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South Island album
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
Cundy album
Date: 1896-1897
By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910; Cundy, Horace Gordon, 1907-1983
Reference: PA1-o-124
Description: Photograph album of West Coast scenes, compiled, and in part photographed by surveyor George John Roberts. Several images show Roberts, including one image of him with L Cockayne and C E Douglas standing on ice at the Bealey in April 1897. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black bound album with cream cotton spine, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr H G Cundy, Palmerston North, 1977. The album was compiled by surveyor George Roberts, uncle of Mr Cundy.
Creator unknown :Harper album
Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]
By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955
Reference: PA1-q-113
Description: Photographs of New Zealand, probably taken by A P Harper Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - `To Alec and Flo' from Mother, Hokitika, 1st July, 1897'; Album page - `A.S. Malcolm, "Lossie", Balclutha' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cloth cover, red simulated leather spine and corners; 37 x 28 cm Provenance: No donor information available. Given to Alexander Scott Malcolm and his wife Flora in 1897.
Mair album
Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]
By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts
Reference: PA1-o-321
Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm
Mueller album 3
Date: 1899
From: Mueller, Mildred Violet, d 1969 :Albums
By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910
Reference: PA1-o-355
Description: Scenes in Westland, the Southern Alps and Canterbury, taken in the 1890s by George John Roberts (1848-1910), Chief Surveyor in Westland. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - To Isabel from old "Yellow Tickets", Christmas 1899 Provenance: Album from the collection of Gerhard Mueller (1835?-1918), Chief Surveyor for Westland Province 1868-1892. Donated by his daughter, Mildred Violet Mueller, Auckland, April 1967.
McLennan album
Date: [1900s]
By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931; New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: PA1-o-316
Description: Album of scenic views of New Zealand, many taken by Thomas Pringle, others taken by photographers from the New Zealand Tourist Department, and others by unidentified photographers. A number are hand-coloured. South Island scenes include Milford Sound, lake and mountain views, and some of Christchurch city. North island scenes include a number in Wellington, with views of city streets, the Chief Post Office, Government Buildings, St John's Church and the railway station. Most of the other North Island views are of tourist destinations, particularly in the thermal regions, with hot springs, geysers and mud pools. There are a large number relating to Maori, especially at Whakarewarewa, with taniko weaving, flax weaving, poi dancers, te hongi, and posed portraits of young girls in front of a meeting house wearing different styles of cloaks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown textured cover; 25.5 x 30.0 cm
Tourist Department album 7
Date: [Circa 1900s]
By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department
Reference: PA1-o-500
Description: Photographs, mostly showing the West Coast of the South Island, with some showing parts of Southland, taken by the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department circa 1900s. Most are landscapes, but some show people in the distance, including horse-drawn coaches in the Buller Gorge and Bealey Gorge; Archer's punt on the Inagahua River; two men standing outside the Malte Brun Hut; climbers on the various glaciers; and people in rowing boats on Lake Kaniere. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm
Wheeler and son album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-533
Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm