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Date: [ca 1930-1943]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-198

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s Churches at Hawera, Palmerston North, Opotiki, Te Aroha, Waipukurau, Nelson, Queenstown and Pararaka. Whangarei - Central Park/Mair Park, Mt Darby golf links, children playing in a dinghy at Matapouri, tennis courts. Russell - View of foreshore, and view from the hill with Achilles in port. Tauranga - Causeway between The Mount and Tauranga, pier at The Mount, Mission House. Palmerston North - Boys' High School and baths, View of North side of The Square. Napier - Harbour under construction, view from the hill looking south, The Esplanade showing gardens, children's play area and Sound Shell, National Tobacco Company, T & G Building, Government buildings in Shakespeare Street, Civic Square. Hastings - Poplar Avenue, Cornwall Park, W L C McLean's house Swarthmore at Havelock North with vineyard. Gisborne - Gladstone Road, aerial view of town, river view. Cambridge - Bowling green, BNZ building, clock tower & National Hotel (with caravans parked outside the hotel), etc New Plymouth - Aerial view of 72nd Annual A & P Show; Moturoa; ships in port. Invercargill - The Little Playhouse, Government buildings, Southland Museum, 1943. Also - Children from Kerikeri School leaving for a swim; Arawa Street, Matamata; Lake Drive, Hamilton; view of Lyell township; Burke's Pool, Opihi; Denniston township; Caroline Bay, Timaru; main Street, Winton; shipping at Bluff; Oban township, Stewart Island; view of Picton harbour from Hotel Terminus; Alexander Street, Te Awamutu; Arawa Street, Matamata; Wairoa from Te Uhi Hill; Art Gallery, Wanganui; view of wanganui from Aramono.. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Between 1910 and 1930

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

Reference: APG-1977-1/4-G

Description: A house surrounded by a fence, and tall trees with no undergrowth, with two smaller buildings to the left. Photograph taken by A P Godber, probably on White Island. Part of a sequence of images. For other images in a sequence which all appear to show aspects of White Island see APG-1975-1/4 to APG-1983-1/4. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: [ca 1890-1936]

By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917

Reference: PAColl-0718

Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1930s]

By: Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945

Reference: PAColl-0355

Description: Photograph looking over Ohinemutu towards the lake with steam rising round the houses in the foreground and St Faith's Church on the lakeside. Also visible is the canopy of the monument to Queen Victoria on the right. James R Blencowe was the photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1937-1938

From: Orchiston, Bruce Elwyn, 1914-2005 :Photographs of New Zealand slums

Reference: PAColl-6013-2

Description: Photographs of state housing projects at Whakatane, Rotorua, Tauranga, Taihape, Te Kuiti, New Plymouth, Hawera, Patea, Wanganui, Napier and hastings; and substandard housing in Napier and Ohakune, taken 1937-1938 by the Department of Housing Construction. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1929 - 1939

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :Tauranga [1930s?]

By: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: A-227-104-1

Description: Houses by a pond, with an inlet and hills beyond Inscriptions: Recto - title in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm Provenance: Donation : Estate of the artist, 1976

Date: [194-?]

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-034608-F

Description: Block of wooden houses under construction at Kaingaroa Plain State Forest. A Maori man is seated in the foreground. Photographed by Edward Percival Christensen. Other Titles - Kaingaroa Plain State Forest. Another block of houses in course of erection. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - A2397 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1934

By: Atcherley, Henry Mount Langton, active 1860-1903; Hunter, G (Mrs), active 1934

Reference: A-196-012

Description: View from a plain with a few soldiers and two dwellings, looking towards an abruptly rising flat-topped hill, with a broad path rising up its right side. The hill is surmounted by a fort, above whose fences tents, other buildings and a flagpole can be seen. There are tents and other temporary-looking buildings to the right of the fort on the hilltop. Compare A196/9, a view taken from almost the same spot by the same artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H.M.L.Atcherley / 64; Recto - bottom right - [title. Both inscriptions in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 119 x 177 mm

Date: 1931

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-011

Description: Design drawing for the cover of Brett's Christmas number for 1931 shows a scene on a lake, with two Maori canoes engaged in a race in which they "hurdle" the canoe over a wooden pole or crossbar set up in the water a little above water level. Each end of the bar is mounted on the V-shape between two upright poles. There is a Maori whare is the right middle distance on the shore of the lake, and hills in the distance. The foreground of this scene is based on, but in mirror image, Walter Wright's "Maori canoe race, Lake Rotorua", but the scale of the lake is smaller. Wright's work was made into a print in 1903. The foreground of this scene is based on, but in mirror image, Walter Wright's "Maori canoe race, Lake Rotorua", but the scale of the lake is smaller. Wright's work was made into a print in 1903, and issued with the Christmas number of the "New Zealand graphic". Other Titles - Two shillings Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - L. Rykers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache on board, 470 x 350 mm.