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Photograph of Heritage Movement bus trip to Selwyn Huts
Date: [ca 1950]
From: Heritage Incorporated :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-6220
Description: Photograph of a party of children in Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch, before setting out for a picnic at Selwyn Huts, provided by the Heritage Movement Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Picnic provided for 150 children by Heritage Movement. Five bus loads were taken to Selwyn Huts. Picture shows crowds and buses in Riccarton Avenue en route for picnic Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print
N.Z.S.C.M. album 3
Date: 1948 to 1951
Reference: PA1-o-380
Description: Photographs of various activities, and group photographs taken at New Zealand Student Christian Movement conferences held in Christchurch, summer 1948-1949, and Auckland, summer 1949-1950. Names of members attending the conferences are fully identified in the group portraits. Some of the small photographs taken by different members have captions, but not all. A number of pages include newspaper cuttings associated with the conference and people involved. Includes an envelope containing nine small photographs of a theatrical production performed at the 1950-1951 conference. There is no identification of the play or cast members. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, red panel down the centre, entitled `N.Z.S.C.M. Summer Conference, Christchurch 1948-9; and 1949-1950'; 26 x 21 cm
Caroline Bay, Timaru
Date: ca 1910
From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-008644-G
Description: Photograph taken, ca 1910 for the Christchurch Press. Shows a very crowded Caroline Bay, Timaru. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.
Postcard album
Date: [1914-1918]
From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-1602
Description: Photographic postcard album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of family, soldiers, rugby, fencing and prisoners of war during the Great War. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 25.5 x 22 cm
Photograph album of tramping in Otago and Wellington
Date: [192-?]
From: Ainslie, Esme Airini Mollie, 1901-1983 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-1287
Description: Photographs of tramping trips to Whare Flat, Cecil Peak, Harbour Cone, and Mount Holdsworth; scenes at Fairlie; views of Mount Cook; picnicking; and trips to tourist sites around Dunedin. Photographs taken ca mid-1920s. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Blue cloth covered album 20 x 24 cm
Wairakei Album : Loose pages from the album
Date: ca 1900s
From: Wairakei Album
Reference: PAColl-0710-1
Description: Eighteen photographs on two loose pages from the Wairakei album showing a large group of men and women picnicking next to a river, smaller groups of men in seated or standing poses, a group of young women and boys with two dogs, cattle in a field, a man fishing in a stream, and scenic views. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Possibly donated by R McKnight.
Railways album 5
Date: [Circa 1937]
Reference: PA1-f-054
Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm
Harris album 1
Date: [1890s-1900s]
From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-115
Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm
Godber album 6
Date: 1905 to 1907
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-197
Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm
Tourist groups on scenic tours, South Island
Date: ca 1925
From: East, Pamela: Photographs of groups visiting the Canterbury outback, family portraits, and Maori
Reference: PAColl-6917-2
Description: The people in these photographs look like tourist groups who have just got out of a bus. They are photographed aginst scenic backdrops of forest covered hills, river valleys and mountains; they are showen picnicing in similar locations; some of the locations are identifiable and include Otira, Otira Gorge and Tunnel, Arthurs Pass, and the gravel reaches of the upper Waimakariri River. Some of the images show groups of people associated with corrugated iron huts. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).
Taylor album 1
Date: [Circa 1930s]
From: Taylor, Jill fl 1984 :Photographs relating to Alice Brown, Wellington sports teams, Wellington's Queen Carnival and Red Cross Transport
Reference: PA1-o-490
Description: Snapshots of family and friends relating to Alice Brown. The only images with captions are small postcards Includes envelope inside front cover containing three loose photographs Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled The "Cambrian" Album; 19.5 x 24.5 cm
Album of Family, friends and holidays
Date: ca1928-ca1932
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PA1-f-182
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).
Album relating to World War I
Date: 1914-1917
From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1552
Description: Photograph album compiled by R V Kay for his future wife Sybil. Includes photographs of automobile travel, gardens, picnics, parties, golf, suspension bridges, motorcycles, New Zealand soldiers on troopship, military training in England, soldiers at Stonehenge and family and friends. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Sybil, with love from Reg Aug '17 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 140 x 165 mm
YMCA South Island summer tour
Date: 1948-1939
From: National Council of Young Men's Associations of New Zealand: Collection
Reference: PA1-o-724
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :On Oyster Island, Portobello [ca 1870]
Date: 1868 - 1872
From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Lake Wakatipu, Banks Peninsula, Dunedin and its outskirts, Central Otago, Lake Wanaka, Oamaru, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1878]
Reference: E-016-5-022
Description: A rowboat and a picnic basket on the beach in the foreground, near a rocky column. Hills, probably of Portobello in the background. 'Oyster Island' may be modern Pudding Island or Titeremoana, off Portobello Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 98 x 154 mm
Field: Photographs of Byrd's Antarctic expedition, sport events, ships, and other scenes
Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]
Reference: PAColl-6881
Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives
A motor tour in the North Island of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1926]
From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays
Reference: PA1-o-1053
Description: A motor tour in the North Island of New Zealand. The album opens at Napier City and includes views of places, bush scenery, rivers, lakes, and camps as the party moves through Hawke's Bay, the Gisborne Region, the Bay of Plenty, then across and into Taranaki via Mount Messenger and back to Wellington via New Plymouth and Wanganui. There are views of Wellington and Newtown Park during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1926, Wellington Harbour, Haughton Bay, Porirua Hospital, and Khandallah Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Derbidge album 1
Date: December 1921-ca 1924
From: Derbidge, M (Mrs), fl 1920-1935 :Photographs of the Derbidge and Harding families
Reference: PA1-o-1185
Description: Photographs of the Hall and Harding families in Hawkes Bay and at Ellerslie Race Course, portraits of Miss Macdiarmid, Mr Halliday and the Penneys, a group shot in front of a meeting house in Rotorua, man with barrel in front of cart from Timaru Brewery Co, the entrance to the British and Intercolonial Exhibition at Hokitika, the Public Trust Office building of Christchurch under construction, and the ship TSS Aeneas, taken ca 1924 by Mrs M Derbidge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Brocklebank album 4
Date: January 1920
From: Brocklebank, Norris Athol, 1904-1988 :Albums of scenes of New Zealand, and one album of shipboard life and views of Canada and England
Reference: PA1-o-064
Description: Holiday photographs taken around Stewart Island, with groups picnicking, people swimming, walking tracks, and scenery. Taken by Norris Athol Brocklebank circa January 1920. In the front of the album is a hand-written poem extolling the delights of holidays on Stewart Island. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Brown paper-bound album with photograph of yachts attached to front cover, 17.5 x 25 cm
Chatham Islands album
Date: 1938
Reference: PA1-q-052
Description: Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General. Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm