Places

Date: 1865 - 1866

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1865-1867].

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: E-511-006

Description: Shows view of Lake Waihola at left, edged at far left with a range of hills, In the centre is a plain, with Lake Waipori in far right distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 123 x 206 mm. Provenance: Estate of Eric McCormick, 1995. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1894

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-169-019

Description: Cattle grazing on a plain, with haystacks and farm buildings in the background. Flax grows on the flat land. There are hills to the left and in the distance Inscriptions: On separate label, attached below work: title in pencil in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 58 x 242 mm

Date: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA4-0113

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a harvesting scene on the Taieri Plain, taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Inscriptions: mat verso - bottom left - New Zealand through the camera. Burton Brothers, Photos., Dunedin, N.Z. Harvesting on the Taieri Plain. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6881

Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1910]

By: Grace, W, active 1890s

Reference: PA4-0953

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Taieri plains, Dunedin, showing a bridge across the Taieri River. Photograph taken by W Grace, ca 1880s Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Fertile Taieri Plains, 25 miles from Dunedin; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - W Grace, Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1983

From: Shore Bennett, Beverley, 1928- :[Group of 55 design drawings for leadlight windows, 1970-1996].

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-

Reference: A-325-021

Description: Shows Jesus Christ seated with one child on His lap, and one standing on either side of Him. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Beverley Shore Bennett M.B.E. F.M.G.P. / 1983 / Miller Studios Ltd.; Verso - top right - Paul Hutchins / maker; Verso - top centre - If an appropriate text is required can we please use a more modern translation so as to avoid the outdated word "Suffer", which has lost its original meaning? It calls to mind noisy family services and in that context perhaps relevant today! P.S. I've had three of my own so am really long suffering!. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 290 x 125 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1998.

Date: 2002 - 2003

By: University of Otago

Reference: Eph-E-UNIVERSITY-Otago-2003-01

Description: Calendar which can be used on either side, as each has a full chart of the months of the year 2003. One side shows a reproduction of Ian Scott's head and shoulders profile portrait of artist Colin McCahon smoking a cigarette, and the other side shows a landscape by George O'Brien. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of sheet, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Hocken Library in 2012.

Date: 1949-1958

By: Tyrell, Norman, -1994; Hayward, Margaret Jane, 1940-

Reference: PA-Group-00367

Description: Photographs of holiday excursions and job sites taken ca 1949-1958 by railway engineer Norman Tyrell. Covers hydro-electric dams and their construction, bridges and their construction, the construction of a septic tank at Palmerston, cities, ports, Auckland Zoo, tramping and mountains and scenic New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 71104 1/4 - F 71731 1/4 Photographs taken by Norman Tyrell, railway engineer, d 1994 Quantity: 627 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4779 to PA-Group-00367 in 2009.

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918

Reference: A-120-017-1

Description: A church and several houses in the foreground, possibly part of North Taieri. Hills rise in the near distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 140 x 230 mm

Date: 1783-1860

By: Warren, Peter, active 1783

Reference: MS-2349

Description: 12 pages in the middle of the volume contain the accounts and jottings of a settler on the Taieri Plains Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 100 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, ms (19cm, stained vellum, grey phase box)

Date: 1865 - 1866

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1865-1867].

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-511-004

Description: Shows view of the Taieri Plain, with dry fenced fields in foreground, and bare mountains in the background. There is a haystack and a stand of cabbage trees in left foreground, and two horses and carts skirting the hills at right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title in brown brushpoint]; Verso - Milbert Taieri from G Howorths 25 12 65 6 am [followed by colour notes] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 123 x 206 mm.

Date: [Between 1920s and 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Pa1-f-053

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways, chiefly taken circa 1936, by unidentified photographers. The main sequences cover views in the Christchurch area, the Southern Alps and West Coast in the South Island; and Gisborne, East Cape, and Taranaki in the North Island. Many of the images were used in the New Zealand Railway Magazine which is available in full-text on the internet at http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-railways.html Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled Tours, Book 4; 39 x 59 cm

Date: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA4-0111

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a harvesting scene on the Taieri Plain, taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Inscriptions: mat verso - bottom left - New Zealand through the camera. Burton Brothers, Photos., Dunedin, N.Z. Harvesting on the Taieri Plain. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1888 - 1897

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] W M Hodgkins, Melrose Dn. Notes. [ca 1893]

Reference: E-031-q-1-014/015

Description: An extensive view of the lower Taieri River with low hills The name Takitakitau is no longer in use in the Otago area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil across two sketchbook pages, page size 152 x 212 mm

Date: 1933-1936

From: Chrisp, Edmund William, 1917?-2000 : Diaries and papers

Reference: MSX-7202

Description: Diary kept by Chrisp during tramping trips and expeditions in Otago, Southland, Wellington and the Manawatu from 1933 to 1936; includes maps of routes taken, lists of participants and related information. Some of the trips were Outram Camp, Blackhead (ie Black Head), Catlins, Wellington to Palmerston North and back, Waikanae to Akatarawa. Team members were Jack Coombs, Erwin Henry, Ned Kelly (killed in action 25 Apr 1941), Tony Doig and Wuz (died 19 Jun 1934). Accompanying material - Article, `Watch on the rocks' by Patrick McLennan (Listener, 22 Jan 1990) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1861-1863

By: Gallon, Robert, active 1861-1863

Reference: MS-Papers-3340

Description: Letters to his cousin J R Maxwell from Dunedin and North Taieri Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Letter dated 6 April 1862 has view of Dunedin on the front

Date: 1938-1943

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-4161-01-055

Description: Aerial photographs of the following: Mt Victoria showing Basin Reserve, Evans Bay and Patent Slip, 1942 (Series 13/9); Opau Battery showing gun emplacements, camp and Wellington Harbour in background, 1942 (Series 15/2); Orongorongo showing R.D.F Station, Riddiford's homestead, Baring Head lighthouse and Sinclair Head (Series 15/5); Titahi Bay showing camp and Porirua Inlet in background (Series 20/6); Baring Head showing lighthouse and signal station (Series 2/1); Hutt Park U.S.M.C. Army Camp No 4, 1943; Hutt Valley, 1942-1943 (Series 8/3); Mahanga Bay showing wharf and stores (Series 13/13); Miramar showing view of oil tanks (Series 13/15); Palmer Head showing radar position, construction of gun emplacements, and general view looking towards Rongotai and Lyall Bay (Series 16/22); Belmont magazine showing excavated sites, 1943 (Series 2/3); Brooklyn showing Fitchett's farm and general view of A.A. site (Series 2/6); Judgeford showing Judgeford, Haywards & Moonshine camps with Hutt Valley in background of some views, 1943 (Series 10/1 & 8/4)); Kaikoura Drill Hill, 1938 (Series 11/4); Taieri showing RNZAF station and general views of the Taieri Plains, 1944 (Series 20/11); Hastings Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 8/5); Hamilton Defence Office showing drill hall, stores, barracks, 1938 (Series 8/6); Castor Bay showing battery position, 1943 (Series 3/1); Kaipara Flats and railway station, 1943 (Series 11/1). Quantity: 121 b&w original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Includes index note book.

Date: 1941-1946

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

By: Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd; Snowden, James Robert, 1904-1982

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-193

Description: Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: RNZAF Station, Taeiri; Ardmore; Nelson; Harewood; Hamilton; Wigram; Rutland Street, Ohakea; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Wellington; Waipapakauri; RNZAF Station Delta; New Plymouth; RNZAF Accommodation Camp, Anderson Park; HMS Tamaki; HMNZS Cook (Shelly Bay). Photographs of Dental Section at Los Negros (Manus Island); Lauthala Bay, Fiji; Egypt (1941). Caravan trailer, 1946 (taken by A G Sparrow); Mobile Dental Unit on manoeuvres in NZ, 1942; 4 NZ Field Ambulance (Dental Section) at Castelfrentano, Italy; Dental store at Wellington, 1945. Series of captioned photographs of NZ Adv Base Hygiene Section. Includes methods of food storage, pest control, refuse disposal, portable latrine; Camp Maadi; personnel of 6 NZ Div Hyg Section prior to forming of NZ Adv. Base Hyg. & Maadi Camp Hyg Section, Dec 1943; photo of Major Knights (OC 4 Field Hygiene Coy) & Major Kay (OC NZ Adv Base Hyg. Section), 1944 Collection of photographs separated out for use in the publication `The New Zealand Dental Services' compiled by T V Anson (Official history of NZ in the Second World War), 1960. Includes: Mobile Dental Section in the field at Whangarei (photo by B Snowden); drawing of camp site and plan No 10 Mobile Dental Section, Solomon Islands (key to aerial photo); contents of prosthetic pannier; contents of surgical pannier; mobile prosthetic laboratory being loaded on board a transport ship bound for Egypt, 1941; No 2 Dental Section, Bougainville, 1945; Dental Headquarters, Guadalcanal; No 2 Maxillo-facial Injury Section with CCS in Guadalcanal; No 10 Mobile Dental Section in Guadalcanal; Dental Section in native bure, Fiji; 4 Field Ambulance Dental Section, Alamein; mobile unit on way to Syria; Lieut Col O E L Rout; several photos of dental sections in NZ as listed above. Quantity: 293 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 22 Aug 1986 - 27 Aug to 9 Dec 1986 - 16 Aug 1987 - 16 Apr 1987

From: Presbyterian Support Otago Community History Programme oral history collection

By: Turnbull, Bessie, 1885-1988; Korner, Aggie, active 1980-1988

Reference: OHInt-0952-01

Description: Interviews with Bessie Turnbull, born in Mosgiel in 1885, the youngest of eleven children. Talks about her parents emigrating from Scotland in 1863 or 1864, and owning bakeries at Mosgiel Junction and Mosgiel township. Comments on the family living between the town and Mosgiel Junction, and the children helping in the shop. Refers to her mother having a hard life and her father being "the Laird" of the family. Discusses bread making, their living conditions, the domestic routine and having help in the home. Comments on birthdays, holidays, Christmas, leisure, weddings, funerals, shopping, Sundays and attending East Tairei Presbyterian Church. Mentions religious tensions in the community, and compares English, Scottish, Irish and Dutch settlers. Talks about social classes in Mosgiel. Refers to horse and cart transport, the family's cows and family pets. Comments on health and home remedies, epidemics including the 1918 flu epidemic, cleanliness and poor sanitation. Comments on low wages and poverty in Mosgiel, and her mother taking in sewing during hard times. Mentions swaggers including "The Shiner". Discusses attending East Taieri School from age six until she was 14. Talks about the school day, lessons, using slates and discipline. Refers to wanting to be a school teacher but not being able to because of family circumstances and working as a domestic for a year for 3/- per week. Discusses getting work in the Mosgiel Woollen Mill where she was paid 24/- a fortnight. Describes at length working conditions and the working day at the mill, staff picnics and other entertainments. Talks about living with her mother until she died, and going together by train to Dunedin on Saturdays for shopping. Comments on changing living conditions and the impact of electricity. Mentions leisure activities including going to the pictures. Discusses shopping, clothing, relationships, and feeling it was her duty to care for her mother though she did not mind being unmarried. Mentions the impact of her mother's death and moving to a house she had had built, which had electricity but no washing machine or telephone (by choice). Recalls the Boer War and longer hours being worked at the mill to make socks and clothing. Remembers shops being draped in black when Queen Victoria died. Comments that she has never been to see any of the royal family and gives her opinion of them. Mentions that none of her brothers fought in World War I but they sent letters and food parcels to local men serving overseas. Refers to women being employed in men's jobs during the war, and the mill working overtime. Talks about food rationing. Discusses men returning from the war finding jobs hard to get, and not talking about their experiences. Reflects on the 1930s Depression, it's impact in Mosgiel, and only working half time. Recalls World War II, hearing about it on the radio, attitudes to Hitler, and longer hours and more jobs for women at the mill. Mentions hearing Vera Lynn sing at the Dunedin Town Hall. Refers to war as "a hell's disease". Talks about adjusting readily to retirement after working for 57 years at the mill. Comments on a flight in an aeroplane, never having had television, and keeping chooks and a garden until she was 100. Reflects on her life and the position of women today (1980s). A preliminary interview (OHC-018655) and a joint interview with Aggie Korner on 16 Apr 1987 (OHC-018656) are not abstracted Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - card from the exhibition "Bessie Turnbull - her story" Accompanying material - folder OHA-6469-2: information about the Bessie Turnbull Exhibition and interviewing Bessie; photocopy of a paper about the exhibition delivered to the 1988 Oral History Seminar by Helen Frizzell; a partial transcript (some handwritten); research notes for the interviews (some handwritten) Accompanying material - folder OHA-6469-3: text from the exhibition "Bessie Turnbull - her story" Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-018657 - OHA-018669 - tapes 1-13 Tape numbers - OHA-018655 - preliminary interview Tape numbers - OHA-018656 - joint interview with Aggie Korner Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 folder(s). 14 interview(s). 14 Hours Duration. 1 C20 cassette(s). 1 5" reel(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6469. B&W photographs of Bessie Turnbull with Aggie Korner at the opening of the exhibition, and of Helen Frizzell in front of a display of photographs of the young and old Bessie Turnbull.. B&W photograph clipped from newspaper of Bessie Turnbull on her 103rd birthday.. Colour photograph of Aggie Korner aged 96 years Search dates: 1885 - 1986

Date: 1926-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Collins, L, active 1940; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Stewart and White Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-144

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1926 and 1950. Includes: Aerial and other photographs of towns in Otago, West Coast and Marlborough regions (places entered in Place Field). Other subjects include - war memorial at Green Island, Dunedin, 1926; Moeraki boulders; St Luke's Church, Oamaru; establishment of Invermay Agricultural Centre; remains of whaler's hut taken from Long Lookout Hill near mouth of Lake Forsyth; YMCA party at Tennyson Inlet; rock formations at Wai-nui Beach (near Pohara); Punakaiki pancake rocks; gold dredge at Gillespie's Beach; hut in Haast Valley (A V Bowden, photographer); Clutha River Gold Dredging Company's new dredge at Alexandra; Bendigo Hotel, Alexandra; raspberry pickers at Upper Riccarton, 1951; etc. Photographers include: L Collins, Christchurch; Thelma Kent; F J Denton, Oamaru; J D S Roberts; A V Bowden; W Hall Raine; Taylor of Dunedin; V C Browne, Christchurch; M Grant, Christchurch; Whites Aviation; Stewart & White Ltd, Auckland; H O Barker, Winton. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints