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Brewster's Rare Books :Christchurch views
Date: 1930s
By: Brewster's Rare Books (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-7398
Description: Collection of cyanotype views of Christchurch by an unknown photographer, comprising: Ford Model T delivery van of Henley Dairy after a road accident Two-horse water wagon, possibly at Ferry Road, Christchurch Fire engine number 6 of the Christchurch Fire Brigade, with crew Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cyanotypes
New Zealand scenery album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-386
Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm
Mail coach outside Hanmer Springs Post Office
Date: ca 1900s
Reference: 1/2-003229-F
Description: A laden mail coach pulled by four horses outside the Hanmer Springs Post Office with a crowd of men and women around it. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Coxhead album 2
Date: [1880s-1890s?]
By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908
Reference: PA1-o-111
Description: Scenic views, mostly of New Zealand, some of Australia, and a few taken in Scotland. Photographs mostly taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead; two of those taken in Scotland were by George Washington Wilson (G.W.W.). The album also contains a large number of coloured postcards, coloured reproductions of paintings, and coloured scraps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, with black spine and corners, 27 x 38.5 cm
Album of New Zealand views
Date: 1880s
From: Three albums of New Zealand views
Reference: PA1-o-983
Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
McIntosh album 11
Date: Circa 1900 to 1905
By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946
Reference: PA1-o-295
Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm
South Island album
Date: [Circa 1910s?]
By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau
Reference: PA1-o-473
Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm
Creator unknown :Photograph album page of views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook
Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]
Reference: PAColl-9669
Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page
McIntosh album 3
Date: [Between 1872 and 1899]
By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-287
Description: An album probably created, and chiefly photographed by George William Barltrop, between 1872 (one image of the laying of the foundation stone of (?) Provincial Buildings in 1872), and the rest being views of New Zealand taken in the late 1890s. One sequence of images shows St Thomas' Church (Newtown, Wellington) under construction, and both exterior and interior views when finished, in 1895. One image shows the wreck of the SS Wairarapa in 1894, and there are views of several lighthouses around New Zealand, two of which were taken by the Burton Brothers. A number of scenes are taken in the Nelson area, including several of the Dun Mountain railway (for the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company), the Maitai River and valley, Nelson City, and Washington Valley. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in black morocco, with black leather spine, entitled `Photographs' in gold, and McIntosh III lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.0 cm
Walker, A (Mr), fl 1968 :Postcards of New Zealand towns
Date: [ca 1900-1910]
By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s
Reference: PAColl-6639
Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards
[Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Rangitata. Star of the South. [1880s or 1890s]
Date: 1888 - 1900
From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book
Reference: E-346-2-102
Description: A hotel called Star of the South beside a road, the Rangitata River in the foreground, a horse and cart on the road and hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm
Coaches outside Paget's Hotel, Leithfield
Date: 1866
Reference: 1/2-004391-F
Description: Three coaches under the trees outside Paget's Hotel, Leithfield. The middle one is a Sampson's coach and the one on the right is a Cobb's coach although markings are not visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Photographer unknown: Old Wellington
Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]
Reference: PAColl-6886
Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives
[Various artists] :[Reproductions of Illustrations from the Picturesque atlas of Austra...
Date: 1975 - 1886 - 1883
By: Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. Ltd.; Fitler, William Crothers, 1857-1915; Fullwood, Albert Henry, 1863-1930; Schell, Frederic B, -1905; Schwarzburger, Carl, 1850-; Goldtone Products (Firm)
Reference: A-046-001/006
Description: Queen Street Auckland, 1883; Wanganui, 1883; Cathedral Square, Christchurch, 1883; Lyttelton, 1883; Cargill Monument Dunedin, 1883; Wellington [from Nairn Street], 1883 Reproduction of engravings from: Picturesque atlas of Australasia / edited by Andrew Garran, Sydney, 1886. `Reproduced by courtesy of Alexander Turnbull Library' [del. ; W A Hirschman - Wellington, 1883 / Schell [del.] ; C Schwarzburger sc. Other Titles - Picturesque atlas of Australasia Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproductions on gold paper, mounted on blue card ; photolithograph, images, 186 x 266 mm on cards 250 x 300 mm Provenance: Donation: Redfern, Greenberg & Associates, PO Box 6489, Wellington, 2 July 1975
Quartermain album 4
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
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
Grant, F J (Mr), fl 1981 :Photographs of the tour of the Prince of Wales in 1920 and Ne...
Date: [1903-1920]
By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918
Reference: PAColl-0362
Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).
Adkin album 07
Date: Circa 1900s
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-f-003
Description: Album of black & white photographs taken during the early 1900s, showing geological formations in New Zealand. They include images of the Banks Peninsula, Sumner, Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Lyttelton Harbour, and the Halswell River, in several sequences in the album; flooding of the Koputaroa Stream at Levin, on 4 December 1906; Lake Horowhenua; Paekakariki Coast; the Wairarapa, including Orongorongo Valley, Wharekauhau Stream, Wainuiomata, Palliser Bay, Mukamuka Valley, Eglinton's Hut; Tongariro National Park area, including Waiouru (in which the stables of Crowther & McCauley coach services are visible), the source of the Waikato River at the gorge and waterfall of the Mangatoetoenui Stream; Mount Ruapehu, crater lake, the Waihohonu Hut, Te Heuheu Peak, Flounder Glacier and Waikato Glacier; Mount Ngauruhoe, slopes and craters and the source of the Ohinepango Stream; Mount Tongariro, Ketetahi Springs and Ketetahi Hut, craters and crater lakes including the Red crater, and Blue and Green Lakes
Burton Bros: Land of Loveliness; New Zealand album
Date: [1900s]
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-1620
Description: Burton Brothers album 'Land of Loveliness: New Zealand". Inclues views of Lyttelton, Sumner, Rakaia (showing Rakaia Butchery & Bakery of A. Chamberlain est 1873), Fendalton, Avon and New Brighton. Also shows a street view of an unknown township with Victoria House, Dimant & Coe, general drapers and clothing store. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 13 x 16.5 cm Provenance: Purchase, 2000
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd :Christchurch watering places. Supplement to the Canterbury "Week...
Date: 1886
By: Weekly press (Newspaper); Buckland, Francis Edward, active 1886
Reference: B-055-022
Description: Includes: The beach, New Brighton The Cave Rock, Sumner Morton's Marine Hotel, Sumner Patterson's Hotel, New Brighton The Shag Rock, Sumner Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On each image): Whitcombe & Tombs Ld. lith. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Five black & white lithographs on sheet, 288 x 445 mm.