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Brett Printing & Publishing Company Ltd :The Wanganui River, New Zealand. [ca 1910?]

Date: 1905 - 1915

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Wanganui-1910-01

Description: Shows a complete overview of the river, with photographic illustrations (by photographer Denton) all around, including views of: Taumarunui, Te Rerenga-o-ko-Inaki, Otuiti Falls, Ohura Falls, Kirikiriroa, a Maori village, early morning on the river, a narrow gorge, a quiet reach, The Ladder scene, Tarepokiore, Paparoa rapids and waterfall, Parinui, The Caves, Ngaporo Rapids, Pipiriki Landing, a bend above Atene, Mangaio Creek, Hiruharama, Moutoa Island, Parikino Reach. Cove Wanganui, Upper Ohura Falls, River steamer wharves Wanganui. Dated by reference to other products of the Brett Printing Company. Cartographic has a copy at MapColl-832.41 atu [190?] Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on folded sheet, 960 x 270 mm, in blue folder cover 140 x 300 mm.

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A Hatrick & Co. :The houseboat on the wonderful Wanganui, the Rhine of Maoriland. By ra...

Date: 1906

By: Hatrick & Company Ltd (Whanganui, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wanganui-1906-01

Description: Front cover shows the houseboat on the river. Inside explians what to do at Pipiriki, shows a photograph of the Ohura Falls, and two other scenes on the river. There is a timetable and itinerary on the back page. Information can be got from A Hatrick & Co and Thos Cook & Son. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph and letterpress on brochure, 210 x 230 mm.(folded)

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Duncan, Sue, fl 2012: Photographs of New Zealand scenes

Date: [ca 1918]-Sep 1966

By: Duncan, Sue, active 2012; Whites Aviation Ltd; New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943

Reference: PAColl-9997

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenes, taken circa 1918 to 1966, chiefly for the tourist market. Photographers unidentified unless listed below. Includes some postcards. Images comprise: -Taupo area, including Mount Tauhara, Lake Taupo, Karapiti Blowhole -Wellington, with Massey Memorial, ship in Jubilee Dock and SS Rangitira -Tikitere, Rotorua District , with thermal hot springs, taken by Arthur James Iles -Wanganui River with river scene and Pipiriki Hostel and Whanganui town scenes (including Virginia Lake, Lion Monument, and river looking to Durie Hill) -Otaki, Kapiti Coast, with meeting house exterior, and Rangiatea Church interior -Foxton, an aerial view taken by Whites Aviation Unidentified images include sales tent for Dunmac portable glass houses and sailing scenes Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Sue Duncan, 2012 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive: material tranferred from there - To Ephemera Collection - 10 postcards catalogued at various locations including Eph-A-EXHIBITION-1940-01.

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New Zealand towns, cities, and tourist attractions

Date: [ca 1907]

From: Butcher, Charles Henry, 1887-1957 :Lantern slides of New Zealand and Australia

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA11-264

Description: Contains miscellaneous lantern slides of New Zealand scenes, mostly dated ca 1907. Likely to have been photographed by Butcher. Landscapes include a hand-coloured slide of a Burton Brothers photograph of Lake Wakatipu from Kinlock, unidentified coastal towns and harbour views (one featuring an obelisk monument), rock formations, and river scenes (some bridges). Images of Wellington include the Provincial Council Building, view of Thorndon (Molesworth Street), and boats on the beach in Island Bay with Tapu Te Ranga Island in the background. Images of Napier include newly planted Norfolk Pine trees on Marine Parade and outer harbour wharf scene. Dunedin Botanic Gardens, hand coloured images of the interior of an unidentified fern houses, and a series of views of Mount Taranaki and the surrounding area are included. Also contains sepia toned images of a geyser and unidentified Maori boys in a hot pool [Rotorua?] as well as a formal portrait of an unidentified Maori girl. Includes a brightly hand coloured sky, a horse and cart outside an unidentified property, and image of an explosion at sea. Some images have vignettes. Quantity: 30 b&w lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

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New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department :New Zealand [distant Mount Cook]. Produc...

Date: 1978

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; E C Keating (Firm); Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1978-05

Description: Shows a photograph of Mount Cook seen at a distance over a foreground stream and tussock field (near Lake Pukaki). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 840 mm Provenance: Acquired in 1980

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Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s, ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Newcomb, Stanley Peter, 1934-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9453-6

Description: Scenic photographs taken for New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s).

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A Hatrick & Co. :Timetable, subject to alterations without notice and circumstances per...

Date: 1912

By: Hatrick & Company Ltd (Whanganui, N.Z.); Hatherly & Johnson (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wanganui-1912-01

Description: Timetable and itinerary shows a flag of the A Hatrick boat service on the front cover. Inside is text advertising the two day trip for the cost of one pound, and advising of a new houseboat service and a new through route junctioning with the central railway at Taumarunui and Wanganui. There is a description of Pipiriki House and its accommodation, and a list of the 15 steamers available for trips. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on orange brochure, 123 x 68 mm.(folded)

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Friends of the Whanganui River :The Whanganui River. Photos Arthur P. Bates. Friends of...

Date: 1985 - 1995

By: Friends of the Whanganui River; Bates, Arthur Palmer, 1926-2002; Meteor Graphics (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-Wanganui-1990s-01

Description: Poster promoting the Whanganui River shows twelve photographs of scenes on the river, featuring a paddlesteamer, a rainbow, Jerusalem, kayakers, the Bridge to Nowhere. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Book Collections - Donation taken as a whole in NZ & P, transfers made from there..

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Woods, S J, fl 1975 :The tourist diamond. Rotorua, Taupo, Bay of Plenty. A portfolio of...

Date: 1975

By: Woods, S J, active 1970s-1980s; Tisdall Fine Arts

Reference: A-426-087

Description: The portfolio shows a photolithograph illustration of the Pohutu Geyser on the front cover, the Huka Falls Waikato River on the back cover, and six individual photolithographs within, of: Thermal terraces Rotorua; Mt Maunganui Bay of Plenty; Bath House Government Gardens Rotorua; St Faiths Anglican Church Ohinemutu Rotorua; Lake Taupo and Tongariro National Park; Rainbow Springs Trout Pool, Rotorua. There is also a vignette of three circles of boiling mud on the inside back flap. Quantity: 9 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

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Creator unknown :Photographs of mountaineering and skiing

Date: [ca 1933-1940]

Reference: PA-Group-00663

Description: Photographs relate to the Hermitage Hotel, and mountains, glaciers and river vallies in the Aoraki/Mount Cook area. The mountain landscape is part of most of the photographs which focus on skiers, singly and in groups, and some in action. Also tramping/climbing groups and tour groups associated with the buses of Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company Ltd. There are group photographs of people gathered in front of the Hermitage Hotel, and groups taken outside a two storied corruagated iron lodge built on a mountain side. Subject details within the collection include - A large buldozer that at one point gets stuck in a river. Men snow ball fighting. People standing in water surrounded by floating ice. An American 1938 model Ford De Lux Sedan. A young woman ice skating. People riding rafts made from 40 gallon drums. Groups with sledges. What looks like Public Works Department camps. Takapo House built 1919. Family photographs. Glass negatives at 1/4-121924 to 1/4-122119, and 1/4-122176 to 1/4-123011. Film negatives at 1/4-122234. 1/4-122908. 1/4-122916. 1/4-122932. 1/4-122939. 1/4-12312 to 1/4-123019. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1040 b&w original negative(s) of which 1027 are glass negatives, and 13 are film negatives. Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2010

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A Hatrick & Company Ltd :The Wanganui River, New Zealand. With the compliments of A Hat...

Date: 1910 - 1918

By: Hatrick & Company Ltd (Whanganui, N.Z.); Wilson & Horton (Firm); Watkinson, Arthur Edgar, 1882-1918

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wanganui-1910s-01

Description: Sheet folded into brown cover. Sheet shows a map of the Wanganui River flanked with photographs of 17 scenes on the river, including a photograph and description of Pipiriki House. Colouring is sepia, with blue highlights. The photographer A E Watkinson died in 1918; therefore this publication probably predates 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 435 x 295 mm, folded into brown cover, 119 x 154 mm, with gold-lettered title.

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Postcard. Our glorious empire. Wanganui River, Pipiriki, New Zealand. [1930-1940s?]

Date: 1930 - 1950

By: Godfrey Phillips (NZ) Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-1930s-01

Description: Shows a stretch of the Wanganui River, looking down at two boats moored at a small jetty. There are tree ferns in the foreground. The image is based on a New Zealand Government Publicity photograph. "This is No. 15 of a series of 30 cards issued with the larger packets of the brands manufactured by Godfrey Phillips Ltd., and associated companies". The NZ Government publicity photograph on which this postcard is based, is reproduced in a pamphlet inside spread at Eph-A-PARKS-Tongariro-1949-01-inside Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Offset lithograph on postcard, 127 x 90 mm.

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King, Marcus, 1891-1983 :Mount Earnslaw and the Routeburn River; trout fishing in New Z...

Date: 1950 - 1955

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-King-1950-01

Description: Shows a fisherman playing a fish in a wide river, with mountains in the background. Dated from "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012), where it is reproduced on page 36, with suggested date on page 392 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 1000 x 625 mm.

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King, Marcus, 1891-1983 :Cattle droving South Westland New Zealand [ca 1950].

Date: 1950

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1950-01

Description: Shows drover on horseback at right foreground, with sheepdog on riverbank behind him. He follows a herd of Hereford cattle across a river, with bush, hills and snowcapped peaks behind. Previously thought to be dated in the 1930s; revised owing to information in "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012), where it is shown on page 370-371, with date given on page 402. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - MARCUS KING Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 632 x 1012 mm.

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Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931:"Camera Notes Between Wanganui and Rotorua"

Date: [ca1908]

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: PA1-f-179

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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