Places

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6848

Description: 25 images including two of what is probably earthquake damage to buildings in Hawke's Bay following the 1931 earthquake; four of a gathering at a wool shed flying the union jack (location unknown); one of the war memorial in Cathedral Square, Christchurch; one of a small wooden church without a tower or steeple (location unknown); a general view of the town where the same church is located; two of a derailment; eight of various locomotives, steam, diesel and electric, including one of a railcar sitting at Wellington Railway Station and one of an electric locomotive and carriages at Paekakariki station; one of a line of buses at a rural depot with passengers waiting; two boys and a man next to their car; a boy crouching next to a man; and a landscape (location unknown). Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029898 to 029903, 030017, 030035 to 030036, 030039, 030044 to 030050, 030997, 031000 to 031003, 031006, 031011 and 031015. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-7364

Description: Photographs of road building or maintenance, such as straightening curves, on the following highways: Great South Road at Huntly; laying concrete on the Paparua County section of the Christchurch-Dunedin highway; bitumen surfacing on the Kamo town section of the Whangarei-Kawakawa highway; bituminous concrete paving on the Halswell County section of the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; bituminous concrete laying on the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; Great South Road Mercer-Ohinewai section near Long Swamp with workmen's camps in the distance; penetration work on the Waitara-Pukearuhe section of the Auckland-Wellington via Taranaki highway; Goat valley section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopua-Raglan highway looking towards Thames; improved alignment on the Kawhia County section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; the Leslie's Gully section of the Hamilton-Rotorua highway looking towards Tamahere; Auckland-Wellington highway near Wanganui; improved curve on the New Plymouth-Kaimata highway; Great South Road at Long Swamp; Great South Road at Taupiri Gorge; the Rangiriri Hills deviation of the Great South Road; Hamilton-Rotorua highway near Tamahere showing bitumen on tar sealing; Whatawhata-Raglan highway from near Whatawhata; Rotorua-Whakatane highway; widening work on the Coromandel main highway; Auckland-Wellington highway near Lepperton; bitumen surface on Saddle Hill on the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; bitumen concrete at Halswell on the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopu-Raglan highway; Rangiriri deviation. Also included are three unidentified bridges, one built by J T Julian & Son; the bridge at Motueka; a Rotorua County Council speed limit sign on the Ngongotaha bridge; Waitakaruru bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; McCormick's bridge on the Thames Coast highway; replacement of King's Creek bridge on the Gisborne-Napier highway; the Karangahake bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; and railway carts being loaded at Mosgile quarry for the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway. Arrangement: Artifical collection although some of the prints are from the same source (eg 12-004447 and 004448). Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-56..

Date: ca 1924

Reference: PAColl-7325

Description: Copy negatives of photographs in an album. The Mimi valley deviation on the New Plymouth to Te Kuiti highway; the road alongside Porirua harbour showing submerged telegraph poles; men spreading and rolling gravel on the Gisborne to Wairoa highway at Morere; men laying concrete on the Christchurch to Timaru highway; number of horse-drawn carts on a riverbed being loaded with shingle; and horse-drawn scoops collecting shingle from a riverbed for the Hamilton to Rotorua highway. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003415 to 003420 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [ca 1875-1916]

Reference: PAColl-4516

Description: Postcard of Victoria Arcade on Queen Street with carriages in the street and a telegraph pole with a large number of wires and cables; St Patrick's Cathedral, Monroe Street, Napier; Municipal Opera House, Napier; three men of a bush felling party having lunch probably near Dargaville; newspaper clipping of an old photograph of a crowd in Victoria Square with the old Post Office behind it ca 1875. Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-4223.

Date: 1906 - 1910

From: [Ten postcards collected by Kathleen Quinn, nee Plunkett. 1906-1910]

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Quinn-04

Description: Coloured photographic postcard shows the Christchurch Anglican Cathdral from the west, with two green and yellow trams in the foreground. The spire has the copper top on it. The statue of Robert Godley can be seen at the right. There is a telegraph pole in the left foreground with eleven wire-carrying crossbars on it. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 90 x 142 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918

Reference: A-120-041

Description: The flat land at the south-west end of Lake Forsyth with the main lake in the background among hills. There is a line of telegraph poles, possibly alongside a road running towards the hills on the left. A house is beside water to the right In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 350 mm

Date: 2007

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000490

Description: Photographs of Christchurch City, Avon River and Lyttelton Harbour. Includes photographs of black and iron sands, container shipping, wharves and boats. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (christchurch)" Quantity: 59 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1942-1956

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-2

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1942 to 1956. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are mountaineers A C Clough, Ron Biggs, and Ken Hall; publican Jack Ritchie; journalist H J E (Bert) Kane; Mrs P Koerstens; and bushmen Doug Macalister and Ron (Tiki) Brimmicombe. There is an unidentified solider and some portraits of unidentified children. Featured natural environments include Tatere Gorge, Lake Haupiri and surrounding area, and the Otira Gorge. Contains prints of individual buildings as well as broader views of towns. A number of wooden buildings are in a state of decay, but houses, churches, and other buildings are still in use. Further images (and series of images) of note include: the transportation by boat of a tractor at Milford sound and a Land Rover to Jackson's Bay; workers at the Kopara Sawmill; industry at Mussel Point; and locomotives, boilers, dredges, and other machinery relating to mining. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints