Places

Date: 1878

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-027

Description: This image is a continuation of previous page (E-357-025/026) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Continued from previous page Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 180 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: 1920 - 1929

From: New Plymouth. Reprinted from the Ideal Timetable and Guide. [1920s].

By: Woods, M (Mrs), active 1980

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-New-Plymouth-1920s-01-03

Description: Shows two women on the water's edge in fashionable swimwear. Extended Title - From New Plymouth / reprinted from The Ideal Timetable and Guide, page 3. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page 3 of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 212 x 127 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-050

Description: A pencil sketch of a beach on reverse of E-044-q-1-049 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - In pencil: Beach Mokoia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1950

From: [Ephemera of around A3 size relating to tourism in regions beginning with N, O, P. 1900s]

Reference: Eph-C-TOURISM-New-Plymouth-1950-01-inside

Description: Shows an illustrated street map of New Plymouth, with recreational activities including flying, water-skiing, sailing, swimming and sunbathing. Also shows rugby, cattle farms, Mount Taranaki (Egmont), tennis court, hunters, golfers, the race-course, fishing, and the railway track. The outside of the brochure contains a key to the fun map. Dated on stylistic grounds. Extended Title - From the brochure "Visit New Plymouth", ca 1950. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on inside of folded brochure. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on one side of folded brochure, 236 x 418 mm.

Date: 1918

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: B-072-004

Description: View looking out to sea from a narrow beach with headlands on both sides Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title, date, signature Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 250 x 355 mm

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :Fragmentary sketches & odds & ends; sketches in Taranaki New Zealand 1856 / W.S. New Zealand rough sketches, 1856.

Reference: E-441-008

Description: A Maori canoe on the beach near the Sugar Loaves Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 226 x 105 mm

Date: 1878

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-025/026

Description: Left image shows view from beach off Waitara looking out to sea with seagulls flying overhead (see E-357-027 for continuation of this image); right image shows Mt Egmont in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Off Waitara May 25, 1878 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 360 mm

Date: [ca 1950s]

Reference: PAColl-6861

Description: 19 scenes of what is possibly a holiday in the New Plymouth area. They show a woman standing in front of a tent; a group of people around a trestle table with a trophy on it in front of a tent; the Sugar Loaf Islands; a church or similar building seen from across a lake; several of a large park with a lake in it; two of a row of wooden huts with a woman standing outside possibly near the beach; two caravans possbily in a holiday park; two views of houses near the sea, one with Mount Taranaki in the background; and one of a woman in a tailored suit. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-031115 to 031133 Quantity: 19 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1909 - 1908 - 1912

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-196

Description: Shows a beach with trees and houses behind it. The Sugar Loaves are visible in the background The reverse shows the interior of a drawing room. An unidentified woman in a long purple dress is lying on a couch or day bed, reading. A wooden chair, a small table, curtains with wooden curtain rail, and cushions are visible. Maori and European artworks hang on the wall behind her, including a piupiu and a korowai. The title identifies the room as being the drawing room of the schoolhouse at Tokaanu. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 125 x 170 mm

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: B-190-016-1/2

Description: On the recto, a view from above of Mokoia Beach, south Taranaki. A dinghy and boatsheds can be seen. On the verso, a pencil sketch of probably the same beach, from the other direction, with watercolour notes indicating light and dark stones, sand, waves, and brown weed Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Mokoia Beach / MGCL [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: B-190-025

Description: A view likely to be of Mokoia Beach, looking south. Possibly a fuller, colour version of Mary Lysaght's drawing of the beach, sketched on the verso of B-190-016-1/2 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 265 x 185 mm

Date: 1931

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: B-165-003

Description: Shows a view along several cliff headlands of a coastline. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated]; Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 342 mm.

Date: 1927-1929

From: Elston family: Correspondence and photograph album

Reference: PA1-o-947

Description: Album compiled by Elston family (Alf & Dot Elston, and children Joan & Alfie) during voyage from England to New Zealand on the Tainui in 1927, and first two years in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1950

From: [Ephemera of around A3 size relating to tourism in regions beginning with N, O, P. 1900s]

Reference: Eph-C-TOURISM-New-Plymouth-1950-01-cover

Description: The outside shows a cover spread by Russell Clark, with two panels, one showing a man skiing, and the other showing a woman running in the waves. The outside also contains a key to the fun map on the inside of the brochure. Dated on stylistic grounds. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of folded brochure. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on one side of folded brochure, 236 x 209 mm.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7825

Description: Transparency slides of Mt Taranaki and Wellington, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1920 - 1929

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-New-Plymouth-1920s-01

Description: Lists and describes major tourist sites in the New Plymouth region. Other Titles - Booklet Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 212 x 127 mm.

Date: 1878

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-023/024

Description: Shows the White Cliffs, looking south, the boulder-covered beach and a man walking in the distance See also E-357-012/013: Pukearuhe, April 23, 1878. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Pukearuhe. May 21 1878 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 250 mm

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-044/045

Description: A panoramic view across two pages, looking to the south, with the beach in the foreground, the Sugar Loaf Rocks including Paritutu and the others stretching out into the sea, with sheds and a breakwater or seawall in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 508 mm (page size).

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: B-190-031

Description: A view likely to be of Mokoia Beach, looking south. Possibly a partner to B-190-030, from the same or similar vantage point looking south Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 252 x 333 mm