Places

Date: 1924-1937

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-769

Description: Opens with views of the site of the Arapuni Hydro scheme and the Paturuahine Gorge which was flooded to form Lake Arapuni. This is followed by images of the repairs to the one of the water channels that took place in 1932. The rest are photographs of the dam at various stages of construction, the dam completed, views of the new lake, water flowing over the spillway, and the Arapuni falls created below the dam Two views of Atiamuri show the Pohaturoa Rock in the background Ten images of Stewart's Claim, a location south of Okarito, show scenic views some with gold dredging equipment lying around, a beach and a river estuary on which is a barge loaded with pipes. Eight images record before and after effects of controlled blasting on a limestone bluff at Cobden Quarry, Greymouth, photographed on the 15th of January, 1932 The last section are views of the construction of the Waitaki Hydro, and the new Lake Waitaki. There are also several images of the Mokau Falls at Waikaremoana Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-8077

Description: Photographs of Glynn Wye homestead, North Canterbury, and surrounding countryside including the Waiau River, taken ca 1900 by Edmund Wheeler & Son of Christchurch. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2004

Date: 1960-1973

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7961

Description: South Island trips. Photographs relating to Mount Cook. These include - The Mackenzie Country, 1971. Lake Pukaki, 1960. Aoraki, Mount Cook, 1960, 1967, 1973. The Hermatage, 1973. Southern Alps from the air, 1967. Tasman Glacier, 1960. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1950s

From: Hewitt, Leonard Rodney, 1913-1964 :Photographs relating to mountaineering and aviation in Canterbury

Reference: PAColl-8058-1

Description: Scenic photographs of mountains, lakes, and native forest. There are photographs of people, possibly Hewwitt's family and friends, and four images of horses and riders in a formal display. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: January 1991

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

Reference: PA12-6628

Description: Views of Lake Alexandrina, McKenzie Country, Canterbury. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: 1906-1907

By: State Library of New South Wales. Mitchell Library

Reference: PAColl-8031

Description: Postcards of New Zealand made ca 1900s, from photographers who include Frank Denton, Henry Winkelmann and James Valentine. The largest groups are images of Auckland, Christchurch, Dundedin, Invercargill, and Lake Wakatipu. Other places include Wellington, Te Aroha, Nelson, Gore, Pukekura park New Plymouth, Ngaruawahia Bridge, the pink and white terraces, Lake Tarawera, the Whanganui River, Lake Te Anau, the Southern Alps, the Hermitage, and Milford Sound. There are also four portraits of Maori. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 66 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards, many of which are hand coloured. Provenance: This group of postcards belonged to a Miss A H Jeffs of Hurstville, Sydney, and were sent to her by New Zealand correspondents, who like her, were interested in collecting post card images. The postal dates for all of them are 1906 and 1907.

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]

From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-6796

Description: Tourist boats on the Whanganui River. Paddock of sweeds. Children showing lambs. Otahuna (house), Taitapu, Canterbury. Mount Tarawera. Flowering pohutukawa. Sharks. Men and luggage on stony bank. Milford Sound. Man and woman on rocky coast. Birds (black robin?) feeding from tin containers. Mount Sefton. Trout, Rainbow Springs, Rotorua. Ice skating partners,. Shovel ray fish. Eroded hill country. Lava hills, Waimunga, Rotorua. Aircraft in flight. Quantity: 23 b&w original transparency/ies 3 hand coloured images. 1 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.

Date: 1879-1892

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9826

Description: Photographs of mountaineers, glaciers, mountains, lakes and rivers. Included are - Crossing the Hooker River by cable car (flying fox?). Percy Hawkins Johnson, W Low, J W Annan, George Edward Mannering, and Marmaduke J Dixon in the Murchison Valley, 1880. Irishman Rev William S Green and his two guides, Ulrich Kaufmann and Emil Boss, 1882. Mountaineers George Edward Mannering, Percy Hawkins Johnson and Mamaduke J Dixon photographed in 1889. Lake Pukaki, 1889. Tasman Glacier. Lake Tekapo. Hut in the Godley Valley. Mount Aorangi and the Hooker Glacier. Mount Aorangi seen from Ball spur. Panoramic View of mountains seen from Mount Sealy. Murchison glacier and river. Views of Aorangi, De la Beche Peak, and Tasman Glacier. Views of the Godley Glacier, 1892. Volynteers digging for Smith and Morrison in the avalanch of snow on the Rollesby Range, 28 August 1879. Quantity: 10 card mounts containing 33 images.

Date: 1950-1984

By: Hitchings, Helen Margaret St. Clare, 1920-2002; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: PAColl-7914

Description: Photographs of houses in Little Pipitea Street, Hill Street and the ministerial residence (Prime Ministers residence) in Tinakori Road, Thorndon; scenes in Stratford, Hanmer Springs and Lake Manapouri; and copies of paintings by Rita Angus and Douglas MacDiarmid. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - Manuscript of report on Prime Ministers House; Letters and notes with Rita Angus catalogue for 1983-1984..

Date: [1975-1976]

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: PA12-5511-2

Description: View of Lake MacGregor with Southern Alps in the background taken between 1975 and 1976 by Robert E Wells of New Plymouth. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 6 x 9 cm

Date: July 1949

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1111

Description: Lake Tekapo. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken July 1949 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: ca 1880-ca 1889

From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-921

Description: Views of Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Waihola, Lake Moke, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, the Hooker Glacier, Tapanui, Oamaru, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Hooker River, Moonlight Gorge, Bowen Fall, and general views in Canterbury and Otago taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1890, 1923

By: Brewster's Rare Books (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6819

Description: View of Port Chalmers taken ca 1890s, and views of Franz Josef Glacier, Fox Glacier, Waiho River and Lake Kanieri taken in March 1923. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca October 1950], 1952

From: Gage, Maxwell, 1913-2000 :Photographs relating to geology

Reference: PA12-6669

Description: Transparencies of Canterbury landscapes taken by Maxwell Gage, including: Heathcote and Christchurch from Summit Road, 1952 Lyttelton from the top of Bridle Path, 1952 Lake Katrine, ca October 1950 Lake Sumner, ca October 1950 Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film phototransparencies

Date: [ca 1968]

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3423

Description: A Bus trip in Cental Otago and the town of Tarras; views of Timaru; views of an unidentified lake; People sunning thenselves at the youth hostel at Waimate; Views of Christchurch. Photographed by an unidentified photographer about 1968. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1903-1911

By: Bayliss, Elizabeth, active 1999; Keall, Robert Purcell, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6057

Description: Photographs taken by the Reverend Robert Purcell Keall ca 1903-1911 when stationed in different parts of New Zealand as a Methodist minister. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181231-G to 1/2-181286-G Quantity: 56 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: The Reverend Robert Purcell Keall was the grandfather of the donor.

Date: [Between 1868 and 1895]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-044

Description: Images of New Zealand, including the first photograph in the album made up of a collage of Maori portraits entitled "Maori land". Photographs taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black covered album, 30 x 25 cm

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Walker, George Allen, -1915; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945

Reference: PAColl-0524

Description: Collection comprises: Postcards of scenic attractions in the Rotorua and Waitomo area and others of Auckland and Christchurch including one of a young boy, F Shadbolt, on a pony and trap and a soldier in uniform named Howard Photographs of of an elderly woman called Mrs Stevenson and Miss O'Grady Photographs of soldiers at camp during World War I Photographs of children in hot pools, possibly at Whakarewarewa, and of the Blue and Green Lakes at Rotorua, taken by Blencowe Photograph of F O'Grady in a car belonging to Mr Pountney of Carr, Pountney & Co Photograph of a house in Waihi built 1900-1902 with a mother and two children standing outside Photograph of taxis outside a hotel in Onehunga, taken ca 1911 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 30 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Charles O'Grady, Wellington, 1964

Date: [1870s-1880s?]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-081

Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm