Places

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-091

Description: Photographs of people and their occupations, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1939 and 1940. Includes photographs made to accompany stories relating to: Whitebaiting, floods, hedgehogs, movie extras and a Plimmerton fisherman. Also includes photographs of Kauri gum being weighed, lace being made, a cattle auction, handloom weaving, mussel dredging in the Coromandel, installation of the Lowburn Dredge, a homemade diving suit, a power pole in Russell, rural scenes in Hamilton. Includes the oldest blacksmith in New Zealand, a waterwheel in the Carrick Ranges, lapidiaries, a car with a gasometer, Kauri carvings, a farmer repairing a fence, water bicycles, a tower of matches. Also an unusual carrot, pony traction, a travelling repairman, North Auckland Inlet transport, a postman, a whitewashed mining cottage in Arrowtown, a model railway. Women working at the Dominion Museum and the Turnbull Library, packhorses, Tahurangi Hut, Roger Kingsford and a Maori meeting house at Ohinemuri. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Between 1934 and 1938]

By: New Zealand Railways; Blaikie, William Nicol, -1938; Matthews, Marmaduke, 1885?-1949

Reference: PA1-f-060

Description: Album of publicity photographs, chiefly taken by unidentified photographers in the 1930s. Many are photographs of posters, artwork and advertisements, all emphasising the beauty of New Zealand, and how easy it is to travel through the country by rail, and by the New Zealand Railways bus and ferry services. Some of the artwork was done by Stanley Davis (one photograph shows the funeral of S. Davis, with the hearse parked outside the funeral parlour in Kent Terrace, Wellington); and by Marmaduke Matthews. (On page 53 there is a photograph of a black and white sketch of Victoria University College, by Marmaduke Matthews). There is a photograph also of the painting of Sir Ernest Rutherford, by Oswald Birley. Photographs of places include a sequence showing the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery in Wellington, with an exterior view with the Carillon, and interior views of museum exhibits, art gallery spaces (including one room containing the Murray Fuller Exhibition of Contemporary British Art), and the tea-rooms. Several views show the exterior and interior of the Alexander Turnbull Library, with Clyde Taylor the librarian in two scenes seated at his desk, and one of a reader in the reading room. Another sequence shows horses, sheep and bulls being readied for transportation by ferry. Two group portraits are associated with the Empire Games, one entitled `Empire athletes', and the other showing cyclist Roy Taylor with a group. Other group portraits are not identified, though one is entitled `Staff Xmas party 1937'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 6'; 41 x 58 cm

Date: 1933

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084816-G

Description: Looking down on the site being prepared for the Dominion Museum building, Mount Cook, Wellington. Shows workmen with a horse-drwn cart. Also shows houses in the surrounding area, and Tasman Street on the left. Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington in 1933. Source of descriptive information - From file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca July-August] 1934

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-122291-F

Description: An aerial view of Wellington in 1934, looking over Mt Cook, Basin Reserve, Newtown (upper centre and right), Hataitai, Kilbirnie and Miramar (upper left). Some of the buildings which can be identified are: National Museum Wellington (being constructed), Carillion War Memorial Monument and Wellington College. Photograph taken by a photographer from the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1934

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047757-G

Description: Wellington, 1934, circa August-October, showing Dominion Museum under construction, and the Carillon. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1931]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-090207-G

Description: Photograph of labourers carrying out the earthwork on the western approach to the Wellington National War Memorial Carillon and Dominion Museum in Mt Cook, Wellington, taken circa 1931 by an unidentified Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

Reference: E-302-q-2-062/064

Description: Title of each panel is written above it. According to a slip of paper inside sketchbook 6, design no 63 is of a poupou. Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 75 x 305 mm (each) in sketchbook

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-1-019/021

Description: 19 is a form of No 22 (q.v) The white represents the pattern. No 20 is a modification of No 18 (25W) from the "Tama-te-Kapua" house at Ohinemutu. 21. is termed "Pitau-a-Manaia" from the maihi (facing boards on the gable of a house) of Te Poho-o-Rawiri" a house erected at Kaiti, Gisborne, about 1849. "The maihi is now in the Dominion Museum". Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 75 x 295 mm (each) in sketchbook

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

Reference: E-302-q-3-071/073

Description: Title of each panel is written above it. Other Titles - Te Puru Ki Te Tuhua Other Titles - Te-Puru-Kite-Tuhua Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, sizes varying from 49 x 290 mm to 59 x 295 mm, in sketchbook

Date: 1934

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-6301-59

Description: Aerial view of Mount Cook, Wellington, 1934. Shows the Dominion Museum under construction, and the Carillon. Evening Post photograph. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 20.3 cm

Date: [ca 1936]

From: New Zealand Railways: Photographs

Reference: 1/1-025022-G

Description: Tea-room interior, Dominion Museum, Wellington, circa 1936. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: Aug-Oct 1934

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046048-G

Description: Overlooking the Dominion Museum, Mount Cook, Wellington, under construction. The Carillon is to the left. Houses in Mount Victoria are in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith between August and October, 1934. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: Mar-Apr 1934

Reference: 1/2-053016-F

Description: Dominion Museum, Mount Cook, Wellington, under construction, between March-April, 1934. The Carillon is in the background. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Jun-Jul 1936

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-6301-35

Description: Grounds being laid out by the Wellington Parks Department in front of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, between June-July, 1936. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 20.2 cm

Date: 1933

Reference: 1/2-053018-F

Description: Aerial view over Mount Cook, Wellington in 1933, overlooking the Carillon, and Wellington High School. The Dominion Museum was under construction. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1936

From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji

Reference: 1/2-041956-G

Description: View of Wellington, taken from Mt Victoria, showing the Dominion Museum, the Basin Reserve and Wellington East Girls' College. Photograph take by William Hall Raine in 1936. Dominion Museum opened 1 Aug 1936. Wellington High School was built between 1920-1938. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1934

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-023103-G

Description: Dominion Museum, Wellington, under construction, with Wellington High School in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith in 1934. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative