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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.
Erskine and Whitmore :Photograph album of New Zealand views
Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]
By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: PA1-o-151
Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection
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
Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Album of New Zealand Holidays
Date: [ca 1955]
From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs
By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995
Reference: PA1-q-598
Description: South Island holiday - Central Otago, Queenstown, Dunedin, Blenheim, Picton and back to Wellington. Another holiday in a Humber car. Mainly Wanganui, Wairakei, and Volcanic Plateau. Quite an extensive section on trains and locomotives many photographed in Auckland Railway Station yards. Building and decorating a house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Johnston, I F H (Mr): Postcards of New Zealand
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
James Cornwall loose album pages
Date: [ca 1890s-1940s]
From: Cornwall, James Caleb, 1879-1964: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10268
Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenes taken between circa 1890s and circa 1940s, chiefly by James Caleb Cornwall. Many images have a brief explanatory captions. Contains images including a kapa haka group performing on a barge, a building decorated for Royal [Coronation 1937?] with cameo portraits of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, animals at a zoo (pelican and [thar?]), a thermal area, and a bush scene. Transportation is featured, with photographs showing trains (locomotives and carriages, including a Fairlie locomotive) and railway architecture (train tracks and Main Trunk Line viaduct) as well as car and horse and cart scenes. Places and buildings include Hastings Main Street, Blenheim Memorial (clock tower and fountain), Palmerston North (including birds on pond [Domain?], a church, shops, and the main square), Arthurs Pass and Porters Pass, a Coromandel homestead, house and garden of Cara [Sawings?], and [Otago Settlers?] Museum, Dunedin. Unidentified figures appear in some photographs. Quantity: 10 loose album pages, with 38 b&w original prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints adhered to loose card album pages
Hugh & G K Neill (Firm), fl 1920s-1950s :Steam locomotive "Passchendaele", "Ab" 608 (4-...
Date: 1926
By: Hugh and G K Neill (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-D-0759
Description: Steam locomotive "Ab" 608, built by the New Zealand Railways Addington Workshops in 1915 (maker's no. 163/15), went into service in October 1915, was named "Passchendaele" in 1925 (name removed in 1943, and restored briefly in 1963 during the period of the Railways Centennial Exhibition), was written off in October 1967, and was preserved. Photograph taken by Hugh and G K Neill of Dunedin Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - On image in ink - Photo by Hugh & G K Neill, 93 George St.; Mount recto - beneath image - Dunedin Exhibition 1926-27. [This is possibly meant to read 1925-26] Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 405 x 580 mm pasted on card. Pasted beneath is a smaller image of same engine 70 x 145 mm
Dunedin Evening Star: Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York 1927
Date: 1927
By: Evening star (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-6892
Description: 135 views of the tour of New Zealand made by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927. The majority are of parades and displays attended by them including performances by Maori. Also included are a number of images of the convoy of cars passing through rural areas and the couple at war memorials such as the cenotaph in Dunedin and the Hall of Memories at Waitaki Boys High School. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-037790 to 037924, 105745, 105749 to 105762, and 105764 to 105767 Quantity: 154 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives
Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944: Assorted photographic prints and negatives
Date: [ca 1860-1914]
By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944
Reference: PAColl-0341
Description: Photographs of various scenes: two of the convoy in Wellington Harbour in October 1914 (one from Field album VIII); the Field children outside a dilapidated house in Waikanae; a photographed captioned "mother and Peter" of two women, four children and a man in the mouth of Karori tunnel; a train passing through Te Aroha (Field album V); Auckland from the north shore (Field Album V); Sir George Grey's house at Momona Bay, Kawau (Field album IX); an excursion train meeting a river boat (Field Album XV); a house next to a small lake captioned New Plymouth (Field album IX); two of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901 (one from Field Album VI); Mrs Edward and her mother on the verandah of their house in Khandallah; a post card of the station at Manakau; farm horses in harness eating at a trough (Field Album XV); Maori men, women and children around a meeting house for a tangi in Manaia, Coromandel - above the door is written Rahera Titia (Field Album V); Hot Springs Hotel beside the lake at Waiwera (Field Album V); looking down the Waimakariri from what is now Glacier Hotel at an old homestead and two of Mitre Peak and Milford Sound (stuck to the same piece of card Field Album IX); large two storey house (Field Album XVIII); and a panorama of Dunedin showing Rattray Street in the foreground and the wharves behind (Field Album VIII). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-115913 to 115936 Quantity: 42 b&w original negative(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s).
"Views in New Zealand" vol 3 - Photographs taken by Herbert Deveril
Date: 1873-1876
From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums
By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911
Reference: PA1-f-175
Description: Photographs, mainly of Dunedin, Port Chalmers and Lawrence, taken between 1873 1876 by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Includes views of gold mining and locomotives. Deveril came to New Zealand in 1873. These photographs were displayed at the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition in 1876. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
New type of trailing bogie on locomotive WAB 791, Dunedin
Date: 1931
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 3
By: Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931
Reference: PAColl-5671-30
Description: New type of trailing bogie on locomotive WAB 791 in 1931. Taken in Dunedin by D J Sherriff. Inscriptions: Verso - New type trailing bogie. WAB 791 Dunedin. 1931; Verso - bottom right - D J Sherriff Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
An "Ab" class steam locomotive near the Glen, Dunedin, circa 1926.
Date: Circa 1926
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1327-1/2-G
Description: Steam locomotive "Ab" class near the Glen, Dunedin. Photograph taken circa 1926 by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 243 (Pa1-q-102). All the photographs on either side of this image in the Godber Album were taken around the Dunedin area. The only caption reads "Near the Glen". Title in the Accessions Register reads "Ab locomotive leaving Auckland". Place changed to Dunedin after seeing Godber File which gives The Glen as being in Dunedin. Inscriptions: Album page - Near The Glen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Train with two "Ab" class steam locomotives rounding a bend in the Dunedin area
Date: Circa 1936
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0946-1/2-G
Description: Train with two "Ab" class locomotives rounding a bend in the Dunedin area. The hill behind has been cleared, with a few tree stumps visible. On the right is a roadway with a painted gateway across the entrance. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches
Photographs by A P Godber mainly showing the Petone Railway Workshops and photographs o...
Date: 1930s
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949
Reference: PAColl-0912
Description: Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.
Ab class locomotive (New Zealand Railways, number 608, 4-6-2)
Date: After 1915
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0211-1/2-G
Description: Ab class locomotive (NZR Number 608). Photographed at the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin, by A P Godber. NZR locomotive no. 608 (4-6-2) was built by New Zealand Railways, Addington, Christchurch in 1915, and was preserved in 1967. See "Register of New Zealand Railways steam locomotives 1863-1971" by W G Lloyd. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
New Zealand Railways :New Zealand Railways, Northern District, South Island. Travel by ...
Date: 1927
By: New Zealand Railways; Alex Wildey Ltd
Reference: Eph-E-RAIL-1927-01
Description: Poster advertising train journeys to Dunedin for the Otago Winter Show. Shows at top a logo with two steam engines. Below is a list of fares from the principal stations along the route from many Canterbury railway stations to Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card-mounted paper, 897 x 576 mm. Processing information: title and date changed from '1927 or 1932' to '1927' following information from a researcher.
Steam locomotive "Passchendaele", "Ab" 608 (4-6-2 type)
Date: 1926
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1534-1/2-F
Description: Steam locomotive "Ab" 608, built by the New Zealand Railways Addington Workshops in 1915 (maker's no. 163/15), went into service in October 1915, was named "Passchendaele" in 1925 (name removed in 1943, and restored briefly in 1963 during the period of the Railways Centennial Exhibition), was written off in October 1967, and was preserved. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. New Zealand Railways. This image is a film negative taken by Albert Percy Godber from a print in his album Vol 108, p 84 (PA1-q-101) Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - AB 608. Passchendale. Dunedin Exhibition. 1926. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 12.5 x 10.0 cm
Godber album 10
Date: Between 1915 and 1926
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931
Reference: PA1-q-102
Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, relating to his family, his work and his interests. Family photographs include portraits of his wife (Laura) and two children (William and Phyllis), and scenes of their home in Whiteman's Valley Road, Silverstream; views of the Hutt Valley including large numbers of cars travelling to Trentham Racecourse, and the Hutt River. Another group of images relate to a holiday at the Mendip Hills Homestead in Canterbury, with scenes of farm life, including haymaking, merino sheep, and farm buildings. During their stay in the South Island Godber also took photographs of Dunedin (including the Ross Reservoir, Otago Boys' High School, Seacliff Mental Hospital, the 1926 Dunedin Exhibition, and the Hillside Railway Workshops); Invercargill (including the Invercargill Railway Workshops); Stewart Island, Moeraki, Tuatapere, Waiau River, Oamaru and Port Chalmers. Various railway stations in Canterbury and Otago, the Burnside Iron Mills, and the Rosslyn Mills. Godber was a volunteer fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade with the album including views of the building, groups of firemen, fire engines and other fire fighting equipment, and a building in Petone damaged by fire. In his work with New Zealand Railways, mainly at the Petone Railway Workshops, he took interior photographs of various buildings, including the Machine Shop and finishing benches, the engine room, lathes, boilers, and fitting shops. He also took photographs of many of the steam engines that were built and worked on at the workshops. One scene shows a group of men watching a fight. Many images show his interest in logging railways, particularly in the Piha, Karekare, Anawhata area. Scenes of logging camps, various methods of transporting logs including bullock teams, logging trains, and dams created and then tripped to send logs down by river, and timber mills. Other topics covered in Godber's photographs are scenes at Maori marae and meeting houses, with some of the people identified; Maori carving and rafter designs; beekeeping, and gold mining. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber album 109 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)