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Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1906 and 1943]

By: Blyth, Harry George, -1955; Graham, Sarah, active 1970s?

Reference: PA1-o-045

Description: Views of the Chatham Islands, with emphasis on the house "Te Whariki" at Tuku, various aspects of wool baling, and wool transportation using a bullock team, and the landscape near Tuku. A number of images show buildings at Waitangi, Chatham Island, including the post office, the Mangoutu Hotel (also known as Odman's Hotel), the courthouse, and Heslop's Hotel. The house "Te Whariki" was built by E. Guest, but seems to be the home of Harry Blyth who appears in a number of the images. Harry Blyth is the collector of the images in the album, and possibly the photographer of some. It is also possible that some photographs were taken by Ernest Guest (photographer and postmaster), and some by Blyth's wife, Daisy Felicia Blyth (nee Cox), who was a photographer in her own right (see Turnbull Library Biographies Index) Title supplied by Library. Some original glass plate negatives at Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957 : Photographs of the Chatham Islands, ATL-Group-00805. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mottled brown cover, labelled "Photographs", 180 x 255 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: 1928

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-075

Description: Photo of a man on a jetty with two cream cans with launch below. Photographed at Pukeruru on the Mokau River in 1928 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Mokau River 1928. At Pukeruru wharf.; Verso - centre - Loading the cans of cream down onto Eric Lewis's cream launch for the trip down to Mokau. This service operated on alternate days - down one day with the cream - back next day with the empty cans and the mail. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 21.4 x 16.4 cm

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1907-1933]

By: Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Mascotte Studio; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-1888

Description: Photograph album of shipping movements and shipwrecks at Greymouth, compiled by an unidentified person. Also contains one image of a wreck at Westport. Photographs taken between circa 1907 and 1933 by mainly unidentified photographers. West Coast photographer James Ring, L A Inkster, and Mascotte Studio are identified. Most of the ships are named. - Album contains images of ships wrecked crossing the Greymouth Bar. Also ship movements with mainly steam ships, but also some sailing vessels and the tug boat 'Westland', arriving in and departing from Greymouth as well as docked at the wharf. Photographs of note include a series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Ngahere' (1924), including rescue effort with rocket firing line to the wreck, crew in lifebelts waiting to be rescued, and two images of the wreck photographed from the air; the crew of the SS 'Perth' abandoning ship in a lifeboat; series of the wreck of the 'Kotuku', including rescue cradle between the boat and the land, the wreck being pounded by heavy seas and breaking up, and, later, the remains being blown up; the SS 'Kaituna' docked at Greymouth Wharf with the Grey River in flood; series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Lauderdale', including Captain Clarke coming ashore in a rescue cradle and the vessel breaking up; series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Kaponga' including shortly after the ship struck the North Tip, with hatches up to dump cargo, being driven against the North Tip, and breaking up; circa 11 ships docked at Greymouth Wharf in 1928; coal being loaded onto the SS 'Ngakuta'; and people inspecting the wreck of the 'Tavanui' at low tide at Westport. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cardboard cover with light grey reptilian texture embossed with word 'Photographs' in gold and tied with string, 13.4 x 21.4 cm Provenance: Purchase, 2014. Album had been in the possession of Dr Rod McLeod, now deceased. He was the founder of the Queensland Maritime Museum, and a surgeon.

Date: 1923

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

Reference: Pan-2476-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down across the Patea River to the Patea township, and a bridge over the river centre left. Peep of sea at the river mouth beyond the bridge in the distance. Masonic Hotel visible in the centre middle distance. Railway line on the near side of the river on the far right. Two large factories, the Patea Freezing Works, and the Patea Grader Cool Store, are seen near the river mouth in the left middle distance. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Date taken from R P Moore's own numerical sequence. Image RPM-0303 was taken in 1923 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Patea. No. 301 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 106.0 cm

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: Dec 1902

By: Crawford, William Fitzgerald, 1844-1915

Reference: PA7-57-25

Description: View looking over Gisborne from Kaiti Hill. The Gladstone Road bridge which crosses the Turanganui River can be seen in the middle distance near the confluence of the Waimata and Taruheru rivers. The wharves and buildings along Reads Quay are in the foreground and commercial centre further back. Photograph taken by W F Crawford in December 1902 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W.F.C. 3814 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 28 x 37 cm on mount 38.5 x 48 cm

Date: [ca 1930]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-039

Description: Photo of a man on a jetty with two milk cans with launch below. Photographed at the Mokau River ca 1930 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Question A.; Verso - centre - Robt. E. Wells, Mangatoi School, Mokau River, N.Z.; Verso - bottom left - No. 155. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 15.7 x 11.1 cm

Date: 1866-1955

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Rogers, R, active 1912; O'Farrell, Patrick James, 1933-2004

Reference: PAColl-4586

Description: 18 images: two of the miners strike at Waihi 1912 photographed by R. Rogers; one of spectators at an American Athletic meeting in Wellington 1913; one of Brooklyn, Wellington showing Harry Holland's house; 12 of various West Coast scenes; one of Wellington harbour during the 1913 strike; and one of the Federation of Labour conference 1912. Arrangement: Negatives are housed at 1/4-009413, 009414, 009398 to 009404, 009408 to 009411, and 012540 to 012545. Quantity: 18 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and negatives

Date: Circa 1924

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

By: Loughlin, John, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1251-F

Description: Panoramic view over the Waikato River outlet on Lake Taupo. Two-storeyed wharf buildings with boat moored alongside. Two launches are sailing out into the lake. There are small outbuildings near the wharf, two cars parked on the road and three tents near the water's edge. Several houses partially visible amongst trees in the centre of the image. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Outlet of Waikato River from Lake Taupo. No. 119; Marginal notes on negative - Outlet of Waikato River from Lake Taupo N.Z. J. Loughlin Box 41, London St, Hamilton. 21 B&W 1 oils. Iron roof on wharf. Red roofs in background 119 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 114.1 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-001849-G

Description: View taken from Kaiti Hill looking north to the confluence of the Waimata and Taruheru rivers, and the bridge at Gladstone Road crossing the Turanganui River. The suburb of Kaiti is on the right and the city centre is on the left. Vessels are moored at the Read Quay wharves. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1910 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Gisborne. No 344C Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: ca 1900s

From: Wanganui Public Museum:Negatives and prints of Wanganui and district

Reference: 1/2-012338-G

Description: View from Durie Hill, looking west across Wanganui, showing commercial buildings, ships and trains along the bank of the Whanganui River. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-001850-G

Description: Panoramic view taken from an elevated vantage point looking towards Kati Hill and the sea. The harbour and township of Gisborne are on the far right. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Gisborne. No 3470 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1 August 1910

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

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-001093-G

Description: View of a small building with a landing wharf, and a small launch moored at the Landing. Te Uku Landing was the only method of access from Raglan to Te Uku. The road from the landing to Te Uku itself is clear in the lower left of the image. Taken 1 August 1910 by 'G Bros', probably Gilmour Brothers of Raglan. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Te Uku Landing. Raglan. N.Z. 350.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G. Bros Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1928

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

Reference: APG-1913-1/2-G

Description: View of a wharf and small jetty on Lake Taupo at the point where the Waikato River leaves the lake. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1928. Identification of location and place from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15 in the 1/2 plate sequence under T. Taupo, Lake. Taupo. 1928. Box 107. Also identified from comparison with File Print at 18. Taupo Co. Taupo (1/2-029761), with the inscription on the back \" Wharf and small jetty at the point where the Waikato River leaves Lake Taupo\". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [1927-1932]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-081

Description: Photo of a launch approaching a jetty. A man is kneeling on the jetty with his dog behind him. Photographed on the Mokau River between 1927 and 1932 by Robert E Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 20.3 x 25.3 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-001109-G

Description: View looking across the Turanganui River to the Kaiti Freezing Works and wharves. Kaiti Hill is behind. Several vessels are tied up at the wharf. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1910 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Freezing Works. Gisborne. 221. The freezing works were opened in 1906 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches