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Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

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: [Between 1841 and 1929]

By: Reade, M A (Mrs), active 1969; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm); Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-o-430

Description: Recent prints from old photographs of Wellington, originallty taken between about 1841 and 1929. Includes one photograph of a painting of Wellington waterfront from 1841, by Charles Heaphy. Only a few images identify the photographers, the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers and James Bragge. The Bragge photograph (looking down to the Harbour from Hill Street taken in the 1880s) was identified from his horse-drawn carriage with his name and occupation emblazoned on the side. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red mock-crocodile textured cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26.0 x 36.5 cm Processing information: Most of the photographs have reference numbers linking them with items in the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collections.

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

Date: [1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-057

Description: Album of photographs of scenes, advertisements and posters advertising rail and ferry travel in New Zealand. The advertisements were used in The New Zealand Railways Magazine, and the posters were displayed at Railways Ticket Offices. The posters, and advertisements using "Mr Goodseat" were part of their campaign to show the advantages of travel by rail. The artist for many of these signed himself 'Matthews'. Scenic photographs also show some aspects of life in New Zealand, including a series on the flax industry with harvesting, drying and processing the fibres. Another group shows a farm, including a house made of corrugated iron, with sacking covering the windows; land clearing and ploughing with horses, draining the land, and a pile of harvested kumara; and several photographs of a man panning for gold, and inspecting pieces of rock with a magnifying glass; a group of men on horseback with dogs setting out on a hunt, and a cage full of pheasants before being released for the shoot. Pages 78-81 show activities associated with the mail service. They include people buying stamps in a post office, men sorting mail, large bags prepared for out-of-town delivery (some bags being delivered to the inter-island ferry for transport to the South Island). From there they show postmen emerging from the Chief Post Office with their satchels ready for local delivery, with the final scenes of delivery into a household letterbox, and one of a woman being handed her mail at the door. There are a number of much earlier photographs in the album, including pictures of Major Ropata, Sir Donald McLean, John Webster and F E Maning, and one of Te Aro in 1857. Advertisements included "Buy New Zealand made goods, for the children's sake. Cut these cords. Unemployment"; an advertisement for Hannah's footwear using a photograph of The Mystery train" (advertising a trip to Paraparaumu Beach, and another to Ohau). Several photographs show large groups of people who travelled on the Mystery Train, picnicking at the beach at Paraparaumu, boiling up a huge billy, and a child in a backpack on her father's back). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C3"; 39 x 56 cm

Date: 1900 - 1910

By: Argent, Jean, active 1990

Reference: PAColl-1644

Description: Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (postcards). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Blundell, John Barraud, 1904-1975 : Photograph albums

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-043

Description: Album chiefly containing views of the North Island of New Zealand, many taken by professional photographers Wrigglesworth and Binns. Images include one of a cricket match between an English team and the Wellington team, March 23-24 1888, at the Basin Reserve, showing spectators in the foreground, the players on the field, and buildings on the hill behind. There are a number of views of the Whanganui River, including a cave, a canoe with 5 men poling through rapids, a view of the river from Hiruharama, and a waterfall. At the end of the album there are images of Port Said, Malabar, and two newspaper photographs, one of Mrs J Milbourne (nee Maud Beatty, a member of the Pollard Opera Company), and William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, governor of New South Wales 1899-1900. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover 245 x 315 mm

Date: [between 1884 and 1887]

By: Dunford, Graeme Wilmor, active 1980-1981; Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: PAColl-D-0055

Description: Photograph of the post office building and Customhouse Quay. Dinghies can be seen hoisted on davits on the quayside. The time on the clock tower is showing ten minutes past nine in the morning. Advertising on the seaward side of the shed on Customhouse Quay for Wilson & Richradson (Drapers, outfitters & importers), and Danks & Son (Brassfounders & outfitters, Brandon Street). Photograph taken by William Williams. Originally erected in 1884, burnt down in 1887 and rebuilt Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - General Post Office Similar view taken by F A Coxhead [PA7-41-30] Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 43 x 58 cm

Date: 1919

From: Munt, Jeanie, fl 1978 :Album of a selection of tourist photographs, of a school and of the Munt family, and loose prints

By: Jobson, Nancy, 1880-1964

Reference: PA1-o-356

Description: Album created by Nancy Jobson, the first principal of Queen Margaret College when it opened in Hobson Street in 1919. Photographs have captions, listing various staff members, including Miss Fyfe, Miss Gold, Miss Irving and Miss Naylor; pupils listed only with Christian names; and interior and exterior views of the school. Activities and outings are shown, including celebrations around Peace Day, with a visit on board HMS New Zealand (showing gun turrets, decks, and views from the wharf), banners and processions; picnics at the beach; trips to Kapiti Island; and pupils dressed for a performance of the Merchant of Venice. For full names of the pupils and staff of Queen Margaret College in 1919 see `A history of Queen Margaret College' by Mollie D Gambrill (1969) "Nancy Jobson" is printed in ink on the last page of the album. Inscriptions: Album page - `To dear Olive in loving appreciation and memory of her love and fidelity through the long years since 1919, from Nancy Jobson' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red-brown mock-suede cover, end-papers with brown, gold and red pattern; inscribed `N.J., Wellington 1919' in gold lettering; 21 x 26 cm

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-056

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand and Australia photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead (F.A.C.). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, with spine title "New Zealand and Australia, 3360-3417", 31 x 27 cm

Date: From 1911 to 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: ca 1892

By: Hector, James (Sir), 1834-1907

Reference: PA1-o-879

Description: Album complied by Sir James Hector titled "Dulce Domum, Xmas 1892", containing views of streets and businesses in Wellington and Petone. PAColl-5751 Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Dulce Domun; Xmas 1892 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1900s]

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-316

Description: Album of scenic views of New Zealand, many taken by Thomas Pringle, others taken by photographers from the New Zealand Tourist Department, and others by unidentified photographers. A number are hand-coloured. South Island scenes include Milford Sound, lake and mountain views, and some of Christchurch city. North island scenes include a number in Wellington, with views of city streets, the Chief Post Office, Government Buildings, St John's Church and the railway station. Most of the other North Island views are of tourist destinations, particularly in the thermal regions, with hot springs, geysers and mud pools. There are a large number relating to Maori, especially at Whakarewarewa, with taniko weaving, flax weaving, poi dancers, te hongi, and posed portraits of young girls in front of a meeting house wearing different styles of cloaks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown textured cover; 25.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Sorrell, Charles, 1855-1932; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Jones & Coleman (Firm); Frank Duncan and Company; Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PA1-o-421

Description: Postcards of New Zealand taken by various photographers, most of whom are listed above. The views show various sites, chiefly listed above. One photograph shows the funeral procession for the Rt Hon Richard John Seddon in 1906 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, `Post Cards' lettered in white; 14 x 21 cm

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Parton, L I, active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; William Beattie & Company; Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-4601

Description: Postcards of: the old gun on Mount Victoria; the General Post Office, Wellington lit up with lights for coronation night 1902; parade at Newtown Park on Dominion Day 1907 with the gun from HMS Challenger; Lord Plunket inspecting troops during the Dominion Day parade 1907; spectators at the Dominion Day celebrations in Newtown Park, taken by Zak 1908; battalions marching past on Dominion Day 1907, taken by Zak; the junction of Wills Street and Lambton Quay with the Bank of New Zealand on the left; looking along Lambton Quay towards Willis Street with the Wellington Investment Trustee & Agency Co Ltd on the left; Lambton Quay at the Government Buildings with Quinton's Corner on the right; the Makohine Viaduct on the Main Trunk Railway (taken by Aldersley); the Hapuawhenua Viaduct on the main trunk line taken by Frederick Radcliffe; Raurimu at the foot of the spiral with the railway track in the foreground; the fire on the High Street, Christchurch February 6th 1908; the Salvation Army Rescue and Children's Home, Newtown (in colour); Maori carved house called Takitimu at Martinborough with pakeha visitors outside it; two of the view from Tinakori Hill over to Wellington harbour with Tinakori Road in the foreground and Bolton Street cemetery to the right; a view looking west along Oriental Bay towards St Gerard's Monastery with a billboard for Crescent Tea on a shop to the left; a locomotive going through Ohakune railway station; a fire in Courtenay Place in which six shops were demolished; the interior of the conservatory at Wainoni Park, Christchurch with chrysanthemums; River entrance to Wainoni Park, Christchurch; The lion at Wellington Zoo called 'King Dick', possibly photographed by Zak Studios; Main Street, Ohakune, photographed circa 1 June 1908 by William Beattie and Company; Opening of the Victoria Bowling Club, Wellington, 1908, photographed by Joseph Zachariah. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: 1901-1904

By: Watt, George Thomas, 1871-1933

Reference: PA1-o-516

Description: Photographs of family and friends, and scenes in the Wellington area and Hawkes Bay, taken by George Thomas Watt People and places named are listed in the headings above. Two images show the Wellington Post Office in the daytime and night time, when decorated in celebration of the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. The night view shows the Post Office brightly lit with decoration. In the middle of the album is a group of 6 tourist-style photographs of young Maori women. One image shows the house owned by Thomas and Matilda Watt, at 172 Hastings Street, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, spine brown taped, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 22.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1869-1918

From: Powles family papers

Reference: PA1-o-809

Description: Album is dated 1869, but some of the photographs may be earlier. Relates to the Powles family in England, especially Ipswich, Suffolk and places near to it. Also has views of Tasmania and New Zealand. There are some interesting house interiors, buildings, and a short series on bush life while clearing the land. Popular taste in painting (art) is recorded in a number of photos. There are some photos of ships, especially warships. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).