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Date: 1920s-1930s

By: Vinicombe, Audrey K, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5659

Description: Photographs of Graham and Elsie Massingham at various localities in New Zealand. Graham Massingham and his wife came out from England in the late 1920s. The 1928 Wises Post Office Directory describes Massingham as a company manager and lists him as living in Dunedin at 34 Dundonald street, Andersons Bay. Later in the 1930s he lived at 75a Grant Road, Wellington. He died on 20 November 1947. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [1865, 1900-1905]

By: Macey, William Henry, -1931; J H Bethune and Company Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-1231

Description: Album of views of Picton (including visit of Governor Ranfurly and New Year celebrations); Waimakariri, Broken River (including a workmens's camp) and Otarama from the Midland Railway; Cable Bay (including telegraph staff); Wakapuaka (including native bush); Nelson; Rai Falls; Wellington (showing decorations for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, 1901); Dunedin (including Larnach's Castle); Masterton (showing earthquake damage to Post Office); Manawatu Gorge Bridge; Wanganui; Taihape; Hamurana Springs; Rotorua; and meeting house at Te Ore Ore. One photograph is copy of an 1865 view of Picton, and the other photographs were taken ca 1900-1905. A number of the Picton images were taken by William Henry Macey. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1863 and 1888]

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Ballard, H Benjamin, active 1861-1888

Reference: PA1-q-033

Description: Views of New Zealand, chiefly of Nelson, including the Maitai River, Nelson Reservoir, Nelson Harbour and Port, Nelson Christ Church Cathedral, and Waimea Road (showing Nelson College at the head of the valley). Other images of New Zealand include the Moeraki Boulders, Mitre Peak, the Criterion Hotel in Wellington, and a view of Gisborne. Images of Australia include views of Black Hill and Mount Gambier (South Australia), and Ballarat and Stawell in Victoria. A series of views of the Copenhagen area in Denmark include castles and palaces, the Kongelige Theatre, Fredensborg slot (Frederiksborg, Denmark), and a museum in Copenhagen. Photographs taken by Theodor Bloch who was a professional photographer in Nelson circa 1863-1888, and then in Victoria, Australia until circa 1891. One image (page 24) "The lighthouse, Northumberland" (Australia), is signed H B Ballard (also an Australian professional photographer). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album with ornamental embossing in gold and black, 285 x 250 mm

Date: [Between about 1879 and 1899]

From: Bothamley family: Papers and photographs

By: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PA1-q-192

Description: Photographs taken by Henry Wright in the Wellington Region between about 1879 and 1899. In the album there is one photograph (p 33), of the Pink Terraces which was possibly taken by the Burton brothers. They include two photographs (on p 1, 36) of his wife (probably his second wife Mary Jane (nee Woolman), as it is likely they were taken between 1886 and 1890, dated from the style of her dress, and he didn't marry his third wife, Elizabeth Hughes Hallett, until 1907) Many were taken around the Wellington coast, including views of the Wellington Heads; two views of Maori whare at Karaka Bay (circa 1879)(p 13) and one with a Maori chief in front of a whare (p 15); and three photographs of a bay near Karaka Bay showing torpedo sheds (p 20), a naval camp (p 30), and the explosion of a torpedo in the sea (p 31). Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, decorated with gold patterns, central section with red, white and green inserts with the Scottish thistle, English rose and Irish clover (one section, presumably the Welsh one missing). Entitled `Photographic scrap album'; 28.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1901-1904

By: Watt, George Thomas, 1871-1933

Reference: PA1-o-516

Description: Photographs of family and friends, and scenes in the Wellington area and Hawkes Bay, taken by George Thomas Watt People and places named are listed in the headings above. Two images show the Wellington Post Office in the daytime and night time, when decorated in celebration of the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. The night view shows the Post Office brightly lit with decoration. In the middle of the album is a group of 6 tourist-style photographs of young Maori women. One image shows the house owned by Thomas and Matilda Watt, at 172 Hastings Street, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, spine brown taped, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 22.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: [Between 1863 and 1888]

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-034

Description: Views of New Zealand, interspersed with views of Australia and Denmark. The New Zealand images are chiefly of the Nelson and Tasman regions, including the Maitai River, central Nelson, and a military camp at Richmond in 1877. There are a large number of views of various parts of Victoria, Australia, and several of dwellings and churches in Denmark. In a pocket at the front of the album are three images, one of St Martin's Church (Canterbury, England), and two of Winchester Cathedral. There are several images of Claverley House, with no indication as to its whereabouts. Photographs taken by professional photographer Theodor Bloch, who worked in Nelson circa 1863 to 1888, before working in various parts of Australia. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cover with black and gold ornamentation, labelled "Scraps", 285 x 225 mm