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Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: A-232-023

Description: A view of Franz Josef Glacier Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Franz Josef from Totara Pine bridge. 1885 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 195 x 325 mm

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: E-178-f

Description: Views of Mount Cook, Lake Mapourika, the Fox and Franz Joseph Glaciers, Okarito and South Westland At back - Two small cuttings (cut from a sketchbook cover/s) containing notes in pencil. One is a list of people and where they lived. Quantity: 75 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sheets 194 x 327 mm Provenance: Purchased from the artist's widow, Mrs A R Moreton, Christchurch, 1926 (See IA 93/3, Mss Coll)

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Mostly Westland. No 3 Folder. [1885]

Reference: E-178-f-015

Description: View of Franz Josef Glacier with artist's colour, etc notes Other Titles - Franz Josef Glacier Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 195 x 329 mm

Date: 1920 - 1929

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Franz-1920s-01

Description: Includes photographs, a map, and rail fares. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 10 p., 245 x 187 mm.

Date: 1940s

By: Neely, Paddianne Wallace, active 1988-2015

Reference: PAColl-7311

Description: View of the Franz Josef Glacier seen through the window of St James Anglican Church, Franz Josef. The forground is taken up with the altar, cross and candlesticks. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1940s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) in black cardboard mount. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: ca 1900

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955

Reference: PAColl-4739

Description: View over Franz Josef Glacier showing details of the surface. Photographer was Arthur Harper. 1/2-127882 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1910s?]

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: PA1-o-473

Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: ca 1920s

By: Murray-Oliver, Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray, 1915-1986

Reference: PAColl-4526

Description: Three packets of commercially produced snapshots of Timaru, published by A R Clark, of Akaroa, published by J L Buckland, and of Franz Josef Glacier, produced by R Warburton. Also two colour photographs of unidentified early paintings of New Zealand views. The two colour prints have the name K J Chambers of Tauroa, Havelock North on the envelopes. Quantity: 36 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1936

From: New Zealand Railways: [Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1920-1969]

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-B-RAIL-1936-01

Description: Front cover shows rail car driver at the controls, and the view in front. Inside are pictures of models of rail car, West Coast hotels, and a map of the road and air connections to Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers from Hokitika. Extended Title - Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded in four, each section 285 x 114 mm.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28639-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1928-1940

By: Lythgoe, Mary Wilhelmina Margaret, 1923-2010

Reference: PAColl-0159

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes and 1 photograph Quantity: 9 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1953 - 1970

By: New Zealand Travel and Holidays Association Inc

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1960s-Envelopes-2

Description: Includes: New Zealand, scenic playground of the pacific; the sportsman's paradise (women with caught shark on recto); New Zealand, the world's wonders in one country - Ball Glacier, Parnell Baths, Whakarewarewa (verso) New Zealand, the Pacific wonderland (Milford Hotel on recto); Turn your winter months to summer; visit New Zealand, land of sunshine (Otehei Bay, Cleddau River, Franz Josef Glacier; on verso) Be wise! See New Zealand, the gem of the Pacific (Ruru or morepork sitting on carving on recto); New Zealand, a compact world in itself (Ball Glacier, Mitre Peak, Whakarewarewa Gateway, on verso) See New Zealand, the fairyland of the world (Maori woman seated on carved lintel on recto); Amazingly different - see New Zealand (Lake Taupo, Chateau Tongariro, Whakarewarewa, on verso) Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on envelopes. Physical Description: Photolithographs on envelopes, each 90 x 153 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2007.

Date: 1910 - 1930

By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948

Reference: A-203-004

Description: Shows hotel surrounded by bush-covered hills, viewed from a flat foreground area Other Titles - Franz Josef Inscriptions: Verso - title "Waiho. Franz Joseph" in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 177 x 254 mm

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch :Charm of Franz Josef N.Z., the world's most beautiful glacier. [1920s?]

Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Franz-1920s-01-cover

Description: Shows two walkers on a path through the bush in the right foreground, looking out at the Franz Josef Glacier in the central distance. Colouring is pink/red and blue/grey. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 245 x 187 mm.

Date: ca 1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-834

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1951

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-384-001-1/6

Description: Shows a view of the Franz Josef Glacier, the sunlit mountains beyond, and trees silhouetted in the foreground. Similar to the image at A-379-031. Quantity: 6 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcuts on sheets, 230 x 290 mm.