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Photographs relating to the Strongman Mine disaster

Date: 1967

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-51

Description: Photographs relating to the Strongman Mine disaster of 1967, taken by Joseph Quinn Includes photographs of the rescue effort and funerals and graves. The associated negatives include photographs of the commission of inquiry and MBE medal awards Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Photographic prints, negative envelopes

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Rangiatea Church (Otaki) : [Cemetery inscriptions] / transcribed by Mr and Mrs Springer...

Date: 1979

By: Rangiatea (Church : Ōtaki, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Papers-2016

Description: 325 inscriptions many in Maori, with location map, notes and index. Language - Many inscriptions in Maori Source of title - Supplied title Rangiatea is the oldest Maori church in New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s) 24 leaves. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Includes map

Manuscript

Cemeteries - Lower Hutt City Corporation

Date: 1961-1965

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-014/7/Pt1

Description: File relates to proposed cemetery at Judgeford, 1960s; Wallaceville cemetery Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911 :Port Chalmers

Date: [ca 1876]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-06

Description: Elevated view looking down over the township of Port Chalmers and across the Otago Harbour to Quarantine Island, Goat Island (with single men's quarantine barracks visible) and beyond to the Otago Peninsula (Mt Charles on left and Harbour Cone on right). In the immediate foreground (on left) is the old cemetery. In the foreground there is a railway wagon and large stockpile of rocks waiting to be shifted. In foreground to the right is the cutting for the main Trunk Railway. Retail shops and commercial premises in George Street can be seen, including those of James Menelaus, James Bosworth Taylor (painter & paperhanger) & Simmonds & Sons. On the hill to the left in Grey Street is the Port Chalmers Grammar School and Holy Trinity Church (only partially visible). Photograph was taken by Herbert Deveril and dated ca 1876. The new Port Chalmers Grammar School in the foreground (centre right partially obscured by trees) was built 1874-1875 and occupied from December 1875. The building in George Street on extreme left was not completed until March 1875. Alongside this building is a large excavation for buildings eg Marine Hotel completed in 1881. Accompanying material - Sketch with roads and the main buildings and features identified by Ian Church of Port Chalmers Museum, 2008 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 24.2 x 36 cm

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Roy Towers cleaning a war veteran's headstone, Karori Cemetery, Wellington - Photograph...

Date: 12 May 1989

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Round, Mark, active 1991

Reference: EP/1989/1694-F

Description: Roy Towers cleaning a war veteran's headstone, Karori Cemetery, Wellington. Photographed 15 May 1989 by Evening Post staff photographer Mark Round. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Tangiwai railway disaster :Mass grave for unidentified victims, Karori Cemetery, Wellin...

Date: 1953

From: National Publicity Studios :Photographs taken during royal visit by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip

Reference: 1/2-42874-F

Description: View of the 21 coffins of the unidentified victims in the open mass grave at the Karori Cemetery, Wellington. The grave is lined with tree fern fronds and wreaths have been laid on the coffins and along each side of the grave. Two groups of people can be seen. That on the left are public mourners. That on the right are the official group with the Duke of Edinburgh. The Tangiwai railway disaster occurred on Christmas eve, 1953, during the first visit to New Zealand of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. The Duke departed from the official programme to attend the mass burial which took place on December 31 1953. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Morrow, Ambrose Bole, d. 1921 :St. Mark's burial ground [copy of ms map]. A.B. Morrow, ...

Date: 1918

By: Morrow, Ambrose Bole, -1921; St. Mark's (Church : Remuera, Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: MapColl-832.1291ekcmp/1918/Acc.19593

Description: Surveyor's map, copied from an aperture card, of the church and graveyard of St. Mark's Church, Remuera. Includes the position of the church, blower house and paths in relation to Remuera Road. Graves are identified by shape and the size of each one is recorded along with surnames when known. The construction materials of the majority of the graves is also recorded and referred to in a reference key. The boundary is recorded in feet and inches and some surveying points were pencilled in. Surveyor's signature at bottom right of map. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:144], 96 x 69 cm.

Manuscript

Cemeteries - Akatarawa

Date: 1971-1979

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-014/1/Pt1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Field album 8

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

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Maps of Karori Cemetery

From: Shotter, P J E :Negatives and albums (with index) of graves in the Bolton Street and Sydney Street cemeteries, Wellington

Reference: 35mm-25453-F

Description: Maps of Karori Cemetery. Formerly part of negative roll A. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative

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Otaki residents in the graveyard alongside the charred ruins of Rangiatea Church - Phot...

Date: 7 Oct 1995

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1995/4101-F

Description: Looking across a graveyard towards towards the charred ruins of Rangiatea Church. Two images shows Otaki residents standing alongside. Photographs taken by Ray Pigney of the Evening Post, on the 7th of October 1995, the day the church was destroyed by fire. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at cabinet 14, drawer 2 at Religion-Anglican Churches (2), in an envelope labelled "Rangiatea Church".

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Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964 :The church at Makara. [1937].

Date: 1937

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964

Reference: A-320-006

Description: Shows the church seen from the square tower end, with a stone cross headstone in the right foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcut, image 130 x 117 mm, on sheet 186 x 163 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloane auction, 30 November 2000, lot 219.

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Artist unknown :Te Papa Cemetery Tauranga [ca 1865]

Date: 1865 - 1869

From: Various artists :[Reproductions by Tauranga District Libraries. 1 Horatio Gordon Robley. Canoe race Tauranga Christmas 1865; 2. Three watercolours by an unknown soldier at Gate Pa; 3. Two watercolours by Emma Mary Vogan. Reproduced 1990s?]

Reference: A-426-082

Description: Shows a view of a small cemetery surrounded by a white picket fence. The location is under a stand of trees, and overlooks the harbour. Mount Maunganui can be seen in the distance at the left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 70 x 117 mm, on sheet 115 x 155 mm. Provenance: Dr P M Barclay of Middlesborough England donated this and two other works to Tauranga District Libraries in 1989; he had inherited the work from his grandfather who was surgeon to the 43rd Monmouth Light Infantry Regiment, although the surgeon himself did not serve in New Zealand.

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Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e....

Date: 1853-1885

By: Richmond, Christopher William (Hon), 1821-1895

Reference: E-284

Description: Include views of Central Otago, West Coast, Marlborough, Wellington, Bream Head, Egypt, England, France, voyage to England, seascapes, yachts and ships. For details see records for individual pages. At head of title: Richmond and Atkinson family papers, vol 45. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing. 85 drawing(s) (pencil). 4 drawing(s) pencil and ink. 1 drawing(s) pencil and wash. Physical Description: Art originals, pencil, 170 x 230 mm or smaller, in album, 240 mm, 1/2 blue moroccco, blue buckram Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - acc. 77-253: Richmond and Atkinson papers.

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[Hadfield, Octavius 1814-1904] :[Otaki Church, Rangiatea. 184-?]

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904

Reference: A-241-015

Description: Otaki Maori church with a small house to its right, the cemetery on the hill behind, fences and bush Photocopy of a pencil drawing in Auckland Museum, reference number PD 52 (19). The Library also has a photograph of this drawing, a better-quality copy under artist and title in the photographic files of the Drawings & Prints Section. Other Titles - [Church Missionary Society church and house, probably at Waikanae or Otaki - former title] Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing 210 x 330 mm

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Waikanae Anglican Parish :Photographs

Date: 1841-ca 1980

By: Waikanae Anglican Parish

Reference: PAColl-6376

Description: Photographs of buildings, personalities, furniture and fittings and liturgical objects (chalices, patterns, collection plates, wardens staves etc) associated with St Lukes and St Michael's churches. There are also photographs of the Parata Family cemetery which is next to St Luke's Church. Typed inventory available Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 33267 - 33283 Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 b&w original negative(s) strips with 37 images.

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Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :Graves of those who were killed at Rangariri [sic]...

Date: 1863

From: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :[Three works - Graves of those who were killed at Rangariri [sic], New Zealand, 20 Nov. 1863; Entrance to Manakau [sic] Harbour, New Zealand, 4 June 1861; and, Bridlington, Yorkshire, visited 20 November 1882.

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-028

Description: Shows church with graveyard, with fort and encampment on hill in background. On verso of Scrivener's: Entrance to Manakau Harbour, NZ. 4 June 1861 (B-064-030); and, Bridlington, Yorkshire visited 20 November 1882 (B-064-031). Other Titles - Graves of those who fell at Rangiriri... Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Graves of those who fell 20 Nov 63 / Rangiriri NZ; Recto - centre right - (On backing sheet): Graves of / those who were / killed at /Rangariri / New Zealand / 20 Nov 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 171 X 275 mm, mounted on sheet 305 x 392 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1988.

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All Saints, Howick

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

Reference: PA5-0005

Description: All Saints' Church, Howick, showing tombstones Verso contains name Miss Armstrong Devonport Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 139 mm

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Papers relating to the Friends of Mount Street Cemetery

Date: 1992-1994

From: Pringle, Michael, 1962-: Papers, photographs, maps, and posters

Reference: MS-Papers-5268

Description: The collection includes newspaper and other articles, notes, administrative papers and correspondence relating to the Friends' activities. The records are not complete. The Friends of Mount Street Cemetery group formed in 1992 to prevent the sale and possible destruction of the cemetery and to take part in its conservation. Michael Pringle was a founding member Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

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War memorial at Normanby

Date: 1924

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: PAColl-0001-2-2-140

Description: Photo of a war memorial at the Waihi Cemetery at Normanby showing names of men belonging to the colonial forces who died in engagements during 1868. Photographed in 1924 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Photos of Historical Interest; Verso - centre - Print 1. The memorial created to those who fell during three engagements in the Maori War. This memorial is to be seen at the little-known Waihi Cemetery at Normanby, South Taranaki. The cemetery is laid out on the side of a hill, known as the "Waihi Redoubt". Near the summit, the hill is very strongly entrenched, the trenches, 10 to 12 ft deep, being in a perfect state of preservation. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 15.4 x 11.2 cm

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