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Date: 1868 - 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Lake Wakatipu, Banks Peninsula, Dunedin and its outskirts, Central Otago, Lake Wanaka, Oamaru, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1878]

Reference: E-016-5-015/016

Description: Two drawings of widely separate locations. On the left, and part of the right page, Mount St Bathans, Central Otago, viewed across a river plain. On the right, a view from Brighton, South Dunedin, looking south along the coast towards Kaitangata, with a rock feature, possibly Bruce Rocks, labelled by the artist as Boat Harbour Point, further south along the beach Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 98 x 154 mm

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1957-1973

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7969

Description: South Island trips. Included are - Torrent Bay, 1961. On board a ship, Lake Wakatipu, 1960. Riverside Community, Motueka, 1960. Cobb, Split Apple Rock, and Stephen's Bay, 1957. Kaikoura, 1973. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Dunedin, Australia, and Central Otago] 1872 [and] 1878

Reference: E-032-2-027

Description: View near the entrance to a bay, looking towards the sea, with rocks near cliffs on the left. Enclosed in an oval outline Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Sand [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sketchbook page, page size 113 x 188 mm

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

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

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

Date: 1924-1925, 1928

From: Johnston, Phyllis, 1904-1998: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1895

Description: Photograph album formerly belonging to Phyllis Johnston. Contain images taken during visit to South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and a North Island road trip. Compiler of albums, and photographer(s), are unidentified. Album is extensively captioned. - Images of Dunedin area are taken during a holiday to the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in 1924-1925. Photographs of sights include a bus trip to Waipori via Outram (including the Waipori River and power station), St Clair Beach (including the Baths and Tomahawk), waves at Ocean Beach, Dunedin Botanic Gardens, Portobello, Harbour Ferry, Octagon and Cathedral, Dunedin Train Station, Stewart Street Cable Car, Otago University Clock Tower, Otago Boys High, Evansdale river scenes, and North East Valley. Exhibition photos show the Exhibition Buildings, the grand court water feature, 'Maori House', and Amusement Park 'The Three Castles' (including the entrance and the 'Ye Old Mill River Caves' roller coaster and 'Giant's Mouth' rides). - Album also covers a January 1928 North Island road trip in a Model T Ford, departing from Levin. Camping grounds, camping sites, the preparation of meals and washing up, car with camping awning erected and camping gear packed on side, picnics, and tourist sites are featured. The route travelled, as suggested by the order of the images, is via Hastings, Napier, Taupo and lake area, Wairakei thermal area, Rotorua and Ohinemutu and lake area (including Rotoiti, Tarawera, and Rotomahana), Hamilton, Auckland (including Titirangi, Henderson, and Devonport), Waitomo, New Plymouth, and Inglewood. Notable sights and activities photographed include: Hastings Garden entrance with Maori carvings; Taurangakuma River; Mohaka River; Lake Taupo scenes from boat tour; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids; various thermal sights including the Opal Pool and Eagles Nest Geyser at Wairakei; Whakarewarewa thermal area with model pa, tour group, and children diving for pennies; Boiling Lake and other sights in Waimangu Valley; Rotorua Sanatorium including Bath House and entrance to Government Gardens; Okere Falls; Hinemoana's Bath; fish at Fairy Spring; hunting for oysters, Titirangi; Albert Park, Auckland; polar bears at Auckland Zoo; tourist series of Waitomo Caves; Mokau bridge; Pukekura Park and Paritutu Rock, New Plymouth; and an unidentified house and tennis match. - Album contains portraits of two children called Joyce and Beverley. Joyce is also photographed at the South Seas Exhibition with a woman identified only as 'B.G.K' [Miss B G Kirk?]. The North Island Road trip images include numerous image of three unidentified women; this series also includes a family portrait of the Bailey Family beside a car. - Loose prints show Whitianga (Mercury Bay and Buffalo Beach), an unidentified group by pool of fish [Fairy Spring, Rotorua?], a print with two images (Ball Hut and Lake Pukaki), and an unidentified city scape [Dunedin?]. Source of information - for identifying BGK as Miss B G Kirk see album caption in album reference number PA1-o-1896 Arrangement: Loose prints have been collated and put in an acid free folder at the front of the album. The original pages in which they were interleaved bear no known relationship to the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather album with pastoral scene of hay rickets and cottage tooled on the leather, 15 x 22 cm

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Views in the Oamaru district n.d.]

Reference: A-202-011

Description: Looking north towards Cape Wanbrow showing the beach and the cliffs Other Titles - Cape Wanbrow Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 305 mm

Date: 1870 - 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Collection of unidentified sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

Reference: A-213-088

Description: Possibly a painting showing Sandymount on Otago Peninsula and beach across the bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 124 x 225 mm

Date: ca 1890-1935

Reference: PAColl-7225

Description: Collection of photographs used by Dewar in his book Chaslands, a number of which include extensive notes. The photographs are of: Harry Croft's hut on Wallace Beach; Heathfield Dairy Factory with six wagons loaded with urns outside (the notes name all the men in the photograph); Waikawa sawmill tramline with timber truck; Arthur and Fred Croft outside their house at Chaslands; Chaslands School (the notes name all the teachers 1895-1950); MacLennan Railway Station showing the cleared hillsides around it; a car at the far end of the bridge near Chaslands; the boys and girls of Ratanui School with their teacher George Dewar ca 1935; the Chaslands rugby football team with Fred Croft, Donald Little, Bandy Kini, George Dewar, Kangaroo Bill Wells and Herb Ottenshaw (others not known); the junction of McLennan and Tahakopa Rivers showing the ford from Owaka to Chaslands (with notes); the first passenger train on the Catlins extension line at MacLennan Station; Tautuku Bay from the top of MacLennan's Hill; two of men in Cathedral Caves; bush scenes around Chaslands; Houipapa Valley from Gibb's Hill with Catlins Lake in the distance; white pines near Owaka; the buried forest north of Poimawea; a car on the road at Smillies Quarry; Curio Bay at Waikawa; and Mount Samson with the bridge over the Chaslands River in the foreground. Arrangement: Copy negatives housed at 1/2-002484 to 002506 Quantity: 23 b&w copy photographic print(s).

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Views in the Oamaru district n.d.]

Reference: A-202-012

Description: A view of Cape Wanbrow looking north, showing the beach and the cliffs Other Titles - Cape Wanbrow Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 227 x 303 mm

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Views in the Oamaru district n.d.]

Reference: A-202-008

Description: Part of a garden in the foreground, with a gate, close to the beach, looking north Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 253 mm

Date: 1962-1969

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7966

Description: South Island trips. Included are - Totaranui Beach. Brightwater, Nelson, 1968. Mount Robert, 1968. Richmond countryside, 1968. Arrowtown, 1966. Countryside near Arrowtown, 1966. Views from the Crown Range road, 1963. Pohara beach, Golden Bay, 1962. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1359-F

Description: Panorama of St Clair Beach in Dunedin taken in 1925 by Robert Percy Moore. Image shows crowds of people behind a railing on the foreshore on the left, others walking along the beach. Ocean on the right. Houses across the road from the beach. Pavilion next to the boarding house, centre left, hills in the background. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - St Clair Beach, Dunedin N.Z. No. 613; Marginal notes on negative - "St. Clair Beach, Dunedin 1925"; Marginal notes on negative - 7 7 7 7 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 105.6 cm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-025-4

Description: Shows a view looking north along the coastline at Dunedin, with people dotted along the beach. THe message included top right reads 'A merry Christmas' Ocean Beach is a long sandy beach which stretches for some three kilometres from Saint Clair in the southwest of Dunedin City along the coast of Saint Kilda to the foot of Lawyer's Head in the east. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 73 x 105 mm

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

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Views in the Oamaru district n.d.]

Reference: A-202-029

Description: A coastal scene looking north towards Cape Wanbrow near Oamaru Other Titles - Cape Wanbrow Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 253 x 368 mm

Date: 1888 - 1897

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] W M Hodgkins, Melrose Dn. Notes. [ca 1893]

Reference: E-031-q-1-008/009

Description: On the left, a view of Puketeraki Beach with rocks in the sea in the foreground, a headland, the Karitane Spit. In the centre and on the right page, a low wooden house, with a chimney on the nearest wall, probably in the Puketeraki area. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, page size 152 x 212 mm

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook]. 1890

Reference: E-031-q-3-013/014

Description: A view of sandhills and the beach at St Clair, looking out to sea, with White Island and a small ship in the middle distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, across two pages of sketchbook, page size, 191 x 238 mm

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7760

Description: Phase 2; Flight from Chch to Invercargill - 25-26. Canterbury Plains near Chch; 27. Mountains and cloud; 28. Nearing Dunedin; 29. Approaching Dunedin; 30-31. Mountain patterns between Dunedin and Invercargill. Phase 3; Invercargill - 32. Main street of Invercargill, Dee Street; 33. Riverton looking to Bluff (Shingle Beach); 34. Looking west; 35. Inlet or Bay at Riverton; 36. Farm homestead between Riverton and Invercargill; 39. En route to Dunedin. Phase 4 - Dunedin, day trip to Roxburgh - 40-41. Views from Road; 42. Rich country; 43. to Roxburgh; 44-45. Clutha River in flood; 46-47. Nearing the Orchards of; 48. Scene; 49. Lunch by coal creek, Roxburgh Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.