Places

Date: 1962-1973

From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects

Reference: PAColl-9842-01

Description: Buildings designed by Stephenson and Turner. These include - ANZ Bank building, Courtenay Place, wellington, ca 1962. ANZ Bank interiors, Windsor House, Auckland. Architectural drawings of ANZ Bank building, Nelson, 1960s. Interior views of ANZ Bank building, Blenheim, before alterations. ANZ House, Oueen and Victoria Streets, Auckland, constructed 1962-1964, and opened in October 1964. Site photographs for Avery NZ Ltd building, Lower Hutt, August 1973. AMP/Woolworths building, Lambton Quay, Wellington, on which construction started about March 1973. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 103 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011

Date: 1997

By: Simonsen, Innes Ross, 1919-2002

Reference: MS-Papers-6112

Description: Comprises letter from Simonsen to Miss E Angela Hill, secretary/treasurer of the Friends of the Turnbull Library, thanking the Friends for sending him a free copy of Rachel Barrowman's book `The Turnbull Library and its world' and in return sending his address given at the dinner for the 40th anniversary of the Marlborough Historical Society, which discusses the history of the society and also includes some biographical information about Simsonsen and his earlier association with the Turnbull Library Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript with corrections

Date: ca1855-ca1940

From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984

Reference: PAColl-4889-1

Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.

Date: 1864-1920

By: Sinclair, William, 1855-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-0003

Description: Papers of a practice centred largely in Blenheim and Wellington Quantity: 27 folder(s) (217 pieces). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca Sep 1986]

From: Ranger, Diana Rosemary, fl 1972-2009: Photographs taken by Murray and Stanley Vincent

Reference: PAColl-10028-1

Description: Contains photographs of SAFE Air's commercial aviation operation taken predominantly in September 1986 by Murray Vincent. These feature operations between Wellington and Blenheim, including exterior and interior images during flight (with Captain J Fraser and Byron Phillips). Also aircraft being loaded with cargo, and various landing and tarmac scenes at Wellington and Blenheim airports. Cook Straight, Wellington's South Coast, and the Kaikoura Ranges feature in the background of some images. Planes featured are ZK-CLU (`Merchant Buccaneer'), ZK-CLT (`Merchant Hauler'), and ZK-SAE and ZK-CPT. Arrangement: Prints numbered 001 to 023 are in this box Quantity: 23 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 25 October - 16 November 1996

From: Diva Productions Ltd: Records of the Topp Twins

Reference: MS-Papers-11685-71

Description: Folder contains contracts, venue and ticketing information, and other materials for the Topp Twins 1996 national tour stops in Wellington, Blenheim, Mount Maunganui, Rotorua, and Napier. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1981-1992

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: MS-Papers-12224-2

Description: Comprises five notebooks dated 1981-1987, 1984-1988, 1987-1989, 1989-1990, 1989-1992. Most have lists of places visited and dates on their inside front covers. Two notebooks include sites in the United States of America and the United Kingdom; one notebook includes sites in Sydney, Australia. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Notebooks of various sizes, with cardboard or plastic covers, either stapled or spiral bound. Processing information: The place names noted in the inside front covers of the notebooks have been listed in this record. Other geographic names and specific building and structure names have not been listed.

Date: 1972, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11667

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1970-1974

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

Reference: PA12-8767

Description: Scenic views of the South Island, 1970-1974 include - Sutherland Falls, Milford sound. Group on the Milford Track. The Remakables seen from Queentown. Pancake rocks, Punakaiki. Blenheim. House at Linkwater, Marlborough sounds. Mount Hutt ski fields. Lake Tekapo. Lake Ianthe, South Westland. Bruce Bay, South westland. A notornis in the Murchison Mountains. North Canterbury pastoral landscape. Young deer. Lake Hayes, Queenstown. Lake Manapouri. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1855-1950]

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984; Nisbet, Eleanor M, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: PAColl-4889

Description: New Zealand towns and scenery, Wellington and Brooklyn in Particular during the 1920s and 1930s. Ships, pre schools, churches, holidays and Clift and Jones family portraits Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 248 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 album(s).

Date: 1947

Reference: MapColl-833gm/1947/Acc.6204

Description: Drawn on a base map outlining coastline between Wellington Region and Marlborough Region, the annotations show distance, in miles and minutes, from Wellington and from Paraparaumu, to both Blenheim and Nelson. Also indicates distance in miles from Paraparaumu and Wellington to Christchurch (which is not visible). Several areas on map have been painted over with white paint. Glued to reverse of map is part of a newspaper cutting showing the present route distances and the new route distances between Wellington and Blenheim and Wellington and Nelson, with explanation note headed 'slower air travel at higher fares'. Stamped on reverse: 30 Aug 1947 Written on reverse: D/C; Sat Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on photograph, scale indeterminable, 22 x 30.7 cm

Date: [ca 1939-1960]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-200

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, late 1930s-1960 Aerial photographs - Gisborne; Christchurch looking east towards Brighton and with the Botanic Gardens and Hagley Park in the foreground; Christchurch at night; Auckland city centre and Harbour Bridge; Nelson city; Palmerston North; Lake Brunner and waterfall; Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island; New Plymouth and Mount Taranaki from above Pukekura Park; Napier looking south-west; Wellington looking north from above Newtown; Wellington from above Wadestown looking south, showing American supply ships at Aotea Quay, 1947. Government Building at Centennial Exhibition, 1939; ferries tied up in St Mary's Bay with Auckland Harbour Bridge in distance (entitled `The old and the new'); Auckland fishing fleet; seating at High Street end of Albert Park, Auckland; lower Queen Street, Auckland; statue in The Square, Palmerston North; Cape Brett lighthouse; tourist and guide at Dragon's Mouth, Wairakei, 1938; cricket at Auckland Domain; Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui from The Mount; Orewa; Waiwera; car ferry at Opua; Waitara, 1930s. Arthur's Pass Alpine Village; Lake Te Anau; The Chasm, Fiordland National Park; baches north of Whangarei; boats in tidal estuary at Ngunguru, 1961; Tutukaka, 1961; rural scenes in Makarakeke district, south-east of Waipukurau, 1956; rural scene north of Eketahuna, 1956; Te Whiti River, 1957; farm land in Takapau district; rural scene at Otane, 1957. Woman skier at Coronet Peak; apple packing, Hastings, 1948; official party on the stage at RSA Ball, Blenheim, 1951; Waitomo Caves Hotel; Te Aroha Government Tourist Gardens with game of lawn bowls in progress, 1959; group photograph taken at opening of the Kahungunu War Memorial building at Nuhaka, Sep 1949. Several photographs taken during the construction of the Maori memorial on One Tree Hill, Auckland, 1939-1940; electric car manufactured in England in 1935; Field Marshal Montgomery's visit to Wellington, Jul 1947. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1967-1988

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7098

Description: Views of the Waikato River. Wellington City from the air. Limestone formation in Waitomo Caves. Ohope Bay, Whakatane. Birds and monkeys in Blenheim Zoo. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1930

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1930

Description: Includes programmes for the following performances: J C Williamson Ltd present "The belle of New York" by Hugh Morton and Gustave Kerber. produced by Frederick Blackman. Grand Opera House Wellington, 6 December 1930. Programme (2 copies) Blenheim Amateur Operatic Society presents "Trial by jury" to be followed by "HMS Pinafore". His Majesty's Theatre Blenheim, 29 October 1930. Programme Invercargill Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society presents "The cingalee", by Lionel Monckton. Produced by Mr J J W Pollard. Civic Theatre, 1930. Programme. J C Williamson Ltd present in conjunction with Richard White & Eric Edgley "Hold everything". Book by B G de Sylva and John McGowan, music by Roy Henderson. Produced by Eric Edgley. Theatre Royal Christchurch, 17 September 1930. Programme. J C Williamson Ltd present in conjunction with Richard White & Eric Edgley "Hold everything". Book by B G de Sylva and John McGowan, music by Roy Henderson. Produced by Eric Edgley. Grand Opera House, Wellington, 20 September 1930. Programme. J C Williamson (N.Z.) Ltd present "Lilac time", a play with music by Franz Schubert, libretto by Dr A M Willner and H Reichert. Produced by Victor Tatnall. Grand Opera House Wellington, 8 February 1930. Programme (2 copies) J C Williamson Ltd present Richard White and Eric Edgley's English Musical Comedy Company including Clem Dawe in "Love lies", written by Stanley Lupino and Arthur Rigby; music by Hal Brody. Produced by Eric Edgley. Country tour. Programme J C Williamson Ltd present Richard White and Eric Edgley's English Musical Comedy Company including Clem Dawe in "Love lies", written by Stanley Lupino and Arthur Rigby; music by Hal Brody. Produced by Eric Edgley. Grand Opera House Wellington, 9 August 1930. Programme J C Williamson Ltd present Richard White and Eric Edgley's English Musical Comedy Company including Clem Dawe in "Love lies", written by Stanley Lupino and Arthur Rigby; music by Hal Brody. Produced by Eric Edgley. Theatre Royal Christchurch, 23 August 1930. Programme. J C Williamson (N.Z.) Ltd present "The maid of the mountains", by Frederick Lonsdale, Harry Graham, Harold Fraser-Simpson. Produced by Victor Tatnall. Grand Opera House Wellington, 11 February 1930. Programme (2 copies) J C Williamson (N.Z.) Ltd present "The new moon", by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab; music by Sigmund Romberg. Produced by George A Highland. Grand Opera House Wellington, 29 October 1930. Programme (2 copies) J C Williamson Ltd present Richard White - Eric Edgley's English Musical Comedy Company including Clem Dawe in "So this is love", by Stanley Lupino and Arthur Rigby; music by Hal Brody. Produced by Eric Edgley. Grand Opera House Wellington, 9 August 1930. Programme (2 copies) J C Williamson Ltd present Richard White - Eric Edgley's English Musical Comedy Company including Clem Dawe in "So this is love", by Stanley Lupino and Arthur Rigby; music by Hal Brody. Produced by Eric Edgley. Theatre Royal Christchurch, 13 September 1930. Programme. J C Williamson (N.Z.) Ltd present "The student price", by Sigmund Romberg, and Dorothy Donnelly. Produced by Victor Tatnall. Grand Opera House Wellington, 12 February 1930. Programme Auckland Amateur Operatic Society presents "Tutankhamen"; some musical numbers composed by Eric Waters. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 25 September 1930. Programme J C Williamson (N.Z.) Ltd present "Whoopee", by William Anthony McGuire, Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn. Produced by Victor Tatnall. Country tour. Programme (2 copies). J C Williamson (N.Z.) Ltd present "Whoopee", by William Anthony McGuire, Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn. Produced by Victor Tatnall. Grand Opera House Wellington, 1 February 1930. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 17 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Programmes, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: One programme donated by Mrs Margaret Hancock, Tokoroa, from the collection of her husband, in 2009.

Date: [Between 1890s and 1910s]

By: Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Hillsdon, George, active 1890s; Powell, J S, active 1890s; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-q-184

Description: Album of postcards of New Zealand (includes one of Molesey Lock, England). Images include landscapes, views of prominent buildings in locations listed above, gold mining, harbours, glaciers, bridges, parks and other scenes of interest. Towards the end of the album is a collection of tourist portraits of Maori, including `A Maori canoeist' (a young woman holding a paddle), `Maori chief Patarangukai', `Te Heu Heu, the great Maori chief', and `Maori girl'. Photographs taken by various professional photographers whose names are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with mid-blue cover decorated with an Art Deco pattern in lighter blue and black, entitled Post Card Album in golden cursive script; endpapers with fine gold pattern of impressionistic leaves and irises; 28 x 22 cm

Date: [Circa 1931]

By: New Zealand Railways; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-056

Description: Mainly publicity photographs for New Zealand Railways, most taken by unidentified photographers, though there are several portraits taken by S P Andrew (Stanley Polkingorne Andrew); also a number of images near the beginning of the album have a pencilled note which says "Mr Hinge's negative". There are a number of photographs of advertisements and posters for New Zealand Railways, including one promoting safety at railway crossings. In this scene a young woman is holding up a banner "STOP! Safety first", wearing a hat labelled "Stop", a sash labelled "Safety first" and wearing a skirt with the image of a car crash at a railway crossing. At the end of the album there are several photographs of postage stamps. Several photographs were taken at the opening of the Auckland Railway Station. Then a number show luggage or goods being loaded onto the interislander ferry; and near the back of the album a series showing racehorses, with one view of a horse being lifted onto a ship in a crate. A large section shows the Wellington rally for Lord and Lady Baden-Powell at the Basin Reserve in 1931, and later in the album views of them laying a wreath at the Citizen's War memorial (Cenotaph). Pages 38-43 contain 20 black and white photographs of water colour paintings by Thomas Ryan, from the 1890s. The subjects are mostly lakes and mountains in the South Island, including Lakes Mahinapua, Wakatipu, Te Anau, Wanaka and Manapouri; Teremakau River, Bealey River, Teremakau River and Clinton Valley; and in the North Island Lakes Rotorua and Tikitapu, and two of the Uruwera. On page 64 there is a photograph of a barred window. In front there is an ice-axe, a pair of skis, a fishing rod, 2 rifles, and a lidded straw picnic basket. It seems to have been used as the basis for a New Zealand Railways poster advertising outdoor life in New Zealand (see p 65). There are a number of pages of portraits of children, several of which have been formed into montages of images. None of these are identified. Some portraits of dignitaries involved with New Zealand Railways are identified with surname, but many are not identified at all. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C2'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: 18 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Scadden, William Leslie, 1898-1995

Reference: OHInt-0070/15

Description: Les Scadden describes family background, childhood in Blenheim, education, joining the Post Office as message boy in 1912 after working on temporary staff over Christmas, details of the Christmas greetings telegram, the Blenheim Post Office in 1912, discipline, duties, hours, gas lamps in streets, transport, telegram delivery, promotion levels, wages, telegraphists held 'in high esteem', Blenheim as an important telegraph station, telegraph sounders, repeaters, information for horse racing, Cook Strait cable, faults, testing, repairs, postmaster at Blenheim - E H Northcroft, system for keeping statistical records, gender and race of employees, electric current produced on wet cell batteries, testing the circuits. Explains becoming a cadet for Engineering Branch, Dunedin in 1915, erecting new telephone lines, the telephone rating system, private lines, cadet qualifications, training overseas as infantryman, machine gunner and Signals Corps member during World War I, influenza epidemic of 1918, duties in Engineers' Office, Wellington in 1919, the new automatic exchanges, underground cables, duties as assistant supervisor at Engineers' Branch in 1929, difficulties in recruiting staff, effect of Depression in 1930s, work as paymaster, Engineering Branch, Wellington in 1920s, details of planning route for pay day, security for pay day delivery, duties as examiner at Accounts Branch, Wellington in 1931, work as accountant at Wellington District Office in the 1930s, the Power Samas machine for financial control and staffing requirements, the foreign mail system, rivalry between postal and engineers' branches, taking over the clerical organisation of the Radio Section during World War II, mention of Post Office workers in coastal watching stations killed on Tarawa by Japanese during war, changes in requirements for employees of Engineering Branches, directors general, first radio broadcast, social life at the Post Office, retirement. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Les Scadden's home at Raumati in Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000798 - OHC-000800 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.58 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 126. Black and white photographs as follows:. Les Scadden and Albert Scadden, undated. Les Scadden and two sisters, undated Search dates: 1898 - 1984

Date: 1901-1904

By: Watt, George Thomas, 1871-1933

Reference: PA1-o-516

Description: Photographs of family and friends, and scenes in the Wellington area and Hawkes Bay, taken by George Thomas Watt People and places named are listed in the headings above. Two images show the Wellington Post Office in the daytime and night time, when decorated in celebration of the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. The night view shows the Post Office brightly lit with decoration. In the middle of the album is a group of 6 tourist-style photographs of young Maori women. One image shows the house owned by Thomas and Matilda Watt, at 172 Hastings Street, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, spine brown taped, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 22.5 x 28.5 cm