Places

Date: 1933-1942

From: Pearson, Alfred William, fl 1924-1949 :Photographs relating to the New Zealand Navy

Reference: PAColl-8948-1

Description: Pumpkin Cottage, Trentham. St John's Anglican Church, Trentham. Trentham Military Camp. Heretaunga Railway station. Military parade of naval personnel. An ANZAC Day commemoration at the Wellington Cenotaph. Naval personnel with members of a Maori concert party. Sailors at Maritius and New Caledonia. Naval boarding party on deck. Portraits of Alfred William Pearson. HMS Leander, june 1940. Two group photographs taken at reunions, probably in the 1950s. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(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: 1926

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

Reference: Pan-2139-F

Description: Panoramic view down over the Hutt Valley from a bushy hillside. Areas of housing across the centre of the image with the township in the centre. Farmland in the foreground. The Hutt River is just visible at the foot of hills in the background. The Upper Hutt Railway Station is seen centre left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore circa 1923. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - Upper Hutt 1926; Photographer's title on negative - No. 367. Panorama of Upper Hutt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 127.2 cm

Date: 1926

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

Reference: Pan-1996-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Petone. On the far right there is the side view of a wooden house with tiled roof, and a thatched gazebo in the centre foreground. Wellington Harbour is seen across the image, Petone Wharf in the centre. Buildings of Munt, Cottrell, Neilsen & Co. (Motor body builders) are centre right and the Petone Railway Station is in front of the motor buildings. Stacks of wood at a timber mill in the left foreground. Matiu/Somes island centre left. Photograph taken in 1926 by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Petone. 1926; Marginal notes on negative - Petone. 1926. 1 B&W sample Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 131.8 cm

Date: 1936-1941

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1794

Description: Don Peat's own album aquired when he was 15 years old. Contents include - Group of schoolboys and a De Haviland aircraft at Wigram in 1936. The Merivale boy scouts, Christchurch, 1937. Portrait of St Mary's Church, St Albans, Christchurch, 1937. Governor General, Lord Galway at presentation of a new guiden (flag) to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Hagley Park, 1937. Wellington Railway Station. World War One field gun. Flying boat on Wellington harbour. Nazi flag on the last German ship to come to Wellington before the Second World War, ca 1939. Ocean liner `Strathmore,' at Wellington wharves. Portrait of Bob Semple. Don Peat with friends and in military uniform, 1939-1940. Soldiers, Second World War, in Wellington. Views of the Nurses Home, Wellington Hospital. Don Peat and his parents, Whanganui 1940. Soldiers in training, Trentham, 1940. Views of the ship `Doric Star' sunk in 1940. Soldiers in training at Waiouru, 1941. This includes a group of photographs recording a comic mock battle enacted by soldiers. Soldiers on leave in Christchurch, May 1941. Hand coloured images of Maori men posing as `old time' warriors, 1939. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1900s-1970s

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7369-10

Description: All of these are loose prints from album PA1-q-763. Most are of family members, relatives and friends. One is a sepia coastal landscape by Frank Barker. Another is of a Mrs Stace spinning. There is a view of Levin Railway station dating from the 1900s with Station Master Arthur Seaward and his staff standing on the platform. Two dating from about 1908 show men of the Department of Lands and Survey sitting outside a tent playing instruments and singing. There is a view of Kibirnie, Wellington, dating from about 1912, and two images of the Gambrill family plot at Karori Cemetery Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Circa 1910s

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

Reference: 1/4-039075-G

Description: View of Palmerston North Railway Station and railway yards. To the left are the business premises of Barraud & Abraham, in Rangitikei Street. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

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

Date: [1912]

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-007691-G

Description: Glenhope, showing railway station and yards with train at station, and houses at left background below hills partially cleared of trees. Photograph taken 1912 by F N Jones of Nelson. Source of descriptive information - notes on file print Photograph probably taken at opening of station in September 1912 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1916

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

Reference: APG-1114-1/2-G

Description: Looking over Taumarunui railway yards, the railway station, to Taumarunui township. The business premises of Fanthorpe's and T Wallace & Co. are clear in the image. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1917. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - Taumaranui [i.e. Taumarunui]. 1916. An original print from this image is in Godber Album Vol 109, p 32 (PA1-q-102) A film negative taken from the image in Godber's album which includes the inscription, is at APG-1549-1/2-F Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: March 1909

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

Reference: APG-1550-1/2-F

Description: Looking along the railway line at Marton Junction with the Marton Railway Station in the centre, and the premises of Marton land agents, Brice, Broad & Co. centre right. There are several carriage, each drawn by two horses, waiting at the station, and a number of people are leaving a passenger train at the station. Taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1909. This image is a film negative taken by Godber from the print in his album Vol 110, p 33 (PA1-q-103) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Marton Junction. March 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 12.5 x 10.0 cm

Date: ca 1920

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008557-G

Description: General view of of Greymouth and port, overlooking the Railway Station. Photograph taken ca 1920 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 15 December 1945

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

Reference: PAColl-8557-67

Description: Crowd at the arrival of the first passenger train to Kaikoura, 15th of December 1945, photographed for the Evening Post. Kerry Bennett, quoting from the New Zealand Railway & Tramway Atlas, 4th edition, gave the date of this photograph as 15 December 1945. Other Titles - Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date approximated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-001869-G

Description: A view taken from Korokoro looking down on Petone Railway Station, Hutt Road and south-east to the Gear Meat Company and to the wharf on the waterfront. Jackson Street runs from the railway station to the left of the image. A train has stopped at the station. Identifiable commercial premises are F G Reid; Hurrell & Cronin (G D Cronin. Empire Carriage Factory); Baker Brothers (Estate agents and auctioneers). Photograph possibly taken by William A Price, in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - The Gear Works. Petone. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [between 1910-1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-001515-G

Description: Tuakau township, photographed by William Archer Price, possibly between 1910 and 1930. In the foreground flax fibre is laid out for drying and bleaching. In the middle distance is the railway station and yards, with the main street in the distance. The Creamery can be seen near the tall trees in the middle distance. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuakau. NZ. No 1519D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-001041-G

Description: View looking across a swamp to the railway station in the middle distance and the Waikato River and hills beyond. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mercer Railway Station. NZ. 2863D [?] William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910s]

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

Reference: 1/2-001745-G

Description: View of Huntly, looking West. The railway line runs through the centre of the image, with the railway station visible centre right, and the Waikato River running parallel with the the railway line, to the left. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1910s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Huntly looking West. 203 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Circa 1920s

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

Reference: APG-1151-1/2-G

Description: View over Cromwell and the railway station with a water tank in the foreground. There are trains stopped at the station. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [between 1910-1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-001516-G

Description: Tuakau township, photographed by William Archer Price between 1910 and 1930. In the foreground flax fibre is laid out for drying and bleaching. In the middle distance is the railway station are yards, with the township beyond. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuakau. NZ. 1518D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: ca 1914

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-007065-G

Description: Part 1 of a 2 part panorama depicting Taihape township. The railway station is in the foreground. Behind this is a sign advertising the Federal Coffee Palace. On the right are the dining and supper rooms of Ike Plunkett and, next door, a sign advertising a "Fried fish supply". Also visible in the centre are signs on shops advertising W J White and Son, F J O'Keefe, Hautapu Tearooms, Wong Kee and J R Cunningham. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe circa 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Taihape F G R 4837 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative