Places

Date: 1992

By: Welch, Miles, active 2004

Reference: PAColl-8593

Description: Photograph of the Arahura in Porirua Harbour. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1992. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print, 21.5 x 14.5 cm Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - PR-04-0120 - A certificate which is part of this donation is in the Ephemera Collection at Eph-A-Ferry-1992-01..

Date: April 1923

From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura

By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968

Reference: PA1-o-1218

Description: Record of a trip made by George Alexander Gunn and friends along the Kaikoura coast to Kaikoura and south to about Oaro. Photographed by George Alexander Gunn in April 1923 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1922-ca1926

From: Barr, John Manson, 1904-1993 :Photographs of Joseph Gordon Coates

By: Coates, Marjorie Grace, 1892-1973

Reference: PA1-o-851

Description: Gordon Coates and his wife on tour. Most of these photographs relate to Coates' as MP and Minister of Public Works. Most of the events record the trials and tribulations of journeying to remote parts of New Zealand to open bridges, post offices, power plants etc. The album also records some of the social and recreational events associated with the tours. According to Gordon Coates' daughter, Mrs Sheila Pryde, this album belonged to Gordon Coates' wife Marjorie, who collected, and may have taken some of the snaps when she accompanied her husband travelling in various parts of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1936-1971

From: Hodge, Horace Emerton, 1903-1958 :Albums and photographs relating to Merton Hodge and the Linney Family

Reference: PAColl-8311-07

Description: Photographs of Merton Hodge, Geoffrey Wardwell and friends in the 1930s; New Zealand family and friends; views of a London street; Merton and Catherine Hodge, their dogs and their Citron car, Dunedin, 1950s; Hodge at Balclutha with Ken and Joan Moore and their son, 1950s; views of unidentified streets, Dunedin; exterior views of the Hodges flat and garden, 1950s; views of Dunedin from the Hodges garden; snaps of Catherine Hodge, friends, and the children of friends. Arrangement: Negatives of most of the Dunedin photographs in this box are at 1/4-110198-F to 1/4-110258-F. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1913

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

Reference: PA1-o-1224

Description: Mainly a series of holidays, tramping trips, and local excursions. The first is a trip to the head of Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound via the Milford track. It begins on the road between Glenorchy and Paradise, then through the valley of the Route Burn River to the Hollyford Valley where the party camped on the shores of Lake Howden. From there they passed Lakes Fergus and Gunn into the Eglinton River Valley and on to Te Anau, and then onto the Milford track to Milford Sound via the Clinton River Valley. Images on the way include Mount Balloon, Mount Elliott, Routeburn Hut, and Lake Ada. There is a view of Mitre Peak, Mount Tutoko, and the Pembroke Glacier from Milford Sound. The second series relates to a camping trip to Wanganui and the Whanganui River. This includes a game of golf and visiting friends in St John's Hill. There are views of the party's camp and a number of images taken during a canoeing trip up the Whanganui River in what looks like a Maori dug out canoe. Two other images in this group are of men standing beside the trigs on Mounts Holdworth and Dundas in the Tararua Ranges. The third series is of family and friends at home in Eastbourne and in the bush at Muritai; Girdlestone, a friend, and two women on motor cycles on the coast road; views of Eastbourne from the hills above the suburb; women on the beach and reading at home. The fourth series relates to a trip to the Volcanic Plateau during which the party climbed Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. There are two group photographs of the whole party, one taken in front of the Waihohonu Hut, and the other on the summit of Mount Ruapehu. The fifth series shows a party of men and women on a walk and a picnic in the beach forest in Gollan's Valley near Eastbourne. The sixth series is a record of a holiday to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds taken by a group of men over Christmas 1913. There are views of the sounds and surrounding landscape, of Portage where the party stayed, and of boat and fishing trips that they made during their stay. The seventh series is of a tramping trip to the Orongrongo River Valley. The views are of native forest, the river and the mountains, and one of two men boiling a billy beside their tent in the bush. The eighth series consists of two photographs of the wreck of the "Devon" on the rocks at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington harbour. This occured on the 25th of August 1913. The ninth series is a group of photographic postcards of the Te Anau, Milford region, and probably relate to the trip recorded at the beginning of this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1907-1909

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

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1930-ca1935

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-14

Description: Various photographs relating to different places and events. One seems to be a trip to Sydney. There are views of a ship's deck and coastal cliffs. Also several views of the almost completed Sydney Harbour Bridge from what is probably a ferry. Other photographs are from Christchurch, Wellington and harbour, and of Auckland. There are a number of Auckland buildings; the Greenhouse in the Domain, the University, and the Museum. There is a sequence of views of a thermal area and three photographs of Maori. Another group relates to an unidentified sailing ship, and a third to the flax industry in the Horowhenua Many others are views if countryside and coastal land scape Quantity: 137 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1923

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

By: Hooker, L O, active 1910s-1920s

Reference: Pan-2478-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across and down Furlong Street in the foreground. From the lfar left of the image to the centre are seen shops in the distance, a cart laden with sacks, and a car and a bicycle parked in the street. Next is the two-storeyed wooden 'Dominion Hotel'. To the right of the hotel is a row of concrete buildings associated with the South Taranaki Winter Show. They include, from left, Farmers' Co-op and the Defence Office, then the kitchener Hall (containing the registered office of Ararata Melrose normanby & Mells Co-op Dairy Co. (A W Page, secr.)). Next on the right is the Lloyd-George Hall containing the offices of the South Taranaki Winter Show Co. Ltd (L.O. Hooker, secr)). There are three men and a dog standing outside. There is a road next to the Show Buildings in which a car is parked (number plate WN7158), and a house is visible at the far end. On the far right is a building advertising 'Cool storage & ice supplied in any quantity'. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Winter Show Buildings were built for the South Taranaki Show in 1910, with additions later. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Winter Show Blds 1923; Marginal notes on negative - L.O. Hooker. Hawera Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 97.8 cm

Date: 1923

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

Reference: Pan-1483-F

Description: Panoramic view of the township of Rongotea. Small fenced park around a war memorial in the centre of the image. Various businesses and public buildings across the image from the left, including the Rongotea Post office on the far left, a building under construction next door, the Excelsior Tea Rooms, S J Teaz (Family butcher), Eggers & Thompson (Co-op Store), A 1 Bread, and J. Glover & Sons (Blacksmiths & coach builders). There is a group of people on the far left including two boys (one with a bicycle), 5 men (one on a bicycle and one on a horse) and there are two cars (Number plate of the one on the far left: WN-1949). Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Rongotea. N.Z. 5.6.'23; Marginal notes on negative - Rongotea Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.8 cm

Date: [ca 1950-1951]

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1795

Description: Includes - Views of Christchurch including historical displays on shop verandas, probably taken at the time of the centenary of settlement in 1950. The Peat family and friends. A visit to Nelson which includes two views of the airport and the cathedral. Road trip through the North Island. This includes the car parked outside the Rimutaka summit tearooms. The new Masterton Bar and Lounge. The memorial war canoe at Patea. The tearooms at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. The Makatote railway viaduct. Repairs being carried out on the car. The rock of refuge of Hatupatu. Views of the Volcanic Plateau and other scenic landscape views. Multiple AA road signs. Geothermal Research Station at Wairakei. The Tolaga Inn. A day at the races. Hole in the Wall Rock Arch, Bay of Plenty. Mangonui and Kerikeri. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 25 July 1972

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

Reference: EP/1972/3592-F

Description: View of Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 25 July 1972. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1890s-ca1923

From: Brusey family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-974

Description: The first and largest section of this album records a trip in Canada and possibly the United States, made by a young man with a motor car about 1923. The second section are photographs taken on a visit to possibly Hawaii or Tahiti. Local people are recorded as well as a number of yachts tied up along the waterfront of a town, and a white warship. The third section include family photographs taken in Britain in the 1890s, and several shipboard views, two of which show what are probably crossing the line ceremonies involving a canvas swimming pool. Towards the end of the album a group of family photographs are associated with a large wooden New Zealand house. There is no information with the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1936-ca1939

By: Tonks, Peter, active 2000

Reference: PAColl-6161

Description: Views in and around Auckland, with emphasis on railways, road transport and aviation, in the late 1930s, taken by an unknown photographer. There are views of suburban streets, and city streets; buildings like the Farmers with its sign lit up at night; a procession led by a brass band; an ANZAC Day gathering at the Cenotaph; a ruined or burnt out industrial building; signifigant public buildings such as the Railway Station, The Museum, the Town Hall and the High Court. The photographer has particularly recorded the flying boats arriving, landing and leaving from Auckland Harbour. Arrangement: negatives at 1/4-88983-F to 1/4-89164-G, and 1/2-181505-F. There are two 1/4 plate glass negatives. Quantity: 187 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Obtained from an antique shop in Devonport in the late 1980s.

Date: [ca 1904-1920]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1017

Description: Postcard photographs of New Zealand houses. Most are of Edwardian villas, and some later bungalows. Hospitals include TB sanitoria, Assylums, and spars. Locations are - Gisborne. Masterton. Dannevirke. Wanganui. Ashburton. Cambridge. Hawera. Stratford. Napier. Waipukurau. Seacliff. Auckland. Invercargill. Stafford. Wellington. Hamilton. Cromwell. Hanmer. Ashburton. Timaru. Dunedin. Hawera. Picton. Waihi. Featherston Military Camp. Oamaru. Waimate. New Plymouth. Mount Somers. Blenheim. Rotorua. Te Aroha. Postcards of schools located at - Rangiora. Gore. Tauranga. Wellington. Dunedin. Ravensbourne. Kaikoura. Woodside (Outram). Waimate. Timaru. Palmerston South. Carterton. Nelson. Auckland. Napier. Gisborne. Te Aute. Hastings. Hawera. Wanganui. Christchurch. Sumner. Lyttelton. Waihi. Feilding. Masterton. Temuka. Blenheim. Woodend. Arrowtown. Invercargill. Views of cities and towns including notable public buildings, hotels, and water towers - Dunedin. Bluff port. Port Chalmers. Oamaru. Gisborne. Queenstown. Pahiatua. Riversdale. Hanmer Springs. Auckland. Kerikeri. Invercargill. Geraldine. Hamilton. Wanganui. Dunedin. Wellington. Masterton. Clyde. Hastings. Woodside (Outram). Hawera. Views of gardens and parks at - Timaru. Hamilton. New Plymouth. Ashburton. Auckland. Invercargill. Wellington. Wanganui. Business enterprises include - Freezing works near Hastings. Gold mine Waihi. Kaipoi Woolen Mills. Mulgrave timber mill Nelson. Junction North mine. Chelsea sugar factory Auckland. Oil dereks New Plymouth. Electric power house Ernscleugh. Electric power station Rotorua. Bridges include - Suspension bridge, Moteo. Suspension bridge, Hooker River, Mount Cook. Grafton Bridge, Auckland. Bridge in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. Bridge across road, Parnell, Auckland. Arthurs Point Bridge. Bridge at Gisborne. Winchester bridge, Timaru. Railway bridge, Waikato River. Bridge, Lyall Creek, Kaikoura. Bridge on Raurimu-Oio service road. Shotover River bridge. Traffic bridge, Pahiatua. Clarence River bridge, Kaikoura. Skippers bridge. There are several pages of motorcars, and some photographs of people in horse drawn carriages. One photograph shows two horses harnessed to a large wagon. Other postcards show bowling greens at Queenstown, Carterton, Eltham, and Invercargill. Mount Ngauruhoe erupting. View of Mount Ruapehu. Old men's home, Ashburton. The Roman Catholic Cathedral, Invercargill. Hunters (duck shooters?) gathered around a car. Man cleaning boots, Ball Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1918-1937]

From: Nolan, Iris Evelyn, 1916- :Photographs

By: Oulton, Harry, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1045

Description: Photograph album compiled by Harry Oulton, uncle of Iris Nolan, of Napier Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1848, 1862, 1898, 1927 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Anderson, G D, active 1934; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Whites Aviation Ltd; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Pickard, D, active 1940s-1950s; Johnson, W E, active 1927; Robertson, David Ogilvie, 1850?-1920

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-030

Description: Photographs of the West Coast of the South Island, Otago and Southland, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1927 to 1950. Includes a painting of the `Philip Laing' and `John Wickliffe' in Port Chalmers in 1848, painted by D O Robertson in 1898 and photographed by De Maus. Also includes a photograph of Gabriels Gully, Lawrence, in 1862, and later photographs of memorials to Gabriel Read. Photographers include W E Johnson, J D S Roberts, G D Anderson, D Pickard, Whites Aviation, D A De Maus and L A Inkster. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1842-1964

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-12

Description: This collection contains the contents of two albums. First album group relates to Pauatahanui, Porirua. Includes - Unidentified house. Grave stone of Len Walker who died in 1897 aged 100 years. View of St Adan's Anglican Church. View of St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. Views of an overgrown cemetery. Second album is mostly views of the Government centre and environs, Wellington. Most of this material dates from the late 1940s to the early 1950s and includes - The wooden Government building (now Law School). The Centotaph. Turnbull House (then the Alexander Turnbull Library). Wellington Railway Station. Bowen House. Magistrates Court. Bowen Street. Lambton Quay. Bunny Street. Molesworth Street. Government Printing Office. Parliament buildings and grounds. The old High Court building. Brick store on Waterloo Quay (now apartments). Hotel Waterloo. Defence Department building, Bunny Street (demolished about 1994). Other Wellington photographs taken by the Evening Post in November 1964 include a view of Manners Street, and two photographs of Wellington traffic. There is one photograph of houses and gardens in Regent Street, Newtown, dated 9 August 1962. This is part of a group of views of a site for Wellington City Council housing taken before demolition for that project began. Earlier photographs include - View of Kaikoura, ca 1910. Houses in Auckland, Christchurch, and the Stratford area, 1890s-1910. Taylor-Stace house, Pauatahanui. Photograph of a drawing of a coach outside an inn in Christchurch, 1866. Unidentified derelict cobb built house in overgrown garden. Views of the bridge of an unidentified ship. Barrett's Hotel, Wellington, by Samuel Brees, ca 1842. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: All of these prints were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. The photographs have been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library.

Date: 1999

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[31 original political and social cartoons published in Metro magazine from February to December 1999]

Reference: A-129-083

Description: Cartoon shows an apocalyptic view along a city street, crowded with cars with black pollution fumes rising from them. Tall buildings line the street, with neon signs advertising Sino, Coffee, Sex, Restaurant. There is a Cross on one building. Beyond the buildings a yacht sails towards a palm tree island. The background sky is black and full of green items including horns, wine glass, a wad of banknotes, a hypodermic syringe, guitar, dice, pills, a cigar, cigarette and eyeball. Flames fringe the top of the sky. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 91 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and gouache, on sheet 420 x 299 mm.

Date: 19 October 1968

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

Reference: EP/1968/4494

Description: View of the shopping centre at Raumati Beach. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 14th of December 1968. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1915, 1931, 1955-1963

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-021

Description: Photographs of Wellington Region, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of Castlepoint lighthouse, street scenes in Martinborough, Featherston and Masterton, construction of the Wellington - Wairarapa railway and aerial photographs of Wainuiomata. Includes two earlier photographs; one of Lower Hutt train station circa 1915 and the reconstruction of Taita Gorge Road in 1931. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints