Places

Date: [1982] 1986

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-306

Description: Visit to Vanuatu and Noumea includes - Views of the hotel grounds and the sea, Port-Vila, Vanuatu. Taking tea outside with other tourists or friends. A Cruize liner, Port-Vila. Gardens, houses and social occasions. Traveling in Vanuatu. This includes countryside, forest, villages, coastal views, churches, a metal bridge-like structure, and people, especially children. Events surrounding the opening ceremonies of the first Vanuatu Games (called First Interdistrict Games Vanuatu), Port-Vila, 1982. Two storied colonial house. Old church and religious figures in a Roman Catholic church. Volcano erupting. Noumea, New Caledonia, its surroundings, and in particular church buildings. Loose pages in the front of the album record a holiday in New Zealand, 1986. This includes Hawke's Bay. Picnics by the way. White baiting at the Rangitaiki River mouth. The Coromandel Peninsula. Oil rig at Moturoa. Friends. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1952-1960]

From: Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015: Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-o-1631

Description: Album containing scenic photographs of the South Island from Picton to Invercargill. Publication Note - This photograph album was published in 2002, 'Photography by Gladys Goodall : A record prepared by Gladys, for her sister Edna in 1960, of South Island photography', compiled by Laurence Eagle Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 26.5 x 33 cm

Date: ca1905

From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston

Reference: PA1-o-993

Description: Album opens with two images of Denniston buildings all of which are houses except for a church. There are some views of the surrounding countryside as seen from the plateau and a view of the roperoad railway with trucks crossing the plateau in winter. Two waterfalls are probably scenic features photographed from the horse track connecting Denniston with the coastal plain. Other images relate to Christchurch. These include boating on the River Avon, and groups of people photographed standing on two different bridges, one of them in the Botanic Garden. From Wellington there is an image of the Skyline tea kiosk at the top of the Kelburn cable car. Four images record people on a beach backed by vertical sandstone cliffs beyond which can be seen what looks like gum trees. These images were probably taken somewhere in Australia Two images are flashlight photographs taken of a group of people probably in a mine Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca1914]-1954

From: Featherstone, Paul, fl 2006 :Photographs of World War I soldiers and the Royal Tour 1953-1954

Reference: PAColl-8952-1

Description: New Zealand soldiers, World War One. Unloading oysters, Bluff. Royal tour decorations and the Queen on the wharf, Bluff. Woburn, Lower Hutt, from the air. Mrs Elinor Roosevelt at the Ford Motor Co, Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Souvenier photographs of Auckland and Invercargill. Postcard view of the Centennial Exhibition, Rongatai, Wellington, 1939-1940. Unidentified stone church, Queenstown. Unidentified wrecked ship. Unidentified suburban houses. World War Two army encampment. Japanese Commander signing surrender after the fall of Singapore to the Allies. Lord Louis Mountbatten speaking in Singapore. Building belonging to S.Ward (NZ) Ltd. Clock tower, Sumner, Christchurch. Views of Picton. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s) 21 prints on 5 album pages.

Date: [ca 1910]-1977

From: Waldie family : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8736-2

Description: Views of a Wanganui garden and house, and views of Wanganui and the Whanganui River. Family members and friends. Views of Mount Ruapehu, the Crater Lake and the Chateau. Hilly landscape views with native forest, and a sequence of colour photographs showing rugged pasture covered hill country, and patches of native forest. An interior view of an unidentified Roman Catholic Church with Maori decorations. An interior view of the Seventh Day Adventist church, Wanganui. Men cutting a road across a cliff face. Views of Kaiiwi beach. Quantity: 78 b&w original photographic print(s). 12 colour original photographic print(s). Processing information: These photographs arrived in two albums leaved with plastic pockets. As the prints were beginning to bond with the plastic, they were removed. The contents of the albums are arranged in two groups in the box.

Date: [ca 1960]-[ca 1969]

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-27

Description: A scheme irrigating land in Laos with water from the Mekong River. Photographs of New Zealand include Cities, Towns, church buildings, factories, the national grid, housing in Auckland, rural workers and landscapes, rugby players, children, people attending study groups, Knox College, and the "Otahuna Community." Pacific photographs cover Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Hong kong, and New Caledonia. Two groups of images are of Pacific Theological College in Fiji, and the opening of the Maropa Bookshop in Vila, Vanuatu, on the 18th of November 1966. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1963-1981

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8677

Description: Includes - New Zealand Post Office store and workshop, Taita, 1973. The Beehive in final stages of construction, 1977. Wilton House. Church building, Taita. House and section, Katkati, 1981. Red Rocks, Island Bay, wellington,1970. Fredrickson House, Nelson. House and garden, 33 Clutha Avenue, Khandallah. Williams House, Waikanae, 1963. Paramata [Paremata], 1969. Interior of an old church near Gisborne. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1963-1971]

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8709

Description: Includes - Site for the New Zealand Post Office Store and Workshop, Taita, ca 1971. Site for the Church of Christ the king, Cannon's Creek, Porirua, ca 1963. Wellington Railway Station. Old New Zealand houses, two churches, and a wooden public building in Carterton. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1842-1964

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-12

Description: This collection contains the contents of two albums. First album group relates to Pauatahanui, Porirua. Includes - Unidentified house. Grave stone of Len Walker who died in 1897 aged 100 years. View of St Adan's Anglican Church. View of St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. Views of an overgrown cemetery. Second album is mostly views of the Government centre and environs, Wellington. Most of this material dates from the late 1940s to the early 1950s and includes - The wooden Government building (now Law School). The Centotaph. Turnbull House (then the Alexander Turnbull Library). Wellington Railway Station. Bowen House. Magistrates Court. Bowen Street. Lambton Quay. Bunny Street. Molesworth Street. Government Printing Office. Parliament buildings and grounds. The old High Court building. Brick store on Waterloo Quay (now apartments). Hotel Waterloo. Defence Department building, Bunny Street (demolished about 1994). Other Wellington photographs taken by the Evening Post in November 1964 include a view of Manners Street, and two photographs of Wellington traffic. There is one photograph of houses and gardens in Regent Street, Newtown, dated 9 August 1962. This is part of a group of views of a site for Wellington City Council housing taken before demolition for that project began. Earlier photographs include - View of Kaikoura, ca 1910. Houses in Auckland, Christchurch, and the Stratford area, 1890s-1910. Taylor-Stace house, Pauatahanui. Photograph of a drawing of a coach outside an inn in Christchurch, 1866. Unidentified derelict cobb built house in overgrown garden. Views of the bridge of an unidentified ship. Barrett's Hotel, Wellington, by Samuel Brees, ca 1842. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: All of these prints were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. The photographs have been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library.

Date: 1963-1976

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8761

Description: Views of First Church of Christ Scientist, Bolton Street, Wellington, and its surroundings 1976. Unidentified house Waikanae, seen across the paddocks from the main road, 1963. Views of the Field house, Waikanae, 1970. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1998-1999

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-03

Description: Photographs of buildings in Rodney District, Auckland Region, New Zealand. This group of photographs records buildings and landscapes from Whangaparoa north to Mahurangi Regional Park. Included are - Stanmore Bay. Silverdale. Whangaparoa. Waitoki. Subjects include - Houses. Cemeteries. Sheds. Trees. Schools. Halls. Churches. Views of countryside. Coastal defences. Coasts. Memorials. Quantity: 158 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 2001-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000507

Description: Photographs of South Westland, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Franz Josef and Haast villages and glaciers, coastlines and lakes in the southern region of the Westland district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (south Westland)" Quantity: 170 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2001-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000506

Description: Photographs of Reefton, West Coast. Includes aerial photographs of the township, frost and icicles, men cooking over an open fireplace and boiling water in a kettle over coal. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (reefton)" Quantity: 48 digital photograph(s).

Date: Circa 1910s

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1778-1/2-G

Description: Part two of a two-part view of Paeroa. It shows mostly commercial buildings, a few houses, a church and the business premises of James McAndrew & Company Ltd (Timber merchants), centre right. There is a bowling green in the centre foreground, and trees in the distance beyond the road. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. For part one see APG-1777-1/4. Note in the Godber Accessions List "From Evening Post Collection" Part of a collection of images relating to the Thames and Hauraki areas (from APG-1772-1/2 to APG-1779-1/2). The location was identified from a building on the extreme left of this image, which links with the one on the extreme right of the first negative. Identification of place from Wise's Post Office Directory (1914 edition), which lists James McAndrew & Company. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Circa 1910s

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1777-1/2-G

Description: Part one of a two-part view of ribbon-development along the road through Paeroa. It shows mostly commercial buildings, a few houses, and a church in the foreground. There is a field in the immediate foreground, and trees and fields with a few houses in the distance beyond the road. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. For part two see APG-1778-1/4. Note in the Godber Accessions List "From Evening Post Collection" Part of a collection of images relating to the Thames and Hauraki areas (from APG-1772-1/2 to APG-1779-1/2). The location was identified from a building on the extreme right of this image, which links with the one of the extreme left of the second negative. In the second image, the buildings of James McAndrew & Co. Ltd., (Ohinemuri Steam, Sash & Door Factory, The Esplanade, Paeroa) are visible, allowing identification of place from Wise's Post Office Directory (1914 edition). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [1970s]

From: Creator unknown: Photographs of Sanson, 1870s, Ex Unsorted Print Collection

Reference: PAColl-3858-3

Description: Photographs of a two storied house and a building that is either a church or a public hall. Both have a picket fence separating them from the street. A horse is tied up to a gate. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1870s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20.5 x 13.8 cm, mounted on cardboard, 22.5 x 15.3 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-11

Description: East end of Waiuta township looking west. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Source of descriptive information - Historical notes from Library client. House right of centre was lived in by a mining manager. It was screened by trees that were spared when others were cut down. On right, past the steam, is the staff tennis court. Above are the single men's 'Red Huts' with the Catholic church to left. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: 1870

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: PAColl-9161-08

Description: Photograph taken 1870 by an unidentified photographer, showing a view over Waipawa with the river, native forest, and mountains in the background. The town's small wooden buildings have shingled roofs, and are surrounded by picket or post and rail fences. A large patch of fern can be seen in the foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).