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Photographer unknown :Photographs of the Royal Tour 1927
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.
Mercer album 2
Date: [1900s-1910s?]
From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations
Reference: PA1-o-339
Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm
Lake album 2
Date: 1925-1928
From: Lake, Beverley Muriel, fl 1982 :Family photographs, views of Sweden and New Zealand
Reference: PA1-o-255
Description: Album of mostly family and school photographs taken between 1925 and 1928. People in the family scenes are occasionally identified by Christian name; photographs of teachers at Wellington Girls' College are identified. A small group of photographs were taken at the Shalimar Gardens in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1928 One image shows an "electric light bath" used as a therapeutic treatment Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue grey cover, entitled `Photographs'; 19.5 x 23.5 cm
Group at a band rotunda, Rotorua
Date: 1905
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 12
Reference: PAColl-6348-50
Description: Group at a band rotunda, Rotorua, 1905. All wear hats. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 13.2 x 18.6 cm Transfers: PAColl-4647.