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Franklyn, F :[Sketches taken at Lowry Bay on cigarette papers. Cottages at Lowry Bay. c...

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

Reference: A-141-011

Description: A two-storied cottage with a one-storied cottage alongside, both behind a continuous low picket fence Possibly cottages built for Governor Sir James Ferguson in 1873. The subsequent Governor did not want the cottages and they were sold Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tissue paper, 48 x 80 mm

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Franklyn, F :[Sketches taken at Lowry Bay on cigarette papers. Houses by the sea. ca 1900]

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

Reference: A-141-013

Description: A view past two tree-trunks looking towards houses with gardens at the water's edge Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tissue paper, 48 x 80 mm

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Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Alfred Mumby's garden. [1926-1941].

Date: 1926 - 1941

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-001

Description: Shows the grounds of a wooden house with verandah showing at the right side of the picture. The garden has a flower bed with tall stems (possibly hollyhocks or foxgloves) beside the house, and a border along the left side of the lawn. There is a tree partially obscured by the house, and the entrance gate in the centre background. A large flowering tree is at the extreme left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted in slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 185 x 247 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

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Einhorn house and garden

Date: 1952-1976

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8012

Description: Einhorn house and garden, 1952-1972. Raumati Beach. St Albans Church, Pauahautanui, 1968. St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, 1976. Old shop fronts, Auckland. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

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[Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Wellington ?Day. [1880s or 1890s]

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-101

Description: View from lower Wadestown or Stowe Hill, past a fence the the roof of a house, towards the harbour and Eastbourne, with Somes Island. Several ships in the harbour. The second word in the title may be Day or Bay or an abbreviation starting with Da. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

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Photographs of a trip into the eastern highlands of Viti Levu

Date: 1952-1968

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

Reference: PAColl-6344-1

Description: Twelve photographs record a trip to the villages of Naquelewai and Na Soqo beyond the head waters of the Wainimala River in the highlands of eastern Viti Levu in 1968. There are four views of Wanganui dating fom 1955, and two photographs of "Tiny Town", Tāhunanui, Nelson, dated 1952. Four photographs record the Victoria University capping procession in May 1961. The rest are postcards of Wellington, Hastings, St Matthew's church Auckland, and Māori subjects. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

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Houses and homesteads

Date: 1937, 1951-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-022

Description: Photographs of houses and homesteads, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, circa 1951 to 1957. Included are homesteads belonging to the Trolove, Pharazyn, Goulter, Vavasour, Dillon, Hunt, Bowie, Williams and Evans families. Also included is a photograph of an original sketch circa 1851 by Sir David Monro of `Bearcroft', Waimea West. Destruction by fire of Mr J H Grigg's dwelling at Longbeach near Ashburton in Nov 1937. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Guthrie-Smith :Photographic prints of various people and places

Date: ca 1880-1954

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); S P Andrew Ltd; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0507

Description: A collection of photographs of the Hunter family particularly of George Ernest Hunter and his wife and dogs at their home in Watt Street, Wadestown but also of his brother Robert Henry Hunter (the two men look very alike). They include a number of photographs of their house, garden and neighbourhood but also a postcard of Paekakariki beach, a postcard of two wagons with passengers passing through the Devil's Elbow between Buttermere and Keswick in the English Lake District, seven men with penny-farthing bicycles ca 1880, a carte de visite of four young Maori wearing kakahu taken by Swan & Wrigglesworth, and a photograph of a sketch of Porerua Bay near Wanganui (mid 19th century). The collection includes a letter to a Mr Ellingham from I W Macdonald of 8 Lower Watt Street, Wadestown offering him the photographs. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

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Hislop album 1

Date: 1913-1922

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-228

Description: Views of Lake Rotoma, Hamurana Creek, and the Sanatorium gardens, Rotorua; Pukekura Park, New Plymouth; friends and houses in Napier; all 1916. Photographs of "Greenhill" homestead near Hastings, its gardens, and a group of visitors. Also "Ben Lomond" a house on the hill at Napier, its gardens and owners. All photographed in October 1921. Harold and Mabsie Hislop's house "Clovelly" at Wadestown, its gardens, and visiting friends. All photographed in 1916. A holiday at the Hermitage which included climbing trips and views of the Southern Alps. Photographs taken on board HMS New Zealand, and a view of ships stranded in Wellington Harbour by the waterside strike. Two photographs of a golfer on the Miramar golf course. All taken in 1913. Photographs of young women at Days Bay photographed in 1922 Inscriptions: Album page - `Wishing you very happy returns of this day, Aug. 18th 1916. With love, Dorice' (At end of album, upside-down) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red suede cover, entitled `Album. H.S.H.', containing platinum and silver gelatin prints; 18 x 34 cm

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Large two-storeyed house in Heretaunga

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Tolhurst, George Gerald, 1871-1949

Reference: Pan-2472-F

Description: Panoramic view of the side of a large two-storeyed wooden house. Sleeping verandah upstairs, with an ivy-covered arch downstairs leading out onto a large lawn where there are croquet hoops. Six men and women are seated at the edge of the lawn in the left middle distance. Trimmed hedge centre right, behind the house in the centre middle distance and on the far left. Bed of asters on the right, around the house. Trees and flat farmland at a lower level on the right with hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Tolhurst. Heretaunga. 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.4 cm

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Single-storeyed wooden house in the Lower Hutt area

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Dewar, (Mr), active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1518-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at a single-storeyed wooden house at the end of a drive on the left. Tiled roof, decorative trim along the verandah and in the gables. Steps up to a corner porch; lawns with flower beds and shrubs, and with established trees on the far left. Trees also on the far right beside a gate by the road. Climbing roses over an arch leading onto the lawn on the right. Three women wearing hats, with a picnic table for tea on the lawn near the house. Car parked by the house on the right (Number plate WN-3321). Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Dewar [?] Lr Hutt 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 116.8 cm

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Large two-storeyed wooden house in the Lower Hutt area

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Mitchell, (Mr), active 1923-1928

Reference: Pan-1516-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at an angled view of a large two-storeyed wooden house in the centre of the image. Concrete pillars along the verandahs on two sides. Three-sided bay set in a gable above the verandah, balconies on either side of the bay. Entrance from the left, deep sash windows around the verandahs downstairs. An unidentified man and woman are standing on the verandah. Manicured lawns, dog near the steps up to the house, drive up from the left, and gravel paths Dry-stone walls and steps up into an area of bush behind with a sloping paddock on the hill above on the far right. Lower Hutt township just visible between trees below on the far left. Plants in the garden include tree ferns. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Mitchell. Lower Hutt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 123.7 cm

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Single-storeyed wooden house in Western Hutt Road, in the Lower Hutt area

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Climie, James Daniel, 1849-1928

Reference: Pan-1523-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden house on a rise on the right. Verandah along the front with an enclosed balustrade. Sloping lawn down to a driveway which winds up from centre foreground around to the back of the house. An open touring car is parked on the drive below the house (Number plate: WN-5986). Another open car (Number plate: HBC-74), is parked beside the house on the far right with two people seated in it and a man wearing hat and knee-length coat is standing behind. Trimmed hedge bordering the drive on the left. Established trees to the left of the house. The base of a flagpole is visible on the far right. Cleared hills in the background on the right. Houses in Lower Hutt valley below on the left. More hills across the valley on the far side. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Climie. Lower Hutt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 104.0 cm

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Wallace, Julia Nannie, 1907-1991: Photographic prints of the house 'Minnehaha' and its ...

Date: 1960

By: Wallace, Julia Nannie, 1907-1991

Reference: PAColl-10261

Description: Photographic prints of the house 'Minnehaha' and its grounds, 49 Johnsonville Rd, Khandallah, Wellington, taken in 1960 by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Gaylene Ashton, Helensville, 2014. Donor's great aunt Moana lived with Julia Wallace. Wallace's childhood home was 'Minnehaha'.

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House in Khandallah, Wellington

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Strong, Theophilus Benjamin, 1871-1950

Reference: Pan-2170-F

Description: Panoramic view of a one-and-a-half storeyed wooden house, tiled roof, brick chimneys, with an entrance porch on the left. Three men are standing on a path below the porch and a woman and man are standing in the porch. There is a large hydrangea near the corner of the house, sunporch on the right. Garage far right, car parked (number plate: WN 5853), and another car at the entrance to the drive below the house centre left (number plate: WN 6918). There is a hedge below the path above a sloping lawn down to the drive, and another hedge above the road centre left. View of Wellington Harbour on the far left looking over an area of trees. Other houses by the road in the left middle distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - T.B. Strong. Khandallah. 2 copies only. Shade sky. Print seascape up Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 108.0 cm

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House owned by John Alfred Plimmer in Khandallah

Date: [1925]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Plimmer, John Alfred, 1846?-1937

Reference: Pan-2173-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden house, return verandahs, finials over gables, iron roof. An unidentified man and woman are standing on the verandah. Lawns, flower beds, shrubs including rhododendrons and a gravel pathway leading up from the centre of the image. Summer house at the back of the lawn on the left and a high hedge separates the section from the property on the left. Power pylon on the right with a road sign reading "School". Trees also include cabbage trees, tree fern and a young monkey puzzle tree. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape]. J.A. Plimmer. Khandallah. 3 copies Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.8 cm

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House in Khandallah, Wellington

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Moyes, Ernest Edward, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2171-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden house with Arts and Crafts features. Diamond-shaped tiles on the roof, small entrance porch on the right, creeper growing over posts on the porch. An unidentified man earing a moustache [Mr Moyes?], is standing on the left of the entrance, a woman wearing a hat is seated in a cane chair and a young girl and boy are standing alongside. Lawns and flower beds around the house. A car (number plate: WN-6133) is parked outside a garage at the end of a rough driveway on the left of the house. Trellis between the house and garage. Another house is just visible on the crest of the hill on the left and another is mostly hidden amongst trees behind and to the right of the centre house. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - E. Moyes. Khandallah. 3 copies. Shade marks in sky Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 97.3 cm

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Bungalow-styled house in Khandallah, Wellington

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Jefferson, Annie, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2191-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed bungalow-styled wooden house in Khandallah. Diamond-shaped tiles on the roof, concrete base, steps up to the entrance porch on the left, leadlights in the upper third of the windows. Established trees along the right beside a narrow lawn. Trellis fence on the left of the house. Trees surround a field up on a slope behind the house on the left. Houses just visible behind the hedge on the far left. Plants include rhododendrons, tree ferns and a gum tree. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mr [i.e. Mrs] Jefferson. Khandallah Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 118.0 cm

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Single-storeyed villa-style stone house, possibly in the Lower Hutt area

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1517-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed villa-style house, stone block finish, roughcast pebble stone base. Slate roof, finials, decorative detail over porch to front entrance. Arched detail around verandah on left. There is a man standing by the front steps, and a man and a woman seated on the verandah at a table set with a teapot and cups on a strongly patterned table-cloth. Fenced tennis court to left of house. Circular drive, garage next to tennis court. Espaliered roses on the fence behind the court. Lawn with flower beds in foreground, hose curled up on the lawn. A separate "garden room" on the left with a path between hedges and flower beds to another lawn. Brick gateposts far left. Trees and shrubs in a border far right. The roof of a church can be seen on the left behind the house, with other houses behind a high fence. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Possible location from other images in the Alexander Turnbull Library numerical sequence Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 100.7 cm

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Exterior views of `Fernside,' a House near Featherston, and its garden

Date: [ca 1995]

From: Friar, Denis Ashwood, 1952- :Transparencies of public and private gardens in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-10254

Description: Views of the gardens at `Fernside,' and two exterior views of the house. Large georgian revival style house designed by Christchurch architect Heathcote Helmore, for Charles and Ella Elgar. It was built in 1924. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

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