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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: [ca 1890-1910]

By: Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928

Reference: PA7-50-06

Description: Photograph of cricketers and their friends sitting in front of the pavilion in the Tauranga Domain. Tauranga Cricket Club played Opotiki Cricket Club, the match being won by Opotiki. Photograph taken by Thomas Edward Price in 1890-1910? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 173 x 277 mm

Date: 30 Sept 1900 - 31 Oct 1900

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953

Reference: PA1-f-143

Description: Arrangement: The album consists of Hill-Trevor's diary of the cruise, with the photographs interspersed with the text. This album documents the cruise of Lord Ranfurly, Governor of NZ, aboard HMS Mildura to the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga and the Kermadec Islands, in October 1900, in the course of which he annexed the Cook Islands and Niue for the British Crown. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: ca 1914

Reference: 1/2-002833-F

Description: Two boats of men and women, the women in straw boaters, on Lake Horowhenua with the artificial islands created during the First World War behind them. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1914

From: Whittaker, Ian :Photographs of the Mokau District and Amy Bock

Reference: 1/2-094176-F

Description: Amy Bock, photographed in 1914 in Mokau, New Plymouth, by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1990 - 2005

By: Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-

Reference: Eph-D-BAGS-Bailey

Description: Includes: Briscoes homeware. Smile; you're at Camera House. Throughout New Zealand (2 different). Civic Video. C it at Civic. www.civicvideo.co.nz Deka. Santa Sack. 10% off everything that fits in this sack. Saturday 11th December or Sunday 12th December [2004?] WOW! Deka, where saving feels good. Foodtown. Quality costs no more Foodtown. Enjoy the difference. Apples for the students Gubb's Shoe Fashions Ltd, 107 Manners Street Wellington; Gubb's Jazz & Ballet Boutique, Opera House Lane, Wellington; Gubb's Jazz & Body Boutique, Shop 5, Harbour City Centre Wellington. Hannah's sport. You'll win every time Hugh Wright's Jackies Fashion Boutique. 131 Randwick Road, Moera. Ph 687-713; The Village Gentry ladieswear, menswear - Ganges Road Khandallah. New World. Season's greetings. (Shows Father Christmas) North City [Plaza]. Sale in a bag. You could win a $2,500 shopping spree! Ocean and Ice; surf, sail, ski. 72 Broadway Ave, Palmerston North New Zealand. Pak 'n Save. Everything we do we do to save you money Postie Plus; where you can afford to look good Pure new wool - the natural choice Smart Bros; leaders in men's & boys' fashion. Cobham Court Porirua Warnocks Whitcoulls. Books, cards, videaos, stationery, magazines Woolworths. Take a fresh look; UNICEF Woolworths. Take a fresh look. Cheq-Mate; Chequer Systems Limited. Quantity: 23 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour print on plastic bags, sizes varying up to 620 x 300 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Margaret Bailey, Wellington, in 2006. Transfers: Scrapbooks from the same donation are housed at: MS-Group-1478.

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: 1936

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

Reference: 1/4-038948-G

Description: The photographer's daughter Phyllis Hartwig (nee Godber), sitting on a cane chair in a garden, holding her baby son Norman. Phyllis Hartwig is wearing a floral dress and sandals. This image is a glass copy negative made from his own original, by Albert Percy Godber, in 1936. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: New Plymouth. Reprinted from the Ideal Timetable and Guide. [1920s].

By: Woods, M (Mrs), active 1980

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-New-Plymouth-1920s-01-03

Description: Shows two women on the water's edge in fashionable swimwear. Extended Title - From New Plymouth / reprinted from The Ideal Timetable and Guide, page 3. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page 3 of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 212 x 127 mm.

Date: 1918-1923

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-658

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: Photocopy of album showing which images copied in PAColl sequence at PAColl-1886.

Date: 1910

By: Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928

Reference: 1/2-002510-F

Description: Group of men, women and children and four clergymen outside St Paul's Church, Canvastown at the time of the consecration ceremony. Photograph taken by Akersten. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-q-191

Description: Photographs associated with the Quartermain family, none of which have captions. A number show Leslie Bowden Quartermain as a boy and as a young man, including one with his brother and his parents (p. 12), and one of him wearing military uniform (p. 15). Several views show St John's Church, Hororata, during construction and after completion. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light brown cover, entitled "Sunny memories"; 32 x 28 cm

Date: 1895-1897, 1903

From: Hay, Mary Stuart Carlton, 1874-1946 : Seddon family scrapbooks and letters

By: Hunter, Ashley John Barsby, 1854-1932

Reference: MSY-2028

Description: Includes mss poem to R J Seddon by Thomas Bracken on occasion of Seddon's 50th birthday, 1895; other poems (typescript and printed); article re poetry of Barcroft Henry Boake; article on Governors of NZ by Dr Hocken (Otago Witness, Dec 1896); silver wedding of Richard J Seddon; marriage of Jane Seddon to Rev W S Bean; mss poem by E H Clements entitled `Welcome', Jan 1869; photographs published in Canterbury Times, 4 Jul 1895 of R J Seddon, his wife and nine children; articles, invitation cards & menus relating to Seddon's visit to England in 1897; bill of fare on `Alameda' (Oceanic Steamship Co); article re British Navy; marriage of Phoebe Seddon to Frank Dyer, Jan 1897; Lord Charles Beresford; Chatham Islands (OW, Dec 1896); early Wellington; cartoons by Ashley Hunter entitled `Inspector's parade' and `Recent events' (from NZ Graphic, ca 1892); full description of Seddon's "At Home" - guest list and description of gowns worn; death of Mrs James Suisted; mining claim at St Bathans; Women's Liberal League; Women's Social and League; and various NZ, English and Australian newspaper cuttings relating to R J Seddon and his wife and other notables. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1911 - 1912

By: Smith and Caughey Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1911-01

Description: A sales catalogue listing products for sale, including dress fabrics, clothing, umbrellas and sunshades, underwear, hosiery, art needlework, quilts, lace, handkerchiefs, belts, patent medicines and toilet requisites, men's sports clothing including riding breeches, oilskin coats, and raincoats. The first page shows a group photograph of the 170 male members of Smith & Caughey's staff in the firm's furnishing department on October 9th, 1911. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Coverless booklet of 64 pages, 270 x 212 mm.

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.

Date: 1918 - 1925

By: Gregory, Frederick William, 1884-

Reference: E-499-q

Description: Ink sketches and cuttings stuck into album. Contains 44 cartoon sketches from army life and travels in Britain and France during World War 1, 4 pages of photographs of family members or friends(?) and of samples of signwriting, 18 leaves of cuttings of advertisements from overseas(?) magazines, 3 loose watercolours, and loose newspaper photograph cuttings (the last dated 1957). Newsletter of the Liberal Catholic Church, 1957, is one of loose items. Includes one sketch of head of wife Florence May Gregory on pedestal, and at least one caricature of her. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - (Inside front cover): Calling card :Mrs F W Gregory Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, 31 leaves, 303 x 245 mm, green buckram, ¼ bound in dark green morocco, spine cover missing. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1916

By: Hemus Sarony (Firm)

Reference: PA7-51-21

Description: Photograph of an unidentified family taken in the Christchurch studio of Hemus Sarony in early 1916. The family group consists of the parents, four daughters (the eldest possibly is the eldest in the family) and three sons, the children's ages ranging between 4 and 18. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 155 x 198 mm