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[Posters relating to New Zealand boating, yachting, yacht races, sailboats. 1990s].
Date: 1992 - 1999
By: Steinlager (Firm); Wellington (N.Z.). City Council; New Zealand Post Office
Reference: Eph-E-BOAT-1990s
Description: Includes posters: The America's Cup. In San Diego everyone wants to sink the favourite. Steinlager, premier sponsor New Zealand challenge America's Cup 1992. (2 copies) Bank of New Zealand America's Cup Supporters Club. New Zealand's challenge 1992 America's Cup San Diego. Challenger Elimination Series racing schedule [with illustration by Hanrahan] (2 copies) Bank of New Zealand America's Cup Supporters Club. The quest for the Cup; your guide to the races of the 1992 America's Cup challenge. Lambton Harbour. National Dragon Boat Festival. 25 & 26 February 1995. Admission $5. (2 copies) New Zealand Post. Congratulations! Team New Zealand. Victory 1995 stamp on sale now. Limited stocks available. Sunday Star Times yachting special. Steinlager Unconditional supporters. [1999-2000 America's Cup]. 1999. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying below 1020 mm. Provenance: Two items donated by Owen Spearpoint from the estate of Brian Edward Spearpoint, 2014.
Eadie, Peter A :A scene at Days Bay Wellington
Date: [ca 1910]
By: Eadie, Peter Anderson, active 1910
Reference: PA4-0768
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of some people boating at Days Bay. Photograph taken by Peter A Eadie. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [chute] Days's Bay, Wellington (part faded); Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Peter A Eadie - Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
Creator unknown: Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand 1934
Date: between 1934 and 1935
Reference: PAColl-6619
Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives
Wylie, C T :[Boatsheds on the Paremata foreshore. 1930s]
Date: 1930 - 1940
By: Wylie, C T, active 1930s
Reference: A-089-021-2
Description: View along the waterfront with a cluster of boatsheds on the shore, rowboats on the beach and a hill in the background Signed: C.T. Wylie. Mounted with two other works, reference numbers A-089-021, A-089-02-1 and A-089-021-2 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 80 x 130 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 30 Nov., 1972.
Star Boating Club (Wellington) : Records
Date: 1867-1972
By: Star Boating Club (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MS-Group-0287
Description: Includes correspondence, minutes of general meetings, annual reports, registers of members, account books, receipts, registers of boats, and of plant and furniture, and one letter book. Includes programmes of events and rowing regatta Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also MS-Group-0644 Quantity: 53 folder(s). 25 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available for sequence MS-Papers-0596 in reading room was removed on 14 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 7 photos of Rongotai College Rowing Eight (1972). Processing information: Not all child records from MS-Papers-0596 described
Franklyn, F :Pencarrow Head. [ca 1900]
Date: 1890 - 1900
From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]
Reference: A-141-016
Description: A view from Wellington's south coast (or from the sea at the harbour entrance) lloking across to Pencarrow Head, with a lighthouse and a house below it, on the hilltop. There are two yachts in the water. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 215 x 159 mm
Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :Island Bay 1965 Aug[ust]
Date: 1965
By: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992
Reference: G-222
Description: View from the beach at the west end of Island Bay, looking east across a jetty and the bay with fishing boats to houses at the foot of the hill and to Wellington Heads Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature & date; Verso - on stretcher (covered by backing board) title, date Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 442 x 646 mm
Rescue in rough seas by Evans Bay rescue boat - Photographs taken by Ian Mackley
Date: 22 October 1984
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1984/4946-F
Description: Rescue of a wetsuit-clad person from rough seas by the Evans Bay rescue boat. A yacht with two people on board is visible on the right. Photographed 22 October 1984 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Wellington College school days, friends and family
Date: ca1913-ca1925
From: Taylor, Lewis F P : Photograph albums relating to the life and aviation career of Lewis Taylor
By: Taylor, Lewis Francis Paul (Mrs), active 1995; Taylor, Lewis Francis Paul, 1907-1997
Reference: PA1-q-566
Description: Lewis Taylor and his friends as school boys at Wellington College. Summer swimming in river, boating on Wellington Harbour, ships in Wellington Harbour, family and family friends Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Nairn, Betsey Wright, fl 1845-1883 :Leaving Wellington; the Bluff. [1883]
Date: 1883
From: Nairn, Betsey Wright, -1906 :Sketchbook
Reference: E-443-q-025
Description: Top image shows a scene at Wellington Harbour and lower image shows a boat tossing in rough seas at Bluff Harbour. Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 200 x 160 mm.
Scenes in New Zealand Album
Date: ca 1909
From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns
Reference: PA1-o-834
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Views of Picton and Wairakei and other scenes
Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]
By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-6866
Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives
Photographer unknown: Life savers, girl guides, an Ashburton street and other scenes
Date: [ca 1920-1945]
Reference: PAColl-6962
Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives
Peter and Ruth McKenzie celebrate the Kapiti Coast's new rescue craft - Photographs tak...
Date: [ca 15 August 1991]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Coote, Mark, active 1992
Reference: EP/1991/2353-F
Description: Peter McKenzie, commodore of the Kapiti Boating Club, and his wife Ruth, celebrate the arrival of the Kapiti Coast's new rescue craft. They are holding a bottle of Moet & Chandon champagne and sitting on the boat which is on a trailer on the beach. Photographed circa 15 August 1991 by Evening Post staff photographer Mark Coote. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Dominion Museum : Photographs from the C J Lindsay collection
Date: ca 1910s-1940s
By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Dominion Museum (N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-4337
Description: Photographs of yachts and yachting in the Wellington area. They include: yachts under construction or repair, a dry dock between two rows of boatsheds, the boatshed of the Brighton Power Boat Club, a yacht called the Igdrasil in the fiords, the Muratai in 1946, the Banika at Akaroa in 1948, the Hex leaving Wellington for the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, the Patari and Pacific at Purau, Lyttelton (taken by Allson Wright of Hereford Street, Christchurch), some men and women on the launch Tarepa ca 1940s, the Ludwig in 1925, and the Rawene in 1934. Also included are a photograph of a man working on an exhibit of a pa tuwatawata in the Dominion Museum with the maihi of a meeting house or pataka behind him and other carvings along the walls and a photograph of two men working in the taxidermy department with a variety of birds and bird skeletons on the table. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).
Trip to Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound
Date: 1913
From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing
Reference: PA1-o-1224
Description: Mainly a series of holidays, tramping trips, and local excursions. The first is a trip to the head of Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound via the Milford track. It begins on the road between Glenorchy and Paradise, then through the valley of the Route Burn River to the Hollyford Valley where the party camped on the shores of Lake Howden. From there they passed Lakes Fergus and Gunn into the Eglinton River Valley and on to Te Anau, and then onto the Milford track to Milford Sound via the Clinton River Valley. Images on the way include Mount Balloon, Mount Elliott, Routeburn Hut, and Lake Ada. There is a view of Mitre Peak, Mount Tutoko, and the Pembroke Glacier from Milford Sound. The second series relates to a camping trip to Wanganui and the Whanganui River. This includes a game of golf and visiting friends in St John's Hill. There are views of the party's camp and a number of images taken during a canoeing trip up the Whanganui River in what looks like a Maori dug out canoe. Two other images in this group are of men standing beside the trigs on Mounts Holdworth and Dundas in the Tararua Ranges. The third series is of family and friends at home in Eastbourne and in the bush at Muritai; Girdlestone, a friend, and two women on motor cycles on the coast road; views of Eastbourne from the hills above the suburb; women on the beach and reading at home. The fourth series relates to a trip to the Volcanic Plateau during which the party climbed Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. There are two group photographs of the whole party, one taken in front of the Waihohonu Hut, and the other on the summit of Mount Ruapehu. The fifth series shows a party of men and women on a walk and a picnic in the beach forest in Gollan's Valley near Eastbourne. The sixth series is a record of a holiday to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds taken by a group of men over Christmas 1913. There are views of the sounds and surrounding landscape, of Portage where the party stayed, and of boat and fishing trips that they made during their stay. The seventh series is of a tramping trip to the Orongrongo River Valley. The views are of native forest, the river and the mountains, and one of two men boiling a billy beside their tent in the bush. The eighth series consists of two photographs of the wreck of the "Devon" on the rocks at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington harbour. This occured on the 25th of August 1913. The ninth series is a group of photographic postcards of the Te Anau, Milford region, and probably relate to the trip recorded at the beginning of this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Harvey, A G, fl 1960 : An Idle Along one design class yacht, designed by A G Harvey, He...
Date: 1960
From: Various architects :[Plans, including Proposed additions to Heretaunga Boating Club premises, The Esplanade, Petone. 1960].
By: Harvey, Alf G, active 1929-1960
Reference: Plans-2001-043-002
Description: Contains a copy of the second sheet of the plan drawing made by John Spencer of an Idle-Along One-Design Class Yacht, designed by A G Harvey, redesigned for plywood construction by John Spencer, amended by R J Williamson, and certified by Heretaunga Boating Club. Includes details of rudder and centre plate, mainsail, stem and rigging. Attribution of the drawing to John Spencer is based on the article "Alf Harvey and his Idle Along" by Gavin Pascoe, Wellington Classic Yacht Trust,. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, on sheet 370 x 380 mm. Provenance: Donated by Heretaunga Boating Club in 2001. Transfers: First sheet of the plan drawing of the Idle-Along One-Design Class Yacht, designed by A G Harvey, redesigned for plywood construction by John Spencer, is held at Library reference MSO-Papers-7081-2 (From Manuscripts & Archives)..
Two waka being launched at Petone beach - Photograph taken by Phil Reid
Date: 11 February 1989
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-
Reference: EP/1989/4602-F
Description: Crews and helpers manoeuver two carved waka over the beach to the water at Petone. That on the left is Te Aniwaniwa (Hutt City); that on the right is Te Raukura (Wellington City). Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid on the 11th of December 1989. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Mellor, C W (Mr), fl 1901-1917 :Photographs relating to World War I and New Zealand sce...
Date: 1901-1916
By: Mellor, C W (Mr), active 1901-1917
Reference: PAColl-9559
Description: Collection comprises: Album pages of New Zealand scenes including views of Dunedin, Invercargill, Wellington, Whanganui River, Rotorua, Rimutaka Incline, Christchurch, 1901. Some of the photographs are attributed to C W Mellor. Group portraits of officers during World War I, including C W Mellor Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009
A Leigh Lunt Estate : Various photographs
Date: ca 1920s-1940s
By: Wellington Studios
Reference: PAColl-4421
Description: Photograph of the head of Long Sound in Preservation Inlet with some people in rowing boats near the waterfall; the corner of Cambridge Terrace and Courtenay Place in Wellington showing the tram lines and cabbage trees planted in the centre of the street; and men at a formal dinner annotated on the reverse as a dinner for closer relations between the USA and New Zealand although the only flags visible are for Britain and New Zealand (taken by Wellington Studios). Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).