area at Lake Te Anau; Kingston at Lake Wakatipu; a boat on Milford Sound; the Arthur Valley; Bowen Falls; Milford Sound; Lake Lochie; Mount Christina and Phipps Peak; the Bowen Falls, and the waterfall in the Chasm on Cleddau River; views from Cleddau Valley including Mitre Peak and Mount Underwood. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1900-1914

By: Vincent, Melva G, active 1979-1982; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Price, William Archer, 1866-1948

Reference: PAColl-0176

Description: Tourist views of New Zealand, its cities, towns, countryside and scenery. One portrait of Reginald Henry Vincent taken ca 1908. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 40 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [1880s-1910s?]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Ferrez, Marc, 1843-1923; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-260

Description: Collection of photographs taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, George Valentine, Josiah Martin and Marc Ferrez. On page [67] there is a hand-traced map of the world with a route marked on it from London, to Plymouth, Canary Islands, Cape Town, Tasmania, Wellington, Lyttelton, Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro, Canary Islands and back to Plymouth and London. The distance travelled out was 12,948 miles, and distance home was 11,915 miles. The photographs cover most of these places, with more detailed travel through Tasmania, and especially New Zealand. Scenes in New Zealand were mostly taken by the Burton Brothers and Josiah Martin. They include views of the main cities, and a large number in the thermal area around Lake Rotorua and Mount Tarawera, showing the area around the Pink and White Terraces before and after the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886. Photographs by Josiah Martin include portraits of Maori, and one entitled "The old order changeth" with Maori artifacts, shrunken heads, and a portrait of Tawhiao. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, black leather coners and spine; 27.5 x 37.5 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-0918

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Bowen Fallls, taken by Geo Crombie, ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The bowen Falls (530'), Milford Sound; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Photograph by Geo Crombie Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print