Places

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: [ca 1900s-1910s]

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1554

Description: Photographs relating to Sybil Satchell. Includes photographs of nurses at Palmerston North Hospital (possibly includes her father Dr Satchell), Nelson Girls College students, family members, friends and playing tennis. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 160 x 200 mm

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1930-ca1935

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-14

Description: Various photographs relating to different places and events. One seems to be a trip to Sydney. There are views of a ship's deck and coastal cliffs. Also several views of the almost completed Sydney Harbour Bridge from what is probably a ferry. Other photographs are from Christchurch, Wellington and harbour, and of Auckland. There are a number of Auckland buildings; the Greenhouse in the Domain, the University, and the Museum. There is a sequence of views of a thermal area and three photographs of Maori. Another group relates to an unidentified sailing ship, and a third to the flax industry in the Horowhenua Many others are views if countryside and coastal land scape Quantity: 137 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 25 July 1972

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1972/3592-F

Description: View of Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 25 July 1972. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: ca1936-ca1939

By: Tonks, Peter, active 2000

Reference: PAColl-6161

Description: Views in and around Auckland, with emphasis on railways, road transport and aviation, in the late 1930s, taken by an unknown photographer. There are views of suburban streets, and city streets; buildings like the Farmers with its sign lit up at night; a procession led by a brass band; an ANZAC Day gathering at the Cenotaph; a ruined or burnt out industrial building; signifigant public buildings such as the Railway Station, The Museum, the Town Hall and the High Court. The photographer has particularly recorded the flying boats arriving, landing and leaving from Auckland Harbour. Arrangement: negatives at 1/4-88983-F to 1/4-89164-G, and 1/2-181505-F. There are two 1/4 plate glass negatives. Quantity: 187 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Obtained from an antique shop in Devonport in the late 1980s.

Date: December 2000

From: Tume, Clayton, fl 2000-2015 :Panoramic photographs of Wellington Region

Reference: PA6-704

Description: View of Te Wananga o Raukawa, Otaki, taken December 2000 by Clayton Tume. Shows a number of buildings with cars parked in front of them. Inscriptions: Verso - centre left - Te Wananga-O-Raukawa Otaki Dec. 2000 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 25.3 x 126.4 cm

Date: [ca 1904-1920]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1017

Description: Postcard photographs of New Zealand houses. Most are of Edwardian villas, and some later bungalows. Hospitals include TB sanitoria, Assylums, and spars. Locations are - Gisborne. Masterton. Dannevirke. Wanganui. Ashburton. Cambridge. Hawera. Stratford. Napier. Waipukurau. Seacliff. Auckland. Invercargill. Stafford. Wellington. Hamilton. Cromwell. Hanmer. Ashburton. Timaru. Dunedin. Hawera. Picton. Waihi. Featherston Military Camp. Oamaru. Waimate. New Plymouth. Mount Somers. Blenheim. Rotorua. Te Aroha. Postcards of schools located at - Rangiora. Gore. Tauranga. Wellington. Dunedin. Ravensbourne. Kaikoura. Woodside (Outram). Waimate. Timaru. Palmerston South. Carterton. Nelson. Auckland. Napier. Gisborne. Te Aute. Hastings. Hawera. Wanganui. Christchurch. Sumner. Lyttelton. Waihi. Feilding. Masterton. Temuka. Blenheim. Woodend. Arrowtown. Invercargill. Views of cities and towns including notable public buildings, hotels, and water towers - Dunedin. Bluff port. Port Chalmers. Oamaru. Gisborne. Queenstown. Pahiatua. Riversdale. Hanmer Springs. Auckland. Kerikeri. Invercargill. Geraldine. Hamilton. Wanganui. Dunedin. Wellington. Masterton. Clyde. Hastings. Woodside (Outram). Hawera. Views of gardens and parks at - Timaru. Hamilton. New Plymouth. Ashburton. Auckland. Invercargill. Wellington. Wanganui. Business enterprises include - Freezing works near Hastings. Gold mine Waihi. Kaipoi Woolen Mills. Mulgrave timber mill Nelson. Junction North mine. Chelsea sugar factory Auckland. Oil dereks New Plymouth. Electric power house Ernscleugh. Electric power station Rotorua. Bridges include - Suspension bridge, Moteo. Suspension bridge, Hooker River, Mount Cook. Grafton Bridge, Auckland. Bridge in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. Bridge across road, Parnell, Auckland. Arthurs Point Bridge. Bridge at Gisborne. Winchester bridge, Timaru. Railway bridge, Waikato River. Bridge, Lyall Creek, Kaikoura. Bridge on Raurimu-Oio service road. Shotover River bridge. Traffic bridge, Pahiatua. Clarence River bridge, Kaikoura. Skippers bridge. There are several pages of motorcars, and some photographs of people in horse drawn carriages. One photograph shows two horses harnessed to a large wagon. Other postcards show bowling greens at Queenstown, Carterton, Eltham, and Invercargill. Mount Ngauruhoe erupting. View of Mount Ruapehu. Old men's home, Ashburton. The Roman Catholic Cathedral, Invercargill. Hunters (duck shooters?) gathered around a car. Man cleaning boots, Ball Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1929-1935]

Reference: PAColl-6901

Description: A largely miscellaneous collection including: looking towards Government House on Bowen Street with Government Buildings on the left; two of the junction of Featherston and Stout Streets looking towards Lambton Quay (these three probably taken from the Railway Station); a pretty rural cottage; two of a grasshopper like insect on a leaf; three of unidentified rural scenes; the Government Life Insurance office on Customhouse Quay; looking down the Terrace towards Bowen Street with St Andrew's Church on the left; the University of Canterbury buildings showing the entrance to the Observatory Tower; six of a bridge over the Avon River flowing through Hagley Park; five of Mount Taranaki; a waterfall possibly near Mount Taranaki; and Auckland looking towards the harbour with St Patrick's Cathedral on the right. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-038652 to 038654 and 038656 to 038678 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s) glass. 10 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1842-1964

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-12

Description: This collection contains the contents of two albums. First album group relates to Pauatahanui, Porirua. Includes - Unidentified house. Grave stone of Len Walker who died in 1897 aged 100 years. View of St Adan's Anglican Church. View of St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. Views of an overgrown cemetery. Second album is mostly views of the Government centre and environs, Wellington. Most of this material dates from the late 1940s to the early 1950s and includes - The wooden Government building (now Law School). The Centotaph. Turnbull House (then the Alexander Turnbull Library). Wellington Railway Station. Bowen House. Magistrates Court. Bowen Street. Lambton Quay. Bunny Street. Molesworth Street. Government Printing Office. Parliament buildings and grounds. The old High Court building. Brick store on Waterloo Quay (now apartments). Hotel Waterloo. Defence Department building, Bunny Street (demolished about 1994). Other Wellington photographs taken by the Evening Post in November 1964 include a view of Manners Street, and two photographs of Wellington traffic. There is one photograph of houses and gardens in Regent Street, Newtown, dated 9 August 1962. This is part of a group of views of a site for Wellington City Council housing taken before demolition for that project began. Earlier photographs include - View of Kaikoura, ca 1910. Houses in Auckland, Christchurch, and the Stratford area, 1890s-1910. Taylor-Stace house, Pauatahanui. Photograph of a drawing of a coach outside an inn in Christchurch, 1866. Unidentified derelict cobb built house in overgrown garden. Views of the bridge of an unidentified ship. Barrett's Hotel, Wellington, by Samuel Brees, ca 1842. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: All of these prints were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. The photographs have been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library.

Date: 1950 to 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-014

Description: Adkin album. Wellington (2), nos. 241-441. Views of Wellington taken between 1950 and 1957. Includes harbour swim event at Evans Bay, 26 February 1950; speedboat contests at Evans Bay, 4 March 1950; Patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Co's wharf at Evans Bay; tulip Sunday at the Wellington Botanic Garden (15 October 1950); Evans Bay Yacht Club yard in use as a temporary base for Solent flying boats with the Ararangi at a mooring; various views of reclamation undertaken by TEAL for their flying boat service at Evans Bay, and flying boats. Many of the images in this album are linked with Evans Bay, as Adkin was living at 424 Evans Bay Parade in the 1950s, several images showing the house. Views of Wellington from the Mount Victoria lookout and from the Tinakori Ridge Radio Station, in 1952; the old Robert Hannah residence in Boulcott Street; views of the inner city including the upper end of Ghuznee St., Upper Willis St., the Children's Dental Clinic. Image no. 313 shows a house at 214 Upper Willis Street (known as Restwyn), taken in Feb 1953, while image no. 434 shows the same site in January 1957 after the house had been demolished. Numbers of images show preparations and decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. There are many photographs of preparation for extending the airport at Rongotai, showing Moa Point Hill in course of destruction to provide spoil for reclamation, and also Rongotai Ridge, with one view of a house being moved from the ridge, also showing development of the breakwater at Moa Point, all taken betwen 1953 and 1957. A 1954 image shows an extension to the Town Hall under construction for municipal offices in December 1953; the Hinemoa at No. 1 Ferry Wharf; preparations and decorations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in December 1953, including decorations at the Railway Station, Defence Stores Building in Featherston St., Kirkcaldie & Stains, James Smiths Corner, DIC, and the GPO. Image taken in March 1956 shows a house with turret on the corner of Upper Willis St and Aro St (a house which was shown in CD Barraud's painting of 1877). Views of yachting in the harbour, Ward Island, and the Eastbourne seawall. Outcast yacht is pictured.

Date: 19 October 1968

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1968/4494

Description: View of the shopping centre at Raumati Beach. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 14th of December 1968. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1928-1935

By: Still, Mabel Mary, 1896-1981; Prior, Mary L (Dr), active 1940s-1980

Reference: PA1-o-424

Description: Album of photographs compiled by Mabel Still (information from Donations register), celebrating the period the Rev Frank Howitt Wilkinson was minister at the Wadestown Presbyterian Church (1928-1935). The album was donated by Dr Mary L Prior, daughter of the Rev Wilkinson. Photographs include general views of Wellington, and many portraits of people associated with the Rev Wilkinson's time in Wellington. Without any captions, none of the people can be accurately identified. There are group portraits, including a women's basketball team, and a boys' rugby team. Inscriptions: Album page - "Should auld acquantance be forgot. Happy memories (at least we do hope so) of Wadestown, 1928-1935. To the Rev. and Mrs F.H. Wilkinson, Mary, Andrew & Margaret, with the love of the "Good companions" of the Wadestown Presbyterian Church, Wellington" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, rounded corners, outlined in black; 24.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-015371-G

Description: Courtenay Chambers building and adjacent buildings, Courtenay Place, Wellington. Martins' Ltd, a shoe shop, is located in the ground floor of the Courtenay Chambers. Photograph taken ca 1920s by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass Negative

Date: 1953-1954

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

Reference: PAColl-3332-02-09

Description: Procession of cars passing James Smith's corner during the visit of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1953-1954. Photographed by Dennis Hodgson. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 23.7 x 19.5 cm

Date: [ca 1912]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-003973-G

Description: Warner's Hotel, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, with cars parked outside. On the left is the Lyttelton Times building. Photograph taken ca 1912. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 2007

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000490

Description: Photographs of Christchurch City, Avon River and Lyttelton Harbour. Includes photographs of black and iron sands, container shipping, wharves and boats. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (christchurch)" Quantity: 59 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1931

From: Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943 :Collection of negatives and prints

Reference: PAColl-3034-07

Description: View of the Williams' Buildings in Hastings Street, Napier, after the 1931 earthquake. Shows the premises of Kelly's Kash Store and [A?] Beecham, saddler, and the remains of the Napier Dairy Company building. Photograph taken by James Henry Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 2001-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000507

Description: Photographs of South Westland, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Franz Josef and Haast villages and glaciers, coastlines and lakes in the southern region of the Westland district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (south Westland)" Quantity: 170 digital photograph(s).