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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 1910-1913

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: PA5-0310

Description: A view of Wanganui, showing the bridge, taken from Durie Hill and published by A D Willis, Wanganui, NZ. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 135 mm

Date: April 1923

From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura

By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968

Reference: PA1-o-1218

Description: Record of a trip made by George Alexander Gunn and friends along the Kaikoura coast to Kaikoura and south to about Oaro. Photographed by George Alexander Gunn in April 1923 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1969]-[ca 1971]

From: Macnamara, Galvan, 1941-2004 :Family photographs, travels in the USA, friends and collegues, and the work of New Zealand artists

Reference: PAColl-8714-06

Description: Prints taken during Galvan Macnamara's travels in the United States. They include views of a city under a snow, a street scene in Denver, a Chicago bus station, details of an unidentified building, details of bridge supports, a field of swedes, a group holding up models of fish and insects,and a portrait of an unidentified man. The others include two unidentified New Zealanders photographed in the vicinity of Lake Moke, a woman with a net and bucket, a man (possibly Japanese) carrying a load of leaves, a sequence of images of a child. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1922-ca1926

From: Barr, John Manson, 1904-1993 :Photographs of Joseph Gordon Coates

By: Coates, Marjorie Grace, 1892-1973

Reference: PA1-o-851

Description: Gordon Coates and his wife on tour. Most of these photographs relate to Coates' as MP and Minister of Public Works. Most of the events record the trials and tribulations of journeying to remote parts of New Zealand to open bridges, post offices, power plants etc. The album also records some of the social and recreational events associated with the tours. According to Gordon Coates' daughter, Mrs Sheila Pryde, this album belonged to Gordon Coates' wife Marjorie, who collected, and may have taken some of the snaps when she accompanied her husband travelling in various parts of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1929-1931

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-768

Description: Damage to buildings, roads, rivers and landscapes resulting from the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039472-G

Description: Road bridge over Grey river at Greymouth. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1907-1909

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

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1967-[ca 1970]

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8002

Description: View of Auckland. These include - Shopping centre, Pakuranga. Victoria Park. Auckland motorway. Student Union building by Miles Warren. Streets and buildings. Church by Frederick Thatcher. Interior of modern secondary school hall. Unidentified dental training school. Aratiatia Power Station. Two bridges. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1967-1970

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8006

Description: Buildings include - Detail of the second Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland. Government Centre, New Plymouth. Detail of the Bledisloe Building, Auckland, 1967. Overbridge, Auckland motorway. Flats at Hern Bay, Auckland, published in Building Progress, November 1967. Detail of an exhibition of Posters, Paris. Bridges include - Shotover River bridge. Unidentified bridge, Dunedin. Mangaweka viaduct. Road bridge near Hamilton or Napier. Old and new bridges, Kawarau. Pedestrian bridges, Auckland. European motorway bridges. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: ca1930-ca1935

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-14

Description: Various photographs relating to different places and events. One seems to be a trip to Sydney. There are views of a ship's deck and coastal cliffs. Also several views of the almost completed Sydney Harbour Bridge from what is probably a ferry. Other photographs are from Christchurch, Wellington and harbour, and of Auckland. There are a number of Auckland buildings; the Greenhouse in the Domain, the University, and the Museum. There is a sequence of views of a thermal area and three photographs of Maori. Another group relates to an unidentified sailing ship, and a third to the flax industry in the Horowhenua Many others are views if countryside and coastal land scape Quantity: 137 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11354

Description: Two views of Lake Wakatipu. TSS Earnslaw at a wharf. View of the Kawarau Bridge. View of a cob cottage. Quantity: 5 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11355

Description: View of Lake Wakatipu. View of the Kawarau Bridge. Oriental Bay, Wellington. Two unidentified coastal views. Quantity: 5 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1850-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across the junction of the Kawarau and Clutha Rivers to Cromwell township. The road comes down from the right, crossing a girder bridge into the town. There is a war memorial on the left of the entrance to the town, with the business premises of Lane's Ltd (Aerated water & cordial Works) just past the memorial. The town is above the rivers on river flats. Two churches are visible. Range of snow-capped mountains in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Cromwell, Central Otago. New Zealand. No. 634. (Showing junction Kawerau [i.e. Kawarau] & Clutha Rivers) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 116.8 cm

Date: 24.9.1927

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

Reference: Pan-1874-F

Description: Panoramic view over Lower Hutt from the Belmont Hills. Wellington Harbour in the distance on the right with Somes Island on the far right. Petone in the distance near the harbour on the right. Hutt River running from far left, curving out to sea in the middle distance centre right. Three bridges across the river. Township on both sides of the river across the centre of the image. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Lower Hutt. 24.9.27. No. 364 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 130.0 cm

Date: [ca 1970s]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

Reference: PA12-10620

Description: Slides taken by Muriel Edwards of the Queenstown-Lakes District, ca 1960s-1970s. Images feature Roaring Meg stream, Kawarau Gorge and suspension bridge, Meg Cottage and other buildings in Arrowtown, The Remarkables, Queenstown Gardens and Robert Falcon Scott Memorial, and Queenstown post office building an residential street. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: 1923

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

Reference: Pan-2181-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Wanganui from Durie hill. A bridge across the Whanganui River is in the centre left foreground leading into the city. Commercial buildings and factories are seen on the far side of the river near the bridge. Another bridge is visible in the middle distance centre right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Wanganui N.Z. from Durie Hill. No. 314 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 22.3 x 95.2 cm

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Sheehan, Grant, 1950-; Hargest, Miles, active 1982

Reference: PA12-10784

Description: Panning for gold near Arrowtown, and views of the ruins of the village built by Chinese gold miners. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-10818

Description: Unidentified stream. Irrigation in action on pastureland. Auckland Harbour Bridge. Tree seen in the mist. Buried village of Te Wairoa. Maori sculpture. Aerial view of Auckland with rainbow. Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1927?]

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

Reference: Pan-2231-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down from part of Auckland Hospital with other hospital buildings in the foreground. Huge crowds of people on Grafton Road and on Grafton Bridge on the left of the image. Possibly during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927. Partington's Mill is visible on the right of Grafton Bridge. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 124.7 cm