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Date: [1890s-1910s?]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-q-190

Description: Photographs relating to the Quartermain family, none of which have captions. None of the people or places are named. Of interest are a number of views of the ruins of a house, with only the chimneys standing; several of the new St John's Church, Hororata, including laying the foundations, building construction, and the completed church with lychgate; one of the tombstones of Sir John Hall, and his wife, with the new St John's Church partially visible in the background (for which Sir John Hall bequeathed the money); and one photograph of a steam tractor fording a river with difficulty, with a tow-rope leading to three laden wagons on the far side of the river. A number of photographs show Leslie Bowden Quartermain as a boy, and as a young man Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mid-blue cover, entitled "Sunny memories"; 32 x 28 cm

Date: 1956

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-Farmers-1956-01

Description: Mail order catalogue featuring women's and boys' clothing, camping equipment, sports gear (tennis racquets, cricket bats wickets and balls), snorkeling equipment, outdoor furniture, billiard tables, cameras, projectors, and Viewmaster viewers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 370 x 243 mm.

Date: 1954

From: [Sales catalogues and ephemera of octavo size concerning photographic equipment, cameras, darkroom supplies]

By: Cameracraft Photographic Supplies

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-EQUIPMENT-1954-01

Description: Sales catalogue with advertisements by H E Perry Limited. There are photographic illustrations of the following brands of camera: "Gloriette", "Norca", "Paxina", "Kinax", Linhof, Vredeborch Box Camera, "Robot", photographic developing studio supplies of all kinds, films and papers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 40 pages, each 218 x 142 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2006

Date: 1938

By: Dyes & Chemicals Ltd; L T Watkins Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1938-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue and price list for box cameras, Speedex cameras, Karat and Isolette models, movie cameras and projectors, roll films, photographic plates, portrait films, photo papers including Borvira, Portriga, developing tanks, developers, fixers, toner. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklet of 32 pages, 177 x 117 mm.

Date: 1956 - 1957

From: [Sales catalogues and ephemera of octavo size concerning photographic equipment, cameras, darkroom supplies]

By: Acme Printing Works Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-EQUIPMENT-1956-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for the following brands of camera: Agfa, Kodak, Zeiss, Rollei, Diax, Exakta, Exa, Leica, Braun (Paxette), Canon, Vitessa, Voigtlander, Bauer movie cameras and projectors, Bell and Howell cine cameras, Bolex cine cameras and projectors. Also advertises exposure meters, rangefinders, tripods, flash units, books, magazines, slide projectors (including Leitz brand, Zett, Paximat, Zeiss Ikolux, Noris), slide mounts, tripod screens, colour film, binoculars. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages, 186 x 123 mm.

Date: 1905 - 1914

From: [Sales catalogues and ephemera of octavo size concerning photographic equipment, cameras, darkroom supplies]

By: Central Photo Stores; Keeling & Mundy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-EQUIPMENT-1910-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for a Palmerston North photographic supply store. Items for sale include the "Ticka" watch camera, "Mascot", "Midg", "Klito" box cameras, "Cameo", "College", "Triple Victor", "Imperial", Perfecta", "Carbine", "Premo", "Pressman" cameras. Also lists photo albums, carriers, balls and tubes, chemicals, tablets, mounts, cutting shapes, enlargers, developing equipment, and darkroom equipment and furniture, lenses, shutters and films. Date estimated from the period in which the "Ticka" camera (manufactured in England) was available i.e. 1905-1914. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 98 pages, each 197 x 129 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Once Again (Wellington), in 2006.

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

From: Murray, H N :Photograph of Queens Wharf and an album

By: Murray, Herbert Nicholas, 1899-1974; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-165

Description: Photographs of the Wellington area in the North Island, and in the South Island views particularly of Lake Guyon and surrounds, the Mount Travers Station, and the Waiau River and bridge, taken by William Thomas Locke Travers. The Wellington views include several of the `Nghauranga' [i.e. Ngauranga] Valley, including one of two wagons laden with timber crossing a wooden bridge; one of a small group of buildings at the foot of the gorge; and one of a bend in the road, a man seated on a log in the foreground, and smoke coming from the chimney of a house partially hidden to the right. All the other scenes in the Wellington area are in the Hutt Valley, or Belmont Hills, including `Fitzherbert's' (the home of Sir William Fitzherbert?). The view of the Mount Travers Station on the edge of Lake Guyon shows a building partially hidden by trees on the left, a woman and child sitting in front of a camera on a tripod, and a man sitting in a dinghy on the edge of the lake. A number of scenes are in the Lake Guyon area, with various streams and creeks; and views of the Waiau River into which the lake drains. Inscriptions: Album page - `H.N. Murray, Motueka. His book'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather binding, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 29.0 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1986

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-026/057

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 32 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: [late 1930s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091764-F

Description: Zeila Wells, wife of the photographer, holding a box camera and photographed, at Mangamahu, by Robert E Wells, in the late 1930s. Caption - Mangamahu - Zeila taking my photo [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1922]

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

By: Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953

Reference: 1/2-140999-F

Description: Shows Algernon Charles Gifford in the snow on Mount Ruapehu, with his camera. Taken during a Tararua Tramping club expedition, by Edward Thomas Robson. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-137-532

Description: Shows a group of tourists taking photos of buildings in a ghost town and comparing it with Wellington on a Sunday. Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Extended Title - The establishment of a "ghost town" has been suggested to the Tourist and Publicity Dept in an effort to attract more tourist to Westland Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 280 x 380mm

Date: 1886

From: Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918 :Photograph album

Reference: PA1-q-075-04-1

Description: Group of men, women and children photographed on Pyramid Rock, Totaranui. A camera with a hat on it is also included in the picture. Photographed in 1886 by Charles Yates Fell Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1905 - 1916

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by the Gudopp family. ca 1905-1915].

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-2-17

Description: Shows Maori girl in yellow robe, taking a photograph of the inset, which in this case is the Victoria Street Bridge in Christchurch. A kiwi is shown at bottom right. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 139 mm.

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001165-G

Description: Group of men, including two with cameras, standing on the wharf in the foreground on the right. Yachts, fishing boats and a dredge are tied up close by. A launch with four men on board, is approaching the wharf on the left. Yacht registration numbers include: TS12, TS73, TS29, TS50, TS35, TS41. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Shortland Wharf. Thames. 1424D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [190-?]

From: Lynch, Eileen (Miss), fl 1978 :Photographs relating to the Lynch family

Reference: 1/2-080314-F

Description: Members of St Patrick's College (Wellington) camera club, in the grounds of the Lynch family house 'Emerald Glen', in Paekakariki. Shows 10 boys in school uniform, standing by a camera. Photograph taken 190-? by an unidentified photographer. Back row, from left to right: Howard Buckley, Willie Lynch, Bernard Chapman, Courtenay O'Rourke, Oscar Avonmore Lynch (standing next to his camera). Front row: unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Location identified by Curator of Photographic Archive, John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1890

From: Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918 :Photograph album

Reference: PA1-q-075-40

Description: Photographer, Camera and a group of women in a rock-walled stream valley overhung by native trees. Beyond the group the stream issues from the forest by way of a waterfall. Photographed by Charles Yates Fell in 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1882 or 1883

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025900-G

Description: Four men, including photographer William Williams, seated outdoors on stones in Wainuiomata. Williams is second from left with a camera by his knee and a camera mounted on a tripod behind him. Thomas H Wyatt is on the right. The other two men are named Kevern and Toulson. They are all dressed in hats, suits, and boots. Two smoke pipes while the other two eat. Photograph taken in either 1882 or 1883, probably by William Williams with a self timer. Source of descriptive information - From lantern slide of identical image: "Kevern; Williams; Toulson & Wyatt at Wainuiomata, Wgton - 1882 or 3" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: September 1928

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084039-F

Description: Charlie Barton, with his movie camera, in a Bristol fighter F2B of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force. Taken in September 1928, on the occasion of Charles Kingsford Smith's aerial crossing of the Tasman. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1805-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Arthur River, with three people seated in a rowing boat, two others standing in the boat beside a large camera on a tripod. There is a sandy spit in the right and left foreground, and steep bush-clad mountains across the river. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore, from the Milford Track. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Arthur River" Milford. New Zealand. No. 810; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Arthur River. Milford Track Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 111.7 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1803-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lake Ada surrounded by steep bush-clad hills. Five people are sitting in a rowing boat on the far left, and there is a large camera on a tripod in the boat. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore, from the Milford Track. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Lake Ada. [No.] 811 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.5 cm