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Date: 1910

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-008

Description: Shows a new European settlement near Ohakune, amongst an extensive tract of felled timber, with trees and bush in the background. Mount Ruapehu is in the distance. Other Titles - The above photograph depicts a pioneering scene near Ohakune, on the route of the Main Trunk railway, and shows the birth of a new settlement in the heart of the bush. In the background towers the majestic snow-clad peak of Ruapehu ... Extended Title - Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas Number. 1910. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 462 x 662 mm

Date: 1920s-1930s

By: Vinicombe, Audrey K, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5659

Description: Photographs of Graham and Elsie Massingham at various localities in New Zealand. Graham Massingham and his wife came out from England in the late 1920s. The 1928 Wises Post Office Directory describes Massingham as a company manager and lists him as living in Dunedin at 34 Dundonald street, Andersons Bay. Later in the 1930s he lived at 75a Grant Road, Wellington. He died on 20 November 1947. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1982] 1986

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-306

Description: Visit to Vanuatu and Noumea includes - Views of the hotel grounds and the sea, Port-Vila, Vanuatu. Taking tea outside with other tourists or friends. A Cruize liner, Port-Vila. Gardens, houses and social occasions. Traveling in Vanuatu. This includes countryside, forest, villages, coastal views, churches, a metal bridge-like structure, and people, especially children. Events surrounding the opening ceremonies of the first Vanuatu Games (called First Interdistrict Games Vanuatu), Port-Vila, 1982. Two storied colonial house. Old church and religious figures in a Roman Catholic church. Volcano erupting. Noumea, New Caledonia, its surroundings, and in particular church buildings. Loose pages in the front of the album record a holiday in New Zealand, 1986. This includes Hawke's Bay. Picnics by the way. White baiting at the Rangitaiki River mouth. The Coromandel Peninsula. Oil rig at Moturoa. Friends. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1906 - 1908

Reference: Eph-D-RAIL-1908-01

Description: Shows a tinted photograph of a small group of huts and tents amidst tall trees in a gully. The text beneath states: "Our picture shows a phase of the magnificent scenery which is to be met with along the route of the North island Main Trunk Railway, which links up the Cities of Auckland and Wellington, and is now practically completed. The numberless beautiful views and the impressive grandeur of many of the sights adjacent to the line should make one of the most popular routes for tourists in New Zealand, and the only thing to be regretted is that scenes such as that depicted above must vanish within a short space before the steady advance of the sturdy pioneer settler". Description of another copy at C-065-006, identifies one of the group shown, as Thomas Alexander Evans. Another fresher copy at C-065-006; from where comes the name of the publication with which this was published. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 430 x 560 mm.

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: 1948

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: B-165-011

Description: Shows a red-roofed house and outbuildings, partly obscured by native bush, with a row of spindly trees in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 350 x 520 mm.

Date: Ca 1900s?

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

Reference: 1/2-000869-G

Description: View of a few houses in Inglewood, looking down through native bush. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1900s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - View of Inglewood. No. 1182 E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

Date: 1950-1984

By: Hitchings, Helen Margaret St. Clare, 1920-2002; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: PAColl-7914

Description: Photographs of houses in Little Pipitea Street, Hill Street and the ministerial residence (Prime Ministers residence) in Tinakori Road, Thorndon; scenes in Stratford, Hanmer Springs and Lake Manapouri; and copies of paintings by Rita Angus and Douglas MacDiarmid. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - Manuscript of report on Prime Ministers House; Letters and notes with Rita Angus catalogue for 1983-1984..

Date: 1920-1929

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-3

Description: Photographs of trips taken in the countryside, of bridges, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forest, mountains, coastal scenery and other scenic views. There are pictures of cars and one of a motorcycle with side car. There are prints of two fly fishermen displaying their catch in a net and of a man holding up a large eel. Others show yachts in sail, and men and boys in yachts; adult fun sports at a group outing identified in PAColl-6712-2 as being the "optic championships". Another group are shown playing cricket in the grounds of Days Bay House. There is also a single print of a hunter showing his bag of wild game birds. Animals are represented by cattle and horses, one of the latter associated with two men and a wagon-full of freshly harvested hay, another is harnessed to a coach parked beside a stationary train. A sequence of prints records the dams and lakes of the newly completed Mangahao Hydro in the hills inland from Shannon. Three prints show a ship grounded in coastal shallows. There are portrait and group photographs of people, including children, and one print of a children's party. Several show picnic groups.

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1910

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-065-008-a

Description: Shows a new European settlement near Ohakune, amongst an extensive tract of felled timber, with trees and bush in the background. Mount Ruapehu is in the distance. Other Titles - The above photograph depicts a pioneering scene near Ohakune, on the route of the Main Trunk railway, and shows the birth of a new settlement in the heart of the bush. In the background towers the majestic snow-clad peak of Ruapehu ... Extended Title - Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas Number. 1910. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 462 x 662 mm

Date: 1895-1915

From: Allan, John Calder, 1879-1963 :Photographs of Cable Bay, Nelson

Reference: PA1-q-009

Description: Photographs of the Cable Bay area, near nelson, including the Cable Bay Station and homestead, with images showing the social life of the Cable Bay Station employees. Includes photographs of children, families, family pets, picnicking and camping. There is one postcard from Wakapuaka, which includes two images of 12 to 15 men wearing dark suits, posing outdoors, similar images to several photographs included in the album. Photographs taken by John Calder Allan between 1895 and 1915 Other Titles - Sunny memories Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 285 x 300 mm red buckram, with black decoration around title "Sunny memories" embossed on cover, in phase box

Date: 1945-[ca 1965]

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

Reference: PAColl-8765-18

Description: Photographs recording the process of preparing the site and building John and Dorothy Pascoe's house in native forest at Eastbournel, Lower Hutt. Six photographs of a Japanese mountaineering expedition climbing in the New Zealand Southern Alps possibly some time in the 1960s. Photographs supplied by the Mainichi Press, Tokyo, Japan. This house was designed by John Pascoe's brother Arnold Paul Pascoe. Quantity: 128 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-195

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm

Date: 1909 - 1915

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-261

Description: Shows the roof and chimney of a lone house, mostly obscured by bush, near the shoreline of Lake Taupo Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, adhered to inside cover of a 'solid drawing block', 128 x 178 mm

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1205

Description: The two Nelson farms in this album are "Nga Mahanga" (Hugh Nelson's place), and "Taumata" (Jack Nelson's place). Views show the farm houses, and farm buildings, the farm land and landscape of the Pori area partially cleared of bush. One group of images shows the countryside under snow. There are a series of five images recording the building of a stables and buggy house, also a view of the woolshed and sheep at "Taumata". Scenic views of the area include the Makuri River ford, native forest interiors with pongas, and native forest. Four images show the interior of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are two photographs of local Maori standing beside tents in a bush clearing, one of army volunteers in uniform standing in front of tents, two of soldiers at an unidentified event, many of horses, some of hens, dogs, cats, and cattle. Two prints show one of the Nelson brothers cutting long grass with a scythe and 4 others are views of an unidentified house and its garden at Tiraumea (a distant view of this house surrounded by pinus radiata shelter belts and its surrounding countryside can be seen in album PA1-o-1206, page 7 captioned "Tiraumea"). There are also some images of "Newstead" the Monckton family home at Featherston. There is only one photograph of a Nelson family group. The rest are individual images of adults and children which include: Frederick Monckton, Lucy Miller (who married Frank Nelson), Winifred, [Lornie?], Dorothea, [Frances?], the brothers and the children. Further information and names provided by researcher. Updated 10 November 2016. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1900-1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1207

Description: Views of the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and three farms in that area, "Ruatea", "Taumata", and "Nga Mahanga". Images of snow covered countryside, the ford across the Makuri River at Makuri, native forest with pongas, partly cleared land with the standing trunks of burnt trees, the houses of the three farms, horses, cattle, hens, cats, Jack Nelson with Nan, Dorothea, and Miss Wyatt having a picnic, Maori, cabbage trees, and Hugh Nelson's whare and woolshed. Arrangement: This collection is made up of loose prints from album PA1-o-1206 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1924-1928

By: Hill, Ivon Johnstone, 1897-1962; Hill, Bernard, active 2002; Tuckwell, Judith, active 2002

Reference: PA1-o-1174

Description: Photographs of the east coast road just north of Gisborne, and of journeys inland from Gisborne to Otoko, and Motu. Scenic views make up most of the subject matter in this album; willows overhanging a stream at "Otonga" in the Waimata Valley; Twin waterfalls in the bush near Otoko; the road over Tatapouri Hill just north of Gisborne; a station homestead in its plantations and valley, Otoko; the Motu-Opotiki road passing through stands of native forrest; a nikau palm grove at the Morere hot springs; bridges, streams and rivers; the town of Motu under snow in 1926; Waikanae Beach, its tearooms and the dredge Korua. There is one photograph of children sitting with their dolls, and another of a child, a man and a dog. Photographed by Ivon Johnstone Hill from 1924 to 1928 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).