Places

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).

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

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: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Hatwell, Neville, 1918?-1969

Reference: PA12-8813

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. Several of these were taken by Neville Hatwell. This sheet shows Queenstown Lakes District, and Milford. Views include Queenstown; the Remarkables in the evening with the launch 'Moana' moored at a pier on Lake Wakatipu in the foreground; Lake Manapouri; Te Anau township; the Eglinton Valley and Hollyford Valley, both taken by Neville Hatwell; portal of the Homer Tunnel, and views the other side en route to Milford Sound, including Mount Tutoko and the Cleddau River; the Milford Track; views of the Sound, Sutherland Falls, Lake Ada, Sandfly Point and Sinbad Gully; and the Milford Sound airstrip with a small plane on the runway. The slides are not filed in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: McKegg, Amos, 1871-1961

Reference: Pan-2088-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed rough-cast hotel in Arts and Crafts style. Arches over verandahs on both floors. Four cars are parked by the entrance (three with visible number plates: NZ53-408, NZ86-336; NZ97-533); the middle one labelled "Dunedin-Wanaka Motors Ltd"; five people standing near. Two other cars parked by a tree on the right. A sign in the tree with a finger pointing reads "Garage. Drive slowly". Lake Wanaka visible behind the carpark, trees across the water beneath steep mountains. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wanaka Hotel (Lake Wanaka) New Zealand. Amos McKegg; Marginal notes on negative - Mr. Amos McKegg. Hotel pembroke. 12. Title 3/16 inch lettering = "Wanaka Hotel". 1/8 inch lettering (Lake Wanaka) New Zealand. Small letters Amos McKegg; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 93.0 cm

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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).

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