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Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: 1906

From: Shaw, V, G [Mrs] :[Scenes of Napier] / V G Shaw. - 1896, 1906.

Reference: A-176-031

Description: Looking north along Marine Parade, Napier, fairly close to Bluff Hill, with young Norfolk pines planted inside protective fencing, a park bench, a band rotunda, houses or shops and office buildings near the beach close to the hill, and a few houses indicated on the hill Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper glued to card, 120 x 170 mm (oval)

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm

Date: 1953

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-033189-F

Description: A31551 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1900s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

Reference: PAColl-7344-02

Description: Looking out to sea at Caroline Bay with the band rotunda in the foreground and bathing machines on the left. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1900-1910]

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

Reference: PA1-o-245

Description: Photographs taken by Isaac H B Jeffares. These include family photographs, many of which are not identified. Those whose names are given (at a later date) are Beryl Charlotte Cameron (aged one); Isaac Jeffares himself; and Isaac Jeffares' mother, Mrs Jane Jeffares (nee Warrell). Scenic photographs were chiefly taken in Wellington, with harbour views, Wellington City, and several well-known public buildings; Napier, including Bluff Hill and Cape Kidnappers; and Greymouth. Other Titles - Sunny memories Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 20 x 22 cm

Date: 1936 - 1981

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

Reference: Plans-2005-057-2283

Description: Includes plans for the Bathing Pavilion on Oriental Bay, by the Wellington City Corporation City Engineers' Department, 1936. These include floor plans, drainage plan, plan for demolition, removal and re-erection of the existing bandstand in Central Park, gun-metal casting and gallery for light standards, plans, sections and elevations. Also includes plans by Grahame Anderson on the band rotunda, for the Wellington Settlement Trading Company Ltd, April 1981. Quantity: 37 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 590 x 840 mm.

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: PAColl-7319

Description: Photograph of the band rotunda with willow trees beside it and tents for typhoid patients in Tauranga Domain. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925-1928

From: Lake, Beverley Muriel, fl 1982 :Family photographs, views of Sweden and New Zealand

Reference: PA1-o-255

Description: Album of mostly family and school photographs taken between 1925 and 1928. People in the family scenes are occasionally identified by Christian name; photographs of teachers at Wellington Girls' College are identified. A small group of photographs were taken at the Shalimar Gardens in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1928 One image shows an "electric light bath" used as a therapeutic treatment Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue grey cover, entitled `Photographs'; 19.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: ca 1904-1905

From: Butcher, Charles Henry, 1887-1957 :Lantern slides of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA11-263

Description: Photographs of Pukekura Park, New Plymouth ca 1905-1906. most likely photographed by Butcher. Featured landmarks are the Band Rotunda, Poet's Bridge, Queen Victoria Monument, and Barrett's Cannon. On Main Lake, unidentified figures are seen boating (with a vignette and faint view of Mount Taranaki in the background), while another image shows ducks and geese on the water. Flora includes fern and pine varietals (one image is hand coloured). Set of slides also contains one image of transept being added to Christchurch Cathedral in 1904. Quantity: 8 b&w lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: 1998

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-14

Description: Buildings in the Waikato Region. These include - Buildings in Huntly and surrounding districts including Waiterimu and Te Mata. Street views (mostly Huntly). Commercial buildings. Houses. rural villages. Huntly power station. A brick boundary fence. Bridges. Churches. Country Halls. School buildings. Plunket rooms. Memorials. Bandstands. Industrial buildings. Farm buildings. Quantity: 91 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1995-1998

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-16

Description: Buildings of the Waikato and Waipa districts include - Houses (including railway houses). Church buildings. A signal box. A grandstand. Commercial buildings. Views of streets. Hotels. Bandstands. A school building. A bowling club building. Halls. Memorials. Public buildings. Bridges. A telephone box. A Museum. Quantity: 162 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1995-1996

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-17

Description: Buildings of Waipa district include - Houses. Farm buildings. Hotels. Memorials. Church buildings. School buildings. Commercial buildings. Theatres. Conservatory buildings. Water towers. A phone box. A Museum. Halls. A sub station. Public clock towers. Public buildings. A phone box. A cast iron post box. Parks. Quantity: 164 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1998

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-13

Description: Buildings in the Waikato Region. These include - Buildings in Hamilton - Early 20th century commercial and public buildings. A large number of houses of all sorts including some state houses and art deco styled houses. Other localities include Gordonston, Tauwhare, Huntly, Waingaro, Rotowaro, Raglan, Ngaruawahia, and Okete. These include much the same sorts of buildings as well as churches, schools, hotels, public halls, cemeteries, and bridges. There is also a sequence of views of the abandoned carbonisation works at Rotowaro which opened in 1931 and closed in 1987. Quantity: 154 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: Circa December 1958 to April 1959

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

Reference: PA12-8796

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand between 1958 and 1959. This sheet of slides shows hills at Holmridge farm; volcanic ridge at Tokatoka; sawmill and the Tokatoka volcanic rock in the distance; Dargaville township, April 26 Anzac Day procession with band rotunda visible, an old pier on the Wairoa River at Dargaville, cattle sales; a pile of wood blocks at a sawmill; Woodhill showing Peter Hildreth's farm country; sheep on the road beyond Helensville; Kaipara River at Helensville; scenes relating to the flax industry at Waihue showing cabbage trees in a swamp, views of the Northern Wairoa Flax Co. mill showing the buildings, flax in swampland, the flax mill, washed flax fibres, and the manager of the mill holding flax fibres. Slides on this sheet are numbered 604-627. Arrangement: None of this particular sheet of slides were removed to Mr Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for his lecture series when he returned to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1928, 1946-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-174

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Hagley Park in Spring showing daffodils and cherry trees; Hagley Park in Autumn; various views of the Avon River (some include the band rotunda); canoeists on the river; view of Scott memorial with Chamber of Commerce building in background; Nurse's Home with field of daffodils in foreground; Bowker Fountain; Bishopscourt, Rolleston Avenue (in Spring) Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-23

Description: Shows a view of houses in Island Bay, seen from the beachside park (Shorland Park), with a circular domed bandstand in the right foreground. Other Titles - Island Bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 247 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: [ca 1903-1930]

From: Harcourt, P (Dr), fl 1982 :Baldwin album and assorted photographs

Reference: PA1-o-032

Description: Album of family photographs of the Jasper Baldwin family. Most people are unidentified, except one photograph labelled Sir Guy and Lady Powles. Two yachts are named the Wairere and the Marangi. There are images of haymaking, fruit growing, a trip in the centre of the North Island, motorcycles, automobiles, and parts of the Tasman region. A number of loose photographs are stored in a pocket at the end of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown soft-covered album labelled "Photographs", 180 x 300 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1420-F

Description: Panorama of Sumner Beach and township, Christchurch, taken from Clifton Hill. Building offering Hot Sea Baths and tearooms in front of Cave Rock and Sumner Pier. Signal station on top of Cave Rock. Band rotunda beside the baths. Named buildings include Cave Rock Hotel, Cadena Tea Rooms, and Buchanan's Refreshment Rooms. Bowling green and clubrooms in right foreground. Photographed in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Sumner from Clifton Hill Chch No. 529; Marginal notes on negative - 80 Nepera 25 Cloud; Marginal notes on negative - 6 6 6 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 102.3 cm