Places

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-024-1

Description: New Plymouth breakwater (constructed in 1881) seen from the north, looking along the coast, framed on the left with native and exotic flowers, including kowhai, clematis and manuka. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 104 x 72 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: [1870s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-080

Description: Album with reproductions of paintings and lithographs of varying subjects, including religious themes and pictures of animals. These pictures are interspersed with photographs, including views of Turkey, Greece, Ireland, and New Zealand. Views in New Zealand are chiefly in Wellington, with some in Taranaki. Several images show views in Cuba Street, Wellington, including the business premises of Gordon Baillie, photographer, with the cottage of Mr Gregg next door; also the Nags Head Hotel, looking towards Wellington Harbour. The album is signed inside the front cover `W H Field. 1870' Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, gold marking across corners and spine, raised bands on spine, 31.0 x 26.5 cm

Date: c1895

By: White, George Herbert, 1867-1957

Reference: PA7-22-29

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1910 and 1914?]

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

Reference: PA1-o-247

Description: Album of photographs taken by Isaac H B Jeffares, circa 1900 to 1914. Most of the views are in the Wellington region, including a large number of the Star Boating Club, ships in the harbour, the Wellington Botanic Gardens, and some of target practice and a military camp, probably in the Hutt Valley. Other areas are in an around Napier, and on the West Coast. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled `Views'; 15.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.

Reference: Pa1-o-389

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, mostly taken by unidentified photographers. One collage of Union Steam Ship Company ships, ship captains and the head office building in Dunedin was photographed and issued by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album cover pink and white pattern with gold tracery, red spine; 24.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: ca 1850s-1908

By: Ferrier, William, 1855-1922

Reference: PAColl-7526

Description: The Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association building on Beach Road ca 1900; a procession for the Queen's jubilee on Stafford Street with men in uniform and a union banner; people on the beach at Caroline Bay with bathing machines in the sea captioned "The first lawn, Caroline Bay" ca 1890s; the band rotunda at Caroline Bay with a children's playpark behind and people swimming in the sea ca 1910; two of waves breaking over the breakwater ca 1898; the Timaru Shipping Co landing with the Lady of the Lake beached ca 1873; the interior of St Mary's Church looking towards the altar; Stafford Street, looking south from the corner of George Street with the Union Bank of Australia, a furnishing warehouse and J Trist ship chandler on the left; Sophia Street with the Wrecks memorial to those who tried to save lives on the City of Perth and the Benvenue in the foreground and the post office on the right ca 1880s; a man sitting on the beach on the site of the breakwater ca 1860s; Stafford Street looking south from Cannon Street with a boarding house on the right ca 1860s; and a row of workers' cottages on Bank Street with Parr's windmill behind. The photographer was William Ferrier and the photographs were taken ca 1890s-1908 or in some cases possibly re-printed from earlier images. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005333, 005339 to 005340 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1935 and 1936]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Smytheman, V (Miss), active 1935-1936

Reference: PA1-o-470

Description: Snapshots taken in the North Island of New Zealand between 1935 and 1936, taken by an unidentified photographer. Several of the images show war memorials, in Featherston; the memorial clock in Gisborne; and memorial gates at Victoria Park, Stratford. The last three scenes show groups of women. They include Alice, Ivy, Gwynne, Tess, Mrs Carte-Lloyd and Mrs Booth Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled tan cover tied with brown ribbon, entitled "Photo album"; 11.5 x 17.0 cm

Date: 1905-1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-833

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1890s?]

By: Finch, Olive, 1883-1984; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hawley & Company; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Verrall, John Miles, 1849-1921; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-o-172

Description: Photograph album containing views of the South Island, including Christchurch, Diamond Lake, Otira Gorge, Bluff, Skippers Gorge, Waiau River and Hanmer. North Island views include views of Mount Tarawera after the eruption in June 1886, and views of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed in the eruption. Other views show Napier, showing the first ship to berth at the new breakwater, SS Flora, on 22nd October 1895; Marine Parade in Napier; street views in Gisborne and Whangarei; Parihaka; and the Rotorua, Wairakei area with the Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, and the Waimangu Geyser. Photographs taken circa 1890s, by some unidentified photographers, but many by named photographers, including Arthur James Iles (Thames), E Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Hawley & Co (Napier). All named photographers are listed in the name sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, with ornate gold decoration on spine, 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: Between 1910-1913

From: Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA5-0101

Description: The Breakwater, Napier, taken ca 1910-1913 by photographer FGR Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 85 x 135 mm

Date: 21 Dec [19]06] (post mark date)

Reference: PA5-0114

Description: Scenes from New Plymouth including: (i) Railway station; (ii) Recreation gardens; (iii) Devon Street; (iv) St Mary's Church; (v) Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Recreation Gardens; (vi) Sugar Loaves and Breakwater; (vii) Gardens and (viii) Breakwater. Verso contains message to all at Highfield from BB and addressed to Mrs T A Field, Highfield, Ngatitama St, Nelson. Stamped with a one penny stamp. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 85 x 137 mm

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA5-0119

Description: Breakwater, New Plymouth taken by New Zealand Tourist Department between 1910 and 1913. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 87 x 137 mm

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-982

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Whare on Whanganui River, New plymouth Domain, Wellington, New Plymouth breakwater, Manawatu Gorge, Rangitata traffic bridge, sheep mustering in the Waireka area, Heathcote River, Lyttelton, Christchurch. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Between 1908 and 1915

From: Brown, Charles Hunter, 1826-1898 :Photographs of the Nelson and West Coast districts

Reference: PA1-o-238

Description: The Miscellaneous section contains photographs of the Hunter Brown family and friends at various gatherings including Christmas parties in 1909 and 1910, and New Year's Day in 1911; views of houses; outing to Tahuna Beach; driving in horse and carriage along the Moutere Road; haymaking at Riwaka; the Moutere River; and a scene from the New Zealand Tennis Championships in 1908 The Westland trip was taken in 1911, and includes scenes in Greymouth; the Buller Gorge; Lake Kanieri; Lake Mapourika; several views of the Franz Josef Glacier including some taken close-up near the snout and a section of the terminal face; Mount Rolleston; the railway viaduct at Rolleston Gorge; the Otira Gorge; the mouths of the Otira Tunnel under construction at both the Otira end and the Bealey end; construction works by the Waimakariri River; and coaches arriving at Cass. None of the people are identified, but most of the locations are given. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black card cover, entitled `Miscellaneous and Westland trip' (hand-lettered in white ink); 16.4 x 22.6 cm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-033-1

Description: A view of the breakwater at Timaru Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Breakwater, Timaru Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 103 x 150 mm

Date: between 1875-1910

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/1-006061-G

Description: New Plymouth breakwater. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis in New Plymouth, between 1875 and 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1880-1889

By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-o-497

Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: February to March 1913

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-003

Description: Record of a trip from Woodville to Napier and Taupo via the Napier-Taupo Road, February to March 1913. Views include Dannevirke, the upper reaches of the Manawatu River, Waipukurau Lake, Tavistock Hotel, the rail and foot bridge across the Waipawa River between Waipukurau and Waipawa, Hastings Post Office; motor and horse-drawn buses which run between Hastings and Havelock North; house under construction in Henry Street, Hastings (house named Ackworth, owned by Laurence Denton, accountant); views of Cape Kidnappers and the gannet rookery; Ed James and family at their seaside bungalow at Te Awanga; views of Napier and Ahuriri; the Taradale Road embankment over the Tutaekuri River, the Ahuriri Lagoon and mudflats; Marine Parade, Napier showing Norfolk pines, the Municipal Baths and a monument to "six brave men drowned in floods while rescuing people at Clive". Views on the Napier-Taupo Road including the Mohaka River, Tarawera Hotel in Waipunga Valley; Lake Taupo; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids on the Waikato River; hot pool at the Geyser House Hotel (Wairakei) with a group of children swimming; Wairakei Geyser Valley showing geysers, and mud pools.

Date: [Between 1886 and 1900]

From: Creator unknown :Photographs relating to the Fell and Atkinson families

Reference: PA1-q-074

Description: Album of portraits, group portraits and landscapes, relating particularly to the Fell family and their family relationships with the Atkinson and Richmond families. Chiefly photographed in the Nelson, Marlborough, Tasman regions. Many of the photographs likely to have been taken by Charles Yates Fell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown covers, lacking spine, 37.5 x 28.0 cm