Places

Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-056-021

Description: View of part of the Olivine Range Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 171 mm

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-012

Description: A rock formation in the Hollyford Valley, either Lake McKerrow or Lake Alabaster Other Titles - Pompey's Pillar, head of Lake Hollyford Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour, 86 x 125 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-115

Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified. 1870-1900.]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-058-008

Description: Rocky islets on the coast Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 82 x 152 mm

Date: 1895-1900

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-130

Description: Photographs taken in the Bay of Islands and Hokianga districts in the late 1890s, by Frank J Denton. Include several of Paihia; the church with ruins of Archdeacon Williams' house; church belfry (standing alone in a field in front of the church); monument to Archdeacon Williams, Paihia Cemetery, `raised solely by Maori subscription'; and monument to the Treaty of Waitangi. Views of Kerikeri include the oldest wooden house, and the oldest stone house in New Zealand; and Kerikeri Falls (Rainbow Falls). At Waimate views show ruins of the first mill in New Zealand, remains of a factory near the old mill; puriri trees; and Waimate Church. Pakaraka views show interior and exterior views of Pakaraka Church; and `The Retreat', Archdeacon Williams' residence. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album entitled "Photographic views", 28 x 21 cm

Date: 1895 - 1904

From: Strong, Austin, 1881-1952 :[Sketches. ca 1895-1904]

Reference: A-058-016

Description: Shows three different vignettes, one of Cave Rock with a small building and flagpole on top; one view of Rock seen from the Sumner side looking back towards Redcliffs; and one of a headland, possibly Scarborough Heads. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-057-006

Description: Shows beach, coastal cliff and offshore rocks Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 80 x 208 mm

Date: [ca 1895-1915]

Reference: PAColl-6904

Description: A large collection of miscellaneous original and copy negatives mostly of Christchurch and the surrounding area. Some are studio portraits of family groups. The rest of the collection includes: a street scene in front of the old railway station; a cycling race; men rowing and canoeing; children playing in a swing park; a brass band playing on board a steamer; various beach scenes including donkey rides; train pulling into Kaiapoi station; a small bach; two girls next to a waterfall; trams and a cyclist going past the Jubliee Clock Tower; the front facade of St Paul's Presbyterian Church; three views of the old Public Hospital next to Hagley Park; the Chamber of Commerce building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street; a copy negative of a carte de visite of a couple kissing; a monument incorporating a tiki on a tall pole and other maori carvings (location unknown); a man at the doorway of his shed with an array of gardening implements; two men pulling a covering back from a hangi pit; the cathedral with a number of trams in front; a tram advertising Ballantynes; a kitchen interior showing a range with kettles on top and a cupboard and dresser with crockery; six Maori on horseback possibly in a procession; a porter bringing a cart of luggage up to a train; five men giving friends piggy backs on the beach; sheep being driven past stock yards; the Avon River; a crowd outside the Avon Rowing Club; Wilson the maltman's horse and cart crossing a bridge; and two images of a harvest festival in a hall with a painted back drop and sheaves of corn arranged in front of it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045133 to 045196 and 045802 to 045816 Quantity: 76 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These were originally part of a sequence of unidentified negatives. They were assumed to form a collection due to the similarity in date and location. At the time of entry 1/4-045190 was missing.

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: PA1-o-168

Description: Album of photographs of the Otago region, and sketches of the area by William Mathews Hodgkins. Sketches include one ink sketch of a man ploughing behind two horses; The rest of the sketches are in pencil, many with colour notes. They include [Pond and hills]; Sketch for a wet day on a west coast. OAS [Otago Art Society] Exhib ... 1894, sold this to Watson Sherman? 44 pounds (?) Dec '94; [Ducks] about 40 feet; and [Ducks on a river]; The Spit, Waikouaiti taken on the route to Moeraki Nov 94; [Beach scene]; [Wharf, possibly at Moeraki?]; [Boats, possibly at Moeraki, or Dunedin?]; [Boats, possibly at Moeraki, or Dunedin?]; Irekehu [Ireketui?] track [near coast]; Puketihi [Puketiti?]. The bay is Matukiki; [Maori woman carrying a baby on her back]; [Turbaned man]; [Figure]; [Men working on a boat in a boatshed]; Miss Edwards House [house with small tower]; Outline of hills beyond the Clutha seen from Lovells Flat. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Loose-leaf album with string tie, dark maroon cover, label attached reads `Taieri, Maori [...?], Moeraki, Saddle Hill, Balclutha [...?]'. Album 15.0 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Hewitt, E (Miss), active 1980

Reference: G-440-2

Description: View downstream to a bridge with the rocky cone Pohaturoa in the background. May be based on a photograph by Josiah Martin entitled Pohaturoa Rock, Atiamuri, negative 82172 1/2, taken from an identical spot. Other Titles - Atiamuri Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 262 x 398 mm Provenance: Donation: Misses E. R. and E. I. Hewitt, Rongotai, Wellington, December 1980

Date: 1896 - 1913

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-363-q

Description: Shows scenes in Northland, framework with dried shark, and Pacific Island outrigger canoe. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 39 pencil in sketchbook 180 x 250 mm, ¼ black roan, teal embossed boards

Date: [190-?]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

Reference: PAColl-0959-02

Description: Scenic photographs of Castle Hill, taken ca 1900s by unidentified photographer/s Includes views of rock formations, most of which have one or more people to show the scale of huge boulders with the effects of weathering, including a huge channel cut by a stream flowing through a cliff. Others show a group of four men with laden bicycles; a group of men and women in a large horse-drawn coach with the boulder-strewn hill behind; the Waimakariri River; and a farm building in an area of tussock. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [Circa 1908-1930s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938; Kurz, Marcel, 1887-1967

Reference: PAColl-0959-22

Description: Photographs of mountains and valleys in the Southern Alps towards the West Coast, chiefly taken by Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann, with the last two images probably taken by Marcel Kurz. The box is entitled "W.A. Kennedy. Dr. T. 4 (Box 22). The images are separated into nine sequences filed in paper folders, with two loose images at the end. The folders are as follows: 1: Complete pan (panorama) of 8 from Pioneer Ridge (nos. 1-22). 2: Callery (nos. 23-30). 3: Pan of 8 of the Lambert Group (from near the head of Lambert Glacier) (nos. 31-38). 4: Pan of 11 from Chancellor Ridge (nos. 39-46). 5: Lower Waiototo (i.e. Waiatoto) Valley (nos. 47-61a). 6: From Craig's Peak (no. 62). 7: odd Pioneer Ridge (nos. 63-70, and 80 (lacking nos. 71-79). 8: Head of Victoria Glacier (nos. 81-83). 9: Upper Waiototo (i.e. Waiatoto) Valley (nos. 84-109). 10: two loose images, now numbered 110 and 111 (originally numbered 103 (Haast from the H.-L col, K. Gardiner), and 127 (High peak of Cook from north beyond 2nd peak). Neither of these are listed in the inventory. Most of the places shown are listed above. Quantity: 104 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander." Inventory lists 109 images, however the sequence lacks numbers 71-79, and there are four images not listed in the inventory (nos 61A, 94A, and two loose images originally numbered 103 (now numbered 110), and 127 (now numbered 111); this makes 104 images in total..

Date: 1895 - 1904

From: Strong, Austin, 1881-1952 :[Sketches. ca 1895-1904]

Reference: A-058-017

Description: Shows Cave Rock with a small building and flagpole on top. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Jessett, George F, active 1900s?

Reference: A-247-046

Description: A study of the limestone rocks at Castle Hill Supplied title Inscriptions: Mount verso - Descriptive notes, signed: Geo. F Jessett Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 80 x 124 mm Processing information: Originally mounted on sheet with A-247-039/48

Date: 1895-1915

From: Allan, John Calder, 1879-1963 :Photographs of Cable Bay, Nelson

Reference: PA1-o-015

Description: Photographs of tht Cable Bay area, including the Cable Bay Station and homestead, with images showing something of the life of the Cable Bay Station employees. Includes photographs of children, families, picnicking, and camping, taken by John Calder Allan between 1895 and 1915. There are several images of the Franz Josef Glacier and surrounding area. Other Titles - Photo views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 315 x 265 mm green buckram, with border of gold decoration separating the green buckram from red buckram of spine; title "Photo views" embossed in gold on cover, in phase box

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Thompson, Fred, active 1969; Thompson, Charles, active 1901

Reference: PA1-o-495

Description: Album of various aspects of life in the Chatham Islands circa 1890s-1901, presented to Charles Thompson (possibly Captain Charles Thompson who sailed in the area during this period). Photographs taken by an unknown photographer. All the photographs are described in large letters on the original negatives. On page 23 there is a photograph showing Kiti Karaka Riwai in front of the wharerunanga (meeting house) at Wairua Inscriptions: Album page - "Handed on by his son Fred Thompson" Physical Description: Album with green leather cover, entitled "To Charles Thompson from his Chatham Island friends, August 1901"; 24 x 31 cm

Date: [between 1879 and 1929]

From: Browning, H :Photographs by James Ring

Reference: 1/2-050025-F

Description: Cape Foulwind showing the cliffs and rock formations. Two standing figures are silhouetted on a rock in the middleground. Photograph taken by James Ring, between 1879 and 1929. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Brown Terrace, Cape Foulwind, NZ. 809; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ring Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1844 - 1921

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Barnicoat, John Wallis, 1814-1905; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-173-015

Description: View at Taupo Point, just south of Separation Point, Golden Bay, showing Taupo Pa with palisades and buildings and a bush-clad knoll beyond, the sea and several inshore islands. Depending upon the extent of Messenger's knowledge, the boat anchored off the beach is probably a Deal boat, and the mizzen was a "standing lug". The foresail was a "dipping lug" (see note below, and letter from Pat W Win, AT 13/14/1, 24 December 1999) A copy of John Wallis Barnicoat's eye-witness drawing "Taupo, Massacre Bay, March 1844", negative 11570 1/2. The original drawing is in a private collection but the Library has a photograph. Probably drawn for James Cowan's The New Zealand Wars, but not used. Two Deal boats and six Deal boat men were brought to New Zealand by the Nelson Preliminary Expedition which entered Nelson Haven in November 1841. One of the boat men was James Smith Cross who became Nelson's second harbourmaster. (See letter from Pat W Win, AT 13/14/1, 24 December 1999). Other Titles - Taupo Pa, Golden Bay Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 114 x 256 mm