Places

Date: 15 December 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Portraits of New Zealanders-Lange, David-1984-02

Description: David Lange in bumper boat, Rainbow's End Adventure Park, Manukau City. Photograph taken 15 December 1984 by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Primne Minister David Lange braces himself against a splashing on the bumper boat pool at Rainbow's End Adventure Park, Manukau City, at the weekend (15.12.84) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 19.7 x 24.9 cm

Date: 1924-1925, 1928

From: Johnston, Phyllis, 1904-1998: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1895

Description: Photograph album formerly belonging to Phyllis Johnston. Contain images taken during visit to South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and a North Island road trip. Compiler of albums, and photographer(s), are unidentified. Album is extensively captioned. - Images of Dunedin area are taken during a holiday to the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in 1924-1925. Photographs of sights include a bus trip to Waipori via Outram (including the Waipori River and power station), St Clair Beach (including the Baths and Tomahawk), waves at Ocean Beach, Dunedin Botanic Gardens, Portobello, Harbour Ferry, Octagon and Cathedral, Dunedin Train Station, Stewart Street Cable Car, Otago University Clock Tower, Otago Boys High, Evansdale river scenes, and North East Valley. Exhibition photos show the Exhibition Buildings, the grand court water feature, 'Maori House', and Amusement Park 'The Three Castles' (including the entrance and the 'Ye Old Mill River Caves' roller coaster and 'Giant's Mouth' rides). - Album also covers a January 1928 North Island road trip in a Model T Ford, departing from Levin. Camping grounds, camping sites, the preparation of meals and washing up, car with camping awning erected and camping gear packed on side, picnics, and tourist sites are featured. The route travelled, as suggested by the order of the images, is via Hastings, Napier, Taupo and lake area, Wairakei thermal area, Rotorua and Ohinemutu and lake area (including Rotoiti, Tarawera, and Rotomahana), Hamilton, Auckland (including Titirangi, Henderson, and Devonport), Waitomo, New Plymouth, and Inglewood. Notable sights and activities photographed include: Hastings Garden entrance with Maori carvings; Taurangakuma River; Mohaka River; Lake Taupo scenes from boat tour; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids; various thermal sights including the Opal Pool and Eagles Nest Geyser at Wairakei; Whakarewarewa thermal area with model pa, tour group, and children diving for pennies; Boiling Lake and other sights in Waimangu Valley; Rotorua Sanatorium including Bath House and entrance to Government Gardens; Okere Falls; Hinemoana's Bath; fish at Fairy Spring; hunting for oysters, Titirangi; Albert Park, Auckland; polar bears at Auckland Zoo; tourist series of Waitomo Caves; Mokau bridge; Pukekura Park and Paritutu Rock, New Plymouth; and an unidentified house and tennis match. - Album contains portraits of two children called Joyce and Beverley. Joyce is also photographed at the South Seas Exhibition with a woman identified only as 'B.G.K' [Miss B G Kirk?]. The North Island Road trip images include numerous image of three unidentified women; this series also includes a family portrait of the Bailey Family beside a car. - Loose prints show Whitianga (Mercury Bay and Buffalo Beach), an unidentified group by pool of fish [Fairy Spring, Rotorua?], a print with two images (Ball Hut and Lake Pukaki), and an unidentified city scape [Dunedin?]. Source of information - for identifying BGK as Miss B G Kirk see album caption in album reference number PA1-o-1896 Arrangement: Loose prints have been collated and put in an acid free folder at the front of the album. The original pages in which they were interleaved bear no known relationship to the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather album with pastoral scene of hay rickets and cottage tooled on the leather, 15 x 22 cm

Date: 1907

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 5

Reference: PAColl-5800-41

Description: View of the Wonderland amusement park in Miramar, Wellington, looking towards the slide. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1907. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Wonderland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: May 1912

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1040-35-2

Description: View south over Miramar. In the middle distance can be seen the "Wonderland" amusement park and the sports ground. In the distance there are groups of houses and a gasometer, and beyond a view of the sea. Photographed by Frank Barker in May 1912. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Miramar looking south, May 1912. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.3 x 9.6 cm

Date: 1904 - 1914

Reference: Eph-POSTCARDS-Wellington-05

Description: Shows a frontal view of a carriage hitting the water after sliding down the chute, while crowds watch, and a row of flags flaps in the breeze. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Collotype on postcard 89 x 138 mm.

Date: 1910

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-022712-G

Description: Part two of a two part panorama of the Wonderland amusement park, Miramar, Wellington, taken from near the boating lake. There are a crowd of people on a type of bridge near the lake. Some seem to be in line for the helter skelter, which can also be seen. Taken by Sydney Charles Smith in 1910. Forms a panorama with 1/1-022711 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1910

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-022711-G

Description: Part one of a two part panorama of the Wonderland amusement park, Miramar, Wellington, looking towards the boating lake. Crowds can be seen around the lake and in the surrounding area. The view was taken by Sydney Charles Smith from outside the park in 1910. Forms a two part panorama with 022712-1/1 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 2004

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005310

Description: Shows a plan of visitors arriving at the Mitre peak via the gondola, and luging down the peak in Queenstown. Cartoon refers to the $100 million dollars Fiordland Gondola plan, which links from Milford Road in Fiordland to the Caples Valley using gondola rides. This project is a partnership between the Skyline Enterprises and Ngai Tahu. Published in The Press, 16 March 2004 Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called "QANTAS2004". Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 1940

From: [Ephemera relating to exhibitions in New Zealand in 1939-1940, including the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Wellington]

Reference: Eph-B-EXHIBITION-1940-01-front

Description: Shows aerial view of exhibition grounds with beach at top left. At right is detail of tower building. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 212 x 280 mm.

Date: 1909

From: Various artists: [Postcards donated by Mrs E F Goldsmith, Levin. 1905-1910]

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Goldsmith-02

Description: Postcard shows a photograph of the water slide at the Wonderland amusement park in Miramar. The message on the back of the card is addressed to Mr R N Johnson, Tweed Street, Enwood, Invercargill, and is postmarked in Wellington, on January 6 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photograph on postcard 89 x 138 mm