Places

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

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Rayner, Walter Moody, 1869-1939

Reference: PA4-0892

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Botanical gardens, Dunedin, taken by W M Rayner Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Botanical Gardens, Dunedin; Recto - right of image - W M Rayner - Photo; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1912

By: Dunedin (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Dunedin-1912-01

Description: Booklet lists the executive committee and sub-committees, the list of stallholders (refreshments tents, early settlers' tent, sweets and confectionery tent, tobacco tent, fruit and produce tent, jumble tent, post card stall, aerated water tent, floral tent). The centre spread shows a programme of band performances by the Mornington Band, Kaikorai Band, Dunedin Citizens' Band, 4th Regiment Band and Caversham Band. The afternoon performances included: wand exercises, highland fling, Indian club swinging, gymnastic display, poster advertising competition, maypole dance, Spanish fandango, dumbbells, tug-of-war, ribbon exercises, golf putting competition, floral competitions, guessing competitions, grand fireworks display, motor wagon rides for children. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 40 pages, each 182 x 125 mm.

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-203

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Dunedin - Rattray Street cable car, 1935; Leith Stream; lower Stuart Street; The Exchange looking south; Robert Burns statue in The Octagon; elevated view of St Paul's Cathedral and Dunedin Town Hall; The Centotaph, Queen's Gardens; Otago University, 1931; Dunedin Botanic Gardens; Otago Boys' High School; tram in Princes Street; elevated view looking north along George Street; panoramic view taken from Mornington looking north; aerial view over Mornington showing High Street School, Hawthorne Avenue, Kaituna Bowling Club etc; aerial view showing St Kilda and Forbury Park Trotting Club; Larnach's Castle (taken during the Baptist Union Annual Assembly); Otago Peninsula from above Macandrew Bay looking towards Port Chalmers; wharves at Port Chalmers, 1935; new wing of the Medical School, 1948. Christchurch - Captain Cook's statue, Victoria Square; group under a tree near Bridge of Remembrance; canoeing on the Avon River; Hagley Park; Christchurch Botanic Gardens; Band Rotunda; Cathedral Square; Avon River; Mona Vale; Captain Scott's Statue with Christchurch Club in background; Worcester Street Bridge; Rolleston statue and Canterbury Museum in Rolleston Avenue; Bridge of Remembrance; Christchurch World War One memorial, 1937; Christchurch Hospital, 1941; daffodils beside the Avon; aerial view showing Christ's College, etc; aerial view of Addington Racecourse, 1934 & 1937; aerial view of Christchurch Botanic Garden; Edgar Stead's home, Ilam; hillside suburb showing access path and stone retaining walls; pupils at Fendalton School during PE class, 1948; Kerr's Reach, Burwood, 1949 Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Circa 1919-1923]

By: Lints, William, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-320

Description: Album of photographs relating to William Lints' Reveille Company, presented to Beeban Annadale McKnight after her marriage to John McKnight. Beeban Annadale MacDonald performed with the company for five years before her marriage in 1923. Many of the photographs are of her at various sites on the tours around New Zealand. Others include one of Gladys Moncrieff and one of Mae Baird, both selling Reveille programmes in Christchurch. William Lints himself appears in a number of the photographs. Inscriptions: Album page - Reminiscences of Our Reveille, from the producer, to Mrs John McKnight. 1923. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with soft brown card cover; 14 x 19 cm

Date: 1941-1958

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Smith, Robin Vaughan Francis, 1927-

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-177

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1941-1958 Main street of Arrowtown, church and cottage; homestead on road between Kingston & Queenstown with Remarkables behind; road construction on the Kingston-Lake Wakatipu Road; road into Arrowtown; Crown Range road (showing Jaguar XK150 Fixed Head Coupe); rural scene in Maungawera Valley between Lake Wanaka & Hawera, 1941; Kingston Railway Station and train; opendeck bus in Routeburn Valley; Cecil Peak from shores of Lake Wakatipu. Scottish bard at one end of Signal Hill memorial, Dunedin Lake Hayes; Mount Aspiring from North-East; Clutha River; Skippers Bridge; Thames Street, Oamaru looking south; aerial view of Dunedin looking south from railway station; sunken iris garden at Dunedin Botanical Gardens, 1958; mist over over Dunedin as seen from Southern Motorway. Photographers include: W H Raine, W G Weigel, J D S Roberts & R V Francis Smith Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1890s-1910]

By: Johnston, I F H (Mr), active 1971; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-6334

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes. Includes views of women on the swing bridge over the Catlins River ca 1900; swans on Catlins Lake; Mt Ngauruhoe erupting; the main street in Milton; Gore Railway Station; the Hapuawhenua Viaduct on the main trunk line; the New Zealand rugby football team which toured Great Britain in 1905; the botanic gardens in Dunedin; a view over Mount Eden, Auckland showing the Maori fortifications and the firm of C Lynch Cash Grocers in the foreground; a two storey house boat or ferry at Ohura; Moffat's and Kolberg's homesteads in Pounawea; a re-touched view of the track through Pounawea; a souvenir of Port Molyneux showing Millionaire's Corner, Ka Ka Point and Kororo Creek; the Blue Bath, Rotorua; Princes Street, Dunedin showing a tram and Jacobs Tobacconist on the corner; Lower High Street, Dunedin with the premises of Charles W White & Co on the right; families out on St Clair Beach; two boys having a race in the rockery of the Botanic Gardens, Dunedin; North Island Main Trunk Railways at Ohakune; the Presbyterian church in Palmerston with the Clark Sunday School hall next to it; fell engine pulling a train up the Rimutaka Incline; Guide Eileen at Whakarewarewa; and Smith Bros general store at Owaka with their delivery cart outside. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Prints also at PAColl-5800-36 and PAColl-6001-18 Quantity: 24 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcard. 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Postcards Provenance: Donated by Mr I F H Johnston, Clutha, 1971

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Lewin, George Arthur, 1867-1941

Reference: Pan-1356-F

Description: Panoramic view over part of the Botanical Gardens in Dunedin. Taken from a hill looking down from an area of rough ground to paths winding around lawns and trees on a flat area in the centre. A pavilion with two onion domes is partially hidden by trees. On the left a conservatory is partially visible with a finial on a small turret. There are houses and areas of farmland on hills across a valley and in the middle distance to the right of the gardens. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Dunedin Botanical Gardens No. 617; Marginal notes on negative - Title. "Dunedin Botanical Gardens" Town Clerk. Dunedin. 3 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 107.2 cm

Date: Between 1915 and 1924

By: Buckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878-1939; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-261

Description: Photographs, some by identified photographers, chiefly relating to lighthouses in the South Island of New Zealand. Most of the signed photographs are dated between 1915 and 1919. The unsigned ones were taken in 1924, possibly during a trip to the lighthouses on the Government ship Tutanekai. Many of the images show aspects of life at remote sites, including travel by dinghy, transportation of cattle using slings to carry them from a ship to a dinghy and then to land, and picknicking on Stewart Island. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Lighthouses etc Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking covers; 24.5 x 31.5 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-056

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand and Australia photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead (F.A.C.). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, with spine title "New Zealand and Australia, 3360-3417", 31 x 27 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Lewin, George Arthur, 1867-1941

Reference: Pan-1357-F

Description: Panoramic view of a section of the Dunedin Botanical Gardens. A large glasshouse conservatory is shown centre right, with flower beds, standard roses and paths set into lawns in the foreground. Park benches on the right, established trees all through. Climbing roses along a walk along the left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Section of Botanical Gardens Dunedin No. 618; Marginal notes on negative - Title. "Section of Botanical Gardens. Dunedin" 3 B&W. Town Clerk, Dunedin; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.0 cm

Date: [1880s]

From: Bextaud, E J (Mrs), fl 1976 :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-42-05

Description: View of the gardens showing a man standing on a driveway looking back at the camera. On either side of the road are conifers. On the hillside in the background is a house set amongst trees. Photograph taken by F A Coxhead in 1880s? Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Dunedin Gardens; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. The gardens were established in 1863. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.7 x 18.5 cm on mount

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Rayner, Alfred, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA4-1022

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a snow scene, in the Botanical gardens, Dunedin. Photograph taken by [A] Rayner. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Snow scene, Botanical gardens, Dunedin; Recto - right of image - Rayner - Photo; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 2003 - 2004

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-276

Description: Shows leaves, flowers and fruit of varieties of the mingimingi. Artist's list: L. xerampelinus: Flowers Oct. fruit Jan. from a cult. plant orig. from [coll. Tony Druce?] L. parviflorus: Flowers 23.5.03 from Te One, Chatham Is., coll. Peter de Lange. Fruit Jan. 2004 from Dunedin Botanic Gardens, coll. A Eagle Acrothamnus colensoi: no details on painting Appears on page 551 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - Flowers; May, January, August Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Seven watercolours, total dimensions 255 x 194 mm, on sheet 330 x 263 mm.

Date: [ca 1870s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-9494

Description: Collection comprises tourist and scenic views of New Zealand, including envelopes of collectible souvenir photographs of New Zealand cities Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) stereoscopic images. 7 b&w original photographic print(s) stereoscopic images. 93 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-0009-F

Description: Botanic Garden, Dunedin. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore, between 1923 and 1928. Refer also Pan-0006-F, Pan-0011-F, Pan-0012-F and Pan-0013-F Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Botanical Gardens Dunedin New Zealand No 864 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 108.8 cm

Date: 1926

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

Reference: APG-1935-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of the fernery in a glasshouse at the Dunedin Botanic Garden. There is a pool in the foreground, with water trickling over stones in the centre. Ferns line the edges of the water, and a tall tree fern is visible in the background. A woman (probably the photographer's wife, Laura Godber) is standing in the background. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Identified from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15 in the 1/2 plate sequence under F. Fernery. Dunedin. 1926. Gardens. Box 99. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1926

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

Reference: APG-1586-1/2-G

Description: View of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens after a snowfall, with the photographer's wife, Laura Godber, standing on a path beside a stream. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Identification of place and date from the Godber File held in Photographic Archives (under 92. Botanical Gardens. Dunedin. 1926.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-0018-F

Description: Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Begonia House Botanic Gardens Dunedin New Zealand No. 866" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 90.0 cm

Date: [ca 1860, 1870s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-328

Description: Album of original sepia prints photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead circa 1860s and 1870s. Views include Lake Wakatipu and environs; various buildings and businesses in Invercargill and Southland, including First Presbyterian Church and Second Presbyterian Church (Invercargill), Kew Sawmills (Southland), the Invercargill Gasworks, Invercargill Post Office and the Albion Hotel. Includes a photograph of a drawing of Oamaru in 1860. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank A Coxhead, Invercargill, NZ Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cover, 29 x 25.6 cm