Places

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 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 1905-1926]

By: Maclay, Adam Henry Pearson, 1873-1955

Reference: PA-Group-00396

Description: Dry plate glass negatives, 1/2 and 1/1 size made by the Christchurch photographer Adam MacLay, packed in ca 300 photographic plate boxes. Mostly portraits and groups. Considerable proportion interleaved with leaflets, magazine leaves, etc. Considerable proportion numbered by photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-118174 to 118219, 118222 to 118251, 118256 to 118499, 118501 to 118547, 118693 to 118697, 118798 to 118849, 118851 to 118879, 118901 to 118973, 162915 to 163404, 163406 to 163619, 163622 to 163679, 163682 to 164078, 183115 to 185908, 1/1-021626, 021630 to 021635, 021711 to 021713, 023062 to 023077, 023327 to 023357, 023378 to 023408, 023418 to 023741, 023892 to 024087, 026032 to 026517, 026529 to 026547, 026558 to 026577, 026808 to 026809, 028087 to 029454. Quantity: 6982 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1997. Reference number changed from PAColl-5333 to PA-Group-00396 in 2009.

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: 1939-1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-015-07

Description: First, Second and Third Echelons in taining at various military camps and departing from Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1906-1907

From: Hinge, Leslie :Photographs of firewalking and other events involving the Fijian participants at the New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906/1907

By: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942

Reference: PAColl-1783-11

Description: Shows Fire Walkers in the oven treading down leafy branches over the hot stones This photograph was published in "Official Record of the New Zealand International Exhibition, James Cowan, 1906-07, page 369 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6952

Description: 13 miscellaneous images: a house with a verandah and deck chairs; two of battleships, one moored at Overseas Terminal; the marina at Oriental Bay with the boathouses and Mount Victoria in the background; a view over Island Bay; a field of hay stacks; a large railway junction with various rolling stock and chimneys in the background; a view over Days Bay including the pier; men and women rock climbing; two motor buses outside a large house, possibly a hotel, with people milling around; the door to the Observatory Tower at the University of Canterbury; HMS Hood moored at an unidentified location; and people cooking outdoors under an awning. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058211 to 058223 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1917

By: Clifford, Henry Herbert, 1872-1949

Reference: PAColl-D-0815

Description: Photograph taken in the studio of H H Clifford, Christchurch. Group photograph of 13 committee members and the one absent member (N B McCallum). All names indexed in Name Field Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Title; Mount recto - beneath image - Names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 265 x 370 mm with mount 480 x 605 mm

Date: ca1905, ca1906, ca1907, ca1918, ca 1920s

By: Cameron, J L, active 1986

Reference: PAColl-0938

Description: Quantity: 137 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1930

By: Weldon, L V, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5726

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1900s]

From: University of New Zealand: Photographs relating to the University of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-D-0110

Description: View of Canterbury College taken from intersection of Worcester Street and Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch looking south-east. There is ivy growing on the lower wall of the hall. The building is enclosed by a fence and neatly trimmed hedge. The deciduous trees in the grounds of the college and in the immediate foreground are without their leaves. One of a series of photographs taken of Canterbury College by an unidentified photographer in 1900s. Photographer may have been Green & Hahn (Firm) Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Canterbury College (looking S.E.) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 28.5 x 36 cm with mount

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-074811-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Heritage Incorporated :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6220

Description: Photograph of a party of children in Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch, before setting out for a picnic at Selwyn Huts, provided by the Heritage Movement Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Picnic provided for 150 children by Heritage Movement. Five bus loads were taken to Selwyn Huts. Picture shows crowds and buses in Riccarton Avenue en route for picnic Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print

Date: [ca 1890s]

By: Sorrell, William Edward, active 1890s-1900s

Reference: PA7-59-20

Description: Photograph taken in the studio of W E Sorrell, Christchurch of a family group comprising the parents and their young daughter. The child is seated on a wicker chair. Her hair is dressed in short ringlets and she is wearing a light-coloured dress with a large sailor collar edged with lace and fastened at the front with a ribbon bow. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 28.4 x 36 cm

Date: 1963

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PA12-6784

Description: Opening of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and Cottesmore College, Burnside, Christchurch. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1938-1940

From: Mackay, Alma, 1918-2006 :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Mackay, Alma, 1918-2006

Reference: PA1-o-1435

Description: Photographs comprise views of Wellington region and scenes in several other New Zealand places. Wellington photographs include: illuminated buildings to mark coronation in 1937; Rongotai aerodrome; Wellington Zoo, elephant bathing; new trains to mark opening of Wellington to Johnsonville electric train service, 1938; Wellington Botanical Gardens and Begonia House; Breaker Bay; illuminations for Wellington Exhibition, 1940. Images also show Alma MacKay and family, as well as interiors of their house at 94 Cashmere Avenue, Khandallah. Photographs taken on holidays include views of Christchurch, particularly Hagley Park and Sumner; Palmerston North; Napier; Rotorua; New Plymouth, especially Pukekura Park; Wanganui. Most photographs taken by Alma MacKay. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green covered album, 21.5 x 30.5cm

Date: 1985-1986

From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ

By: Connew, Bruce, active 1970-2007

Reference: PA12-5783

Description: People participating in an international dance course for composers and choreographers held in Christchurch, New Zealand, in January 1986. Photographed by Bruce Connew of Icon, Auckland. High school children participating in the Theatre Corporate schools programm held at Opononi in 1985. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: ca1928

By: Chance, George, 1885-1963; Doherty, Frank, active 1990s

Reference: PAColl-4774

Description: Entrance to the old Boys High School, Christ Church Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).