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Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views
Date: [ca 1890-1927]
From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s
Reference: PAColl-0348
Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.
Travels of a Country Library Service Bookvan; Waikato trips, 1970s
Date: 1974, 1978
From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation
Reference: PA1-o-848
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).
Hunter album 3
Date: 1926 to 1931
From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs
Reference: PA1-o-235
Description: Album of photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter. Many of the images are of tramping, camping and climbing holidays with friends and family, both in the North Island (Lake Waikaremoana, the far north, and in the Ruapehu and Taupo Districts), and the South Island (Greenstone River, gold sluicing and gold panning at Moonlight, Queenstown and Wanaka). Most scenes state the location, but very few people are identified, and then only by Christian name. Photographs were taken overseas on a trip to London via Panama, and to New Zealand via San Francisco, May-September 1931. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 29 cm
New Zealand scenery - Hamilton and Waikato Region
Date: 1946-1960
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-171
Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1946-1960 Construction of dam at Karapiro (Karapiro hydro-electric project, 1946); Lake Karapiro looking towards Maungatautari; D S Borrell's farm & Sharon Borrell with Jersey calf at Tauwhare, 1957; crowd at Royal Waikato Show held at Claudelands, 1956; Robert's Farm, Rukuhia; lake at Hamilton; Waikato River at Hamilton and other places in Waikato region; Awakino Gorge road tunnel; Cambridge; Waitomo Caves; Temple View; W F Mulgrew's farm at Te Aroha; aerial view of Kawhia (Whites, 5571); state houses at Hamilton, 1946. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints