Places

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-q-006

Description: Part of Mike Illingworth's garden Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: [Between 1970 and 1976]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-568

Description: Coloured photographs taken at `Rozel', the farm and home of Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell near Ohaupo. They include the farm and farm buildings; trees including eucalypts in full flower; cabbage tree in flower with a close-up of the flower; manuka flowers; lemon tree with lemons and flowers; flax flowers; hebe flowers; akeake seed capsules and carmichaelia flowers (New Zealand broom). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured plastic cover imitating plaited raffia; photographs inserted in plastic pockets; 20 x 15 cm

Date: [Between 1931 and 1966]

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

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-204

Description: Album containing many contacts from 35mm film, as well as black and white prints of differing sizes, taken by Professor John Tenison Salmon. He takes particular interest in the flora and fauna of New Zealand, the damaging effects of road construction, erosion from bush felling, and destruction caused by introduced species including deer. There are huge collections of close-up images of various plants (only a few of which are listed above), including flowers, leaves and seeds. He comments on mangrove swamps at Tauranga, which are growing at the furthest point from the Equator possible for them to exist. The other important collection shows various stages in the life cycle of insects and animals, including wetas, katydids, different types of moths, mosquitoes, bees, stick insects, and native New Zealand frogs (Hochstetter's frogs) (p. 91-92). Photographs relating to wetas include scenes of ovipositor tracks of cave wetas in the mud in Waitomo Caves; different varieties of wetas including cave wetas; and weta nests. In 1935 he photographed two Australian species of lizards which he found in the yard of the Dominion Museum, the Australia crested dragon, and the Australian blue-tongued lizard. Many of these photographs were taken on a photomicroscope, including photographs of rock sections (p. 72-75), and photographs of insects and larvae. There are also views of his photomicrosope equipment. Professor Salmon worked at Victoria University, and there are numbers of "contaflex" views of Wellington from his office window, taken to demonstrate the use of various filters (p. 26-29). There are also images of Professor Salmon in his study lab in April 1955; and further images of him in the Entomological Department of the Dominion Museum. Page 35 has views of a science exhibition organised by the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand held in the Wellington Town Hall, 12-14 April 1948. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 29.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [Between 1956 and 1980]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-283

Description: Album of photographs relating to family and friends, travel, farming (including horticultural nurseries), and gardens, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. The front page of the album contains 26 postage stamps from RSA (Republic of South Africa). One group shows individual children of different cultures issued for Christmas 1977; one group shows different varieties of South African plants inclduing proteas and leucodendrons; one image is of the university at Stellenbosch; and two are of historical events at Ulundi and Isandlwana. The first part of the album relates to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family. Several are of Bill McCurdie's daughter Kirsten and her children in England, including views of Christ's Hospital School at Lincoln; others are of Bill and Inga McCurdie, with Kirsten and her children Simon and Alex in South Africa. Photographs of `Rozel', the McWhannell farm and tree nursery are the main topic of the rest of the album. These range in time from the 1950s to 1980. One small sequence shows the township of Ohaupo in 1960, with comments on buildings later demolished, and the contrast in 1980. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue vinyl cover; embossed pattern of kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30 x 35 cm

Date: Between 1960 and 1985

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8851

Description: The first 8 slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include "Teddy's oak in bloom", views of their plantation showing kauri, cedars, kowhai, flax, and golden willow. The next 14 slides are entitled "Projects". They include views of a kowhai in the Rozel garden, the fountain and roses in the Te Awamutu Rose Garden; two views of a climbing plant on the wall of the Mormon Temple at Temple View near Hamilton; branches of a cedar of Lebanon; flowers of eucalyptus leucoxylon and eucalyptus ficifolia, and kowhai flowers. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1902 - 1905

From: [Postcards by Benoni White and A D Willis. 1902-1905]

By: Bock, William Rose, 1847-1932; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-White-01

Description: Postcard shows a Maori settlement on the shores of Lake Taupo, with the outlet in the foreground being the source of the Waikato River. The mountains of the Central Plateau are in the distance. A plume of smoke issues from Ngauruhoe. There is a cabbage tree at the far right, and beyond it are whare and a pataka. Flax grows in the foreground, and there are tree ferns across the water at the left. Verso shows an engraving by W R Bock, of Mt Earnslaw, head of Lake Wakatipu, with a Maori prow carving overarching it. Scene on recto is similar to the chromolithograph by Thomas Ryan: "Lake Taupo and Waikato River, with Tongariro and Ruapehu" (1893), published in the NZ Graphic Christmas number 1893, page 11. The Library's copy of this is at A-385-020 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 91 x 139 mm.

Date: [ca 1914]

From: Macpherson, Beverley :Photographs relating to the McCracken family

Reference: PAColl-8577-1-038

Description: Group of people photographed seated on the ground. Groups of flax plants are behind them, and coastal plants in the foreground. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1914. Though the date of "about 1905" is inscribed on the back of the orignal mount, the clothes of the women are the every day wear of 1913 - 1918. I have opted for a pre World War One date (ie the summer of 1914) because two of the women are wearing the very large hats that, generically, belong to the period 1908-1915. On the other hand it may be later. One of the men is wearing a military hat, but then he may be member of the local volunteers. Inscriptions: Verso - McCracken photo at Ruspuke about 1905 nr Raglan Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, 15.7 x 11.2 cm on cardboard mount

Date: 1901

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: D-007-002

Description: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, founder of the Polynesian Society, on his retirement from the position of Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands, in 1901. The painted testimonial features a list of the names of the officers of the District Lands and Survey branches, and vignettes showing a Māori chief, the landing place of Tainui at Kawhia, Mount Tarawera after the eruption of 1886, and a surveyor's camp and settlement 'at the Kermadecs'. In addition there is a view of the Southern Alps, a Taranaki scene, a surveyors' camp, road-making through dense bush, a pastoral scene with a farmhouse in the distance, a section of kauri forest, and a mining scene at Thames (Grahamstown Goldfield) with working mines, mine machinery and houses. The whole is surrounded and divided into sections by painted Maori carvings, with kowhai, a theodolite, a tree-fern, native clematis, a nikau palm and flax. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G. N. Sturtevant fecit MCMI Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 604 x 905 mm.