Places

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1978 - 1979

From: [Calendars for the year 1979, of approximately A3 size. 1978].

By: Morrison, Robin, 1944-1993; Alister Taylor Publishers

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1979-1-01

Description: Calendar first published in 1978, this copy a 1979 reprint. Each page shows a black and white photograph of one or more residents affected by the proposed Clutha Dam and consequent flooding of the Clutha area; and one photograph of the meeting of the Kawerau and Clutha Rivers (November page). Residents are: Cover: Gary Forster, station master, and dog Carl. January: Harry Perriam, orchardist, Lowburn February: Isie Scott, Cromwell March: Rabbiters of the Pest Destruction Board April: Jane and Ted Lawrence, of Bannockburn May: Keith Lake, Northburn June: Rachael and Fanny Short, Bannockburn July: Welcome Home Hotel and patrons, Lowburn August: Doug Stout, Presbyterian Minister, Cromwell and Lowburn September: Harry Gair, Cromwell October: Charlie Perriam, Lowburn December: Shorty Sutherland and Pythagoras the cat, Lowburn Envelope housed with the calendar. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in calendar of 12 openings, 310 x 390 mm.

Date: [1900-1970]

From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers

Reference: MSX-6133

Description: General notebook, partly in shorthand, kept by Mead with diagrams, illustrations, notes and clippings relating to engineering and river research; includes Whanganui and Waihou river data Arrangement: Loose papers at MS-Papers-7403-27 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1974, 1978

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-848

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1983

From: [Ephemera of around A3 size relating to electricity in New Zealand, its generation, supply and equipment. 1980-1999]

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Energy. Electricity Division

Reference: Eph-C-ELECTRICITY-1983-01

Description: Poster showing a map of the area around Benmore, Aviemore, Twizel, Lake Ohau and Tekapo. Also shows photographs of the dams at Benmore, Twizel,Waitaki, Aviemore and Ohau A B and C. Shows a photograph of two rare black stilts in their habitat. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 350 x 520 mm.

Date: 1980-1984

From: Young, David Christopher 1947-: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11966-11

Description: Papers relating to the East Cape Catchment and Regional Water boards, with relation to Maori land. Also includes other papers, including a press release from Environment Access Inc (Dunedin) for August 1984 on the Luggate Dam, an off-print of a research paper 'Modern sedimentation at Falls Dam, Upper Manuherikia River, Central Otago' and a review by Kai Jensen of a photographic exhibition by Lloyd Godman in Dunedin (n d). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1953-1960]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

By: A H & A W Reed (Firm); Kiwi Colour Slides; Cross, Derek, 1929-1984

Reference: PA12-10640

Description: Partial set of scenic slides titled 'Central Otago' published by A H & A W Reed, circa 1950s, and collected by Muriel Edwards. Photographed by Derek Cross. Images are of the following: the Crown Range, Chatto Creek, Alexandra, and Manorburn Dam. Slides accompanied by published leaflet 'Kiwi Commentary' describing each image. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: 1998

From: Young, David Christopher 1947-: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11323-32

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1949-1958

By: Tyrell, Norman, -1994; Hayward, Margaret Jane, 1940-

Reference: PA-Group-00367

Description: Photographs of holiday excursions and job sites taken ca 1949-1958 by railway engineer Norman Tyrell. Covers hydro-electric dams and their construction, bridges and their construction, the construction of a septic tank at Palmerston, cities, ports, Auckland Zoo, tramping and mountains and scenic New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 71104 1/4 - F 71731 1/4 Photographs taken by Norman Tyrell, railway engineer, d 1994 Quantity: 627 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4779 to PA-Group-00367 in 2009.

Date: 1980 - 1984

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1980-1983].

Reference: Eph-C-ENVIRONMENT-1982-01

Description: Arrangement of white text on black background. Part of the poster exhibition "I protest" displayed in the Alexander Turnbull Library foyer Feb-April 1997. Dated and attributed because of similarity to small leaflet, dated by the Library as 1982. Opposition to the Clutha dams began in the late 1960s and continued until the early 1980s. Other Titles - Stop them now. Let the Clutha flow. Extended Title - $100's of millions will be spent on building unneeded dams on the Clutha. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 420 x 295 mm.

Date: 13 February 1993

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

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1993/0590-F

Description: Clyde Dam, Otago, and surrounding countryside. Lake Dunstan is behind the dam. Photograph taken February 1993 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. This photograph accompanied news that approval had been given to raise the lake level to the third stage. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 2 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: 1887

From: Gully, John 1819-1888 :[Sketchbook] / J Gully 1887

Reference: E-195-051

Description: A view from Manapouri looking downstream along the Waiau River. Shows the site of present Mararoa Dam. Mararoa River emerges on left to join the lower Waiau. An early station owned by Mr Barton Morrell was just out of sight on the right of this view. Access was by boat only. Other Titles - Takitimu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 136 x 270 mm

Date: 1968

By: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992

Reference: G-226

Description: Rural scene with dammed river, trees and hills beyond. Patoka is an area between the Tutaekuri and Esk Rivers. Identity of the river shown in this view not certain Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature & date; Verso - on stretcher (covered by backing board) title, signature in pencil Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 562 x 664 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-025-2

Description: Arrow River at Whitechapel flat near Arrowtown showing miners' dam to confine water to one half of the bed while gold was dug from the other. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Arrow River at Whitechapel Flat near Arrowtown (shewing miners' dam to confine water to one half the bed while gold was dug from the other) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 227 x 157 mm

Date: ca1910-ca1925

By: Lee, Karen, active 2002-2015; Callan, Robert, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7109

Description: Images of men, women, children, soldiers, men's hockey teams, yachts, HMS New Zealand, waterfalls in forests, streams, water supply dams, interior of Gear Meat Co Petone, Napier City, St John's Cathedral Napier, and Saint Mark's Orphanage (location not known). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-197393 to 197494, and 1/1-028848 to 1/1-028850 Quantity: 106 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Negatives found in abandoned Gear Meat Co, Petone, shortly before demolition, ca 1980.

Date: [ca 1985]

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

Reference: EP-Energy-Hydro Electricity, Clyde Dam-09

Description: Cranes at work on the construction of the Clyde hydro dam, Clutha River, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1985. Not an Evening Post photograph, and as there is no date stamp on the back of the print, it may not have been published in the newspaper. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm

Date: 1897

By: Stretton, A, active 1897

Reference: C-154-014

Description: Shows a view of a section of a stream with a low dam built to prevent felled kauri trunks from floating downstream. Given that the artist may be a Thames surveyor, it is possible that the location may be the Thames-Coromandel area. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 495 x 315 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2008.

Date: 15 March 1969

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-68478-F

Description: The Benmore Hydro dam, power house, Lake Benmore, and the surrounding countryside. Photograph taken 15 March 1969 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 25, Benmore Hydro.

Date: 19 March 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-49622-F

Description: View of the site camp and other depots for the Benmore Hydro project. The Waitaki River can also be seen winding through the hills and the Southern Alps in the distance. Photograph taken 19 March 1959 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 25, Benmore Hydro.