Places

Date: 25 April 1968

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

Reference: EP/1968/1755-F

Description: ANZAC parade in the main street of Pongaroa led by Charles Upham (front left). A scout troop follows the column of ex-soldiers. Cars and a bus are parked on the side of the street. The telephone exchange is visible. Photographed 25 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1934

Reference: PAColl-7010

Description: Photographs of the celebrations for Archbishop Redwood's golden jubliee in 1934 including the mass in Sacred Heart Cathedral, the parade along Lambton Quay, and the assembly in Athletic Park. Also included are events outside the Maori catholic church and presbytery in Otaki. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-094358 to 094381 Quantity: 22 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1959

From: [Ephemera and sales catalogues for agricultural machinery and farm equipment. 1950-1959].

By: Mataura ensign (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1959-01

Description: Front cover shows an illustration of a traction engine. Inside pages contain the day's programme, including a parade through town, setting and balancing competitions, a grand parade, races, threshing, chaff-cutting and pressing demonstrations, and a steerers' competation. Other pages contain advertising for local Gore businesses. The event was sponsored by the combined committee of Gore Pipe Band and Gore & District Piping and Dancing Society. The 31 traction engines, their specifications, age and owners are listed. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: One copy purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.

Date: 1900-1910

By: McKinnon, Grace Mary, active 1979

Reference: PAColl-0213

Description: Photographs showing decorated train and a group participating at the Queen Carnival Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: June 1995

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

Reference: PA1-o-1719

Description: Includes - Sharon Dell, Jonathan Dennis, and Cheryl Browne. Sharon Dell's induction as director of Whanganui Museum. Americas Cup parade, Wellington. Teri's 75th birthday party. Group of women and children at a gathering. Lawrence and Patricia Dennis with two women and a man in a rural setting. Landscape views on the way to Pirinoa Station, Wairarapa. Friends, families, children, a cat, and a communal meal. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1980-1985

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

Reference: PAColl-3332-14

Description: Shops, shop interiors, merchandise. In particular a series on "Skallywags", a children's discount department store. James Smith parade 1981 and a parade in Honolulu in 1980. There are also views of a beach resort in either Hawaii, Australia, or California Quantity: 103 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1939-1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-116

Description: Photographs, published (or considered for publication), in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1930s-1950s. Names and date of publication recorded on the back. Names of selected identified subjects entered in Name field. Includes a series of thirteen photographs taken at the Akaroa centennial procession, Dec 1950, of floats and people involved, including one of Mrs S A Glynan (President of Parent Teachers Association) handing out icecreams. Three photos of E W (Ted) Heald of Christchurch (with moustache), published 26 Apr 1950; Joe Parsons (ex jockey) of Auckland, article and photo published 29 Mar 1950 (p 41); three photos of Holme Station at Pareora, South Canterbury, article and photos published 29 Mar 1950 (p 5); naval guests at the Viceregal Garden Party held at Government House, Auckland (Captain J H Ruck-Keene of HMNZS Bellona and his wife, & Mr & Mrs Hugh Wright of Auckland), published 15 Feb 1950 (p 14); 2 photos of Fenton family reunion, descendants of John James Fenton, article and photos published 8 Feb 1950 (p 22); large group of English immigrants who arrived at Wellington on the Atlantis, article & photo published 8 Feb 1950 (p 16); 100 year old English nun Sister St Daniel of Liverpool, published 19 Jun 1940; two photos of Kings Empire Veterans reunion held in Auckland, ca Apr 1950; old Rakaia bridge, ca 1934 & new Rakaia traffic bridge built ca Mar 1939; women cycling at Lake Wanaka; Fox Glacier, ca May 1950; crew from the Wanganella (which went aground) disembarking from an aeroplane at Auckland, Dec 1948; etc Eight photographs of elderly Arrowtown men, taken for publication in Jun 1940 by J D S Roberts of Bannockburn Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7806

Description: Transparency slides of various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: ca 1850s-1908

By: Ferrier, William, 1855-1922

Reference: PAColl-7526

Description: The Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association building on Beach Road ca 1900; a procession for the Queen's jubilee on Stafford Street with men in uniform and a union banner; people on the beach at Caroline Bay with bathing machines in the sea captioned "The first lawn, Caroline Bay" ca 1890s; the band rotunda at Caroline Bay with a children's playpark behind and people swimming in the sea ca 1910; two of waves breaking over the breakwater ca 1898; the Timaru Shipping Co landing with the Lady of the Lake beached ca 1873; the interior of St Mary's Church looking towards the altar; Stafford Street, looking south from the corner of George Street with the Union Bank of Australia, a furnishing warehouse and J Trist ship chandler on the left; Sophia Street with the Wrecks memorial to those who tried to save lives on the City of Perth and the Benvenue in the foreground and the post office on the right ca 1880s; a man sitting on the beach on the site of the breakwater ca 1860s; Stafford Street looking south from Cannon Street with a boarding house on the right ca 1860s; and a row of workers' cottages on Bank Street with Parr's windmill behind. The photographer was William Ferrier and the photographs were taken ca 1890s-1908 or in some cases possibly re-printed from earlier images. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005333, 005339 to 005340 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1948

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to history, jubilees, centennials, anniversary celebrations in New Zealand]

By: Otago Centennial Association (Inc)

Reference: Eph-A-HISTORY-Otago-1948-01

Description: Booklet includes a message from Bernard Freyberg, and a foreword by the Mayor, Mr D C Cameron. The programme of events is given in detail, with particular emphasis on Carnival Week 23-28 February, Anniversary Week 21-27 March. A central spread shows a map of the route of the "Cavalcade of Progress", and the order of the Pageant is given in detail, describing each of the 64 floats. There is a complete list of the firworks to be lit at the Pyrotechnics display on 28 February. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 246 x 184 mm.

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Adams, Doreen, fl 1927-2002 :Photographs from the collection of Bill and Doreen Adams

Reference: PA12-5468

Description: Views of Whangarei including a parade in 1964 and beach scenes, taken ca 1960s by Bill Adams. Also includes images of public buildings. Quantity: 21 b&w original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1933-1942

From: Pearson, Alfred William, fl 1924-1949 :Photographs relating to the New Zealand Navy

Reference: PAColl-8948-1

Description: Pumpkin Cottage, Trentham. St John's Anglican Church, Trentham. Trentham Military Camp. Heretaunga Railway station. Military parade of naval personnel. An ANZAC Day commemoration at the Wellington Cenotaph. Naval personnel with members of a Maori concert party. Sailors at Maritius and New Caledonia. Naval boarding party on deck. Portraits of Alfred William Pearson. HMS Leander, june 1940. Two group photographs taken at reunions, probably in the 1950s. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: May 1911

By: Johnston, J (Miss), active 1973

Reference: PAColl-4471

Description: Photographs of the 50th anniversary celebrations at Gabriels Gully, May 1911, showing a procession in the main street of Lawrence and crowds gathered. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Circa 1900s]

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

By: Brockett, Frederick Charles, 1881-1956

Reference: PA1-o-213

Description: Photographs of scenes, and events in the Wellington Region. Photographs include views of Mount Cook Boys' School staff at a picnic, children from the school on an outing to the coast where they were picnicking and swimming, and teachers in fancy dress. A number of images show Trafalgar Day celebrations, with a parade through the streets of Wellington, and activities at Newtown Park. Two ships shown are HMS Powerful in Wellington Harbour, and La Bella after being washed ashore at Ohiro Bay, 15th October 1904. Sporting scenes show the IIIB team from Victoria University College, a gymnastics team, and a photograph of two men practising gymnastics. Inscriptions: Album page - F.C. Brockett. 1906 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 15 x 20 cm

Date: [ca 1957]

By: Pearse, Ben, active 1957-1987

Reference: PAColl-6976

Description: Scenes of the jubilee of a convent school (possibly St Patrick's) and of Blaketown and its school in 1957. The convent reunion shows ex-pupils grouped by the year they attended the school, a dinner, a table of trophies etc. The Blaketown jubilee is marked by a procession of floats, the creation of a Miss Jubilee, a dinner etc. Also included are a two older copy negatives of Greymouth and scenes on the wharves with what may be a shipwreck and the grounded vessel the Abel Tasman. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059346 to 059428. Quantity: 2 container(s) of negatives. Physical Description: Film and glass negatives Transfers: File print at PAColl-4384. Processing information: Description updated 5 April 2023 following information provided by the donor.

Date: [Circa 1919-1923]

By: Lints, William, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-320

Description: Album of photographs relating to William Lints' Reveille Company, presented to Beeban Annadale McKnight after her marriage to John McKnight. Beeban Annadale MacDonald performed with the company for five years before her marriage in 1923. Many of the photographs are of her at various sites on the tours around New Zealand. Others include one of Gladys Moncrieff and one of Mae Baird, both selling Reveille programmes in Christchurch. William Lints himself appears in a number of the photographs. Inscriptions: Album page - Reminiscences of Our Reveille, from the producer, to Mrs John McKnight. 1923. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with soft brown card cover; 14 x 19 cm

Date: [1900s, 1960s-1970s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-21

Description: Photographs of West Coast scenes. Includes military parade on Greymouth wharf ca 1900, RNZAF helicopters ca 1960s-1970s, railway station and coal mine at Rewanui. Photographs taken 1900s by James Ring, 1960s-1970s by L A Inkster studio. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1930-1985

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

Reference: PAColl-3332-01

Description: All relates to James Smith Wellington, its Wellington Store, staff and staff activities and events like Christmas parades. There are also aerial views of Porirua City, window displays, views of shop interiors, and a display of porcelain table-ware by Rosenthall. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s).