Places

Date: 1912

From: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-883

Description: Mainly photos of secondary school girls of Wanganui Girls' College though a number of young men and Wanganui Collegiate boys are also represented. Many of the photographs have captions and some of the people depicted are named. There are also photographs of children including one of a little girl with a doll's pram decorated with flowers. There is a photograph of Palmerston North High School after a fire, and another of the public swimming pool on Marine Parade, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: [ca 1870s - 1890s]

By: Shearman family; Hickey, Marie, 1925?-

Reference: PA-Group-01004

Description: Family photograph album relating to the Shearman family of Wanganui. Contains cabinet card and carte de visite portraits taken circa 1870s-circa 1890s by a range of photographers. Includes a tintype, and two other photographs, of John Shearman, possibly when he was a member of the Armed Constabulary. All other persons unidentified. Compiler of album unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 1 album with loose photographs. Includes cabinet cards, carte de visite, tin types, and a cyanotype. Provenance: Retrieved from a rubbish bin, by Marie Hickey, during a clean out of a Shearman family home in Wanganui some years ago. Marie Hickey is the cousin of the donor. John Shearman is Marie Hickey's (cousin of the donor) maternal grandfather.

Date: 1839-1898, 1999

By: Taylor, Richard Basil, 1920-2000

Reference: MS-Group-0906

Description: Includes childhood letters written by Basil Kirke Taylor and his wife Edith, 1839-1848; typeset letter from Richard Taylor to his daughter Laura, 1847; letters from Basil Kirke Taylor to his wife, 1874-1876; various other Basil Kirke Taylor correspondence, 1859-1876; genealogical material re Taylor and Fox families; and other miscellaneous items Diaries and notebooks of Basil Kirke Taylor (including diary fragments), 1847-1876; notebook of Edith Palmer Taylor, 1864-1870; notebook inscribed in the front `Caroline Taylor' which has been used to record recipes, copies of letters (some from Richard Taylor), etc, 1844-1873; notebook used to record the Wanganui Mission accounts, 1854-1872. Some of notebooks and diaries contain a record of Wanganui Mission baptisms, marriages, burials, and those receiving communion, and many include drawings `Family recollections' by Richard Basil Taylor being the story of his life including a section on his antecedents. Privately printed, 1999 Language - Some entries in diaries and notebooks are in Maori Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 14 folder(s). 15 volume(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photographs Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Commonplace book and loose sketches - To Photographic Archive - 7 photographs (including Putiki Maori Choir, Jan 1896). Some of the diaries and notebooks contain drawings

By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: G-071

Description: Extended Title - A woman's work ; New Zealand women at work 1890s to 1918. Photographic Print series 5. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of photograph

Date: 1908-1920

By: Tyler, Esther May, 1908-1983

Reference: MS-Papers-3973

Description: The reminiscences describe Bid Tyler's childhood up to 1920 and comment on aspects of domestic and social life Source of title - Transcribed Bid Tyler, nee Dickson, grew up in the Wanganui suburb of Gonville Quantity: 1 folder(s) (84 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1910s-1920s]

From: Creator unknown : Photographs, chiefly taken in Wellington

By: Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: 1/1-021703-G

Description: Class portrait of primary school boys, taken circa 1900s-1920s, possibly by Frank J Denton in Wanganui. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1894

By: Martin, Alfred, 1846?-1906

Reference: PA3-0144

Description: Shows girl aged 5 years with very long dark hair sitting on sheepskin rug Inscriptions: Verso - Helen Margaret Pemberton Five years old 1894 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [194-?]

Reference: 1/2-C-028318-F

Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1971

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-842

Description: Begins at the Country Library Service centre at Palmerston North, then through the Manawatu and Rangatikei districts including the southern volcanic Plateau, and back to Wanganui via Raetihi. Throughout the journey the Country Library Service Bookvan features as well as the country localities through which it passes or where it stops to ply its trade. Several public libraries are photographed, some farmers at work, children who as schools come to use the service, or are seen fishing at Castlecliff, Wanganui. The album ends with an extensive photo essay on Wanganui. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).