Places

Date: 1950

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Natusch & Sons (Firm); Hurst, Peter, active 1950s

Reference: PAColl-0811-01-23

Description: 1 exterior view, 1 interior view, and 1 plan (now held in Drawings and Prints), of the Bisson house in Napier (architects: Natusch & Sons) which was constructed in 1950. Images taken in the 1950s by Peter Hurst. Plan drawn by Natusch & Sons in the 1950s. Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified by Justine Clark and Paul Walker in their book Looking for the local: architecture and the New Zealand modern (Wellington, N.Z. : Victoria University Press, 2000), page 101. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and plan on tracing paper Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - 1 plan on tracing paper, with backing board at Plans-2001-089-002.

Date: 1853-1885

By: Richmond, Christopher William (Hon), 1821-1895

Reference: E-284

Description: Include views of Central Otago, West Coast, Marlborough, Wellington, Bream Head, Egypt, England, France, voyage to England, seascapes, yachts and ships. For details see records for individual pages. At head of title: Richmond and Atkinson family papers, vol 45. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing. 85 drawing(s) (pencil). 4 drawing(s) pencil and ink. 1 drawing(s) pencil and wash. Physical Description: Art originals, pencil, 170 x 230 mm or smaller, in album, 240 mm, 1/2 blue moroccco, blue buckram Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - acc. 77-253: Richmond and Atkinson papers.

Date: ca 1864-1900

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7275

Description: An engraving of Napier in 1864 done in 1894 (annotated); two similar views of Napier from Bluff Hill (one annotated); a large sawmill with houses around ca 1890s (annotated); Shakespeare Road, Napier ca 1863; Hastings Street looking towards Bluff Hill with London House on the right ca 1863; further up Hastings Street looking towards the hill (annotated - very faint image); postcard of Port Ahuriri and Roadstead ca 1900 (part of SM & Co series); men working on Pukemoki Quarry; and Port Ahuriri showing the spit taken by Muir & Moodie (annotated). Some of the images have annotations in the same handwriting (these are indicated) and others are described on the reverse of the file print as "copy negatives from an enlarged print". Arrangement: Negatives as 1/2-002924 to 002932 and 002960 Quantity: 10 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1902-1911

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-859

Description: Photographs of the Bibby family, adults and children, taken at their farm, Lunesdale, near Ongaonga, Hawke's Bay. Shows children on horses, in front of a Guy Fawkes night bonfire with a guy perched on top. Lunesdale church and the Bibby shop in either Ongaonga or Waipawa. Wool being loaded off shore at Mangakuri. Children bathing and boating. Napier City and a bullock team. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1860s and 1910s]

From: McCormack, Leonora, 1925-: Albums and photographic prints of the Harding family

By: Mason, Frederick W, active 1899-1915

Reference: PA1-o-285

Description: Album related to the Harding family of Mount Vernon Station near Waipukurau. Family scenes include views of the Mount Vernon Homestead, with individual and group portraits, many taken at the house. Other houses and farms include Raukawa farm, the Sommerville house in Khandallah, Wellington, and W.H. Smith's house in Hastings. Most of the people are identified, but many have only initials with surnames. Holidays at Lake Waikaremoana, New South Wales, Milford track; a drive over the Rimutaka Road. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, maroon spine and corners; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1955-1959

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Natusch & Sons (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0811-12-08

Description: Photographs of Standard "Solwood" houses (architect: Natusch and Sons) photographed in the late 1950s. Two were taken by R K Yeulett of Napier. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1937-1938

From: Orchiston, Bruce Elwyn, 1914-2005 :Photographs of New Zealand slums

Reference: PAColl-6013-2

Description: Photographs of state housing projects at Whakatane, Rotorua, Tauranga, Taihape, Te Kuiti, New Plymouth, Hawera, Patea, Wanganui, Napier and hastings; and substandard housing in Napier and Ohakune, taken 1937-1938 by the Department of Housing Construction. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1863 and 1872]

From: Holder, Miss: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-030

Description: Album of undated photographs taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, owned by `Miss Holder' (her name printed facing page 1) Scenes are all of the North Island, in particular Bay of Islands, Thames, Rotorua, Taupo, Waikato and Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound album entitled `New Zealand views'; 30.5 x 42.0 cm

Date: 1882

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: E-060-1

Description: North Island scenes including Auckland, the Thermal Area (Rotorua, Ohinemutu, Tarawera, Te Wairoa), Mohaka River, Napier, and the ships Rangitikei, Titan and Fawn. Also a view of Sumner, Canterbury. A group of humorous sketches, p. 21-33 Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 20 x 194 mm Finding Aids: Shelf-list with sketchbook.

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905

Reference: PA1-q-193

Description: Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s. Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington. There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104). Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]." There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: [Between 1860 and 1870]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-040

Description: Photographs taken by Daniel Mundy in the 1860s. All but one were taken in the South Island. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p 51). The North Island view was taken in Napier, and shows a two-storeyed house with quoinings, a horse-drawn coach outside, and to the right there is a wooden church. South Island views include many landscapes; hotels; the Christchurch government buildings, the Victoria Bridge, High Street and Cashel Street; and three sheep stations. Two are well-known, Benmore Station and Gramere Station (then known as Hawden's Station [i.e. Hawdon's Station]. The third is possibly that of George Gilbert Suman [the hand-written description appears to be `Sumans Station' at German Bay, and according to Wise's Post Office Directory, William Gilbert Suman lived in German Bay in 1875). There are three photographs showing Daniel Mundy's travelling darkroom (p 13, 25, and page 43) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather album, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-074

Description: Top left: the rural hinterland at Napier. Top right: a detailed view of a horse-drawn cart and several houses at Napier on the flat. Across the bottom of the page: a panoramic view looking south from Bluff Hill down the coastline, taking in the settlement and the swamps beyond. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - K H; Recto - beneath image - Napier Quantity: 3 watercolour(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 267 x 420 mm