Places

Date: [ca 1940-1950]

Reference: PAColl-6906

Description: 8 images of hotels including one of Porirua Hotel in the distance beyond a scattering of houses, a small church and a Shell station. Three are of a bad tram accident at the corner of Webb Street and Taranaki Street where a Thorndon tram went right through the premises adjacent to the Napier-Wellington Transport Co Ltd. Police and passers-by are looking on and workmen are trying to clear the debris. The last image is of what may be a nurses' hostel at Wellington Hospital. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045211 to 045222 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1887-1891

Reference: PA1-q-610

Description: There are three main themes in this album. 1. The Royal Navy, Australian Squadron, based at Sydney. Pictures of naval cadets and war ships, some of which are in dry dock. The creator of the album, or a relative, seems to have been associated with HMS Orlando. Many photos of this ship appear in the album. The Orlando served as the flagship of the Australian Squadron from July 1888 to December 1897. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 11th Feb 1889 that HMS Orlando and Dart were docked in Calliope Dock, Auckland, because Sydney facilities could not undertake the work. There are a number of Photographs of HMS Orlando in dock at Auckland in this album. Thus the photos of officers and naval cadets may also have associations with the Orlando. There are also 3 photos of a gun accident which occurred on the HMS Cordelia of the Australian Squadron. This happened on the 26 June 1891 while the Cordelia was on a cruize from Fiji to Noumea. During Gun Practice a gun burst killing 6 ratings and wounding 13 others. The photos show the broken gun casing littering the deck. 2. Of the New Zealand section much of it concentrates on the town of Lawrence. Many of the captions and photographs relate to the Anglican parsonage at Lawrence. This suggests the possibility of the album belonging to the Vicar or a member of his family. If this were the case, and given the period of the late 1880s-early 1890s, it may be associated with the Rev George Pice Beaumont vicar and archdeacon from 1872 to 1900. On the other hand the name of Beaumont does not appear anywhere in the album. 3. Samoan civil wars of the late 1880s and the hurricane of 1889 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1907

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: 1/2-003841-F

Description: A tram lying on its side next to the track with a group mostly of young boys around it. Another tram is passing on its way up the hill and there is a farm building in the background. Photographer was Zak. The accident killed two people. A close up of the tram is at 1/2-080520. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: ca 1919

By: Stewart, William Walter, 1898-1976

Reference: PAColl-4517

Description: Three tram employees and two other men examining the damage to the front of car 145 on Customs Street West, Auckland with the offices of A S Patterson & Co in the commercial building in the background; tram no 93 with damage to the front outside the premises of Smith & Halcombe Ltd on Customs Street East; two of a tram decorated with lightbulbs in the shape of the New Zealand flag for peace celebrations in 1919; and a steam motor belonging to Christchurch tramways. Photographer was W W Stewart. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1914, 1939-1978

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-005

Description: Photographs relating to accidental fires, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, chiefly between 1939 and 1978. Including fire at Hazelwood's drapery store, Upper Hutt, in March 1914, and the Hope Gibbons building, Wellington City, on 11 August 1952. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [ca 1909-1952]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-094

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, mostly made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1909-1950s. New Zealand related images include: S S Lauderdale; Mania/Mamia [?] on rocks on Slipper Island; wreck of the Futurist; stranding of coastal steamer Koutuni at Orete, near Cape Runaway; S S Kauri stranded on beach at Westport. Also: The Penguin (prior to 1909); hull of paddle steamer Lyttelton; last moments of ferry Arahura; motor ship Port Waikato after being disabled and adrift off Chatham Islands; Union Steam Ship Company vessel Tarawera; paddle steamer Wakatere disabled as a result of an accident to starboard boiler; Indrabarah stranded on Wanganui Coast. Also: Arahura River dredge accident at Greymouth. Includes photographs of a number of overseas vessels (Not added to Name field) Quantity: 26 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 5 album leaves with black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints