Places

Date: 1923

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

By: Cock, Richard John, 1851-1936

Reference: Pan-2356-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a driveway which circles around a lawn to a single-storeyed wooden villa-styled house with verandahs separated by a bay. Finials over the gables. Palm trees on either side of steps up to the front verandah on the left of the bay with an unidentified woman standing by a verandah post. Turreted room at ground level (perhaps a conservatory) on the left. Retaining wall between the house and lawn at a lower level. Flower beds around the drive and some set into the lawn. Variety of established trees all around, including rhododendrons, palms and cabbage trees. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Overdale" New Plymouth 1923; Photographer's title on negative - R P Moore's circular business stamp; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] R. Cock. New Plymouth 3; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 115.0 cm

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8810

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. This sheet shows a sheep drover on horseback with a pack horse and two dogs herding a flock of sheep near Gisborne; a woman sitting on a tree stump overlooking Lake Taupo and the mountains; fumarole vents near Lake Taupo; the Chateau Tongariro on Mount Ruapehu; a man standing beside the Crater Lake on Ruapehu; Mount Ngauruhoe; a garden in New Plymouth; a distant view of the house "Tupare" near new Plymouth; Mount Egmont; views on the road to Tokaora; railway line running through the centre of Palmerston North; the Manawatu Gorge; a street in Masterton; the Wairarapa plains and sheep farms; a stand of cabbage trees; dry riverbed of the Putangirua River en route to the Putangirua Pinnacles, and a view of the Pinnacles. The slides are not in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: ca 1960s

From: Chapman Taylor, Marion Hurst, 1893-1969 :Photographs of pa sites in New Plymouth, a carved housed at Karatia, Akatarawa, old houses and the Rimutakas

Reference: PAColl-0800-1

Description: Eleven prints: three of Waiomiti pa site in New Plymouth which is now partly covered by the Redixmixt Concrete Co; three of Rewarewa pa site near the Waiwakaiho River one of which shows R Allan standing next to an ancient cabbage tree; two of a Maori burial and pa site next to what is now Clemow Road, New Plymouth, one of which shows Mr Bishop, whose garden is adjacent to the site, next to a gravestone; Paritutu showing the chemical works which is now on the land next to it; the dismantling of Poutama carved house at Karatia (Galatea) on the Whanganui River in the summer of 1967/1968. The carvings were taken to Koroniti and the rest was to be moved to another site; the old house at Te Marua captioned that it was later remodelled by someone called Molloy and photographed by James Chapman-Taylor. Arrangement: Negatives housed at C22992 and C21897. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1847 - 1849

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-016

Description: Cattle in foreground with herdsman, Waiwhakaiho? River, the township of New Plymouth, the Sugar Loaf rocks and Mt Taranaki. The view is framed on the left with a tall tree, a cabbage tree and flax First reproduced as engraving in: Brees, S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) Plate 5, no 13, text p 11 In his text to Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, Brees asserts that the river in the foreground is the "Waitera", i.e. Waitara. However the Sugar Loaf rocks would not be visible from the mouth of the Waitara and the river is most likely to be the Waiwhakaiho, whose mouth is on the coast in New Plymouth city. There was no settlement of the size shown in this view at Waitara, between 1842 and 1845, when Brees must have drawn this scene. Other Titles - Town of New Plymouth at Taranaki Extended Title - From: Brees, S C Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand (London, 1849) Library holds black and white photograph of original watercolour (in private hands) neg 35175 1/2. The original lacks the prominent dairy herd in the foreground of the engraving, but has a smaller herd in a valley in the foreground and two riders on horseback on the far left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 90 x 193 mm