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Eise, Ida Gertrude 1894-1978 :Grey day, Eastern Beach [ca 1940]

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Eise, Ida Gertrude, 1891-1978

Reference: G-543

Description: View from a hill looking down on the sweep of the beach with houses lining the edge of the land. Rangitoto Island in the background Title from verso Inscriptions: Signed: I.G. Eise Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on hardboard 350 x 430 mm Provenance: The artist

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Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Ruapuke. [1848 or 1849?]

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-111-3

Description: Looking along the shoreline at Ruapuke Island, with a small house in the distance, presumably that of Rev. J. F. Wohlers Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink on cream paper, 85 x 131 mm

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Photographer unknown: House and beach works, Pukerua Bay

Date: [ca 1950s]

Reference: PAColl-7022

Description: Views of the beach at Pukerua Bay with maintenance to prevent erosion. Also views of a house built on the beach including one of the owners on the verandah. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-099111 to 099118 Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

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Morrison, John M, fl 1883-1951 :Photographs of Takapuna and Milford

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

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Dawber, A R :Photographs of the West Coast Region

By: Dawber, Alan Royden, 1917-1992

Reference: PAColl-8279

Description: Photographs relating to the West Coast Region, mainly covering rivers and bridges, buildings, and beaches. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-116194 to 116252 Quantity: 59 b&w copy negative(s).

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Photographer unknown: Views of Wellington and Murchison

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

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Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and a tour of the South Island

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Oriental Bay, Wellington

Date: 6 July 1964

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

Reference: EP/1964/2253-F

Description: View looking south-west from and apartment block along Oriental Parade towards Oriental Terrace, showing Oriental Bay and the Band Rotunda at right. Construction cranes can be seen on a building site at centre. Photograph taken 6 July 1964 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :The Bluff. [Fishermen's cottage] Jan [1877]

Date: 1877

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

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-1

Description: Shows a small cottage facing the sea Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom left - K H; Recto - bottom right - Jan Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 62 x 118 mm

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Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Timaru by Ferrier

Date: ca 1850s-1908

By: Ferrier, William, 1855-1922

Reference: PAColl-7526

Description: The Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association building on Beach Road ca 1900; a procession for the Queen's jubilee on Stafford Street with men in uniform and a union banner; people on the beach at Caroline Bay with bathing machines in the sea captioned "The first lawn, Caroline Bay" ca 1890s; the band rotunda at Caroline Bay with a children's playpark behind and people swimming in the sea ca 1910; two of waves breaking over the breakwater ca 1898; the Timaru Shipping Co landing with the Lady of the Lake beached ca 1873; the interior of St Mary's Church looking towards the altar; Stafford Street, looking south from the corner of George Street with the Union Bank of Australia, a furnishing warehouse and J Trist ship chandler on the left; Sophia Street with the Wrecks memorial to those who tried to save lives on the City of Perth and the Benvenue in the foreground and the post office on the right ca 1880s; a man sitting on the beach on the site of the breakwater ca 1860s; Stafford Street looking south from Cannon Street with a boarding house on the right ca 1860s; and a row of workers' cottages on Bank Street with Parr's windmill behind. The photographer was William Ferrier and the photographs were taken ca 1890s-1908 or in some cases possibly re-printed from earlier images. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005333, 005339 to 005340 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Wellington City

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7803

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

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Neville, Louis, 1852-1919 :[Timaru and Caroline Bay] 1918

Date: 1918

By: Neville, Louis, 1852-1919

Reference: B-079-010

Description: View from Caroline Bay, a beach south of the town, looking above a low cliff towards the buildings of the town with the Southern Alps in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Louis Neville, 1918 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 360 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 1970s?

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Dickie, W K: Photographs of Auckland, photographs relating to the Babe and Ferguson fam...

Date: [ca 1890-1936]

By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917

Reference: PAColl-0718

Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

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Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Russell, Bay of Islands, from the beach. 1.9.[18]76.

Date: 1876

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-017

Description: Shows the beach with line of houses along the shore, and jetty at far end. On verso of E-400-f-016. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - [Signature and date]. Appears to be the preliminary drawing for Backhouse's watercolour [View of Russell] 1881 (E-052-q-009) Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 261 x 370 mm.

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Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Sketches and set designs]. 1965.

Date: 1965

By: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992

Reference: E-489-f

Description: Contains sketches, some entitled: City demolition Wakefield St, 8 set designs for "The Empire builders" ( Unity Theatre 1965 production), Pencarrow Baring Heads, Cook Strait from Houghton Bay, South Karori, Feilding turn off, Paremata Harbour (2), Pauatahanui, Taupo. Also contains some sketches of cattle. Inscriptions: Generally unsigned and undated.; (On cover): Croxley / LI-FLAT / SCHOOL SKETCH BLOCK Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 6 charcoal sketches, and 15 pencil sketches, in sketchbook 185 x 270 mm.

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Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :The Bluff. [Fishermen's cottage] Feb 7, [1877]

Date: 1877

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

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-2

Description: Shows a small cottage facing the beach with the sea in the background, a sailing boat in the water and a small boat on the beach. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom left - K H; Recto - bottom right - Feb 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 63 x 115 mm

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Mercer album 1

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

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Pohara, Nelson NZ

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-0908-F

Description: Panoramic view of Pohara, Golden Bay, taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [in pencil] 3 colored [sic: coloured] for Golden Bay; Photographer's title on negative - centre left - Pohara Nelson. NZ No. 456 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 115.8 cm

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Guthrie-Smith :Photographic prints of various people and places

Date: ca 1880-1954

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); S P Andrew Ltd; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0507

Description: A collection of photographs of the Hunter family particularly of George Ernest Hunter and his wife and dogs at their home in Watt Street, Wadestown but also of his brother Robert Henry Hunter (the two men look very alike). They include a number of photographs of their house, garden and neighbourhood but also a postcard of Paekakariki beach, a postcard of two wagons with passengers passing through the Devil's Elbow between Buttermere and Keswick in the English Lake District, seven men with penny-farthing bicycles ca 1880, a carte de visite of four young Maori wearing kakahu taken by Swan & Wrigglesworth, and a photograph of a sketch of Porerua Bay near Wanganui (mid 19th century). The collection includes a letter to a Mr Ellingham from I W Macdonald of 8 Lower Watt Street, Wadestown offering him the photographs. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

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Mannering album

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Fox, C D, active 1890s; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-325

Description: Album created by G E Mannering, some photographs taken by him. A number of these are of children, only identified by nick-names, or Christian names; and one of an older man in a top hat is named `Grandad'. Several views of the children are taken at the beach at New Brighton in 1893. An interior photograph of an office `The consulting desk' was taken by `HMP'. Photographs also include a scene of hay making, and several of scenes relating to sheep farming, including sheep drafting, and one of 120 bales of wool from `Double Hill Estate' loaded onto four wagons, towed by W.A. McLaren's traction engine. Other scenes in Christchurch include the Christchurch Cathedral; and early photographs of Christ's College, when the buildings were in `corrugated iron Tudor' style; and a house with a century plant (agave americana) in the foreground. The rest of the scenes are mixed, with a few tourist scenes of Maori outside a meeting house, and a group in a hot spring at Tokaanu, and a newspaper cutting with photograph of Rewi Maniapoto from the Christchurch Press (no date). One photograph shows George Edward Mannering with a group on Mount Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, with `A. P. Mannering Album, 4444-4485' lettered in gold on spine; 25 x 33 cm

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