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Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.

Date: 1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1224

Description: Mainly a series of holidays, tramping trips, and local excursions. The first is a trip to the head of Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound via the Milford track. It begins on the road between Glenorchy and Paradise, then through the valley of the Route Burn River to the Hollyford Valley where the party camped on the shores of Lake Howden. From there they passed Lakes Fergus and Gunn into the Eglinton River Valley and on to Te Anau, and then onto the Milford track to Milford Sound via the Clinton River Valley. Images on the way include Mount Balloon, Mount Elliott, Routeburn Hut, and Lake Ada. There is a view of Mitre Peak, Mount Tutoko, and the Pembroke Glacier from Milford Sound. The second series relates to a camping trip to Wanganui and the Whanganui River. This includes a game of golf and visiting friends in St John's Hill. There are views of the party's camp and a number of images taken during a canoeing trip up the Whanganui River in what looks like a Maori dug out canoe. Two other images in this group are of men standing beside the trigs on Mounts Holdworth and Dundas in the Tararua Ranges. The third series is of family and friends at home in Eastbourne and in the bush at Muritai; Girdlestone, a friend, and two women on motor cycles on the coast road; views of Eastbourne from the hills above the suburb; women on the beach and reading at home. The fourth series relates to a trip to the Volcanic Plateau during which the party climbed Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. There are two group photographs of the whole party, one taken in front of the Waihohonu Hut, and the other on the summit of Mount Ruapehu. The fifth series shows a party of men and women on a walk and a picnic in the beach forest in Gollan's Valley near Eastbourne. The sixth series is a record of a holiday to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds taken by a group of men over Christmas 1913. There are views of the sounds and surrounding landscape, of Portage where the party stayed, and of boat and fishing trips that they made during their stay. The seventh series is of a tramping trip to the Orongrongo River Valley. The views are of native forest, the river and the mountains, and one of two men boiling a billy beside their tent in the bush. The eighth series consists of two photographs of the wreck of the "Devon" on the rocks at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington harbour. This occured on the 25th of August 1913. The ninth series is a group of photographic postcards of the Te Anau, Milford region, and probably relate to the trip recorded at the beginning of this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-035-017

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, the whole viewed through a gap between the trunks of two large trees. There is a fallen tree trunk in the centre with a man seated on the trunk, his back to the viewer and staff in his hand. Note on verso: Compton's cottage on Daniel's Island, River Hutt in 1843. (The whole cut down and the buildings destroyed - 1847). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1843-54. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 165 x 224 mm

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-08

Description: Native forest with nikau palms, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands. In the right foreground seated are (from left) William Hunt, and sons Frederick William Hunt, and Herbert Alexander Hunt. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1907-1909

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1912-1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1223

Description: There are three general groups of images in this album. The first records a holiday to the Volcanic Plateau, taken by a group of men over Christmas 1912, where they climbed Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. The story starts with the group outside the 14 miles stables where they hired a wagon to transport them into the mountains. The route they took was from the north eastern side of Ruapehu to the Waihohonu Hut situated between Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. They climbed Te Heu Heu Peak and then trekked across the snow to the Crater Lake returning to Waihohonu Hut and a dip in the Waihohonu Stream. The next day they set out for Mounts Ngarauhoe and Tongariro. They paused at the source of the northern branch of the Waihohonu Stream on their way to climb to the crater of Ngarauhoe. By the end of the day they reached the Ketetahi Hut on the northern slopes of Tongariro near the Ketetahi Springs. The next day they tramped out via Lake Rotoaira to Tokaanu where they set up camp on the shores of Lake Taupo. The Party then moved north to Wairakei and Rotorua taking in stops at the Huka falls and the Aratiatia Rapids. From Rotorua they returned to Wellington by train. The next group records a hunting trip into what is today the Haurangi State Forest Park in the south eastern Wairarapa in February 1913. There are views of the camp with Girdlestone's mother and another woman visiting. The area depicted is in the valley of the Turanganui River and the surrounding hills. Images include native forest views, a forest fire, hunting pigs with dogs, riding horses, the corpses of wild pigs, groves of Karaka trees, and partly cleared land. The third group of images are of social and sporting events associated with two houses. In both cases the sport depicted is men and women playing tennis. Other images include a child driving a peddle car, views of the "Devon" wrecked on the rocks at Pencarrow Head 25th of August 1913, and women and children with horses. The last image in the album is that of a young woman writing as she holds a telephone reciever to her ear. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-47

Description: A group of Moriori or Maori men and women standing and seated beside two nikau palms. A stand of native forest can be seen behind them in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: A-035-014

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, two cows grazing, watched by a man seated on a tree-root, with the stump of a large tree trunk on the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Swainson [in a later hand]; Recto - bottom centre - Title [in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 159 x 229 mm (top unevenly torn)

Date: [ca 1910-ca 1920]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-54905-F

Description: Two men with a large Kauri log in native forest, Piha, New Zealand. Photograph taken by William Williams sometime between 1910 and 1920.

Date: 1885-1886

By: Mason, George Edward (Rev), 1847-1928

Reference: PA1-f-253

Description: Album of photographs collected by Rev G E Mason on a trip around the world in 1885-1886. Comprises photographs of California, Tasmania, Sydney, Ceylon, Egypt and New Zealand. In 1884 the Bishop of Lichfield recieved a request from the bishops of Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, to send clergy to conduct missions in their dioceses. To this end he invited Rev G E Mason, and Rev Charles Bodington to do the job. The two clegymen left Liverpool for the United States on the 4th of July 1885, spent a summer in New Zealand, and returned to England in September 1886. (Info from "Round the Round World on a Church Mission," Rev G E Mason, Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge, London, 1892). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive.

Date: 1937 - 1952

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Richards, Robert Samuel, active 1951; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-031

Description: Photographs of the South Island, 1937 to 1952, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of Campbell Island in 1931 and views of the southern lakes and glaciers. Photographers include Thelma Kent, Eric W. Bierre, Lord Bledisloe, A E Graham, Lloyd Wilson, W G Weigel and W Hall Raine. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1900-1915]

By: Kendrick, John Harold, 1865-1956; Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013

Reference: PA-Group-00679

Description: Negatives taken ca 1900-1915 by John Harold Kendrick in the Awaroa River Valley, Hauturu area, south Kawhia. They show men splitting roof shingles, splitting fence battons, fencing, using a bottle jack in the bush, clearing and bringing in land, and road building. Also a steamboat on Awaroa River, dugout canoes, Maori buildings, groups of people (Maori and pakeha), woman doing hand washing, and short horn cattle. The house built by John Kendrick and his brother Ernest, the vegetable garden, the hens, the house cow, general views of their land on the Awaroa River, and the two men at work and on horse back. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-230859-F to 1/2-230919-F John Harold Kendrick came to New Zealand from Birmingham, England, as a farm cadet. He was balloted land in the Awaroa Valley near Hauturu where he and his brother settled. He farmed there until his marriage in 1917 to Eileen Mina Austin. Quantity: 60 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose nitrate negatives Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8533, papers of John Kendrick. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2006. Reference number changed from PAColl-8812 to PA-Group-00679 in 2011.

Date: 1961

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0096-F

Description: Maori men working in the Kaingaroa State Forest, photographed in 1961 by Ans Westra. Includes 9 images of men chopping logs; 3 images of a man driving a bull-dozer. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-45

Description: Settlement at Torotoro, Chatham Island. Two men and four horses stand in the foreground in front of a thatched house and out-building made of tree fern logs. A stand of native forest rises behind the buildings. (Information from George hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: between 1904-1905

From: Young, L R, fl 1972 :Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry

Reference: PAColl-5521-02

Description: Taupo Totara Timber Company's vertical boiler, lidgerwood log hauler, with three workmen alongside. Taken by an unidentified photographer, at Mokai between 1904 and 1905. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1878-1894

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0585-G

Description: Men, boys and bullock team alongside native bush at Motupipi. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio between 1870 and 1920. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1890s

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140708-G

Description: Stereographic image showing men using axes to fell a rimu tree in bush at Leith Valley, Dunedin, 1890s. Photograph taken by William Williams. Inscriptions: From neg bag: Felling rimu 430 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-15

Description: A J Blakiston's house at Moreroa, Chatham Island Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: ca 1915

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: MNZ-1752-1/2-G

Description: Unidentified men pitsawing at Anawhata, Auckland region. Photograph taken circa 1915 by Albert Percy Godber. Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 1, No 9, page 12 Making New Zealand caption reads: "Pitsawing. The photograph shows how the man in the pit takes his share of the work." A print from this negative is at Godber album PA1-q-102, page 6 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Provenance: Item lent by Albert Percy Godber to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.