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Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1920s?]

From: Kenrick, Evelyn Helen, 1907-1991 : Photographs of New Zealand scenery

Reference: PA1-o-250

Description: Scenic views of the West Coast Region of the South Island, except one of the reservoir at Marton, in the Rangitikei area. Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer The view of Granity shows a railway line emerging from a mine, with coal trucks on the incline. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, entitled `Photographs'; 21 x 27 cm

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-59-18-1

Description: View of the Buller River and Gorge at a point on the road above the river known as Hawks Crag (formerly known as Hawks Craig). There is a horse and carriage on the road. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Hawks Craig, Buller Gorge, N.Z. 1990 [rest unreadable] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21.5 x 29 cm on album page

Date: [ca 1924-1951]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Bierre, Eric W, 1899-; Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-201

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1924-1951. North Island scenes - Aerial view of Hokianga Harbour, 1949 (Whites 5115); road through Waitakere Ranges, 1938; Waipoua Forest; mustering sheep on East Coast; Humphries Castle (well-known rock formation on slopes of Mount Taranaki); Wanganui River (at meeting place of three provinces); Lake Taupo; Wellington Railway Station taken a night; mustering sheep in Wairoa Valley; Maori village at Waihi near Tokaanu, 1930; cattle crossing river in Waiotahi Gorge, 1946; Treaty House and grounds at Waitangi; Kohokohu in Hokianga Harbour, 1931; Whitianga, 1932 & Whitianga beach and camping grounds, 1951; Jersey calves, Taranaki; elevated view of Seatoun, Wellington looking north-east; Featherston Street looking towards Lambton Quay (Prudential Assurance Co & Commercial Bank of Australia buildings), 1938. South Island scenes - Spring time blossom along banks of Avon River; Greymouth Borough Council office (in house formerly owned by Dennhy family), 1950; Mt Zora and Landsborough River; women artists painting autumn colours near Bridge of Remembrance, Christchurch, 1940s; Christchchurch Airport, 1953 (Whites 32581); Lyttelton School (taken 1874); Patearoa & Minaret Station Central Otago, 1939 & 1942; leisure craft at Diamond Harbour, 1937; Mr Oldfield and sheepdogs on Lewis Pass Road; erosion at Middle Dome, north of Lumsden, 1949; camp at Bruce Bay, Westland, 1939; convoy of battleships at Greymouth during vice-regal visit, 1925; Westport coal industry; Buller Gorge; Mount Cook from Red Lake; aerial view of Waiou River, North Canterbury, 1934; Waimakariri River in flood (taken from just above Rakaia Gorge Bridge), Nov 1928; Waipiata Sanatorium, 1924; municipal chambers at Westport, 1947; bridge over Karamea River (Thelma Kent); Lake Ohau, 1951; Tasman Glacier from Ball Hutt, 1949; members of Hutt Valley Tramping Club on Olivine ice plateau; public works camp at Weheka (near Fox Glacier), 1936.. Photographers include: E C Lackland, Auckland; W Hall Raine; Thelma Kent; T W Collins; Whites Aviation; W G Weigel; A V Bowden; A Inkster; J D S Roberts; D V Apperley; Eric W Bierre; L Wallace; Green & Hahn; etc Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1880s to 1890s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Tyree Brothers (Firm); Bulpin, I, active 1974

Reference: PA1-o-078

Description: General views of New Zealand taken in the 1880s and 1890s by various photographers including James Ring, Frederick George Radcliffe, Charles Spencer and the Tyree Brothers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Tan coloured album, 24 x 31 cm Provenance: Donated by I Bulpin, Surbiton, England, 1974

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: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: [ca 1881]

From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-415

Description: Photographs of Greymouth, Grey River, Brunnerton, Ahaura, Reefton, Waimakariri, Lake Pearson, Lake Brunner, Dillmanstown, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Ross, and the thermal areas of central North Island. The photographers represented include William Herbert Perkins, James Ring and the Burton Brothers. There is one interior view of a quartz-crushing battery at Reefton. Pages 55, 57 and 58 have portraits of women (and one man) in "Fancy Fair" costumes Inscriptions: Album page - "William Perkins. Greymouth. 1884" Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, darker corners and spine; "Album" lettered in gold on spine; 23.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: [ca 1910s]

From: Duncan, Miriam Darwin, 1893-1981 :Photographs relating to life and work of Dr James Malcolm Mason

Reference: 1/2-072545-G

Description: Shows a horse drawn coach, carrying 4 men, at Hawkes Crag on the Buller Gorge Road ca 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1942-1956

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

Reference: PAColl-10131-2

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1942 to 1956. 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 mountaineers A C Clough, Ron Biggs, and Ken Hall; publican Jack Ritchie; journalist H J E (Bert) Kane; Mrs P Koerstens; and bushmen Doug Macalister and Ron (Tiki) Brimmicombe. There is an unidentified solider and some portraits of unidentified children. Featured natural environments include Tatere Gorge, Lake Haupiri and surrounding area, and the Otira Gorge. Contains prints of individual buildings as well as broader views of towns. A number of wooden buildings are in a state of decay, but houses, churches, and other buildings are still in use. Further images (and series of images) of note include: the transportation by boat of a tractor at Milford sound and a Land Rover to Jackson's Bay; workers at the Kopara Sawmill; industry at Mussel Point; and locomotives, boilers, dredges, and other machinery relating to mining. 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: 75 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints