Places

Date: [ca 1899-1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000245

Description: View of the ferry steamer berthed at the wharf in Mansion House Bay. Possibly a vessel belonging to the Northern Steam Ship Company vessel. Taken from a vantage point to the north overlooking the bay. Mansion House is obscured from sight by the trees in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Kawau Island. Auckland, NZ. No 1866 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 8 Aug 1908

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000347-G

Description: View from Northcote Point, Northcote, Auckland, looking across Waitemata Harbour toward St Mary's Bay and Herne Bay. Possibly taken on the occasion of Northcote becoming a borough, 8 Aug 1908. A crowd are gathered around a flagpole in the foreground and two ships (with bunting) are to be seen in the harbour. Photograph taken by William A Price, 1908 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Flag Staff Northcote Pt 1462 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000024-G

Description: View of the ferry steamer berthed at the wharf in Mansion House Bay. Mansion House was possibly a guesthouse at this time. Passengers can be seen making their way to the ferry (possibly a vessel belonging to the Northern Steam Ship Company vessel). Mansion House is on the left partially obscured from sight by trees. Photograph taken from a vantage point overlooking the bay to the north by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Kawau Is. Auckland. No 155E. P.P.Coy. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 8 Aug 1908

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000734-G

Description: View from the back of a crowd of people who are walking across a wooden bridge or railed footpath towards Northcote Point, looking south towards Auckland. Possibly taken on the occasion of Northcote becoming a borough, on 8 Aug 1908, by William Archer Price of Auckland. A steamship with bunting may be seen on the harbour. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Northcote Point, Auckland, 3620 William Archer Price lived and practiced in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1908]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000302-G

Description: School cadets on parade at Northcote Point, Auckland, circa 1910. Photograph taken by William Archer Price of Auckland. Two unidentified steamships (with bunting) can be seen in the harbour. William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1883

By: Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-SHIP-1883-01

Description: Shows arrangement of text, with the New Zealand Shipping Company's flag.. Extended Title - The magnificent, full powered, steel built steamship British King, 3559 tons register, will be despatched from Lyttelton on or about the 31st March 1883, via the Straits of Magellan. The length of the passage is not expected to exceed 45 days. To be followed by the magnificent, steel built steamship British Queen, 3558 tons register... Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wilsons & Horton, Lith., Auckland. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 570 x 472 mm.

Date: 1901

From: Various artists :[Box of assorted Christmas cards. 1860s-1919]

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm); Chief Post Office (Wellington, N.Z.); White, Benoni William Lytton, 1858-1950

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-1901-01

Description: Shows a montage of images, including telegraph wires above Wellington Harbour, a young Maori woman posting a letter in a postbox while she frees a bird on her right hand; two warriors standing within a Maori pa, with flax and cabbage trees, a steamship crossing the sea; a train puffing along the line; and the Chief Post Office building in Wellington. There is the image of a red one penny stamp in the top right corner. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on Christmas greetings card 1901.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on folded card, 187 x 244 mm.

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000246-G

Description: View of the ferry steamer approaching the wharf at Mansion House Bay. The branches of the pine tree in the immediate foreground obscure the view of the wharf. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Kawau Island. Auckland, NZ. No 1874 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: l8 Aug 1908

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000301-G

Description: View of Northcote Point, looking south towards Auckland showing a military parade of young cadets. Possibly taken on 8 Aug 1908 by William Archer Price of Auckland, on the occasion of the ceremony to mark Northcote becoming a borough, or, on the occasion of the arrival or departure of the US Great White Fleet. Two steamships (with bunting) can be seen on the harbour. Source of descriptive information - possible context provided by library client, previously described as 'possibly on the occasion of the ceremony to mark Northcote becoming a borough' Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Northcote Point, Auckland, 829 William Archer Price lived and practiced in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1905 - 1914

By: George Aitken (Firm); Vinsen, William Henry, 1876-1962

Reference: Eph-POSTCARD-Westport-01

Description: Three views of the Westport Buller area and the steamship "Arahura". All three pictures can be seen by grasping and pulling the underlying cards at the cut-away spaces at either side of the top ("Arahura") card. Other Titles - Crag The "Arahura" was built in 1905. The firm printing postcards in Saxony was operating around 1904-1914. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard set.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on three postcards, stretching to a total of 362 x 89 mm.

Date: 1900

By: Fullwood, Albert Henry, 1863-1930; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm)

Reference: Eph-POSTCARDS-Wellington-01

Description: Shows a reproduction of a painting by A H Fullwood (signed lower left), of ships tied up at Jervois Quay, Wellington Harbour. Another copy in Drawings & Prints at E-279-q-075/078 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 89 x 140 mm.