Places

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6952

Description: 13 miscellaneous images: a house with a verandah and deck chairs; two of battleships, one moored at Overseas Terminal; the marina at Oriental Bay with the boathouses and Mount Victoria in the background; a view over Island Bay; a field of hay stacks; a large railway junction with various rolling stock and chimneys in the background; a view over Days Bay including the pier; men and women rock climbing; two motor buses outside a large house, possibly a hotel, with people milling around; the door to the Observatory Tower at the University of Canterbury; HMS Hood moored at an unidentified location; and people cooking outdoors under an awning. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058211 to 058223 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6888

Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1900s]

By: Brookes, L V, active 1962

Reference: PA1-o-070

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Cable Bay Station, including group portraits of the post & telegraph staff, staff quarters, the telegraph instrument room, and aspects of daily life. Inserted in the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting with news of the wedding of Miss Dorcas Vivian Ingram to Vincent Brookes of the Post & Telegraph Office, Wanganui. The wedding was held at St Matthew's Church, Masterton. The photographs in this album were probably taken by Vincent Brookes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cloth album "Photographs", 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Donated by L V Brookes, Lower Hutt, 1962

Date: [1920s]

From: Field, Arthur Nelson : Collection of albums and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-161

Description: Album of photographs (each one 4.5 x 6.5 cm), with views of the North Island. One shows a group of four cars on the Paekakariki Hill Road; others show camping sites, landscapes and the Duchess (yacht). A number of people are shown, but are not clearly identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown mock-crocodile cover, entitled "Photographs"; 13.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [ca 1920 - 1930]

From: Leggat, Heather :Myra McCormick's photographs

Reference: PA1-o-889

Description: This family album includes Myra and Eric as teenagers and young adults. There are many photographs of family and relatives, children, older women, Eric's parents, and Moyra during her period of nursing training. There are also some photographs of cities and Towns, countryside, houses and other features of the human landscape of New Zealand in the 1920s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1896

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-181

Description: Views, chiefly unidentified, of a trip in the South Island in January 1896, photographed by Algernon Charles Gifford. Most of the photographs are landscape views of lakes and mountains in the Wakatipu area, but there are a number showing a group of six unidentified people in the garden of a single-storeyed house with verandahs, at Paradise. In another scene a man and woman, two of the previous group, are shown in a field with the man wearing riding clothes, seated on a white horse, and the woman standing by the horse's head with a dog beside her. Also one photograph shows three young girls, Bessie and Daisy Fergus, and Agnes Mill, also at Paradise. A large two-storeyed house with verandahs upstairs and downstairs is seen in one image. An envelope attached inside the back cover, contains 14 loose photographs of similar views. Inscriptions: Album page - Some mementos of a trip to Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, Glenorchy & Paradise via Invercargill, Jan. 1896 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 22.5 x 19.0 cm

Date: 1895-1915

From: Allan, John Calder, 1879-1963 :Photographs of Cable Bay, Nelson

Reference: PA1-q-009

Description: Photographs of the Cable Bay area, near nelson, including the Cable Bay Station and homestead, with images showing the social life of the Cable Bay Station employees. Includes photographs of children, families, family pets, picnicking and camping. There is one postcard from Wakapuaka, which includes two images of 12 to 15 men wearing dark suits, posing outdoors, similar images to several photographs included in the album. Photographs taken by John Calder Allan between 1895 and 1915 Other Titles - Sunny memories Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 285 x 300 mm red buckram, with black decoration around title "Sunny memories" embossed on cover, in phase box

Date: [ca 1950s]

Reference: PAColl-6861

Description: 19 scenes of what is possibly a holiday in the New Plymouth area. They show a woman standing in front of a tent; a group of people around a trestle table with a trophy on it in front of a tent; the Sugar Loaf Islands; a church or similar building seen from across a lake; several of a large park with a lake in it; two of a row of wooden huts with a woman standing outside possibly near the beach; two caravans possbily in a holiday park; two views of houses near the sea, one with Mount Taranaki in the background; and one of a woman in a tailored suit. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-031115 to 031133 Quantity: 19 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [Circa 1900-1908]

From: North, Esther Mary, 1892-1968: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-393

Description: Photographs collected by Mrs Esther Ecclesfield for her daughter Esma Ecclesfield (i.e. Esther Mary Ecclesfield, later known as Esther Mary North, or Esma North). None of the people shown are identified. Several images show camping and views of bays on Waiheke island. Many of the photographs were taken in the Napier area, including several of a woman and two young girls with bicycles standing outside a house in Seaview terrace, Napier, and an interior view of the house; yachts; the Napier Arcade, with the Arcadia Tea-Rooms; children at a Napier beach; and a horse-drawn carriage travelling through water along the foreshore to Cape Kidnappers. Page 4 shows the original Otatara (Ashridge) homestead. Various views around Wellington include Lower Hutt, Belmont Road, Wilton's Bush, Breaker Bay, Muritai and Titahi Bay. In the South Island most of the views were taken around Dunedin, showing Tomahawk Beach, Lawyer's Head and "Cargill's Gates" at St. Clair. Inscriptions: Album page - `Esma. With love from Mother. October 7th 1908' (inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with beige cloth cover, entitled `Post cards'; 13.5 x 21.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1890s]

By: Vickery & Inkersell (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-078

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery, probably all in the South Island, and particularly in the Southern Alps. Many show mountain scenery and glaciers. None of the views or photographers are identified. Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with an impressed pattern on dark green leather cover, entitled "New Zealand views" in gold lettering; 31.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: 1926 to 1931

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-235

Description: Album of photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter. Many of the images are of tramping, camping and climbing holidays with friends and family, both in the North Island (Lake Waikaremoana, the far north, and in the Ruapehu and Taupo Districts), and the South Island (Greenstone River, gold sluicing and gold panning at Moonlight, Queenstown and Wanaka). Most scenes state the location, but very few people are identified, and then only by Christian name. Photographs were taken overseas on a trip to London via Panama, and to New Zealand via San Francisco, May-September 1931. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 29 cm

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [ca 1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6960

Description: An assorted collection including a number of images of scouts camping, being taught to light fires etc. Also included are a number of family groups taken in a garden, a trig point on a hilltop, battleships moored in a harbour, electric train in Wellington Railway Station etc. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059018 to 059111 Quantity: 94 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Thompson, Fred, active 1969; Thompson, Charles, active 1901

Reference: PA1-o-495

Description: Album of various aspects of life in the Chatham Islands circa 1890s-1901, presented to Charles Thompson (possibly Captain Charles Thompson who sailed in the area during this period). Photographs taken by an unknown photographer. All the photographs are described in large letters on the original negatives. On page 23 there is a photograph showing Kiti Karaka Riwai in front of the wharerunanga (meeting house) at Wairua Inscriptions: Album page - "Handed on by his son Fred Thompson" Physical Description: Album with green leather cover, entitled "To Charles Thompson from his Chatham Island friends, August 1901"; 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-011

Description: Shows a tent and shelter with camp fire on the nearer (south) side of the river. On the far side are two Maori whare and two food storage platforms. A range of foothills of the Southern Alps, including Mount Grey, is in the distance. In the centre foreground by the tent, are a European man, woman and child, probably the Godley family. Two further people are by the campfire and tent on the right. There are flax bushes and scrub on the south side of the river, and a cabbage tree on the north side Compare a very similar view in Canterbury Museum titled by Weld 'Camp, banks of Courtenay (Waimakariri) Canterbury Plains, Dec 5th, 1850'. The Canterbury Museum view contains more people and a clearer view of the shelter and camp fire on the right. On Dec 5th 1850, Weld camped on the south bank of the Waimakariri with John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley and their three-year old son Arthur Godley, as well as Charles Torlesse, Charles Hunter Brown, E J Wakefield and a surveyor, Mr Boys. Charlotte Godley wrote to her mother about the camp 'The little tent, just big enough for a bed for us three ... The flax bushes and grass grew all about, higher than our tent ... As it got dark, a party of natives, who had been assembling at some huts just across the river, came over in a canoe to pay us a visit ... Next morning we were up early, and ... had to cross the river in a canoe, the horses having to be swum over' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand. Christchurch, 1951, pp 143-144). The man seated in the tent is likely to be John Robert Godley, while Charlotte Godley will be the woman holding the hand of their small son Arthur by the river. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 245 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 2001-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000507

Description: Photographs of South Westland, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Franz Josef and Haast villages and glaciers, coastlines and lakes in the southern region of the Westland district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (south Westland)" Quantity: 170 digital photograph(s).

Date: [Chiefly between 1934 and 1947]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-194

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber, chiefly between 1934 and 1947, but including copies of some of his earlier photographs. Views include trips in the North and South Islands, and views of his home and family, especially in Whiteman's Valley Road and the area around Silverstream. Also various scenes of floods (Hutt River), and storm damage. Photographs associated with roads and railways include steam locomotives, tunnels, bridges and viaducts, some under construction. Among the trip photographs are views of Ngaruawahia, including King Koroki's house (opened in 1938) and the Maori Parliament House. Other views of Maori interest include meeting houses, rock paintings and wood carving. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 100 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26.0 x 33.5 cm