Places

Date: May 1918 - January 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1394

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 2 May 1918, called at Wellington (3-9 May 1918), Balboa (28 May 1918), Panama Canal and Colon (29-30 May 1918), Norfolk VA (4-10 June 1918), New York (11-12 June 1918), arrived Liverpool 24 July 1918. Three Transatlantic crossings between Liverpool, Glasgow, and New York, August-November 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with returned New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 2 December 1918, called at Colon (18-19 December 1918), Panama Canal and Balboa (19 December 1918), Auckland (9 January 1919), Wellington (11-15 January 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 16 January 1919. Includes views of Panama Canal locks and gates, ferries at Norfolk VA, United States and British warships, soldiers playing two-up on the ship returning home, and ferries in Auckland Harbour. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm

Date: [ca 1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6888

Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1924 - 1925

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ferries and ferry services in New Zealand, 1900-1969]

By: Devonport Steam Ferry Company; North Shore gazette (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-FERRY-1925-01

Description: Timetable for the Devonport Ferry service to and from Auckland. Also lists services to Stanley Bay, Northcote, Birkenhead and Chelsea. The cover shows an illustration of a ferry below a logo incorporating a life-saver and flag. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 32 pages, 106 x 73 mm.

Date: 1952 - 1953

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ferries and ferry services in New Zealand, 1900-1969]

By: Devonport Steam Ferry Company

Reference: Eph-A-FERRY-1952-01

Description: Ticket for the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, 4-53, issued to Mrs C R Prime. It is signed by C George, manager. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on ticket. Physical Description: Offset print on ticket, bound in buckram and housed in leather and plastic pouch, ticket 78 x 56 mm (folded) Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in July 2003.

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts

Reference: PA1-o-321

Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1887 - 1973

By: Gifford, Edward Augustus, 1819-1894; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-012-a

Description: A view from the wharf looking towards Queen Street and the waterfront buildings. A paddle-steamer, the Takapuna, is moored at a wharf, left foreground and there are other smaller sailing ships elsewhere. On the main wharf leading from the waterfront, a loaded carriage is drawn by four horses and there are other carriages further away. Men and women are standing around waiting to board the ferry Reproduced from the original oil in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 291 x 536 mm on sheet 522 x 636 mm

Date: 1887 - 1973

By: Gifford, Edward Augustus, 1819-1894; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-012

Description: A view from the wharf looking towards Queen Street and the waterfront buildings. A paddle-steamer, the Takapuna, is moored at a wharf, left foreground and there are other smaller sailing ships elsewhere. On the main wharf leading from the waterfront, a loaded carriage is drawn by four horses and there are other carriages further away. Men and women are standing around waiting to board the ferry Reproduced from the original oil in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 291 x 536 mm on sheet 522 x 636 mm

Date: April 1952 to March 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-005

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 5". Black & white images of geological aspects in NZ. Includes aspects of the traverse from the Rimutaka trig to the East portal of the Rimutaka Tunnel via Knobby Spur; Rimutaka Tunnel construction (23 Feb 1952); investigation of the cause of flooding of Ohau River at Levin (4 July 1952); Otaki Railway Bridge; Mangaroa Basin; geomorphic features of the east coast of Wellington Harbour; Gibb's Fault, Paraparaumu; Kapiti area, including Otaihanga outlier; geological data from the Hobson St gully, Thorndon, Wellington (May 1953); NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference (Nelson, 17-24 June 1953); Lyall Bay from Moa Point prior to construction of the breakwater for airport construction (July 1953); Wellington fault angles; geological tour of central Waikato District with W. Neill, including Pohora Cliffs, Mt Karangahake; Wellington City water-supply intake at Pakuratahi, Hutt Forks March 1954); piercing of the main Rimutaka Tunnel & first train through (23.4.1954); NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Auckland (17-24 May 1954) with group photo, all named; geological excursion to Hutt Valley & Porirua Harbour (Sept 1954); excursion to Opouawe River & White Rock, East Wairarapa, with group photo of Royal Society Geological Section members on the tour (all named); Marlborough Sounds, petrological investigation by Prof Charles Vitaliano, J J Reed, and G L Adkin; Charles Vitaliano's wife and children at Blenheim, 1955; Tongue Point via south coast of Wellington from Owhiro Bay; features of the Owhariu Fault & Colonial Knob; eastern shore of Wellington Harbour & Pencarrow Lagoons; discovery and description of features of the Seatoun Fault (Sept-Oct 1955); tour of North Island including Tokaanu, Hamilton, Raglan, Thames, New Plymouth (Dec 1955-Jan 1956); geomorphology of south Makara to the Lower Karori Stream Gorge; evidence of tectonic coastal uplift at Wellington; Tour fromWellington, New Plymouth, Hamilton,Taupo, Hunterville (Fev 1957); Waikanae River & Reikorangi Basin (March 1957)

Date: 1972

From: Wiley, Wynne, fl 1969-2015: Letters, colour transparencies and ephemera relating to Wiley's OE (overseas experience) in the UK and Europe

Reference: PA12-11536

Description: Images taken by Wynne Wiley in 1972 including one image of coast south of Paekakariki; Mr and Mrs Hercus; winter view near Hamilton, evening at Omanu Beach, Tauranga; Colleen Kent, Matapihi beach, Mount Maunganui; 'our house, Golf Road, Mount'; 'view from my classroom'; Takapuna Beach; Rangitoto from Takapuna; ferries on Waitemata; house at Taurus Crescent, Birkdale; and several images of family members in Papakura and Birkdale, Auckland. Title supplied by donor. Descriptive information taken from inscriptions on slides. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies mounted 35 mm slides. Physical Description: 35mm colour film transparencies in card mounts

Date: 1 February 1903

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-004533-F

Description: A ferry approaching the wharf in Auckland harbour. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [190-?]

By: Dust, I R (Mrs), active 1973

Reference: PAColl-4344

Description: Postcards of Newtown Park with a crowd gathered outside the pavilion, Timaru from St Mary's Church tower, duck pond in Timaru Botanical Gardens, Wellington Post Office, St Mary's Church in Timaru, Church of the Sacred Heart in Timaru, Auckland wharves, Sumner beach with the railway, Cuba Street in Wellington, Christchurch intersection, and Dargaville streets. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 1/2-151782 Quantity: 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1965-1983

By: King, Leonard, 1912-1989; King, May Ethel, 1914-2003; Sheppard, May, active 2004

Reference: PAColl-7888

Description: Collection of slides taken by Leonard and May King, 1965-1983, on their travels throughout New Zealand and Australia. Includes photographs of cities, transportation, scenic landscapes, festivals and parades. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-3297 to PA12-3305 Quantity: 196 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1958 - 1965

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-141

Description: A ferry passenger stepping out of the ferry's waiting room, missing the raised gangplank and dropping into the water Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1887

From: Keesing, Henry A, 1826?-1896 :[Landscapes, caricatures and portraits] / H A Keesing. 1879-[1880s]

Reference: A-278-004

Description: View of the Mount Victoria and North Head, Devonport looking across Waitemata Harbour from Auckland Domain. Rangitoto Island can be seen in the distance. Several sailing ships and a ferry are in the harbour. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, 110 x 145 mm on card 159 x 198 mm

Date: 1983 - 1984

By: Schofield Fine Arts

Reference: C-117-054

Description: Subject: Old ferry boats moored in Waitemata Harbour, with West Haven Boat Harbour, and Harbour Bridge seen from S E Imprint from advertisement Edition: 21/500, signed and numbered by the artist Original: Watercolour, dated 1983 Same as C-117-054-a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, image 389 x 522 mm on sheet 450 x 590 mm

Date: 1988

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7041

Description: Photographs between Picton and Auckland taken on a return trip from the South Island in 1988 by John Ingle. Views include a barberry hedge; cloudscape at Picton; Queen Charlotte Sound; the Picton ferry and Picton harbour; the scow "Echo"; entrance to the Tory Channel; strong winds in Cook Strait; Cape Reinga Lighthouse and Cape Maria Van Diemen; the Wagener Museum house at Houhora; controlled burnoff along Awakino Road, Dargaville; the fishing wharf in Auckland with "Kia Ora Fish Mart" and Turners & Growers building; Mudflats at Blockhouse Bay. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-q-053

Description: Shows the old Devonport ferry Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: [ca 1939-1960]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-200

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, late 1930s-1960 Aerial photographs - Gisborne; Christchurch looking east towards Brighton and with the Botanic Gardens and Hagley Park in the foreground; Christchurch at night; Auckland city centre and Harbour Bridge; Nelson city; Palmerston North; Lake Brunner and waterfall; Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island; New Plymouth and Mount Taranaki from above Pukekura Park; Napier looking south-west; Wellington looking north from above Newtown; Wellington from above Wadestown looking south, showing American supply ships at Aotea Quay, 1947. Government Building at Centennial Exhibition, 1939; ferries tied up in St Mary's Bay with Auckland Harbour Bridge in distance (entitled `The old and the new'); Auckland fishing fleet; seating at High Street end of Albert Park, Auckland; lower Queen Street, Auckland; statue in The Square, Palmerston North; Cape Brett lighthouse; tourist and guide at Dragon's Mouth, Wairakei, 1938; cricket at Auckland Domain; Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui from The Mount; Orewa; Waiwera; car ferry at Opua; Waitara, 1930s. Arthur's Pass Alpine Village; Lake Te Anau; The Chasm, Fiordland National Park; baches north of Whangarei; boats in tidal estuary at Ngunguru, 1961; Tutukaka, 1961; rural scenes in Makarakeke district, south-east of Waipukurau, 1956; rural scene north of Eketahuna, 1956; Te Whiti River, 1957; farm land in Takapau district; rural scene at Otane, 1957. Woman skier at Coronet Peak; apple packing, Hastings, 1948; official party on the stage at RSA Ball, Blenheim, 1951; Waitomo Caves Hotel; Te Aroha Government Tourist Gardens with game of lawn bowls in progress, 1959; group photograph taken at opening of the Kahungunu War Memorial building at Nuhaka, Sep 1949. Several photographs taken during the construction of the Maori memorial on One Tree Hill, Auckland, 1939-1940; electric car manufactured in England in 1935; Field Marshal Montgomery's visit to Wellington, Jul 1947. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1880 - 1889

Reference: A-050-025

Description: Also shows yacht and steamship; Queen's Wharf terminal building in background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 221 x 386 mm