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Tramping in the Rimutaka and Tararua ranges and a trip to the West Coast
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).
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.
Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928 : Group photograph of cricketers and their friends outs...
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
Hill-Trevor album 2 :Written and photographic record of the annexation of the Cook Isla...
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).
Birrell album 3
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
Boating on Lake Horowhenua
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
McIntosh album 11
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
[Plastic bags collected from retail outlets by Dr Margaret Bailey. 1990-2000s]
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.
Harris album 1
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
A splendid all round holiday resort. [New Plymouth]. Safe beaches, fine climate, excell...
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.
Consecration of St Paul's Church, Canvastown
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
Quartermain album 5
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
Smith & Caughey Ltd. :[Sales catalogue. ca 1911].
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.
Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 :A climb up Mount Holdsworth and the mountains of ...
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.
Hemus Sarony (Photographers) :Unidentified family portrait
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
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
Field: Photographs of Byrd's Antarctic expedition, sport events, ships, and other scenes
Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]
Reference: PAColl-6881
Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives
Firth album 2
Date: 1916-1917
From: Firth, Pauline J, fl 1977 :Photograph albums of New Zealand and of World War I
By: Whitaker, Arthur, active 1916-1940?
Reference: PA1-o-174
Description: Snapshots of a group of friends, mostly in the Days Bay area, particularly at a house known as `Angel's Rest'; also a series of holiday photographs taken in Palmerston North at Christmas 1916. Two of these show soldiers marching in the Christmas Day Parade, and there are two views of a man posed beside a large cannon. People are identified only by their Christian names. Collection created by Arthur Whitaker. Inscriptions: Album page - Volume 2. More sunny memories. Arthur Whitaker. 12/12/16 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover, with inscription in black ink on front cover; 15.5 x 11.5 cm
Pinnell, Karen :Album of motoring tours in New Zealand
Date: ca1945-ca1955
By: Pinnell, Karen, active 2002
Reference: PA1-f-240
Description: Album of scenic photographs taken on motoring tours through the North Island during the 1940s and 1950s. It includes a series of images showing United States Servicemen touring in New Zealand, probably during World War 2. Places visited include the Chateau Tongariro, Ohinemutu, Rotorua and Huka Lodge. Mount Ruapehu is shown in eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: From the collection of the Draper and Brenton families.
Railways album 6
Date: [1930-1931]
By: New Zealand Railways
Reference: PA1-f-055
Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways circa 1930 to 1931 by unidentified photographers. Some subjects have images dotted throughout the album, including the arrival in New Zealand of Lord and Lady Bledisloe in March 1930; the arrival in 1931 of Sir Francis Chichester after his crossing of the Tasman in his bi-plane; various activities at the Hillside Railway Workshops, including a group portrait of staff; and various images relating to Railways ticket offices, advertisements for railway tours and excursions, photographs of tickets, and an advertisement for house removals by train. A series of views show athletic sports including running races, hurdles, cycle racing, and long-jump. There are scenes showing the international sportsman Dr Otto Peltzer winning the 880 yards, handicap race at Wellington, on 8th February 1930. Team sports are shown in two views of a women's hockey team playing on the field below Victoria University College, and a series on rugby football, including views of the 5th test between Britain and New Zealand at Athletic Park in 1930. Railways head office picnic, including races by men, women and children (p 35-36), and a huge crowd at Paekakariki Beach, picnicking and swimming (p 70). Official occasions include scenes of the Empire and Australian Farmers' Tour, a view of the cortege at Sir Joseph Ward's funeral outside Parliament Buildings, the opening of Massey Memorial, and various views of unidentified railway officials in personal and group portraits, including one of the members of the New Zealand Railway Commission. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book. C1'; 36 x 52 cm