Places

Date: 1902

From: Various artists :[Addresses presented to R. J. Seddon and Mrs Seddon. 1891-ca.1906]

Reference: D-005-025

Description: Central text of praise for Seddon's attendance at Coronation of Edward VII, and for sending Maori forces to fight (in Boer War?). Text inset into stylised Maori carved house, surrounded by various New Zealand native trees. Top shows 4 flags, Maori in traditional and European army dress, a view of Mt Cook, and a picture of a white heron. Below text is a Maori war canoe containing Maori paddlers and European passengers. Language - A few words in Maori only. Other Titles - To the Right Honorable Richard John Seddon, PC DCL, Premier of the Colony of New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Mt. Cook "AORANGI"; Recto - top centre - To the Right Honorable / Richard John Seddon, PG DCL /Premier of the Colony of New Zealand.d; Recto - bottom left - The Premier on the War Canoe / "TAWHERITIKITIKI"; Recto - bottom right - Times Coy. / del. Seddon attended the coronation of Edward VII in June 1902. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour 783 x 610 mm. Provenance: Probably arrived with Seddon papers, from Seddon family.

Date: ca 1920

By: Hewitt, George R, active 1920-1985

Reference: PAColl-0601

Description: Postcards collected by the depositor while working as an able seaman on HMS Renown during the tour by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Black and white postcards of Auckland, Christchurch, particularly the botanic gardens, Lyttelton, Picton, and Samoa and colour postcards of Wellington. Quantity: 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [1880s-1900s?]

By: Bock, Alfred, 1835-1920

Reference: PA1-o-218

Description: Pages 1-6 and 21-23 are views of New Zealand, including including a kauri tree at Tararu, views of Te Aroha, the Rotomahana area after the Tarawera eruption of 1886, and one of Maori kaumatua seated in front of tukutuku panels (possibly at Te Aroha), mostly taken by Alfred Bock Pages 7-21 are views of Hawaii, including a grass hut, the Houses of Parliament, St Louis College, Queens Hospital grounds, the Cook Monument, the first Royal Hawaiian Hotel (building later used as the Armed Forces YMCA), and Iolani Palace. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover, inserted between two pieces of strong cardboard; 34 x 24 cm

Date: 1923

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

By: Cock, Richard John, 1851-1936

Reference: Pan-2356-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a driveway which circles around a lawn to a single-storeyed wooden villa-styled house with verandahs separated by a bay. Finials over the gables. Palm trees on either side of steps up to the front verandah on the left of the bay with an unidentified woman standing by a verandah post. Turreted room at ground level (perhaps a conservatory) on the left. Retaining wall between the house and lawn at a lower level. Flower beds around the drive and some set into the lawn. Variety of established trees all around, including rhododendrons, palms and cabbage trees. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Overdale" New Plymouth 1923; Photographer's title on negative - R P Moore's circular business stamp; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] R. Cock. New Plymouth 3; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 115.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Coulson, Herbert Maxton, 1879-1957

Reference: Pan-2481-F

Description: Panoramic view showing a single-storeyed wooden house centre left. Dormer windows with decorative wrought-iron trim along the ridge, bull-nosed verandah on two sides. Lawn across the foreground with a footpath leading from a picket gate on the right across the lawns to the front entrance. Various trees and shrubs including palms and conifers. Portion of the image repeated on the far left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - The "Gables" Hokitika; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] H.M. Coulson. Dentist. Hokitika; Marginal notes on negative - 5 5 5 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 111.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Shepherd, Leopold, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1599-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed house in the centre of the image with bull-nosed verandahs around three sides, and steps up to the front door in the centre. Lawn in foreground with raised rock garden in the middle. Row of cabbage trees with garden beds beneath inside a high trimmed hedge on the right. Fenced tennis court to the left of the house, and rounded areas of shrubs including camellias, rhododendrons and palms on left and right. Gravel path from left up to the house. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Mr L. Shepherd. Kaponga. 3 copies Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 120.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Wood, J (Mrs), active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1494-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed wooden house, decorative slates/tiles [?] in the gables. Sleeping verandah upstairs on left above a bay downstirs. Corner conservatory. Front entrance behind a group of tall palms. Other palms on right. Border of rhododendrons along left. Flower beds including standard roses in lawn. Trees all round. Path up to the house through centre of image. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mrs J. [Wood? Writing not clear] ChCh; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R P Moore, 80 Manners St. W'gton Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 97.8 cm

Date: 1924

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

Reference: Pan-1987-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up across a terraced lawn to a large three-storeyed building. Palm trees at the foot of steps up to the front entrance, bell tower above. A two-storeyed wooden building is set back slightly on the right. Trees around the property and some are set in the lawn. Photograph taken in 1924 by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1983 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Convent Sacred Heart. No. 84. Victoria Avenue. Remuera. Auckland, N.Z. [In script]; Photographer's title on negative - "Convent Sacred Heart" Victoria Avenue, Remuera. Auckland. N.Z. 1924. [Printed]; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 100.4 cm

Date: 1890s-ca1923

From: Brusey family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-974

Description: The first and largest section of this album records a trip in Canada and possibly the United States, made by a young man with a motor car about 1923. The second section are photographs taken on a visit to possibly Hawaii or Tahiti. Local people are recorded as well as a number of yachts tied up along the waterfront of a town, and a white warship. The third section include family photographs taken in Britain in the 1890s, and several shipboard views, two of which show what are probably crossing the line ceremonies involving a canvas swimming pool. Towards the end of the album a group of family photographs are associated with a large wooden New Zealand house. There is no information with the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Circa 1925

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

By: Robinson, T C, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1311-F

Description: Panoramic view of single-storeyed wooden farmhouse, iron roof, verandahs on either side of entrance porch. Square open viewing-tower above the porch, conservatory on the right. Renaissance scroll design above porch. Palms on either side of front of house. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - T C Robinson. Mount Palm. Rotherham. Nth Canterbury. 3 oils. Balance prints. House & same trees on each end. Re colours refer to box; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.3 cm

Date: [late 1930s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-100008-G

Description: Park in Napier, with palm tree, taken in the late 1930s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1917

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: B-061-011

Description: A large house with a square turret, surrounded by gardens and viewed across lawn Trees in the garden appear to include a large pohutukawa on the left, a palm tree and a tall Norfolk Pine on the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date in brushpoint [barely visible]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 400 mm

Date: Circa 1925

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

By: Murray, Charles Frank, -1935

Reference: Pan-1644-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at a large two-storeyed house, wooden upstairs, roughcast downstairs, with stone round the base of the house and up entrance posts. Also stone gateway far left with wrought iron gates, name plate "Wharanui". Stone wall partially covered with creeper along a path on right. Curved water lily lake left foreground, roses over pergola on right of lake. Shelter belt of macrocarpas behind wall on right, behind the house and behind garden on left. Lawns sloping down to lake. Palm trees, flaxes, cabbage trees beside drive on left. Woman on garden seat beside house on right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1646 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - C F Murray "Wharanui" Marlboro' 3 oils. Dark red roof. Rough white casting house. Roses & pergola near lake. Red geraniums in front of house. Tussock hills. Orange colour flowers on creeper over stone on right; Marginal notes on negative - 9 9 9 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Price, Charles T, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1595-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at a single-storeyed farmhouse on the left, on a hill overlooking Stoke and the Waimea Inlet. Corner verandah with bays on either side. Finials on gables. Geraniums in a bed around the base of the house. Path winding up from the centre with stone edgings on both sides. Large palm outside the front entrance, lawn below house to left of path. Fields on the hills behind. Houses and market gardens are visible between stands of trees on the flat valley below. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Mount View" Stoke Nelson; Marginal notes on tape - C.T. Price. Nelson Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.8 cm

Date: 1901

From: Nairn and Sons, florists and nurserymen, palm nursery and mavis bank nursery, Christchurch, N.Z. :Plant catalogue 1901-02.

By: Nairn & Sons Ltd; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Nairn-1901-cover

Description: Shows arrangement of text and decoration, with potted palm at left. Some decorative art nouveau elements. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - ChCh Press Co Litho. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on cover of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured 241 x 184 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1975

From: New Zealand butter wrappers

By: Midland Co-operative Dairy Company

Reference: Eph-B-DAIRY-Butter-Miller-1970s-09

Description: Wrapper featuring two views of a palm-lined beach and text in navy on white. The 2 ounce (oz.) divisions are shown, to help with cutting. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on butter wrapper. Physical Description: Offset print, on butter paper, 272 x 198 mm.

Date: [1895-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-131

Description: Album of photographs, mainly of the Wellington Region, Marlborough and Horowhenua Regions, interspersed with copies of photographs by unidentified photographers, unidentified lithographs and illustrations. A number of the photographic copies are portraits of Maori. The last images in the album, taken by unidentified photographers, relate to Darjeeling (Bengal, India). Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank J. Denton, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover with gold patterns on corners and spine, 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1907

From: [Ephemera and horticulture sales catalogues issued by New Zealand plant nurseries, 1900-1909].

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Buxton-1907-01-081

Description: Shows interior of shop with three male customers, and three serving attendants at the counter at left. At the right are a selection of potted plants. Extended Title - From Buxton's descriptive catalogue 1907-08. Printed by the Lyttelton Times Company, Christchurch. The seed store was in town, but the nursery was in St Martin's Road, in Opawa. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) in sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 243 x 185 mm.