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Surveyors in the New Zealand backblocks
Date: 1907-1909
From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing
Reference: PA1-q-915
Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
New Zealand scenery - Rotorua District
Date: 1946-1959
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-173
Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Government Tourist Gardens and Bath House at Rotorua; pataka at Whakarewarewa; tourists at Whakarewarewa (including couple being welcomed to the village & showing their Volkswagen car in foreground); Lake Rotorua; Lake Rotoma; Lake Rotoehu; Hongis Track Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty. New Zealand
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1186-F
Description: Panoramic view of Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty, with a car parked on the road centre left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Location of lake from other photographs in Moore's own numerical sequence Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Lake Rotoiti. No. 699 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 113.7 cm
Lake Ianthe on the road to Franz Josef Glacier. New Zealand
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1179-F
Description: Panoramic view of Lake Ianthe, reflections of bush-clad hills on the far side. Road runs from far left to right of image with a car parked on the far right (Number plate WN 7640). Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Lake Ianthe. Franz Josef; Photographer's title on negative - Lake Ianthe on the road to Franz Josef Glacier. New Zealand. No. 276 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 97.7 cm
Robert Wells sitting at a table, Lake Rotoehu
Date: April 1940
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091503-F
Description: Robert Wells sitting at a table out of doors beside an Austin car, indexing negatives, April 1940, probably photographed by his wife, Zeila Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Robert Wells sitting at a table
Date: 1940
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091510-F
Description: Robert E Wells sitting at a table out of doors beside an Austin car at Lake Rotoehu, 1940. Probably photographed by his wife, Zeila Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Lake Pukaki
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7
Reference: PAColl-6001-11
Description: Looking out over Lake Pukaki, circa 1910. Tussock grass and a motor car are in the foreground. Snow capped mountain ranges are in the background. Clouds are also visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Robert Wells with rifle
Date: 1940
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091509-F
Description: Robert E Wells standing with a rifle beside an Austin car at Lake Rotoehu, 1940. Probably photographed by his wife, Zeila Wells. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
At Lake Manapouri, Southland
Date: 1939
From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery
Reference: 1/2-009472-F
Description: Scene at Lake Manapouri, Southland, in 1939, with a car in the foreground. Photograph taken by Thelma Kent. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Photographs relating to South Westland, West Coast
Date: 2001-2003
From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast
Reference: PADL-000507
Description: Photographs of South Westland, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Franz Josef and Haast villages and glaciers, coastlines and lakes in the southern region of the Westland district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (south Westland)" Quantity: 170 digital photograph(s).
Blue and Green Lakes, Rotorua District
Date: [Between 1923 and 1928]
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-0285-F
Description: Panoramic view of the Green and Blue Lakes taken by Robert Percy Moore some time between 1923 and 1928. A car is parked on a dirt road by a knoll in the middle of the image, with views of water on either side of the knoll. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Green and Blue Lakes No. 701 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 20 x 114.5 cm