Places

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: 11 Dec 1979

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

Reference: EP/1979/4353-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Forestry spokesman for the Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) Mr Guy Salmon unfurls a symbolic unsigned cheque made out to Minginui Sawmills Limited for $500,000 on the steps of Parliament yesterday. "Conservation organisations have been pressing the Government to extend such a loan so that the Minginui mill could afford to install machinery to process exotic (pine) timber at its Whirinaki State forest site. "The cheque, representing a Development Finance Corporation suspensory loan, was presented to the deputy Opposition leader, Mr David Lange, yesterday afternoon as part of a conservation protest at Parliament. "The organisations say that a suspensory loan would in effect provide a guarantee to continued employment to the Mingunui village residents." (Evening Post, 12 Dec, 1979). Evening Post photograph. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1936-1940s]

By: Peart, Heaton Clairemont, 1894-1991; Royal Studios (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10255

Description: Photographic postcards of Wellington and Rotorua taken circa 1940s. Three taken by Royal Studios and two by Heaton Clairemont Peart. Photographers of other images unidentified. Wellington City views are taken from Mount Victoria and Tinakori Hill. Prominent landmarks seen in these photographs include the National War Memorial and Carillon, Wellington High School, Basin Reserve cricket ground, Wellington East Girls' College, Wellington College, Winter Show Buildings, Weir House, Wellington Whares, St Gerard's Church, Basin Reserve, Wellington Railway Station, and the road to the Hutt Valley. In Rotorua sites photographed include Whakarewarewa with pa (whare and carvings) and hot pools (including Maori women washing clothes), Government Gardens Bath House and entranceway, Ward Bath house, top of Eagle's Nest geyser at Wairakei, and the shore at Lake Rotorua. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards mounted on two album pages. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints mounted on brown card tied with blue ribbon Provenance: Donor bought them in England and passed them to the Nelson Provincial Museum, who, after consultation with the donor, passed them to the Library.

Date: 1978-1997

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-24

Description: Wellington views and buildings include - Metal nikau palms around Wellington Public Library building. Views of Wellington's high rise skyline from the Inner Harbour. Exterior and interior views of shed 21 on Waterloo Quay. St John's Bar in the restored Wellington Free ambulance Building on Cable Street. Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa) building nearing completion. Billboard advertising planned residential development on the waterfront between Barnett Street and Oriental Parade. Old Eastbourne Ferry building, northern end of Inner Harbour waterfront. Parks and building development on and around Frank Kitts Park. Wellington Hospital buildings, Newtown. (All of the above were dated 1995). Further Wellington views and buildings include - Circa Theatre building under construction, July 1994. Te Ara Hou Flats, Newtown. Views of Wellington, the harbour and mountains beyond, from Wadestown, and from the top of the Cable Car at Kelburn. Views of buildings on the Terrace and the motorway from raised ground above the motorway. Goods for sale in the California Garden Centre, Miramar, 1995. Views of the Museum of New Zealand bulding and its surroundings. Unidentified Wellington house, its front garden, and pohutukawa trees. Roof structure going up, probably on the second Investment House for the Public Service Investment Society, corner of Ballance and Featherston streets, 1978. Views of the main street, Huntley. Views of light industrial and small businesses lining a roadway, Rotorua. View of Auckland showing the Sky Tower On a yacht with John Hollings in the Great Barrier Island area, 1993. Views of Paekakariki, ca 1990s. Quantity: 115 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-15

Description: Includes - Views of a new clothing factory for Bing Harris. Service building for Tokannui Hospital. Views of the township of Mount Maunganui. Exterior and interior views of a new ANZ Bank building, Kawerau. Two views of Victoria House (Vic A) university hostel for women, The Terrace, Wellington. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: All of these prints were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. The photographs have been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library.

Date: [ca 1950-1963]

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-16

Description: Includes - Photographs showing construction of, and views of completed penthouse staff room, ANZ Bank, Wellington. ANZ Bank, Karwerau, under construction and completed. Views of a Hamilton street probably relating to a project for the ANZ Bank. Views of Taupo, ca 1950. New sports grandstand at Fraser Park, Taita. The Millard Stand at Athletic Park, Wellington, ca 1963. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: All of these prints were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. The photographs have been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library.

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001105

Description: View of the Bank of New Zealand on the corner of Church Street and Elliot Street. A group of women and children are standing outside the bank. A horse is being ridden up the road on the right. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Bank of N.Z. Opotiki. No 7529. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: July - Dec 2011

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000750

Description: Photographs of buildings in the Wairarapa, Lower Hutt, Rotorua, and Wellington, taken July-December 2011 by Dylan Owen. Photographs taken in Wairarapa include views of an abandoned house, Buckthorn Bar & Grill, Carterton, a street view of dilapidated two storey 1900s building and villa, Masterton, Fuzzy Vintage Collectables shop, North Carterton, Hardan Building 1924 on Perry Street, Masterton, PitStop and Lin's Auto Centre on Chaple Street, Masterton, The Pioneer Bakery and Coffee shop, Featherston. Photographs taken in Petone are comprised of exterior views of cafes and shops on Jackson Street, including Cafe Tart and Cafe Figg with outdoor tables and customers, the Coin Save, Akaash Tailoring and Creative Cuts shops, the Oyster, The Crystal People and hairdresser shops, a New Zealand Couriers van turning past The Spice Rack shop, The Tool Box, Oriental food Products and a second hand shop in the old Evening Post Petone Branch building (1927). Photographs taken in the Hutt Valley include exterior views of Auto Electricians and Hutt Plumbers on Hawkins Street, Waiwhetu, Avalon Mini Mart (dairy) featuring large "Sunday Star-Times" and "Dominion Post" advertising on the building, Jag Dairy beside Dogs R Us and a bakery on Waiwhetu Road, Fairfield, Flashbacks Party Bar and TBI Health building, Lower Hutt, Trevor Mallard and Parekura Horomia's electorate office on ground floor of building in Hillary Court, Naenae, Las Margaritas Mexican restaurant, Daly Street, Lower Hutt, the Vic Cycles shop and New Zealand Kei Shin Kan Karate Association in the Balcherrie Chambers building, High Street, Lower Hutt, Sharples Feed Barn next to Taste of Asia Takeaways on High Street, Steeds Fresh Fish & Chips, R&T Glass, Taste of Sri Lanka and a dairy on Randwick Road, Moera, Ta Moko tattoo parlour next to Luxe Catering on High Street, Lower Hutt, Trentham Food Centre, Curry Town Takeaways on Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt. Photographs taken in Wellington include exterior views of Monty's Cuba Food Market, Cuba Street, North City Tyre Centre, Tawa, and Storage King on Thorndon Quay, Wellington. Photographs taken in Rotorua include exterior views of AWI Credit Union, 1926 to 1927 facades on buildings housing Better Choice next to McDonalds on Tutanekai Street, Corporate Angels Escort Agency in the 1920 Chandler's Buildings next to the Gun Shooting Gallery on Fenton Street, Hennessy's Irish Bar on Tutanekai street, an Internet Cafe on Pukuatua Street, Shanton shop on Fenton Street, Te Puni Kokiri House featuring all Blacks and Maori language signs (ka mate haka) on windows, Haupapa Street, Fenton Quality produce, Dairy Chain Florist and the Mad Butcher on Fenton Street, Tutanekai Souvenirs and Health Sports Nutrition shops in Central Chambers 1930 building, Tutanekai Street, a man driving a classic motorcycle past Uncle Neil's Thai Noodle House, E-Funz, Divine Beauty Within and Kasper shops on Tutanekai Street. Arrangement: Files were transferred to the Library in a folder titled 'Buildings July to Dec 2011' Quantity: 37 digital photograph(s).

Date: [Circa 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-f-051

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways Department. The first sequence shows Napier before the 1931 earthquake, and after. Photographs include various buildings seriously damaged, including the hospital, the Masonic Hotel, Public Trust offices in Napier and in Hastings, the Hastings Post Office, and a view of the Napier Park Refugee Camp. Further sequences show areas of interest in New Zealand, including an early photograph of the Pink and White Terraces taken by Charles S Spencer (before the Tarawera eruption in 1886); the Government Sanatorium in Rotorua showing various therapeutic facilities and treatments including diathermy treatment, the private slipper bath, the auxiliary massage douche and the cooling room; a group of men working on carvings at the Rotorua School of Maori Arts and Crafts; members of the Rotorua Hunt Club riding out; Chateau Tongariro interior and exterior views; the Blue Baths in Rotorua; Akitio Homestead and Maunsell's Homestead (Tinui); the Hermitage and Tasman Chalet at Mount Cook (Aoraki); and the Government Accomodation House at Waitomo. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B2'; 36.5 x 49.5 cm

Date: 1975-1980

By: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988

Reference: PA-Group-00169

Description: Most of the collection is of images of New Zealand buildings. The most extensive area covered is the Wellington region which includes Wellington City, Lower Hutt, Petone, and the Kapiti coast. Wellington City is extensively covered with photographs taken between 1977 and 1980. Subjects include old and new houses, old and new office and commercial buildings, shops, churches, halls, and street scenes. All are documented as to the date the photograph was taken, the street, the street number, and in many cases the name of the building. Architectural images include details such as cast iron, fretwork and turned ornamentation, murals in commercial buildings and public sculpture. Also included are smaller architectural subjects like telephone boxes. Other places include Akaroa, Rotorua, Masterton and the Wairarapa. From beyond New Zealand there are sections on Sydney and Noumea. There are a large number of photographs of Churches taken in Canterbury, Malborough, Nelson, and Wellington. By far the larger number are from Wellington and relate to Fearnley's book on Wellington churches (published in 1977). Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-057347, 074163 to 077077, 077250 to 077328, 077374 to 077899, 078344 to 079309, 079311 to 080869 Quantity: 6060 b&w original negative(s). 300 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Collection is currently being processed. Arrangement not complete.