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: 1960-1979

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2916

Description: Views of Evans Bay, Wellington City, New Zealand, the Patent Slip, and ships, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s. Also includes views of the Wahine wreck taken from Seatoun by Cyril Beavis circa 1969, and portraits of Cyril Beavis taken by an unidentified photographer between 1960 and 1979. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in May 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-09.

Date: 1919-1921

From: Webster, E Norman, fl 1918-1922 :Photographs of New Zealand, 1920-1922

By: Webster, E Norman, active 1918-1922

Reference: PAColl-9534-1

Description: Photographs of Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch. Wellington views cover the city and some adjacent districts. Included are - Reception for the Prince of Wales, Parliament, Wellington, 1920. General views of Wellington, and specifically - Lambton quay. Willis Street. Manners Street. Hawkstone Street. Cricket on the Basin Reserve and Kelburn Park. New Parliament House under construction. House in Hawkstone Street and another in Molesworth Street in which E N Webster lived from 1918 to 1922. The wooden Government Building. The Dominion Farmers Building. Hobson Street Bridge. Island Bay double decker tram. Lion in Wellington Zoo, Newtown. Rose garden, Newtown Park. Summer house and begonia display, Botanic Garden. Wellington Harbour, Wharves, and ships. Portraits of individual ships include - Remuera. Wahine. White Pine (barque). Rewa (barque). Pampa (sailing ship). France (barque). HMS Renown. William E Burnham (four masted schooner). Moeraki. Ulimarua. Pakeha. Matatua. Megantic. Rona (barque). At Island Bay Wellington. Wellington water reservoir, Orongorongo River valley. Pororua Harbour. Kapiti Coast, Kapiti Island, and Paekakariki. Wellington heads. General views of Auckland and harbour. General views of Christchurch, its streets, buildings, and trams. Views of the River Avon, bridges, and people in boats. The rose garden in the Christchurch Botanic Garden. The Scott memorial. New Zealand Airforce Avro 504 aircraft at Sockburn (Wigram) Aerodrome, and aerial views of Christchurch. Some prints in this collection have notes on the back in a consistant, neat handwriting. In three cases these are signed E N Webster, who advises that he arrived in Wellington 5 February 1918, and left 15 June 1922. During this period, as well as photographing Wellington and district, he travelled on holiday to New Zealand cities and tourist destinations. The photographs were taken between 1919 and 1921 judging from the prints that have dates. His second name was Norman, and this is the name he used to sign letters on postcards sent from Christchurch in 1919 to his mother, and a friend called May. There is also a note attached to an illustration of Ben Lomond in the collection on which he signs himself Norman Webster. Information on the back of postcards indicate that he came from Australia, and in 1916 lived at Nambour, Queensland. Quantity: 150 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940s-1960s

By: Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996; Bull, Lui, active 1998

Reference: PA-Group-00595

Description: The main subject areas include ships, birds (especially sea birds), trees, native forest, places in the form of pastoral landscapes, coastal views, towns and historical buildings. There are sequences of Maori and Pakeha doing crafts, mainly weaving and dying. One sequence of Maori weaving records the process from the cutting and preparation of the flax to the finished product. There are also family portraits and groups, and photographs of friends. A number of photographs were taken to build up a resource of natural textures and patterns such as driftwood, river boulders, and clouds. The subject range of the collection can be accessed through George Bull's card index. The original envelope sequence numbers relating to this can be followed in the negative registers. There are in fact colour negs among the mass of black and white negatives Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-009786, 015246, 082104-F to 083126-F; 1/4-83685-F to 1/4-85607-F; 1/4-87126-F to 1/4-88982-F; 1/4-120202 to 1/4-120218; 1/2-180428 to 180478 and 181299 to 181356; 1/2-233415. Also at 35mm 23691 to 23744; 25047 to 25451; 25617 to 25862; 35mm-91811 to 35mm-91837. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) handcoloured. 5637 b&w original negative(s) Of which 724 are 35mm neg strips comprising 1,953 images.

Date: ca 1866-1888

By: Cresswell, Diana, active 2000; Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901; Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6229

Description: 1 mounted print showing Wright's farm; 1 mounted albumen print by J D Wrigglesworth showing an unidentified scene; 3 mounted albumen prints by Wrigglesworth & Binns showing the Pleione aground at Waikanae and at the Railway Wharf, Wellington; 3 mounted prints by W H Davis showing the Wellington waterfront, ca 1866 (parts of a panoramic sequence). Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The photographs were collected by the family of John Martin (1822-1892) of Huangarua, his son William James Martin, and his grandson William Geddes Martin (the father of the donor).

Date: ca1905

From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston

Reference: PA1-o-992

Description: The first ten images are views of Denniston and the Camp under snow. These images include distant views and views within the town showing houses and streets. One image shows coal trucks crossing the trestle bridge in snow covered country side, and another is of the iron bridge in winter. Five images are of waterfalls and scenic features taken along the horse track connecting Denniston with the coastal plain The last eight images are of Westport. One shows a typical villa of the period, another shows the exterior of the Westport Coal Company's laboratory building. There is a view of the railway yards with Denniston coal waiting in trucks. The rest are of Westport wharves, ships, and dredges working in the harbour Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7805

Description: Transparency slides of various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1935-1945

From: Farrand, Kathleen Margaret, 1916-2004: Photographs of New Zealand scenes and people

Reference: PAColl-6688

Description: Photographs of Wellington, and shipping in Wellington Harbour, taken with a Box Brownie camera by Kathleen Margaret Wedderspoon. Kathleen Wedderspoon lived with her family at 69 Hawker Street, Mt Victoria, during the 1930s-1940s. Most of the photographs were taken from the window of the house. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1880-ca 1889

From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-921

Description: Views of Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Waihola, Lake Moke, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, the Hooker Glacier, Tapanui, Oamaru, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Hooker River, Moonlight Gorge, Bowen Fall, and general views in Canterbury and Otago taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1924-ca1980

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PAColl-0639

Description: Most of the black and white photographs date from the late 1920s to ca 1950. Of these there are quite a large number of early prints from the late 1920s to the mid 1930s. Most of these have not been "pictorialised" in the soft focus style Searle used for his later finished work. They are small snapshot sized and sharp and clear in detail. The general range of their subject matter sums up Searle's range of interests, photographically speaking, throughout his life. This general subject range is as follows - Railways, family friends and weddings (women and children predominate), Wellington city, Ships, Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington Zoo (mainly animal studies), ANZAC Days, Some sports, aircraft, some other New Zealand towns, military training Second World War, some overseas trips of which those to New Caledonia during the Second World War and later were the most significant, and landscape studies. This last category makes up the largest group of photographs in the collection, especially in the later "pictorial" prints. Though the majority are unlabeled, most have at least one with identification written on the back - though to find these would require looking through some thousands of prints. Most of the pictorialised photographs have been printed on a pale creamy - brown paper which gives them an antique and arty appearence. Most have been manipulated to soften the focus, at times creating a painterly effect or the effect of some lithographs of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. A few have been treated to look like pencil drawings. Though most are landscapes there are also a fair number of architectural shots and flower studies, and some Māori subjects and portraits. Landscapes are predominantly attempts to emulate the sublime and classical/romantic traditions. Mountains and glaciers, humanised landscapes, with or without sheep, reminiscent of the creations of the 18th century English landscape designers, are most common. A fair number of the latter have been taken in some of our larger public parks and gardens. Humans very seldom feature in them. There are several essays of the Pinnacles at Palliser Bay. Many of the same images have been used over and over again. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-096421 to 096718 and 098069 to 099110; 1/2-178222 to 178231 Quantity: 7320 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 album(s). 214 b&w original negative(s) of which 204 are 35mm strips comprising 632 images. 162 colour original photographic print(s). 3100 colour original transparency/ies. 33 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1970-1975

By: Radcliffe, Graham Tuaraki, 1943-

Reference: PAColl-8907

Description: Negatives taken 1960s-1970s by Graham Radcliffe. Collection comprises activities at Ohakea Air Force base 1970s, parades and guards of honour at parliament, and a ceremony on board the inter-island ferry Rangatira, a woman at a Boron petrol pump, and views of Wellington. Photographed by Graham Radcliffe from 1970 to 1975. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-112500-F to 1/4-112540-F Quantity: 41 b&w original negative(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: 1918-1922

From: Webster, E Norman, fl 1918-1922 :Photographs of New Zealand, 1920-1922

Reference: PA1-o-1559

Description: New Zealand Postcard album. Cards include - Wellington. Rimutaka Incline. Auckland. Christchurch. Dunedin. Rotorua. Whakarewarewa. Wairakei. Waimungu. Waiotapu. Lake Rotomahana. Queenstown. Lake Wakatipu. Diamond Lake. Timaru. Bluff. Stewart Island. Wanganui. Whanganui river. Pipiriki House Hotel. Nelson. Picton. The sounds. Palmerston North. Blenheim. Taumaranui. Cromwell. Mount Cook. Mount Ruapehu. Mount Egmont. Hapuwhenua Viaduct. Table Bay, Cape Town. Cape Horn. Two front pages of the album are inscribed with the name E N Webster. The first is dated 31-1-1916, and the location is Nambour (Queensland, Australia). The second is dated 1918-1922, and the location is NZ. The first of these inscriptions, as well as information on some of the postcards in this album, indicate that Webster came from Australia, probably to Wellington where he advises on one photograph in the collection, that he arrived 5 February 1918, and left 15 June 1922. During this period he holidayed to the various places recorded in this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1919-1920

By: Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965; Cameron, Kate, active 1999

Reference: PA1-o-934

Description: Album compiled by Frederic Kingsford of 23rd Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company, ca 1919. It is a pictorial record of his tours around Britain and Ireland before embarking on the 'Tainui' for his return journey to New Zealand. The return journey by way of Panama, included a stop over at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, and another at Colon, Panama, before passing through the canal. The British section of the album includes shots of a regatta held on the river at Walton on Thames where the New Zealand Hospital and depot was located. There are photographs of the clergy and the Royal family leaving Westminster Abbey after the Memorial service for overseas fallen, 14 May 1919. Others show the Australian and New Zealand stands at the Henley Regatta where the Australians won the Kings Cup from Oxford. Finally about four days before leaving for New Zealand he attended the Peace Procession at Glasgow (4 August 1919) in which colonial troops took part. The Tainui cleared Plymouth Sound bound for North America on the 8 August 1919. Source of title - Title supplied by Library The album was compiled by Frederic Kingsford, A Company, 23 Reinforcements, NZEF. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1891

From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Fischer, Adolf Gottlieb, 1858-1936

Reference: PA1-o-1236

Description: Views of Timaru showing buildings, streets, harbour, and wharves. Three principal buildings are shown, the Bank of New Zealand, the Post Office, and the Public Hospital. Three landscape and coastal views, and two images of a water reservoir complete the album. Photographed by Adolph G Fischer in about 1891 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1864-1890s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-1889

Description: Photograph album of prints, showing images of scenes around New Zealand, taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead from circa 1864 to circa 1890s. Compiler of album unidentified. Most prints have captions. - Includes images of scenes around Milford Sound, Queenstown-Lakes District and George Sound, which include images of lakes, ships, people, and buildings. - Also includes images of Christchurch, including the Christchurch Cathedral, the Victoria Bridge (with a caption inscribed in pencil saying 'Law Courts'), the Avon River, the Christchurch Botanical Gardens, Sumner and Shag Rock. - Also includes images of Auckland including Albert Park, North Shore, Auckland Hospital and a waterfall at Lucas Creek. - Also includes a series of images taken from what is described as the 'Hokitika Road' (Arthur's Pass) including the Otira Gorge, the Devil's Punchbowl, Mount Rolleston and Mount Philistine. - Also includes images of Dunedin including the Octagon (which includes images of horses and carts, buildings and roads), North East Valley, Leith Valley, Port Chalmers, and Dunedin Botanic Garden. - Also includes an image of a group of Maori standing outside Tamatekapua wharenui (meeting house) at Ohinemutu, and an image of (mainly Maori) people at Ateamuri [sic], Waikato. This includes two pairs of men shaking hands, and horses and carts. Other - A reference card from the Parliamentary Library tipped into the album includes the following: "919.31 NZ Scenery (Photographs). N 532. c 1884 68797. NZ Collection" Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - "General Assembly New Zealand Library" [insignia]. Also on spine "919.31"; "N532" and "New Zealand Scenery".; Backing board verso - centre - "General Assembly Library, NZ" bookplate with reference numbers, stamped with a "withdrawn" stamp. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue and black bound album, with gold embossed lettering. 18.5 cm x 26 cm Provenance: Donated by Parliamentary Library, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: From Book Collections - From NZ&P Book Collections as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11354

Description: Two views of Lake Wakatipu. TSS Earnslaw at a wharf. View of the Kawarau Bridge. View of a cob cottage. Quantity: 5 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11437

Description: Two views of Oriental Bay, Wellington. The TSS Earnslaw at a wharf on Lake Wakatipu. Old cob house. Quantity: 4 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1918]-Sep 1966

By: Duncan, Sue, active 2012; Whites Aviation Ltd; New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943

Reference: PAColl-9997

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenes, taken circa 1918 to 1966, chiefly for the tourist market. Photographers unidentified unless listed below. Includes some postcards. Images comprise: -Taupo area, including Mount Tauhara, Lake Taupo, Karapiti Blowhole -Wellington, with Massey Memorial, ship in Jubilee Dock and SS Rangitira -Tikitere, Rotorua District , with thermal hot springs, taken by Arthur James Iles -Wanganui River with river scene and Pipiriki Hostel and Whanganui town scenes (including Virginia Lake, Lion Monument, and river looking to Durie Hill) -Otaki, Kapiti Coast, with meeting house exterior, and Rangiatea Church interior -Foxton, an aerial view taken by Whites Aviation Unidentified images include sales tent for Dunmac portable glass houses and sailing scenes Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Sue Duncan, 2012 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive: material tranferred from there - To Ephemera Collection - 10 postcards catalogued at various locations including Eph-A-EXHIBITION-1940-01.

Date: Between 1923 and 1930

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

Reference: Pan-2061-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Wellington City to the harbour and Wellington wharves. Anderson Park and houses down Bowen Street in the centre right middle distance. The Seddon Memorial is visible amongst trees to the left of Anderson park. Ships moored in the harbour on the left, wharf buildings and ships in port in the centre of the image. Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria across the harbour. Wooden Government Buildings visible centre right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 135.3 cm