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Date: 1885

By: Frost, William Row, 1845?-1911

Reference: PA7-43-25

Description: Photograph taken during the Volunteer Review of Southern companies held at Tahuna Park, Dunedin, Apr 1885. Photograph taken by W R Frost. For report of the Review see Otago Witness, 11 Apr 1885, page 22 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Volunteer review, Tahuna Park, Dunedin, 1885; Recto - beneath image - W R Frost, photographer, Castle St., Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.5 x 20 cm

Date: ca1875-ca1885

From: Swainson, Jane :Photographs of military forces in Taranaki, Nelson, Hokitika, Parihaka and Rotorua.

By: Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PA1-q-707

Description: Views of notable public buildings in Sydney dating from the late 1860s to the late 1870s. Nelson City during a public parade involving colonial soldiers. Soldiers in military encampments, parading, and firing Cannon. Views of Lake Rotorua, Parihaka at the time it was occupied by Government troops, Hokitika waterfront, floods in Greymouth, and a wedding in Nelson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1891-1901

Reference: PAColl-0731

Description: Photographs of a military parade on Lambton Quay as part of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York consisting of teams of eight horses pulling small carriages on their way to the Battery with spectators lining the street; No.3 Gun Detachment at a military tournament in November 1891 at Hutt Race Course standing with their gun the participants being Sgt Carter, Br Daniels, Gunners Brown, Petrie, Curtis, Bott, Renwick, Raynor, and Quilice(?); No.1 (Gun Detachment?) with their gun, standing next to a tent in Miramar in 1898 the participants being Gibson, Coombes, Coleman, Pettiecuck(?), Lyon, Boyes, Fraser, Feeney, Hill, Brown, Spence, Courtney, and Truman; and a large group of men possibly of D battery of Wellington militia holding poles with paddles at the end with circles painted on them (markers). Some of the men are in uniform or partial uniform and there are targets behind them. Photographer(s) unidentified. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1878 and 1915]

From: Brown, Thomas Watson, 1878-1947 :Photograph albums relating to New Zealanders in the South African War and of New Zealand scenes

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PA1-q-329

Description: Album of photographs, mostly relating to New Zealanders in the South African War, but also including many which show the D Battery, 1st New Zealand Mounted Rifles at various military camps in the Wellington region. Many show groups of soldiers, with surnames noted. One view shows the Opening of Parliament in 1898, with a parade of D Battery; and a few show the opening of the Star Boating Club in Wellington. Some images taken by unidentified photographers, some probably taken by Thomas Watson Brown. The earliest image was taken in 1878, and shows a home in Masterton; another image shows a work picnic with a group in a tug-of-war at Day's Bay, in 1912; a group portrait of staff in the Mines Department taken in Wellington, 1907; and a group portrait of the 10th anniversary reunion of the 1st New Zealand Contingent, held in Wellington, 21.10.1909, taken by Zak Studios, No. 7275. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue cover with gold embossed decoration, 280 x 390 mm

Date: 1860-1897

Reference: PAColl-4538

Description: 15 views of New Plymouth: 3 of Brougham Street, one from Devon Street looking north, one looking south from the position of the railway yard, and one from Devon Street looking south; view of Pukerua Park; 2 views of Devon Street during the royal visit of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1869; 2 views of unidentified streets; Tui Te Huirangi; Pukearuhe Redoubt, Whitecliffs; 2 of the Taranaki Mounted Rifle Troop on parade; the kiln of the Iron Sand Company; Parihaka Pa with Te Whiti's house in the centre; and Takaroto Matutaera Potatu Te Wherowhero Tawhiao. Photographer(s) unknown. On the print of the one of Te Huirangi his name is given as Tui Taurangi. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-012526 to 012532 and 012535 Quantity: 15 prints and negatives.

Date: 1897

Reference: Eph-B-EXHIBITION-1897-01

Description: Programme with cover illustration inset panel showing Queen Victoria reading at a table. Events at the tournament included musical ride, artilliery display, hurdles, infantry display, bridge building, tent pegging, limber race, tent competition, trotting race, physical drill displayboot race, Victoria Cross rescue race, tug of war. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on green folded paper, 275 x 207 mm.

Date: ca 1894-1927

By: Smyth, G Max, active 1975

Reference: PAColl-4686

Description: Photographs of Lord Kitchener's visit to Oamaru, February 1910 with a military parade outside the Opera House; an orchestral group of blind students playing the violin, viola, trumpet and a wind instrument with another man reading a braille score, taken in 1894 by James Ring; a line of decorated horses and carts outside the Prince of Wales bakery in Timaru with St Mary's in the background ca 1910; and the Clayton steam railcar on a trial run at Kurow ca 1927 with railwaymen and public next to it. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1899 - 1910

By: Falloon, Wendy, 1938-

Reference: PAColl-1699

Description: Photographs of the Sommerville family, some from an album compiled by Esme Sommerville, showing Wellington scenes, and some from an album compiled by Gladys Sommerville, showing childhood in Fiji Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-150994 to 151041, 168664 to 168703 Quantity: 87 b&w copy negative(s). Finding Aids: 78 photocopy/ies at PAColl-1699.

Date: 1858

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

Reference: E-309-q-1-016

Description: Barrack buildings to the right, with the troops lined up outside. A separate group of officers, including one on horseback in the centre and towards the left Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph, 114 x 219 mm on album page 256 x 205 mm

Date: 1884

From: Pearce, G E : Photographs relating to the military service of E Pearce

Reference: 1/2-044041-F

Description: Shows spectators and military at the Island Bay Easter Camp in 1884 with rows of white tents in the background. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: March 1861

From: Urquhart album

Reference: PA1-q-250-04

Description: Detachment of the 65th Regiment on parade on Mount Eliot, New Plymouth, in March 1861. Shows a medal being presented, possibly by Lt Colonel Young. Photographer unidentified. On 29 March 1861 Lt Colonel Young of 65th Regiment presented medals for long and faithful service to Sergeant John Crowder and Privates James Furlong and Joseph Greensmith (see article in 'The Taranaki Herald', 30 March 1861, page 2). It is probable that this photograph documents that occasion. Source of descriptive information - Papers Past, file print, album page. The file print identifies the subjects as Lieut Charles Urquhart presenting a medal to Corporal Bowdler, with Edward McKenna on the left, but newspaper research identifies the group as Lt Colonel Young presenting medals to Crowder, Furlong and Greensmith. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - beneath image - Detachment 65th Regt Taranaki NZ; Album page - Parade on Mt Eliot (Puke Ariki Pa) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.2 x 21.9 cm with trimmed corners, mounted on card 17.3 x 22.3 cm Processing information: Record was edited on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 1880s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002577-G

Description: "L" Battery artillery men on parade at Port Chalmers, circa 1880s. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1890

From: Hill, Mabel 1872-1956 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-514-034

Description: Two views in the centre of a short fat soldier marching, his rifle over his left shoulder, titled 'One of our gallant defenders'; another of a similarly armed policeman in helmet and cape. At the bottom left of the page a drawing of a short stout woman holding a bag and an umbrella. At the bottom right 'how we went to the review' shows two women in a cart with a groom with a whip. The sketches appear to relate to a public military review Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in pencil; also title in centre Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, 132 x 182 mm.

Date: 1884

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025750-F

Description: Kawhia Armed Constabulary on parade under Captain Messenger. Shows two rows of men standing outside, holding rifles at their sides. Photograph taken in 1884 at Kawhia by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - From identical image on lantern slide: "Kawhia AC's on parade under Capt Messenger. 1884. THW & WW Photographed during a trip to Kawhia by William Williams, and his friend Thomas H Wyatt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-030-016

Description: Extensive view across a bay towards a beach and headland, with houses, barracks, a parade ground with redcoats drilling, the Red Ensign flag flying beside the largest house high on the hill to the left, the home of Colonel Cyprian Bridge. There are several small boats on the water. Nobby Island is on the left. Other buildings along the waterfront, from left, include barracks, in the centre the magazine of the 58th Regiment, a sentry box (set back from the waterfront), the hospital, the canteen and the officers' residence on the right The title on Bridge's pencil sketch (f-E-320-014) identifies his own house 'where I was quartered 3 years and a half, the parade ground, officers' houses and our pleasure boats in the foreground'. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature & 58; Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 322 x 538 mm Provenance: The sketchbook was acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in July 1893. Transfers: Removed from sketchbook E-320-f, along with C-018-020, an ink and wash version of the same view. Had been folded to fit in the sketchbook. Still in the sketchbook are Cyprian Bridge's "View of my house and cantonment at Wahapu" (p.14), probably the drawing copied by Williams; also on p. 12 and 13, 2 pencil and wash details of the same view, either by Bridge or Williams..