Places

Date: ca 1917, ca 1965

By: Robinson, Ina Margaret, 1915-2006; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-3674

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (postcards, stapled together).

Date: 1899 - 1912

By: Brown, John Henry, active 1899-1906; Ellerbeck, Laurence Anderson, -1963; Parkerson, C P, active 1911-1912; Watson, Alexander James, -1920; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-3405

Description: Includes school groups in Te Aroha and Gisborne, NZ forces on Queens Wharf, Wellington, prior to departure for South Africa in 1899, and groups of tourists in the Thermal District Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1936]

By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917

Reference: PAColl-0718

Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1880-1920]

By: Sievwright, J D, active 1987; Berry, William, active 1877-1926; Falk Studio; Hemus, Charles, 1849-1925; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Talma Studio (Australia); W & D Downey (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3409

Description: Collection also includes an invitation for Mr and Mrs J D Sievwright to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, 1901. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item of ephemera. Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Eph-A-BIRD-1900-01 : Invitation to 18th annual exhibition of the Wellington Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Society.

Date: ca 1900-ca 1915, 1930s, 1960s

By: Dye, Kathleen, active 1930s; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015; Sharp, Barbara, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-7713

Description: Photographs of the Rodney district, Russell, Waitangi, Te Kuiti, Te Aroha, Wanganui, Hunua Falls, skiing in Tongariro National Park, Rotorua, Nelson, and army groups. Kathleen Dye was the donor's mother. The family lived north of Auckland, in the Kaukapakapa - Warkworth area. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcard. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Barbara Sharp, Levin, in August 2003.

Date: 1915 - 1925

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wairakei-1925-01

Description: Includes photographs of scenes showing Wairakei geysers, silica formations, the hotel, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 17 pages, 90 x 150 mm.

Date: [ca 1909]

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-7992

Description: Negatives of Rotorua, Whakarewarewa, and Taranaki, taken ca 1909 by R G Marsh of Rotorua. Most of the images are of tourists and guides around the hot springs at Whakarewarewa, but there are also several school portraits taken at Okaiawa School and Convent School, Hawera. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-220000-G to 1/2-220068-G Quantity: 69 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2003

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1918-01

Description: Card / booklet of photographs shows a humorous illustration of a smiling landlady holding up a bill for board and lodgings. Inside the flap are 12 photographs of Maori, the Ohinemutu Church, Honga track, the post office, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids. The handwritten message on the verso is to Mary, from Olive and Walter from Ruhi Street Rotorua. Message reads: "Dear Mary, Hope you are well as this leaves all up here at present. Winter is setting in alright isn't it. I've just finished a letter to Hilda. Maggie's baby is doing fine. Is it true Miss Ferguson is to be married. I wish her & Mr Woolley as well every happiness but you will miss her won't you. Everything is quiet as can be here. Walter awfully busy with the garden & I'm putting my nose in of course. Well write soon, with love from cousins Olive & Walter" Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on card, 138 x 90 mm, with strip of 12 black and white foldout photographs, 420 x 70 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2014.

Date: [ca 1900-1929]

From: Simonds, Sheila, active 2005: Collection

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Fleetway Press (London, England); Frank Duncan and Company; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PAColl-10048

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes, particularly in the Wellington and Rotorua districts and a few in Oamaru. Also a portrait of an unidentified soldier - a captain of the NZ Artillery, possibly World War I. Images are taken circa 1900-1929. Some photographers are identified: Sydney Charles Smith, Frederick George Radcliffe, Frank Giles Barker, and Robert George Stanley Marsh. Publishing companies include Tanner Bros Ltd, Frank Duncan & Co, and Fleetway Press. Scenes feature landmarks in Wellington and Oamaru, various geothermal scenes at Whakarewarewa, and scenes of Maori life and customs. Also includes single images of harvesting lucerne at Marlborough, Riddiford Gardens, and an unidentified geyser [Waimangu?]. A number of the postcards are inscribed, with identified writers including Olive Edmond and W Barnes. Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [ca 1912-1945]

By: Cowan, Erica, active 1978-2001; Ginders, C A, active 1940s; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Mitchell, Trevor Vernon, -1942

Reference: PAColl-0324

Description: The collection includes two different sets of photographs. The first is the photographs from the collection of Thomas Vernon Mitchell taken while he was serving in the army in the Middle East in the Second World War. They include tourist scenes of the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane; the city of the dead in Cairo; street scenes in Jerusalem, Tiberias and Aleppo; tombs of the caliphs in Cairo; the Dead Sea; the tower of King David, Jerusalem; the Hotel Yarkon, Tel Aviv; the citadel entrance, Aleppo; and Tiberias Hot Springs. Other images are a 24th Battalion chuch parade in February 1941, two views of Mitchell's grave, the effects of a sandstorm on a military camp in the desert, Mitchell and his friends on rickshaws, Papakura infantry at Trentham in October 1940, and the 24th Battalion party at Cairo 1941. Most of the photographs are captioned and names given are: Warren, Abbott, Coleman, Braser, Wright, Scott, Hargreaves, Walton, Jamieson, Morpeth, Christianson, Battesby, Bullen, Ready, Procter, Pryde, Brash, Naismith, Steel, Shaw, Bush, Banks, Seavill, Allen, McCowan, Buckingham, Boyce, Hawke, Logie, Trubshaw, Olsen, Conder, Horrocks, Rawson, Gilfilan, Bradley, Pratt, Dow, Bremner, Ker, Stark, James and Cutler. The second set of photographs is of a trip by George Philips to the Rotorua area in May 1912. They include Philips and others at Tutea Falls, Okere; in front of Maori carvings and Ohinemutu; in a punt at Hamurana Spring; and on Hinemoa Step, Okere Falls. The photographer of this is Marsh of Rotorua. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s) loose. 18 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted.

Date: 29 December 1916, 1940 - 1942

By: Boyce, Geraldine Mary, 1917-2002; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-1604

Description: A view of lake Tikitapu, taken on 29 December 1916, and a portrait of Emily Brouard (from the Channel Islands), who had been A H Turnbull's housekeeper, with the first of Tony Murray-Oliver's cats outside the Alexander Turnbull Library, taken ca 1940 - 1942 G M Boyce (née Kean) was on the staff of the Alexander Turnbull Library, 1937 - 1943 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1917

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PA1-o-1188

Description: Album of 12 postcards by R G Marsh of Rotorua, showing the Waimangu eruption of 1 April 1917, the accommodation house before and after the eruption, the hot lake at Waimangu, Frying Pan Flat before and after the eruption, Lake Rotomahana, Guide McCormick, and general views of the thermal district. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 9 x 15 cm

Date: ca 1914-1918

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-0605

Description: Photographs of: Tui Hunt holding a doll and Huia Hunt at an easel in their back garden; the beach at Broad Bay, Dunedin; the employees outside J Mandl & Co, Westland Brewery in Hokitika with a horse and loaded dray next to it; a display of dolls, dolls furniture and framed pictures with poems attached; a hand touched photograph of an unknown man next to a lake probably in Rotorua; Lorna Moore holding the train of the dress of Miss Mulholland at Twomey's Hotel in Methven (not a wedding dress so possibly for a pageant); a taxi bedecked with union jacks outside a house in Christchurch with six people dressed up as clowns for a post-war celebration - one man is blacked up; and a street sellers cart labelled "Soldiers' Queen Cart No 4" possibly also associated with post-war celebrations. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1910s and 1950s]

From: Gascoigne, Joseph William 1885-1972 :Postcards and photographs

By: Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Fenton, (Mr?), active 1911; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Payne, J J, active 1910s; Garton, A C, active 1911; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Mirrielees (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-097

Description: Postcard album. Album includes portraits of unidentified men and women; group portraits of men in military uniform and in police uniform (at Hull, England). Several views show Paekakariki, the Porirua Mental Hospital, and views of a Maori marae at Titahi Bay showing crowds of people arriving at the funeral of a Maori princess, circa 1910s or 1920s. Post cards include views of New Zealand, chiefly Dunedin, Bluff and Waitomo Caves; other areas shown on post cards are Hull and Bridlington in Yorkshire, and London, in England; Rarotonga, Fiji and Melbourne are also included. Other post cards include humourous cartoons, and a series of Yorkshire sayings. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Post Cards'; 28.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: [ca 1890s-1910s]

By: Sarony Studio (Wellington, N.Z.); Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-9983

Description: Photographs taken circa 1890s-1910s relating to the family of Mr Michael T and his wife Elizabeth Marshall who emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand and became part of the Catholic community in Newtown, Wellington. Images show: -The Marshall's house and garden at 1 Owen Street, Newtown, Wellington. Two of the Marshall children standing outside. One child is possibly Kathleen Johanna Marshall (born 1888). Cabbages in a vegetable garden in foreground. Photograph taken circa 1892 by Sarony Studio of Wellington. -Unidentified group of men and children near a bank, circa 1910s, possibly during a 'Children of Mary' outing in the Wellington district. Photographer unidentified. -Unidentified group, circa 1910s, on horse-drawn cart, featuring a family friend of the Marshall's named Mary Hanrahan. Photographer, and location, unidentified. -Unidentified group, circa 1910s, on horse-drawn cart, next to Lake Tikitapu. Hand-coloured. Photographer unidentified. -View of Wonderland at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Christchurch (1906-1907), from the top of the water chute. Hand-coloured. Photograph taken by Robert George Stanley Marsh. Other - Michael and Elizabeth Marshall emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand. They lived in Martin Square, Te Aro, Wellington and later moved to 1 Owen Street, Newtown, Wellington. They had six children and their daughter Kathleen married John Chambers. K and J Chambers had one son, the donor's husband Desmond John Chambers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Michael and Elizabeth Marshall emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand and lived in Martin Square, Te Aro, Wellington. They later moved to 1 Owen Street, Newtown, Wellington. They had six children and their daughter Kathleen married John Chambers. K and J Chambers had one son, Desmond John Chambers, who later married Bernadette Chambers. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Photographs came from the donor's husband's grandparents, Michael and Elizabeth Marshall. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - Bernadette Chambers: Ephemera: Music programmes, Victoria College graduates menu and toast list, and accommodation ephemera. Also items for appraisal sent from Ephemera to Published and Cartographic..

Date: 1915 - 1925

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by the Gudopp family. ca 1905-1915].

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-9-006-2

Description: Shows a general view of the geysers playing at Whakarewarewa. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 139 mm.

Date: [ca 1909]

From: Sachse, K H (Mr), fl 1972: Postcards of New Zealand scenes

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-0863-01

Description: Pohutu Geyser, Whakarewarewa. Photograph taken ca 1909 by Robert George Marsh. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - The Great Pohutu Geyser (90 feet high) Cauldron and Feathers. Whakarewarewa. Rotorua. N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - R. G. Marsh, Photo., protected 15. 9. 09. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photomechanical print 13.7 x 8.7 cm

Date: 1915 - 1925

From: Marsh, R G, fl 1915-1925, photographer :Souvenir of wonderful Wairakei; seventeen views. [ca 1915-1925].

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wairakei-1925-01-04

Description: Shows a view of the hotel and an inset oval view of the geyser. Extended Title - From his "Souvenir of wonderful Wairakei; seventeen views". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 90 x 150 mm.