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Date: May 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1271

Description: River Avon, Christchurch. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken May 1955 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: 1930s

By: Brewster's Rare Books (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7398

Description: Collection of cyanotype views of Christchurch by an unknown photographer, comprising: Ford Model T delivery van of Henley Dairy after a road accident Two-horse water wagon, possibly at Ferry Road, Christchurch Fire engine number 6 of the Christchurch Fire Brigade, with crew Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cyanotypes

Date: [ca 1968]

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3430

Description: Views of Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch. Photographed by an unknown photographer about 1968. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [ca 1965]-1968

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3431

Description: Views of Christchurch from the Cathedral tower, and an image of the Bridge of Rememberence. A trip through Central Otago and a tramp on the Heaphy track. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1965 and 1968 Heaphy Track slides are views of the coastal section of the track between Kohaihai High Bluff and Heaphy Hut. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1919-1921

From: Webster, E Norman, fl 1918-1922 :Photographs of New Zealand, 1920-1922

By: Webster, E Norman, active 1918-1922

Reference: PAColl-9534-1

Description: Photographs of Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch. Wellington views cover the city and some adjacent districts. Included are - Reception for the Prince of Wales, Parliament, Wellington, 1920. General views of Wellington, and specifically - Lambton quay. Willis Street. Manners Street. Hawkstone Street. Cricket on the Basin Reserve and Kelburn Park. New Parliament House under construction. House in Hawkstone Street and another in Molesworth Street in which E N Webster lived from 1918 to 1922. The wooden Government Building. The Dominion Farmers Building. Hobson Street Bridge. Island Bay double decker tram. Lion in Wellington Zoo, Newtown. Rose garden, Newtown Park. Summer house and begonia display, Botanic Garden. Wellington Harbour, Wharves, and ships. Portraits of individual ships include - Remuera. Wahine. White Pine (barque). Rewa (barque). Pampa (sailing ship). France (barque). HMS Renown. William E Burnham (four masted schooner). Moeraki. Ulimarua. Pakeha. Matatua. Megantic. Rona (barque). At Island Bay Wellington. Wellington water reservoir, Orongorongo River valley. Pororua Harbour. Kapiti Coast, Kapiti Island, and Paekakariki. Wellington heads. General views of Auckland and harbour. General views of Christchurch, its streets, buildings, and trams. Views of the River Avon, bridges, and people in boats. The rose garden in the Christchurch Botanic Garden. The Scott memorial. New Zealand Airforce Avro 504 aircraft at Sockburn (Wigram) Aerodrome, and aerial views of Christchurch. Some prints in this collection have notes on the back in a consistant, neat handwriting. In three cases these are signed E N Webster, who advises that he arrived in Wellington 5 February 1918, and left 15 June 1922. During this period, as well as photographing Wellington and district, he travelled on holiday to New Zealand cities and tourist destinations. The photographs were taken between 1919 and 1921 judging from the prints that have dates. His second name was Norman, and this is the name he used to sign letters on postcards sent from Christchurch in 1919 to his mother, and a friend called May. There is also a note attached to an illustration of Ben Lomond in the collection on which he signs himself Norman Webster. Information on the back of postcards indicate that he came from Australia, and in 1916 lived at Nambour, Queensland. Quantity: 150 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1968

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3434

Description: Unidentified view of road through forested hill country and along a coast; view of Greymouth; the youth hostel, city buildings, and streets, Christchurch; views of Nelson. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1968. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-080

Description: A customer in a bar shows a newpaper headline reading 'Wellington not hostile to Auckland says Cr' to a fellow customer and comments that the [city] councillor is right and that the people of Wellington have not liked anyone as much as they like Auckland since Canterbury refused to play them for the Ranfurly rugby shield. Refers to inter-city and provincial rivalries. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil 280 x 255 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: ca1972

By: Cook, Walter Cameron, 1941-

Reference: PAColl-6074

Description: Views of the town of Twizel, Mackenzie Country Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: May 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1109

Description: River Avon, Christchurch. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken May 1955 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: [ca 1973]-1978

From: Pearson, Ray, fl 2005-2008 :Photographs of South Island scenes

Reference: PA12-5554

Description: Canterbury University (now the Arts Centre), the floral clock, and the Band Rotunda, Christchurch. Also a view from the hills, of Governor's Bay Lyttelton taken in 1978. Photographed ca 1973 by Ray Pearson Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1958]-1977

From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects

Reference: PAColl-9842-36

Description: Includes - Views of Christchurch, some showing the new Bank of New Zealand building on The square in the later stages of construction, mid 1964. Photographs of the Christchurch Star offices. These relate to the new Bank of New Zealand building constructed ca 1964. Interior views of the new Bank of New Zealand building on The Square, Christchurch, ca 1965. New buildings, Auckland Hospital and Medical School, 1977. Mon Desir Hotel and surroundings, Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, auckland, ca 1958. Perspective drawing of the Guardiam Trust building, Wellington, 1965. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s). 19 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011

Date: 1967-[ca 1970]

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8003

Description: Victoria Park motorway viaduct, Auckland. Wellington photographs include - Motoray wall below Katherine Mansfield Memorial Park. Model of motorway overbridge. Interior view of Helmut Einhorn's office. St John's Presbyterian Church, Willis Street. Katherine Mansfield Memorial. Houses in Bolton Street. Plans for plazza over motorway connecting the two parts of Bolton Street Cemetery. Christchurch flats by Miles Warren. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1929 - 1940

Reference: MapColl-834.44gbbd/[post1929]/Acc.34487

Description: Cadastral and topographic map of Arthur's Pass township showing 109 numbered sections alongside the Bealey River and the railway line. The railway station is marked. Avalanche Creek and Rough Creek intersect blocks of sections. Half of a chain access is noted alongside part of the Bealey River. Roads are shown. Areas of land are divided by colour coding or cross hatching to determine Railway Land or that which is under the control of the Board of Control for Arthur's Pass National Park. Note on left of map states: Arthur's Pass township area edged red is the area vested in the Board, over which they have leasing powers by special Act. Area edged yellow is railway Land and the part of this land with a hatched edging, is the approximate area which the railway authorities have agreed to hand over to the Board. Area shown cross hatched is area which the Hon. the Minister of Lands has agreed to hand over to the Board. Action in this direction is under way. All the rest of the land is already under the control of the Board except the bed of the Bealey River, and action is being taken to bring this under the control of the Board. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on paper, scale not given, 66.7 x 35.8 cm.

Date: 1905-1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-833

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

Date: 1901-1916

By: Mellor, C W (Mr), active 1901-1917

Reference: PAColl-9559

Description: Collection comprises: Album pages of New Zealand scenes including views of Dunedin, Invercargill, Wellington, Whanganui River, Rotorua, Rimutaka Incline, Christchurch, 1901. Some of the photographs are attributed to C W Mellor. Group portraits of officers during World War I, including C W Mellor Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-203

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Dunedin - Rattray Street cable car, 1935; Leith Stream; lower Stuart Street; The Exchange looking south; Robert Burns statue in The Octagon; elevated view of St Paul's Cathedral and Dunedin Town Hall; The Centotaph, Queen's Gardens; Otago University, 1931; Dunedin Botanic Gardens; Otago Boys' High School; tram in Princes Street; elevated view looking north along George Street; panoramic view taken from Mornington looking north; aerial view over Mornington showing High Street School, Hawthorne Avenue, Kaituna Bowling Club etc; aerial view showing St Kilda and Forbury Park Trotting Club; Larnach's Castle (taken during the Baptist Union Annual Assembly); Otago Peninsula from above Macandrew Bay looking towards Port Chalmers; wharves at Port Chalmers, 1935; new wing of the Medical School, 1948. Christchurch - Captain Cook's statue, Victoria Square; group under a tree near Bridge of Remembrance; canoeing on the Avon River; Hagley Park; Christchurch Botanic Gardens; Band Rotunda; Cathedral Square; Avon River; Mona Vale; Captain Scott's Statue with Christchurch Club in background; Worcester Street Bridge; Rolleston statue and Canterbury Museum in Rolleston Avenue; Bridge of Remembrance; Christchurch World War One memorial, 1937; Christchurch Hospital, 1941; daffodils beside the Avon; aerial view showing Christ's College, etc; aerial view of Addington Racecourse, 1934 & 1937; aerial view of Christchurch Botanic Garden; Edgar Stead's home, Ilam; hillside suburb showing access path and stone retaining walls; pupils at Fendalton School during PE class, 1948; Kerr's Reach, Burwood, 1949 Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1965]-1968

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3432

Description: A tramp on the Heaphy Track including views of hut interiors. The Captain Cook monument, the Bridge of Rememberence, the Botanic Gardens and Museum, Christchurch. The Conway River Store at Hubderlee. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1965 and 1968. Heaphy track slides are views of the Gouland Downs area. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [ca 1973]

From: Pearson, Ray, fl 2005-2008 :Photographs of South Island scenes

Reference: PA12-5552

Description: Views of the fountains and ornamental lake associated with the Town Hall, Christchurch. Photographed by Ray Pearson in about 1973. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

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

Reference: PA12-7805

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