Places

Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

By: Nichol, (Mrs), active 1969

Reference: A-176-018

Description: A view along the shore with a high rock formation, a low cave at its base, and hills behind. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - on backing card: title inscribed in pencil Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on cardboard 109 x 178 mm

Date: ca 1900-1925

By: William Beattie & Company; Hewitt, Sharon, active 1981

Reference: PAColl-0139

Description: Shows a range of New Zealand towns, houses, churches and some other buildings, mostly unidentified. Also shows some natural history. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1992 - 1993

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-690

Description: Includes figure sketches: Jonnie Baskett plants trees, Jonnie and Pat making a new garden; Nelson; Loading driftwood West Coast - stream over sloping rock, Sandhill Creek, Anne lighting a fire on Sandspit Ocean Beach, David Garland potting Nelson, Sarah Garland [24 May 1993, Peggy's 90th birthday]; David Garland; Two gentlemen of Verona 24.2.1993 The Dell; Anne Hall listening; Anne Hall and architect Nelson 13.10.1992; Pregnant girl by kiln [Barry Brickell works Coromandel]; Travelling potter; Keeping fire for kiln at Barry Brickell's Coromandel; Pat Baskett, Jonnie Baskett Vaughan's Road. Includes various landscape and interior sketches; named ones include: Taupo Motel 5.8.1991; Mary Freeman's bathroom Coromandel, Mary Freeman's Coromandel; Caves on Takaka Hill 22.19.1992; in Limestone Caves on Takaka Hill with Anne Hall 1992 [stalactites and stalagmites]; Whanganui Inlet West Coast, Westhaven Inlet, Puturau West Coast South Island; White Rock 19.12.1993; Scenery for Shakespeare; Guavas Hawkes Bay; From Barry's Railway [Barry Brickell Coromandel]; Waikato opp Taupiri Mt. Housed in the same box as E-685 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Softbound "Basic" sketch book [lacks front cover showing brand], approximately 288 pages, each 137 x 218 mm. Provenance: Estate of Janet Elaine Paul, 2005.

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-019

Description: Four men close to or sheltering under limestone caves in a low hillside. Two flax bushes on top of the hill. A nearer group of rock shelters is marked A to indicate Mantell's and Wills' sleeping place; the more distance shelters are marked B to indicate the other men's sleeping places Notes: A. Mantell's & my sleeping place. B. The men's. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 5B; Recto - beneath image - title and indicative notes re locations Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 190 x 230 mm

Date: 1864, 1889

By: Easdale, Nola, active 1984-1998

Reference: MSI-Papers-6238

Description: Comprises copies of four plans (1) Orakau Pa, showing disposition of troops under Brigadier-General Carey, 1 Apr 1864; (2) Plan of ground surrounding Orakau Pa, under Brigadier-General Carey, 2 Apr 1864; (3) The Waitomo Caves, lower series, T Humphries, Chief Surveyor, Auckland, Jun 1889; and (4) The Waitomo Caves, locality plan and index to sheets a and 2 (late 1889) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also previous accession, 90-143, for full records re `Kairuri' Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) Holograph maps

Date: 1908-1915

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

Reference: PA1-o-1551

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of snow storm at Nelson College, Easter 1911 with Gilbert Coombe and family, Auckland Express train, Trentham Camp in 1912, Honours Board and baths at Nelson College (1908), Hospital Ship 'Mahend', Woodford House, Military camp at Browns Bay, Quarter Masters' Staff of 5th Wellington Regiment (1915), Waitomo Caves, and coach travel. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Reg. V. Kay, 368 Tinakori Road, Wellington, 11/1/1913 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 135 x 180 mm

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]

From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-6798

Description: Sea anemones. Sea turtle laying eggs. Glacier. Native forest, Milford track. Thermal areas. Stalagmites and stalactites (Waitomo?). House and garden. Boiling stream, Waimangu Valley. Thermal area and Waikato River, Orakeikorako. Rainbow trout, Fairy Springs. Gannets. Devil ray fish being hauled onto a boat. Three men hauling a boat ashore. Boat on lake with mountains in background. Tasman Glacier. Southern Alps from the air. Coastal cliffs. Southerland Falls. Portrait of George Bernard Shaw. Quantity: 19 b&w original transparency/ies 7 hand coloured images. 4 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.

Date: 1996-1975

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-56

Description: Comprises memo relating to history of Vacation Hotels with abbreviated history of the company (1966-1973); report of THC (1975); report, Waitomo Resort Hotel and Waitomo Caves; and notes on the early history of the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts (1901-1915) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091439-F

Description: View of ponga ferns at the entrance to Ruatapu Cave (also known as Aladdin's Cave)at Orakei Korako. Photographed by Robert E Wells, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: 1907-1908

By: Phillips, Jillian, 1950-

Reference: PA1-q-1069

Description: Photograph album of Wellington and trips around the North Island. Includes views of the opening of Victoria Bowling Club, bowling matches and other bowling clubs in the North Island, the contruction of the Grafton Bridge, Rotorua geysers, Te Wairoa buried village, and Dominion Day celebrations at Newtown Park, Wellington, Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 260 mm Provenance: Photograph album was compiled by Jill Phillips' great-grandfather.

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PAColl-D-0796

Description: Six views taken inside the caves showing the stalactites and stalagmites. Inscriptions: Recto - Photographer's numbers - 2392; 2985; 2391; 2390; 2388; [one partially obscured] Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 6 x 140 x 190 mm mounted 533 x 708 mm

Date: [1890s?]

By: Finch, Olive, 1883-1984; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hawley & Company; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Verrall, John Miles, 1849-1921; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-o-172

Description: Photograph album containing views of the South Island, including Christchurch, Diamond Lake, Otira Gorge, Bluff, Skippers Gorge, Waiau River and Hanmer. North Island views include views of Mount Tarawera after the eruption in June 1886, and views of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed in the eruption. Other views show Napier, showing the first ship to berth at the new breakwater, SS Flora, on 22nd October 1895; Marine Parade in Napier; street views in Gisborne and Whangarei; Parihaka; and the Rotorua, Wairakei area with the Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, and the Waimangu Geyser. Photographs taken circa 1890s, by some unidentified photographers, but many by named photographers, including Arthur James Iles (Thames), E Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Hawley & Co (Napier). All named photographers are listed in the name sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, with ornate gold decoration on spine, 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-051-1

Description: A group of Maori at rock shelter caves, North Otago district Other Titles - Ototara. Southern District, New Munster, Otago Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 88 x 110 mm

Date: 1889

From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-54-06-1

Description: Photograph of The Blanket, a stalactite formation in the Waitomo Caves. One of a series of 27 images G D Valentine took at Waitomo in mid-1889 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - The Blanket, Waitomo Caves, Otorohanga. 246 G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 29 x 19 cm on album page

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091440-F

Description: Unidentified group standing on rocks beside a lake at the base of Ruatapu Cave, also known as Aladdin's Cave. Photographed at Orakei Korako by Robert E Wells, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: 1958-1960

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6418

Description: Limestone formations in caves in the Waitomo District. The caves are Taumata Cave, Luckie Strike Cave, and Aranui Cave. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm