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Date: 1914

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

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-032

Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-115

Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm

Date: 1906

From: Carterton Rugby Football Club :Photographs of teams from the Rovers, Dalefield, Carterton Druids, and Carterton rugby football clubs

Reference: PAColl-D-1040

Description: Group photograph of the Rover Rugby Football Club, Wairarapa, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1906. All names added to identical image at PAColl-D-1028 Identical images at PAColl-D-1027, PAColl-D-1028, & PAColl-D-1033 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin Print 285 x 360 mm on mount 460 x 550 mm

Date: 22 January 1979

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

Reference: EP/1978/0264-F

Description: Boys skateboarding, Hewer Crescent, Naenae, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 23 January 1978. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative film negative, 35mm

Date: 1912-1913

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

Reference: PA1-o-1223

Description: There are three general groups of images in this album. The first records a holiday to the Volcanic Plateau, taken by a group of men over Christmas 1912, where they climbed Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. The story starts with the group outside the 14 miles stables where they hired a wagon to transport them into the mountains. The route they took was from the north eastern side of Ruapehu to the Waihohonu Hut situated between Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. They climbed Te Heu Heu Peak and then trekked across the snow to the Crater Lake returning to Waihohonu Hut and a dip in the Waihohonu Stream. The next day they set out for Mounts Ngarauhoe and Tongariro. They paused at the source of the northern branch of the Waihohonu Stream on their way to climb to the crater of Ngarauhoe. By the end of the day they reached the Ketetahi Hut on the northern slopes of Tongariro near the Ketetahi Springs. The next day they tramped out via Lake Rotoaira to Tokaanu where they set up camp on the shores of Lake Taupo. The Party then moved north to Wairakei and Rotorua taking in stops at the Huka falls and the Aratiatia Rapids. From Rotorua they returned to Wellington by train. The next group records a hunting trip into what is today the Haurangi State Forest Park in the south eastern Wairarapa in February 1913. There are views of the camp with Girdlestone's mother and another woman visiting. The area depicted is in the valley of the Turanganui River and the surrounding hills. Images include native forest views, a forest fire, hunting pigs with dogs, riding horses, the corpses of wild pigs, groves of Karaka trees, and partly cleared land. The third group of images are of social and sporting events associated with two houses. In both cases the sport depicted is men and women playing tennis. Other images include a child driving a peddle car, views of the "Devon" wrecked on the rocks at Pencarrow Head 25th of August 1913, and women and children with horses. The last image in the album is that of a young woman writing as she holds a telephone reciever to her ear. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [ca 1944-1949]

Reference: PAColl-6734

Description: 62 images of the following scenes: two of Lyttelton harbour; 11 of a golf tournament mostly of the same man teeing off, putting etc; four of scenes in a science laboratory; two of a man weaving on a hand held loom; two of a man selling vegetables from a cart in the street; two of the hotel and the store and milk bar in Titahi Bay; two of men's lunch possibly for rotarians; 8 of various private houses; two of a man with a goatee beard in his car; two of a man writing at his desk; four of men in army uniform outside a building with the sign "Headquarters - The Army School"; two of two men standing looking through some papers; two of a man in uniform holding a trophy flanked by two officers; a group portrait of 12 women in an office; a parade of soldiers in front of dignitaries; Titahi Bay; a man and a boy at a gate to a field; a man with glasses and a moustache sitting on the steps of his verandah; St Luke's, Greytown (since burnt down); a man tending his fruit trees; a tuatara; four men in suits with badges in their lapels; a man in a suit in a room with a crucifix; four girls sitting in a row reading books; women in an audience in a hall; two men talking in front of seating possibly in the same hall; a group of men having a drink; a woman in a hat and dress; a couple standing formally in a room next to some hydrangeas; and a man in a wood panelled room reading. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028749 to 028753, 028767, 029417 to 029432, 029534 to 029555, 029921 to 029924, 029927, 030051 to 030056, 030986 to 030991, and 031050. Quantity: 62 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Small glass negatives

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

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

Reference: PA1-o-195

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm

Date: 1924

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

Reference: Pan-2014-F

Description: Panoramic view showing crowds of people on a grassed area in the centre, and several tents. On the left there is a board reading "Eastbourne Borough Council Tennis Court Bookings" in front of groups on the tennis courts. The beach and sea are on the right where there are some swimmers and some people picnicking and walking on the beach. Houses at the back of the recreation ground at the base of steep hills, bush-clad in parts. Wellington Heads centre right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Eastbourne Recreation Grounds. Rona Bay, from Refreshment Pavilion. 1924. No. 356 Relationship complexity - Print available at PA6-321 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 110.8 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Brown, Denzil James (Rev), 1925- :Photographs

Reference: PA11-267-6

Description: Portrait of Cecil Young of Masterton as a very young boy standing in bare feet, though quite smartly clothed, and holding a decorated child's sand bucket. Photographed by George Ibbetson in about 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w lantern slide(s).

Date: 1905-1935

From: Ball, Jennifer, active 2003:Photographs relating to the Johnston and Bell families

Reference: PAColl-7815

Description: Photographs of Homewood, Karori, Wellington, and of Charles John Johnston, his family and their friends. There are also a number of images relating to Wanganui Collegiate School where C J Johnston's younest son, Octavius, went to school about 1906. Most of these are group photographs of the pupils, the school cadets and sports teams. Two show a rugby match between the Wanganui Collegiate first 15 and the Old Boys played during the Easter break, 1906. The photographs date from 1905 to 1908. The second album records the wedding of Caroline Margaret Featherston Johnston to Percy Warwick Blundell of the Evening Post (Wellington) newspaper family. This took place at "Taumaru", Lowry Bay, the home of Caroline Johnston's grandparents, Sir Francis and Lady Bell. The sequence of images shows the progress of the wedding from the bride and her father, Justice Harold Johnston, leaving the house to the guests at the reception. It provides a detailed view of that vanished institution; the "society wedding". The wedding took place on the 2nd of February 1935. Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 54 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1927-1929

From: Elston family: Correspondence and photograph album

Reference: PA1-o-947

Description: Album compiled by Elston family (Alf & Dot Elston, and children Joan & Alfie) during voyage from England to New Zealand on the Tainui in 1927, and first two years in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1909-1910

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-029

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Harold Hislop, including scenic views of Wellington Harbour (1909), and the Queenstown area (1910). Domestic scenes include interior views of three Wellington homes: Brentwood (Karori), Clovelly (Wadestown), and one on the Terrace (probably 148 Wellington Terrace, owned by David Milligan). Outings in the Wellington area include group portraits at the Botanical gardens, the Wellington Bowling Club, and the Wellington Zoo (one photograph of `King' the lion) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown mock crocodile cover, `Photographs' in gold lettering; endpapers decorated with gold tracery surrounding tiny blue-grey floral pattern; 19 x 40 cm

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6963

Description: Assorted views of army life and family photographs many of them taken on a beach. One of a hot air balloon is advertising Hudson's Baking Powder with the slogan "Bound to Rise". Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059554 to 059869 and 106041 to 106083 Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6960

Description: An assorted collection including a number of images of scouts camping, being taught to light fires etc. Also included are a number of family groups taken in a garden, a trig point on a hilltop, battleships moored in a harbour, electric train in Wellington Railway Station etc. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059018 to 059111 Quantity: 94 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1918

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

Reference: APG-1754-1/2-G

Description: Peter M McBride, his wife and three children, seated in a garden. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1918. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 58. McBride, P M, family (2). Petone. 1918) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 25 December 1924

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

Reference: APG-1309-1/2-G

Description: Picnic group of five people, three women, a man, and a child. The two on the left are the photographer's wife and daughter, Laura and Phyllis Godber. The others are unidentified. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. A print of this image is in Godber album Vol 109, p 213 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Christmas dinner. Waikanae. 1924. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1925

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-045349-G

Description: Crowded beach at Lyall Bay, Wellington, in 1925. There are bathing sheds on the left and children can be seen wading in the water. Photograph taken by S C Smith. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - right of image - Box 135 Lyall Bay Wellington 1925 424 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: February 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177211-F

Description: A flat area is marked out with roads and town blocks. Accompanied by a woman a group of children walk across a pedestrian crossing. Behind them a child in a pedal car waits and other children watch. In the background children can be seen along the edges of the marked out area. Photograph taken in February 1957 by Morrie Hill. Scourse of decriptive information - A Library client has identified this event as part of the Karori School centenary in 1957. Information recieved in January 2007. This event was part of the centenary of Karori School in 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).