Places

Date: [ca 1895-1915]

Reference: PAColl-6904

Description: A large collection of miscellaneous original and copy negatives mostly of Christchurch and the surrounding area. Some are studio portraits of family groups. The rest of the collection includes: a street scene in front of the old railway station; a cycling race; men rowing and canoeing; children playing in a swing park; a brass band playing on board a steamer; various beach scenes including donkey rides; train pulling into Kaiapoi station; a small bach; two girls next to a waterfall; trams and a cyclist going past the Jubliee Clock Tower; the front facade of St Paul's Presbyterian Church; three views of the old Public Hospital next to Hagley Park; the Chamber of Commerce building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street; a copy negative of a carte de visite of a couple kissing; a monument incorporating a tiki on a tall pole and other maori carvings (location unknown); a man at the doorway of his shed with an array of gardening implements; two men pulling a covering back from a hangi pit; the cathedral with a number of trams in front; a tram advertising Ballantynes; a kitchen interior showing a range with kettles on top and a cupboard and dresser with crockery; six Maori on horseback possibly in a procession; a porter bringing a cart of luggage up to a train; five men giving friends piggy backs on the beach; sheep being driven past stock yards; the Avon River; a crowd outside the Avon Rowing Club; Wilson the maltman's horse and cart crossing a bridge; and two images of a harvest festival in a hall with a painted back drop and sheaves of corn arranged in front of it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045133 to 045196 and 045802 to 045816 Quantity: 76 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These were originally part of a sequence of unidentified negatives. They were assumed to form a collection due to the similarity in date and location. At the time of entry 1/4-045190 was missing.

Date: [1880s]

Reference: PA7-38-13

Description: View of the beach from the south end. Shows people on the beach, mainly children paddling in the water and playing on the sand. People are sitting on the sand along the base of the sea wall and walking along the road above. In the middle distance are the Pacific Refreshment Rooms with house on both sides. Photograph taken by Burton Bros, ca 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4681 - St Clair Beach near Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 21 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.2 cm

Date: ca 1880

Reference: 1/2-005152-G

Description: Four children on the beach at Oriental Bay with houses on the hill behind them on the site of St Gerard's Monastery. A 1935 copy of an earlier image. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Apr 1935 Early scene at Oriental Bay. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Half plate glass negative