Places

Date: 1920-1929

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-3

Description: Photographs of trips taken in the countryside, of bridges, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forest, mountains, coastal scenery and other scenic views. There are pictures of cars and one of a motorcycle with side car. There are prints of two fly fishermen displaying their catch in a net and of a man holding up a large eel. Others show yachts in sail, and men and boys in yachts; adult fun sports at a group outing identified in PAColl-6712-2 as being the "optic championships". Another group are shown playing cricket in the grounds of Days Bay House. There is also a single print of a hunter showing his bag of wild game birds. Animals are represented by cattle and horses, one of the latter associated with two men and a wagon-full of freshly harvested hay, another is harnessed to a coach parked beside a stationary train. A sequence of prints records the dams and lakes of the newly completed Mangahao Hydro in the hills inland from Shannon. Three prints show a ship grounded in coastal shallows. There are portrait and group photographs of people, including children, and one print of a children's party. Several show picnic groups.

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890s-1940s]

By: Vine, H R, active 1939

Reference: PAColl-6604

Description: The collection covers mining buildings; interior machinery including the use of scales and smelting; miners both at work and posed for the camera; panning for gold; mine railways and the carts used on them; general views of the area; and other houses and buildings in the area. Also included are the building of the power house for the Talisman Gold Mining Company in Karangahake, a gold mine battery possibly in Karangahake, and a coach pulled by five horses possibly in the Karangahake district. The dating is from the vehicles in some of the images and the geographical area is from information in the negative accession register. Photographer possibly H R Vine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015702, 015704 to 015711 and 015713 to 015774; 1/2-023583 to 023585 Quantity: 68 b&w original negative(s) film. 3 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass negatives

Date: 1910 to 1913

From: Brown, Charles Hunter, 1826-1898 :Photographs of the Nelson and West Coast districts

Reference: PA1-o-239

Description: Photographs relating to the Hunter Brown family, taken at various locations including Nelson, Motueka, Picton, Kenepuru and Pelorus Sounds; one scene shows a car stuck in the sand at Pohara Beach; also a few of Wellington and Christchurch. Another group of images show a women's championship hockey tournament; and a group of women members of the Miramar Golf club, identified by surname. Two photographs show a group of members of the General Synod in 1913. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with embossed black card cover, entitled `Miscellaneous' (hand-lettered in white ink); 16.4 x 22.6 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: February 1928

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1767-1/2-G

Description: View of a horse-drawn cart and two cars negotiating a flooded area on the Hutt Road at Silverstream. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in February 1928. Information from Godber's index (TL 6/1/15) held in Photographic Archives (under 1/2 plate negatives: Box 109. Flood. Hutt Road. (2). Silverstream. 2/28) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6940

Description: A miscellaneous collection including: two of HMS Hood in Lyttelton harbour; an old Christchurch City Council truck; Michael Savage and a group of people on a city street; a GPO Royal Mail van; a bush railway probably for logging; the sailing ship Whitepine moored probably in Lyttelton harbour; a Thew Shovel Co steam shovel loading a cart with a man holding the horse; and a view of Manchester Street showing the Jubilee Clock Tower. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-057408 to 057416 Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2470-F

Description: Panoramic view of a collection of single-storeyed buildings at the Kaupokonui Dairy Company. Groups of men are standing facing the camera. Sixteen men in the centre of the image are wearing suits, hats and ties, while thirteen others are centre right, most of whom are wearing work overalls. There are seven cars behind the men on the left (several number plates visible: WW333, WW-23, WW245). A small boy is standing by one of the cars, centre left, and there is a boy on a horse, and horses and carts in the middle distance centre left. Houses on a higher level on the far left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Kaupokonui Dairy Co. 12-40x10 Hawera; Photographer's title on negative - R P Moore's circular business stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 109.0 cm

Date: [ca 1900s-1950s]

From: Morriss, Bernadette, fl 2014: Items relating to members of her family

Reference: PAColl-10218-4

Description: Comprises mainly photographs relating to the Gisborne Motor Service Co and their fleet of cars. Includes images following a fire at the Gisborne Motor Service on 23 February 1927, and images of cars presumably from the motor service being used on roads in Gisborne city and the Gisborne region. Includes images of cars in various weather conditions, including snow, and also a horse-drawn carriage with wheels trapped in deep mud en route to Tolaga Bay from Gisborne, and cars on the road in deeply forested areas. Also includes an image entitled, 'Departure of hockey girls per Gisborne Motor Service', which shows a line-up of vehicles with men and women sitting on the cars or kneeling in front of them. Also includes an image of 'Wizard' Smith, and his racecar at Ninety Mile Beach, and a small number of photographs possibly relating to Joan Frances Fahey, including an image of a group of tennis players. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1890s-ca1923

From: Brusey family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-974

Description: The first and largest section of this album records a trip in Canada and possibly the United States, made by a young man with a motor car about 1923. The second section are photographs taken on a visit to possibly Hawaii or Tahiti. Local people are recorded as well as a number of yachts tied up along the waterfront of a town, and a white warship. The third section include family photographs taken in Britain in the 1890s, and several shipboard views, two of which show what are probably crossing the line ceremonies involving a canvas swimming pool. Towards the end of the album a group of family photographs are associated with a large wooden New Zealand house. There is no information with the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1860s and 1910s]

From: McCormack, Leonora, 1925-: Albums and photographic prints of the Harding family

By: Mason, Frederick W, active 1899-1915

Reference: PA1-o-285

Description: Album related to the Harding family of Mount Vernon Station near Waipukurau. Family scenes include views of the Mount Vernon Homestead, with individual and group portraits, many taken at the house. Other houses and farms include Raukawa farm, the Sommerville house in Khandallah, Wellington, and W.H. Smith's house in Hastings. Most of the people are identified, but many have only initials with surnames. Holidays at Lake Waikaremoana, New South Wales, Milford track; a drive over the Rimutaka Road. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, maroon spine and corners; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [ca 1931]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: PAColl-6761

Description: 30 views of floats in a Napier parade including: two of the Napier Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club's float showing members in the club kit on bicycles; Henry Williams & Sons (hardware) float, showing four men with a bathroom suite; Briascos Ltd's float decorated to look like a boat; a Hawke's Bay Motor Company Ltd Model T Ford decorated and full of 4 people in fancy dress; a horse and carriage and a truck passing the police station; a float advertising different kinds of shoes sponsored by a number of local shoe retailers; a Williams & Creagh truck with a number of people in fancy dress; an old car in which the back axle has been moved forward causing it to tip up again with people in fancy dress; a Piper & Co float with a display of their sails on a small boat followed by a float for Taradale Vineyards; a spoof fire truck; a Vulcan foundry float showing a complete workshop; a float advertising Queen Anne chocolates; Warath Tea Garden float covered in flowers; group of young people in pill box hats in front of a float; Napier Golf Club float inlcuding regulations signs; float advertising Sunny Spain; a Max Studio float with a group of young girls holding stars; a rugby team's float; a float labelled Wairere; four men dressed as druids with a float carrying standing stones; Te Awa Ex-Puplils' Association float with a group of them in sports clothes or fancy dress; Smith and Smith Ltd float showing paint samples; Engineers, Boilermakers and Iron and Brass Founders float; two children on tricycles decorated with flowers; a Swan bacon float; Napier Gas Company float with a display on gas cooking; two of children in fancy dress one pushing a relief workers wheelbarrow; a man on a horse advertising Griffiths shoes; and Taradale Hotel after the earthquake. Photographer was Henry Norford Whitehead. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028782 to 028784, 1/4-028809 to 028818, 029318 to 029320, 029352, 029373, 029390, 029394, 029396, 029410 to 029412, 029580 to 029581, 029592, 029611, 029665, 029666, and 095742 to 095743. Quantity: 32 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: ca 1924

Reference: PAColl-7325

Description: Copy negatives of photographs in an album. The Mimi valley deviation on the New Plymouth to Te Kuiti highway; the road alongside Porirua harbour showing submerged telegraph poles; men spreading and rolling gravel on the Gisborne to Wairoa highway at Morere; men laying concrete on the Christchurch to Timaru highway; number of horse-drawn carts on a riverbed being loaded with shingle; and horse-drawn scoops collecting shingle from a riverbed for the Hamilton to Rotorua highway. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003415 to 003420 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [ca 1904-1920]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1017

Description: Postcard photographs of New Zealand houses. Most are of Edwardian villas, and some later bungalows. Hospitals include TB sanitoria, Assylums, and spars. Locations are - Gisborne. Masterton. Dannevirke. Wanganui. Ashburton. Cambridge. Hawera. Stratford. Napier. Waipukurau. Seacliff. Auckland. Invercargill. Stafford. Wellington. Hamilton. Cromwell. Hanmer. Ashburton. Timaru. Dunedin. Hawera. Picton. Waihi. Featherston Military Camp. Oamaru. Waimate. New Plymouth. Mount Somers. Blenheim. Rotorua. Te Aroha. Postcards of schools located at - Rangiora. Gore. Tauranga. Wellington. Dunedin. Ravensbourne. Kaikoura. Woodside (Outram). Waimate. Timaru. Palmerston South. Carterton. Nelson. Auckland. Napier. Gisborne. Te Aute. Hastings. Hawera. Wanganui. Christchurch. Sumner. Lyttelton. Waihi. Feilding. Masterton. Temuka. Blenheim. Woodend. Arrowtown. Invercargill. Views of cities and towns including notable public buildings, hotels, and water towers - Dunedin. Bluff port. Port Chalmers. Oamaru. Gisborne. Queenstown. Pahiatua. Riversdale. Hanmer Springs. Auckland. Kerikeri. Invercargill. Geraldine. Hamilton. Wanganui. Dunedin. Wellington. Masterton. Clyde. Hastings. Woodside (Outram). Hawera. Views of gardens and parks at - Timaru. Hamilton. New Plymouth. Ashburton. Auckland. Invercargill. Wellington. Wanganui. Business enterprises include - Freezing works near Hastings. Gold mine Waihi. Kaipoi Woolen Mills. Mulgrave timber mill Nelson. Junction North mine. Chelsea sugar factory Auckland. Oil dereks New Plymouth. Electric power house Ernscleugh. Electric power station Rotorua. Bridges include - Suspension bridge, Moteo. Suspension bridge, Hooker River, Mount Cook. Grafton Bridge, Auckland. Bridge in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. Bridge across road, Parnell, Auckland. Arthurs Point Bridge. Bridge at Gisborne. Winchester bridge, Timaru. Railway bridge, Waikato River. Bridge, Lyall Creek, Kaikoura. Bridge on Raurimu-Oio service road. Shotover River bridge. Traffic bridge, Pahiatua. Clarence River bridge, Kaikoura. Skippers bridge. There are several pages of motorcars, and some photographs of people in horse drawn carriages. One photograph shows two horses harnessed to a large wagon. Other postcards show bowling greens at Queenstown, Carterton, Eltham, and Invercargill. Mount Ngauruhoe erupting. View of Mount Ruapehu. Old men's home, Ashburton. The Roman Catholic Cathedral, Invercargill. Hunters (duck shooters?) gathered around a car. Man cleaning boots, Ball Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1905-1920

By: Caldwell, Richard Pringle, active 1954-1981

Reference: PAColl-3123

Description: Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/4-39818 to 39819, 1/2-105804 to 105817, 105895 to 105938, 105970 to 106144, 106153 to 106295. 10 35mm copy negatives in 35mm registers at 16298-16299. The following file prints are available at PAColl-3123 in the Photographic Archive: F105804-1/2, G105809-1/2, G105986-1/2, G105909-1/2, G105918-1/2, F105922-23-1/2, G105937-1/2, G105975-1/2, G105978-1/2, G105983-1/2, G105996-1/2, G105997-99-1/2, G106003-06-1/2, G106012-13-1/2, G106015-1/2, G106022-1/2, G106024-1/2, G106031-32-1/2, G106034-35-1/2, G106038-1/2, G106042-1/2, G106044-1/2, F106048-1/2, F106050-1/2, F106056-1/2, G106065-1/2, F106068-69-1/2, F106070-1/2, G106076-1/2, G106078-1/2, F106082-83-1/2F106086-87-1/2, G106089-1/2, F106095-1/2, F106097-1/2, G106098-1/2, F106100-1/2, F106104-1/2, F106108-1/2, F106117-1/2, G106123-1/2, G106125-1/2, G106127-1/2. Quantity: 409 b&w original negative(s). 171 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: ¼ and 1/2 plate film and (mainly) glass negatives Processing information: Note that these 1/2-plate negaives may actually be found with the 1/2-plate sequence to be recatalogued as 1/4 plate. The negative register is not clear about this. Note also that there may be other file prints from this collection amongst file prints to be processed in PA and file prints to be captioned in PRS (Pictorial Reference Service). Those that are not to go into the PRS files should be added to this collection. File prints already in the PAColl have been counted as original b/w prints

Date: 19190-1922

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-860

Description: A third of the album depicts views of the victory or peace celebrations at Waipawa in 1919. The rest record a 28 day holiday in the North Island taken by Edward Stuart Bibby in 1920, and a trip from Nelson to Christchurch in 1922. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6963

Description: Assorted views of army life and family photographs many of them taken on a beach. One of a hot air balloon is advertising Hudson's Baking Powder with the slogan "Bound to Rise". Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059554 to 059869 and 106041 to 106083 Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: Between 1923 and 1932

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966

Reference: PA1-o-262

Description: Collection of photographs, most of which show aspects of yachting, chiefly in Wellington harbour. Most images are not identified in captions, except one page of a Tararua trip to Field Hut in May 1932 (p. 48); and one page of images of a young woman, entitled Savannah, Ill. 1923 and 1925. The boating views show yachts, yacht racing, sailors, coastline, and a lighthouse (several views). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 7 April 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1144-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Palmerston North taken from the Bank of New Zealand building, looking down over The Square. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: No marginal notes - No. 357. Panorama of Palmerston North, N.Z. (from Bank of N.Z.) 7.4.1923 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.6 cm

Date: [ca 1905]

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-003541-G

Description: Scene in Midhirst, showing a motor car, bicycle and butcher's delivery cart in front of the premises of the Bank of New Zealand and Christiansen & Nielsen, family butchers. Photograph taken 1907-1908 by James McAllister of Stratford. Chris Christiansen and Carl Christian Nielsen operated a butchers shop in Midhirst 1907-1908. (Source: Stone's directories) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches