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Date: [1950s-1970s]

From: Nicholls, Trevor, 1929- :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-7485

Description: Colour slides of various parts of New Zealand, taken 1950s-1970s by Trevor Nicholls. Includes: 1. Whangaroa Harbour, St Paul's Rock ca 1972, 2. Te Pahi, 3-4. Marsden Point 1976, 5. Mangamuka Forest, 6. Formation at Kerr Bluff (North Cape), 7. Cape Reinga, 8. Church at Russell, 9-12 Piercy Island, 13. Pompallier House, 14. Waimate Mission House, 15. Warkworth Satellite dish, 16. Lyttelton, 17. Addington railcar, 18. Dunedin 1950s, 19-20. Church Havelock (New), 21. Brooklyn mid 1950s (from Washington Ave), 22. Foxton, flax mid 1950s, 23. Wesleyhaven, Naenae mid-late 1960s, 24. Statue at Paraparaumu Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film negatives

Date: [1925-1945]

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-4161-01-046

Description: Includes: Construction, etc of 4th General Hospital, Dumbea, New Caledonia; unidentified Pacific campaign (US servicemen); NZ Military Forces display at the Dunedin Exhibition, 1925 (Series 30/1); aerial photographs of Whangaroa Harbour showing battery position, etc, 1942 (Series 23/12); aerial photographs of Whangarei Heads, including Bushy Head, 1942 (Series 23/11); Wellington (Series 23/16) including Garrison Hall in Buckle Street 1938, magazines at Kaiwarra, Central Park Camp, Kaiwarra US Camp, Anderson Park US Camp, Gracefield US warehouses; Wanganui (Series 23/7) showing Drill Hall 1938, position of aerodrome & coastal battery; Warkworth (Series 23/8) showing general area, Camp No 6, 30-bed hospital. Includes some photocopied prints Quantity: 174 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1858-1964

From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-04

Description: Contains registers for Ephiphany (Arch Hill), 1914-1964; St George's, Epsom, 1916-1948; St Columba, Grey Lynn, 1912-1945; Hauraki, 1858-1863; Helensville & Warkworth, 1881-1927 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1969-1984]

By: Sutherland, James Hector, 1925-

Reference: MS-Papers-6085

Description: Research notes on the history of various rural libraries, library and reading lists, and a partially handwritten and partially typed manual compiled while working for the mobile library of the New Zealand Country Library Service in the 1970s and 1980s. Also includes blueprints of plans of the mobile library van, together with details of its shelving arrangement. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts, blueprints Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 9 albums and 4 packets of photographs.

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Ephemera relating to telephones, telephone exchanges and subscribers. 1900- ]

Reference: Eph-A-TELEPHONE-1970s

Description: Includes (partial contents only): 1970: Alexander Graham Bell; a brief note on his life and his inventions [1970s] Answer Services Ltd. How many calls did you miss yesterday? Don't let those messages get away. Let our experienced telephone secretaries answer when you can't. [1970] New Zealand Post Office. Satellite Earth Station, Warkworth [1970] (2 copies) 1970s, undated: It pays to put a smile in your voice [1970s] New Zealand Post Office. Going away? What about your phone? [1970s] New Zealand Post Office. A visit to the Automatic Telephone Exchange (2 versions) Seekers telephone answering services: Telex bureau, radio telephon, alarm monitoring, telephone answering. All these services and many more. All available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Space age communications [1970s?] Telephone courtesy; a leaflet for telephone operators [1970s] Telephone courtesy creates goodwill [1970s] 1971: New Zealand Post Office. Instructions for operation of private automatic branch exchanges [1971] 1973: New Zealand Post Office. Telephone Services Branch. It makes good business sense. Advertise where sales are certain, the Yellow Pages [1973] 1974: New Zealand Post Office. Dunedin telephone directory; supplement to Balclutha section. Kaka Point numbers. 1974 1975: New Zealand Post Office. Background facts about telephones. PR195. September 1975. 1976: New Zealand Post Office. Introducing STD; subscriber toll dialling [1976] (2 copies) New Zealand Post Office. Subscriber toll dialling; STD codes and dialling instructions. September 1976 (2 copies) 1978: Marlborough Regional Committee. Unveiling of the Whites Bay Cable Station notice board and opening of the restored cable station building, noon, Waitangi Day, 6th February 1978 by Sir Alistair McIntosh, KCMG, Chairman of the Trust. Service category information [re STD. 1978] 1979: New Zealand Post Office. Introducing ISD; international subscriber dialling [1979] (2 copies) New Zealand Post Office. Telephone charges; two-monthly base rate area telephone charges. 34366/8/79-XII Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and screenprints on pamphlets and booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: [ca 1941-1945]

From: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1933

Description: Photograph album compiled by Robert Thomas Martin containing images of New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the Solomon Islands during military training and service in World War II. Some images likely taken by Martin. New Zealand images show training camps at Rotorua (1941), Papakura (1942), 1st Field Ambulance camp in Warkworth (Jun-Sep 1942), and Fencourt [Cambridge?] (1942). In addition to informal portraits featuring Martin, Colin Arroll, and other unidentified soldiers, there are images of tents, a route march, a hospital under construction and parked ambulances (at Warkworth), and a Bob Semple tank with soldiers and Martin and his sister Valerie posed in front (at Papakura). Identified groups include Warrant Officers and Sergeants in 1st Field Ambulance in Papakura, 7th Field Ambulance, and D Company. Also image of Martin walking down a street in uniform while on leave. Images from Rotorua also show Regent Theatre (exterior and courtyard), Post Office, Sanatorium building and grounds, St Faith’s Church (Ohinemutu), swimming scenes at the Blue Baths, and Maori children diving for pennies [at Whakarewarewa?]. A 1940 series of images at a house in [Auckland?] show Martin in uniform with various people including his Uncle Frank, Guy [?], and a number of young women [relatives, including his sister Valerie?]. Martin is also photographed with a dog [Collie?]. Images from service in New Caledonia, Jan-Aug 1943, feature group photographs of the B Company 7th New Zealand Field Ambulance at Nemeara and Nepoui Valley. Identified people in informal group and individual portraits at the Nemeara Camp are Doug Smith, Wally McKusker, Doug Smith, Stan Poomore, Shorty Luscombe, Jack Ireland, Allan Stewart, Bill Cullum, and Cliff Pinker. Nemeara Camp images also include a medical examination of an unidentified local man, local children and men, the cookhouse, tents, hospital “bure” [thatched hut], a combination water heater and incinerator, mess hut under construction, swimming area in river [including competition?], and Nemeara mission church (with Mt Boa in the background). Images from Bourail show the gendarmerie, Main Street, and a church. Also view of Nouméa Harbour Treasury Island images show scenic views, including the river mouth at Malsi and the northern tip of Mono Island. Solomon Islanders are photographed including local men trained to fight by 34th Battalion, A Company tent, vegetation, local church (following rebuild by 29th Battalion) and [another?] destroyed church, men packing up the QM [Quartermasters?] store, and group getting ready to play “Tennaquoits”. Identified men are Tom Murphy, Jock Plunkett, Fred Walker, and Martin. Some show men posing with “Jap Souvenirs” (including flag, swords, knife, and trumpet), sick and injured men at 7th Field Ambulance [MDS?] at Stirling and on stretchers being evacuated by barge. Images of military equipment and armaments include G pounder anti-tank gun, 50 mm Bofors Ack Ack gun, a jeep (being dug out of mud), beach landing craft, beach scene with men rolling drums [fuel?], LST being unloaded at Purple Beach (Stirling Island), ship ‘Tyrone’, and a boat described as a “Seaplane tender”. Arrangement: Donor identified item as "ITEM C Family photos and Pacific Islands". Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 115 silver gelatin photoprints. Physical Description: Black cardboard album bound with string, 20 x 23 cm

Date: 1974, 1979-1982, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11672

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Most slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1998-1999

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-04

Description: Photographs of buildings in Rodney District, Auckland Region, New Zealand. Locations include - Rural Helensville. Warkworth. Kumeu. Riverhead. Muriwai. Brighams [Creek?]. Kaukapakapa. Subjects include - Houses. Pastureland. Memorials. Landscapes. Parks. War memorials. Halls. Jails. Hotels. Churches. Bandstands. Shops. Sheds. Post offices. Bank buildings. Court houses. Ruins. Bridges. Rivers. Library building. Quantity: 134 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1947-1949, 1951, 1957, 1959, 1962-1963

From: Croad, Ernest Norman, 1927-2002: Photographs of Pukaki and Tekapo hydro-electric schemes, New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-7726-1

Description: Photographs of the Pukaki and Tekapo hydro-electric schemes under construction, Lake Pukaki, the Ministry of Works railway survey camp at Tokoroa, Tokoroa township, Warkworth, Pohuehue viaduct, Lake Ohau, and photographs of Ernest Croad and some of his colleagues, taken in the late 1940s to the early 1960s by Ernest Croad. Quantity: 71 b&w original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Accompanying material - Newspaper clippings relating to the Tekapo-Pukaki Canal, hydro-electric works at Lake Pukaki, housing construction in Palmerston North, the Taupo-Totara railway, and Tokoroa township, ca 1949-1951..

Date: ca1931

By: Clayton, Nancy, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-o-798

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

Date: 1953-1969

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8539

Description: Photographs of Harwood Hole, Takaka Hill, taken Easter 1969. Pots by Doreen Blummhardt, 1960s. Pot by Kawai Kanjiro, 1953. Red earth and unidentified formations on surface, Waiotapu, 1967. Moss and Kidney fern, 1968. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1964

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8524

Description: Includes - Natural textures (mat of aerial roots and lichen covered rock), Rotorua, 1964 and 1965. Sunset, Paraparaumu, 1964. The village of Waihi from Lake Taupo, 1964. Detail of wooden bridge covered with orange algae and tufts of lichen, Reikorangi. Flowering pohutukawa tree near Warkworth, 1964. Coastal views near New Plymouth, 1964 and 1965. Hillside covered with tree ferns, Awakino Gorge, 1965. Pohutukawas and seaweed, Waiwera, 1966. Unidentified thermal area. Hatepe, Lake Taupo, 1967. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1835-1964

From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-16

Description: Registers of Lower Waikato, 1880-1906 (Only has the endpage for this register. All content for this register is on reel 15); Waimamaku, 1886-1958 (incl Hokianga 1886-1923); Waimate, 1835-1864; Mahurangi and Matakana, 1866-1899 (S Clements); Kaurawhere, Kaipara, 1874-1914; Warkworth, 1909-1937; Whangarei, 1860-1905; St Thomas' Burial Ground Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1890-1910], 2010

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Moffat, Ann Margaret, active 1990-2010

Reference: PAColl-9751

Description: Collection comprises: Stereoscopic postcards taken 1890s-1900s by F G Radcliffe, operating as Radcliffe and Stewart, from his farm at Utopia, Kaipara. Comprises views of Paparoa, Warkworth, Whangarei, Wairakei, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua and Taupo. These include views of the Hatea river, Whangarei Heads, and geothermal features in Rotorua, Waiotapu, Wairakei and Taupo, as well as the Huka rapids and falls. Also includes a picture of Maori children in Rotorua. Photograph showing stereo cards with original viewer, taken ca 2010 by John Moffatt. Appraisal and scheduling information - Three prints not retained as already held in collection Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1985 - 1995

By: New Zealand Returned Services Association

Reference: Eph-A-ASSOCIATION-RSA-Mats

Description: New Plymouth R.S.A. Executive, Club Committee & Staff. A merry Christmas and happy New Year. (Shows Father Christmas on a roof beside a TV aerial) NZ Returned Services Association, Otahuhu (Shows RSA crest) NZ Returned Services Association, 1916-1991. 75th anniversary New Plymouth & District Memorial RSA (Shows a scene of a battlefield, soldiers, a sailor and a Red Cross nurse) NZ Returned Services Association. Warkworth & Districts RSA (Shows RSA crest) New Plymouth & District Memorial RSA (Inc). National pride. (Shows a New Zealand flag) Also includes "Your choice for their lifetime". 4th edition (Passed to Serials) Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief prints on card, sizes varying around 95 x 95 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Janet Horncy, Wellington, in 2008.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001801-G

Description: Warkworth, showing houses, roads and trees. The river is in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by William A Price from a hill overlooking the river and township, in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Warkworth. 1387. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.4 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001797-G

Description: View of a bridge and the falls beneath the bridge, in the vicinity of Warkworth. Farm house and farm buildings can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by William A Price between 1900-1930. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001800-G

Description: View looking down over the Mahurangi River and upstream to Warkworth. The cement works can be seen in the far distance. Photograph taken by William A Price between 1900-1930. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Warkworth 2044 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000599-G

Description: Shows the Warkworth dam and falls on the Mahurangi River, and the bridge crossing the river. In the background (partially obscured by trees), at the end of the bridge, is a dwelling. Photograph taken by William A Price, ca 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - The dam. Warkworth. 1381. Relationship complexity - A similar view is available at 1/2-000592 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches