Places

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-078

Description: View looking down onto Lyttleton from a hill. Ships can be seen docked at the wharves and in the harbour. In the foreground to the left are two carts, one filled with soil [?]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: 30 Sept 1900 - 31 Oct 1900

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953

Reference: PA1-f-143

Description: Arrangement: The album consists of Hill-Trevor's diary of the cruise, with the photographs interspersed with the text. This album documents the cruise of Lord Ranfurly, Governor of NZ, aboard HMS Mildura to the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga and the Kermadec Islands, in October 1900, in the course of which he annexed the Cook Islands and Niue for the British Crown. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.

Date: [ca 1908]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6408

Description: Postcards of St Mark's Church, Remuera; the Waikato River at Hamilton; HM fleet in Lyttelton harbour; two of the Pavilion baths and grounds in Rotorua; the view from the grounds from the tower of bath house, Rotorua; an evening view of the Marine Parade gardens, Napier; the anglican church at Onehunga; a commemorative postcard of the dash to the south pole by Shackleton in 1908; Ferry Bridge over the Waiau River at Hanmer taken by Muir & Moodie; three views of boating at Hamurana Springs; Lakelet in the park, Queenstown; main street in Cust; Auckland Exhibition Grounds; Somerville Memorial Church at Remuera; Myers Park and Kindergarten; St David's Presbyterian Church; beach at Sumner, Christchurch; sanatorium and band rotunda, Te Aroha. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints also housed at PA5-0109 and PA5-0085. Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4534

Description: Postcard of Partington's Mill with Eady's Piano Van in front of it and the junction of Queen and Customs Street with Thames Hotel and trams taken by Frederick Radcliffe; statue of Logan Campbell in Cornwall Park; Lake Tarawera taken by Blencowe; Lyttelton harbour taken by Muir & Moodie; and Evans Bay, photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-10.

Date: 1932

By: Bruce, Alfred Selwyn, 1866-1936

Reference: qMS-0287

Description: Original manuscript for work published in 1936, with same title. Concerns Christchurch, Sumner and Lyttelton, and covers early history, city geography, old identities, pioneer women, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Publication - The Early days of Canterbury; a miscellaneous collection of interesting facts dealing with the settlement's first thirty years of colonisation Canterbury historian Quantity: 1 volume(s) (201 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (34 cm; maroon roan)

Date: 1889, ca1900, 1941

From: Lee, W C :Group outside hotel, 1889:Richard Seddon and party on board ship:Remains of torpedo boat in Lyttelton Harbour, 1941

By: Lee, W C, active 1990; Crawford, William Fitzgerald, 1844-1915

Reference: PAColl-1628-1

Description: Includes photo of hotel, probably in Gisborne district, taken by W F Crawford, and the remains of a torpedo boat, acquired during the "Russian scare" in Lyttelton Harbour Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6639

Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: York Studio (Wellington N.Z.); Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930; Muir & Moodie (Firm); New Zealand. Tourism Department; Dutch, F W, active 1900-1906; Bateman, J K, active 1945

Reference: PA1-o-035

Description: Album of views of Hobart, Australia, and of the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Taken by a number of different photographers, some unidentified, but those identified include the York Studio (Christchurch), John Watt Beattie (Tasmania), Muir and Moodie (Dunedin), and the New Zealand Tourist Department. The New Zealand images range from Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri in the south, to the Rotorua area in the north. Inscriptions: Album page - "Presented to the New Zealand Government by J.K. Bateman, Esq., 12 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1, 10 October 1945" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by J K Bateman, London

Date: [ca 1890-1931]

By: Anderson, Freda, active 1980s

Reference: PAColl-7302

Description: Postcards of New Zealand and Australia. Includes: Paihia showing the pier and a sign on a bathing hut for Mon Desir Guest House, with German writing and mention of Tracey's boarding house; the viaduct over the Makatote Gorge on the Main Trunk Railway; a ship moored at Lyttelton wharves; Town Hall and Wynyard Square, Sydney; and Government House from the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1855-1900

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2910

Description: Selected papers from the records of James Baine and Co, the James Ireland letters (these include a letter written by George & Susan Patterson giving details of their voyage to Auckland on the `Rock City' 1855), and the William Midgley and Captain Henry Hatchwell papers, as well as journals of J T Deighton, F G Pearson and Sarah Stephens and one anonymous writer Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1905-1909

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

Reference: PA1-o-833

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

Date: ca 1900-ca 1920

By: Bradstock, Cedric Alec, 1925-

Reference: PAColl-4264

Description: Views in New Zealand Quantity: 28 postcards.

Date: [1900s]

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

Reference: PA1-o-1620

Description: Burton Brothers album 'Land of Loveliness: New Zealand". Inclues views of Lyttelton, Sumner, Rakaia (showing Rakaia Butchery & Bakery of A. Chamberlain est 1873), Fendalton, Avon and New Brighton. Also shows a street view of an unknown township with Victoria House, Dimant & Coe, general drapers and clothing store. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 13 x 16.5 cm Provenance: Purchase, 2000

Date: 10 Jun 1902

From: Creator of collection unknown :Panoramas of New Zealand by Melvin Vaniman

By: Vaniman, Melvin, 1866-1912

Reference: PA6-300

Description: Probable American usage with inscription date Inscriptions: bottom left - Protected 6.10.'02 Melvin Vaniman San Francisco Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-297

Description: Album of South Island scenes (except for a few taken en route to Wellington showing The Brothers, Pencarrow Head, and one of a group having a picnic at Muritai). Probably mostly photographed by George William Barltrop. The first section shows the Nelson and Marlborough areas, and several photographs of ships at sea, one shipwreck (the Antiocco Accame in 1901), and one aground (the Elginshire, 1902). People who are identified are: the Reverend Bennett (Frederick Augustus Bennett (later Bishop), with his first wife Hana Te Unuhi Mere Bennett, and young daughter, Rawinia Bennett (circa 1900); Abe Wells, photographed as an older man outside his cob house at Richmond (circa 1890s); and Isla Reid, photographed as a young girl, probably in the Dunedin area. Three scenes in cemeteries have clearly identified headstones, and include those for the Reverend Samuel Poole, Frank Churchill Simmons; and a group memorial for Charlotte McDonald, Annie McQuaid and Lizzie Crinrod, stewardesses who were drowned in the wreck of the SS Wairarapa, Great Barrier Island, 29th October 1894. This was erected by the stewardesses of the Union Steam Ship Company. Inscriptions: Album page - Geo W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: [1900-1974?]

From: Lyttelton Ships' Tally Clerks' Industrial Union of Workers : Records

Reference: Objects-0034

Description: A tin plaque with six nail-holes, inscribed with the name of the Union and presumably from the door of the office. Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Tin, hand-painted, 255 x 410 mm Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts & Archives, from MS-Papers-1577, 21 January 1977.. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00784 as part of the Curios and Objects survey, November 2022. Previous reference: Curios-002-022. Previous title: Lyttelton Ships' Tally Clerks' Industrial Union of Workers Registered Office :[Plaque. Early 20th century?].

Date: 1906-[ca 1920]

By: Powley, Myrtle Ellen, 1906-

Reference: MS-Papers-1936

Description: Reminiscences of childhood in Lyttelton, local personalities, events, such as waterside strike, 1913, influenza epidemic, 1918, etc Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1863-1907

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-1135

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1864-1907, predominantly dated 1880s-1900s. Homesteads, houses, and churches include: Beauthorne (Kaiapoi), with Wilson family group in garden, including Joseph Lowthian, Thomas, Leonard, and Estelle; Glenmark (interiors and exterior views); Dr Volckman and Dr Weld's Oxford house [including Volckman and Weld, wife, and daughter?] in the garden; Mr John Ingram's residence (Oxford); Eskhead, one image depicting Mr Kennedy with unidentified visitors, and another with the Kennedy family; Kaiapoi Vicarage; St John's Church (Rangiora), and [St Joseph?] Catholic Church, School, and Presbytery in Rangiora. Kaiapoi Woollen Mill, Oxford Public Library, Rangiora Post and Telegraph Office, and the Great Northern Hotel (Waikari) are other buildings of note. Military photographs include Kaiapoi, Rangiora, and Cust Volunteer Rifles, groups of unidentified officers, the performance of various military exercises, and parades (Queen's Jubilee). Other images include training camps at Kaiapoi, Springbank, Hillsborough, Purau, and Oamaru (Redcastle), Canterbury Rifle Volunteers' Challenge Shield, veterans, cadets, South African War departures and victory celebrations. Also image of troops in Bloemfontein, South Africa (1900). Events covered include celebrations surrounding the unveiling of the Ngai Tahu monument at Kaiapohia Pa site (Easter Monday 1899) by Premiere Richard Seddon, various weddings (Ms Winters, Stackwood and [Fear?], Smith and McDowell), the funeral of Mrs Wikitoria Mutu (Tuahiwi), Caledonian Society gatherings (Amberley and St Andrews), picnics, sports days, agricultural shows, Lyttelton Regatta, Brackenfield Hunt Club meeting, the opening of the rowing season on Avon River (Christchurch) and Kaiapoi River, stock sales, Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention at Kaiapoi, William Hall-Jones turning of the first sod of the Cheviot railway. River scenes include Kaiapoi River (featuring boats 'Rock Lily', 'Huon Belle', and 'Emma Sims'), Grey River, Waimakariri River (road and rail bridge, water supply), Ashley Gorge bridge, and the temporary rail bridge over Patterson's Creek. Rural scenes include livestock (sheep, pigs, ostriches, horses (both farming and military), dogs (Brackenfield hounds) and cattle). Farming scenes feature Whiterock Station and haymaking. Scenic images show Weka Pass and Lake Sumner. Also various copies of early images of North Canterbury and Auckland. Portraits include James Edward Fitzgerald, Mr Self and Lord Lyttelton, Paul Hiskins, E J Paul, Captain Caleb Whiteford, Captain Joseph Lowthian Wilson, Captain Thomas Millar, Surgeon H Compton Parsons, and Captain Williams. Group images include Rangiora Athletic Association Committee (all named), sports teams (men's and women's hockey, football, cricket), St Stephen's Church Choir (Tuahiwi), Kaiapoi Shakespeare Club, and Kaiapoi Brass Band. Also M J Dixon and G E Mannering on glacier during their attempted ascent of Mount Cook. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, 36.8 x 28.8 cm

Date: [ca 1890-1900]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6244

Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).